• Question: for what reasons did you want to become an egineer

    Asked by leya to Andrei, Dominique, Mark, Masha, Sarah on 3 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by 538mtrg42.
    • Photo: Mark Catherall

      Mark Catherall answered on 3 Nov 2016:

      I’ve always loved looking at things and trying to see how they worked. Engineering is a lot about working out how things work, and taking things apart, and breaking things; so I was pretty keen to become an engineer so that I could do all that stuff more.

    • Photo: Masha Folk

      Masha Folk answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      When I was young, I wanted to be an astronaut. I loved stars and planets and anything to do with space. When I went to university, I enrolled in the aeronautical and astronautical engineering (or aerospace engineering). On this course, we had to learn about both airplanes and rockets flying through the air and I found that I really liked learning about flight. Instead of being an astronaut, I now wanted to make things go really fast – like rockets and airplanes. I studied both rocket propulsion and jet engine propulsion – the rocket propulsion seemed to me to focus too much on chemistry, which I didn’t like, while the jet engine propulsion was more to do with aerodynamics and thermodynamics. So, I stuck with jet engine propulsion and that’s how I ended up doing research in fluid mechanics and gas turbine engineering.

    • Photo: Sarah Hunt

      Sarah Hunt answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      I wanted to become an engineer because I enjoy things that are applied to the real world. If you engineer a solution to something in the world, you can see it and other people can benefit from it. That’s a really rewarding way to spend your time!

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