• Question: What made you want to do engineering?

    Asked by casey to Andrei, Dominique, Mark, Masha, Sarah on 3 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Mark Catherall

      Mark Catherall answered on 3 Nov 2016:

      I loved working out how things work, taking things apart, building things, and breaking things – that’s basically what engineering is!

    • 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 14 Nov 2016:

      Initially, I really liked playing with lego, then liked to help my Dad out with little engineering projects, and then at school I really liked physics. So engineering kind of just made sense!

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