• Question: In your last engineering position, what were some of the things that you spent the most time on, and how much time did you spend on each?

    Asked by Sarah N x to Ashley, Catherine, John G, Laura, Ray on 11 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Laura Tobin

      Laura Tobin answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      For my PhD I spent years building a machine to read current and voltage because it was the cheapest solution. Unfortunately we really needed a machine that was sensitive to small currents which we didn’t have the capabilities to make, so in the end we had to buy the expensive machine. We lost a lot of time over it. However, I learned a lot and knew exactly how the machine operated which helped when it came to programming it.

      A lot of things you spend time on, sometimes you dedicate a lot of time and energy and other times you just spend a brief time looking at it. You usually come back to it

    • Photo: John Ging

      John Ging answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      Modelling wind connecting to the Irish power system. I spent 4 years at that. You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to accurately model that much wind on a small system like Ireland as there are lots of challenges to connect it all.

    • Photo: Ashley Culbert

      Ashley Culbert answered on 16 Nov 2014:

      Getting the planning application ready for Mountlucas wind farm which took us two years.

    • Photo: Ray Alcorn

      Ray Alcorn answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      hi sarah

      The more I have progressed in my career the less engineering i have done BUT the more management of enginering. So bascially the way I look at it is that I dont get to go all the way to the depths of the solution but can help out on a broader number of problems and solutions

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