• Question: Tell me why you decided to take up engineering,from the start of college or even secondary school...or even primary school!!

    Asked by Ore Jay to Ashley, Catherine, John G, Laura, Ray on 13 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by 374enea26.
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      John Ging answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Primary school for me. I wanted to build a transformer as the cartoons were big in the 80s. Plus I got a PC at a very young age (when PCs cost thousands of pounds) and no one else in my school had one. This was when they were BIG boxes and couldn’t do much. I loved writing code with it.

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      Ashley Culbert answered on 15 Nov 2014:

      I didnt know i wanted to be an engineer until I tried a third level course that I thought i would like. Its hard selecting the right course when your leaving school. I Started the ag science degree and missed subjects like tech drawing. Once i moved to the engineering course I knew it was right fo me. I loved it from day one.

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      Laura Tobin answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      Apparently growing up, I wanted to be “bigger”! I wasn’t that imaginative. I just wanted to be a gown up without a bed time. I had no idea engineering existed until I was 17 and in Leaving cert. I had no idea what I wanted to do. My career guidance teacher suggested it and instantly it clicked with me. I loved problem solving, I was really curious and liked to take things apart and figure out how it works. It was a perfect fit for me.

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      Ray Alcorn answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      Ore Jay

      it sort of gradually snuck up on me and the more I was at it the more convinced I was. remember, when I was a kid I had no refernce or idea what an engineer was or even did… and no one in my entire family had ever been to a grammar school, never done A Levels (everyone left at 15/16) never mind university. You should be better.. you are talking to 5 engineers, you have great teachers who are well informed and you have access to all the resources of the internet

      Ray

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      Catherine Conaghan answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      I was probably 12/13 when I told my parent I wanted to be an electronic engineer. I pretty sure they had no idea what that meant (I’m not sure if they do even now! 🙂 ) But i was really interested in PC’s, mobile phones, figuring out how things worked etc so it seemed like a good fit. 5 years later I started electronic engineering in NUIGalway, and the rest is history!

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