• Question: How long have you been interested in engineering?

    Asked by PreferSpiral to Ted, S. S., Laura, Kevin, Ellen, Andrea on 1 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Andrea Pacheco

      Andrea Pacheco answered on 1 Mar 2019:

      Since I was a kid trying to build different machines and experiments (none of them worked very well though)

    • Photo: Laura Farina

      Laura Farina answered on 1 Mar 2019: last edited 1 Mar 2019 7:37 pm

      Since kid I guess, trying to fix the toys my friend use to destroy! But I understood it only later, after high school!

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      Kevin OBrien answered on 1 Mar 2019:

      I’ve been interested in engineering since I was about 9 or 10 years old.
      I’ve always wanted to know how things work, and took apart most of my toys.

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      Ted Burke answered on 3 Mar 2019:

      When I was about 6 or 7 years old, I didn’t know what an engineer was, but I was crazy about Lego and I was just beginning to play with my first computer (a ZX Spectrum). I just thought of them as toys – I had no idea that the things I was learning would be so important in my job! From then on, I’ve been interested in technology. Over the years, the more I’ve learned, the more interesting it has become.

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      Ellen Simmons answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I didn’t learn what “engineering” was until I was about 16/17. I wanted to work in biomedical sciences – first as an epidemiologist, then as a reconstructive surgeon – until I realised that I really enjoyed maths and physics, and didn’t want to abandon those subjects in my career. I was also quite good at them!

      My dad randomly found out about “Biomedical Engineering” in an email from his old university. When he read about it, he thought it sounded like the perfect subject for me to merge my interests in biomedical sciences and maths and physics. And he was right! From that point on, I immersed myself in learning more about the subject, and managed to get a spot to study a degree in biomedical engineering. Throughout my degree I’ve become more and more interested in engineering as a whole, through reading magazines like New Scientist and WIRED, watching TED talks and through working on a range of projects.

    • Photo: S S

      S S answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      since my childhood ..

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