• Question: Do you program stuff to help people or do you do other things?

    Asked by jnr engineer 5891 to Tom, Sanjeev, Orla, Fiona, Eimear, Cillian on 2 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Fiona Malone

      Fiona Malone answered on 2 Mar 2020:

      I use programming to make my robots move but do other things like modelling, 3D printing and materials testing.

    • Photo: Eimear O'Hara

      Eimear O'Hara answered on 2 Mar 2020:

      I’m using programming now to try and speed up the way I design a shoulder implant. This will hopefully make it easier to apply to different implant sizes, as well as being an option for making custom implants for people that fits their shoulder perfectly.

    • Photo: Tom Hodgkinson

      Tom Hodgkinson answered on 2 Mar 2020:

      I currently don’t use programming in my research. My work mainly focusses on making new materials and checking how cells from the human body respond to their properties (like… what they are made of? How stiff or flexible they are? How quickly they break down?). There is lots of scope for future work in this area to involve programming and computer modelling though and its involvement in biomaterial research will only increase and increase.

    • Photo: Orla McGee

      Orla McGee answered on 2 Mar 2020:

      I usually work on designing parts, 3D printing them and doing tests on them. I usually test to see how much work it might take to break one part over another to see which one is stronger.
      But sometimes I run computer programs to test which parts are stronger before I make them and I have to do some coding to run these programs.

    • Photo: Cillian Thompson

      Cillian Thompson answered on 5 Mar 2020:

      Almost everything that we use involves some sort of programming, unfortunately for me it is not my strong point but I still have to use it a little bit when 3D printing. If you are in any way interested in learning about programming I would encourage you to do even 30 minutes a week to learn about it because it will surely be important to you at some point in the future.

    • Photo: Sanjeev Kumar

      Sanjeev Kumar answered on 8 Mar 2020:

      Most of my works are related to hardware developments, and currently, I do not need to do programming stuff in my research. However, I have a basic understanding of programming languages and debugging of a written program.

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