• Question: do you have a specific goal as an engineer?

    Asked by 654spcm23 to Eimear, James, Jonathan, Lána, Willi on 28 Feb 2018.
    • Photo: Lána Salmon

      Lána Salmon answered on 28 Feb 2018:

      Great question. I suppose we’ll all have different goals. For me, I just want to find out more about what’s in space. In turn, I think we’re finding out more about our past and our future, which I think is pretty cool. At a higher level, I think the goal of an engineer is to face a challenge head on and develop solutions.

    • Photo: William O'Connor

      William O'Connor answered on 28 Feb 2018:

      My goals are general (like using Science and Maths to make the world better).
      But that’s too vague, and not very practical.
      In practice, I like trying to work out solutions to specific, tricky problems. When I hear about a problem I start thinking “How could we solve that? Or avoid it? Or make something better?”
      That then becomes my goal.
      I may be working on a few projects at the same time, and sometimes you think of a solution to one problem when you are working on something else.

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