• Question: What made u want to become an engineer?

    Asked by 554speq38 to Stephen, Sita, Rory, Hannah, Brian, Alison on 4 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by 852speq38, 495speq48.
    • Photo: Sita Karki

      Sita Karki answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I like to solve problems and troubleshoot that is why I became engineer.

    • Photo: Hannah Currivan

      Hannah Currivan answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      My background in physics is actually what made me want to become an engineer. As a physicist you know how the world works around you, but with being an engineer you are able to apply it to the world around you.
      The moment I know engineering was for me was in the summer of 2017 when building I-LOFAR (Irish Low Frequency Array Radio Telescope). I was fascinated with the instrument that would let me look into the universe and I wanted to know how I could make my own. This is what made me decide to carry out my masters in space science and technology. 🙂 🙂 🙂

    • Photo: Alison Dufresne

      Alison Dufresne answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I watched a documentary about the NASA manned missions of the 60s and I thought that the engineers, running around the astronauts, setting up the spacecraft and helping them into their spacesuits, were super cool! So I thought, let’s try be one of them! A lot of people want to be astronauts but I don’t want that, I just want it to be possible for everyone to be an astronaut!! That and I want to see the data that comes back from the far reaches of our solar system before anyone else does! 😛

    • Photo: Stephen O'Connor

      Stephen O'Connor answered on 6 Mar 2019: last edited 6 Mar 2019 9:36 pm

      Photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope – which is a giant telescope orbiting the Earth.
      The photographs were of planets, stars and galaxies – in different shapes, colours and sizes.
      I was amazed and wanted to find out what I was looking at.
      Why that colour? That shape? How big are they? Where are they? So many questions…
      Check out this link to see some cool photos from Hubble: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/

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