• Question: When did you decide to become an engineer

    Asked by Betsy14💕 to Tonia, Sam, Emily, Ejay, Edgars, Charnett on 7 Jun 2019. This question was also asked by mb123, Golfing Pro, jazz127sun, time127tea.
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      Edgars Kelmers answered on 7 Jun 2019:

      First I wanted to be a singer, but then I started to like sports more. During last school year I injured myself during volleyball game so I decided that I want to be a surgeon to help other people with injuries. However, I could not apply to the medical school, so I decided to be a medical engineer, because then I could still help people.

      I started to like engineering only after 3 years of practice, so it took a long time to actually decide that I like engineering.

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      Tonia Tzemanaki answered on 8 Jun 2019:

      At the end of high school. I liked maths a lot and I was good with computers. During my university years after high school, I took many classes and managed to find exactly what parts of engineering I liked most (which was robotics).

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      Emily McNee answered on 8 Jun 2019:

      After my dad introduced me to an engineer where he worked. I would have been about 13.

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      Charnett Chau answered on 9 Jun 2019:

      You know what, it just happened.
      I went to a mainly boys school. Because of the subjects I took for A Levels – Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Biology, they all just assumed I wanted to be an engineer and invited me to do engineering projects with them. We entered a competition to do with planes and we got to the final 12 team, they let me fly an helicopter! After that when choosing degrees for university, I ended up choosing engineering because it was fun to do those kinds of project. Because I loved biology I chose biochemical engineering.

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      Ejay Nsugbe answered on 9 Jun 2019:

      In my latter years of secondary school when I found I was half decent in specifically Maths and Physics, and also noticed that I got an extreme level of satisfaction from solving problems that involved numbers and equations.
      I chose Engineering specifically because I felt it provided me with the opportunity to make direct contributions to and help shape the World!

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      Sam Gaughan answered on 10 Jun 2019:

      Well my background is science, which I loved for a long time along with maths. It was only when we were looking at PhD projects a few years ago and I found a project about engineering enzymes that I started to dip into engineering.

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