• Question: Hello my name is Sally meatballs . My question for u is ......Why did u become an engineer and do u like or dislike ur job as an engineer

    Asked by Mia meatballs to Olga, Madhumidha, Connor, Canice, Aruna, Anthony on 2 Mar 2020. This question was also asked by sarr23, draw021ear.
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      Aruna Chandrasekar answered on 2 Mar 2020:

      The main reason I became an engineer is:
      1. I wanted a career in science (as I was very passionate about studying the environment)
      2. I was able to get a chemical engineering course for my grades after high school.

      To be honest, I wasn’t very focussed on the exact career I wanted at that time, so I took the best from what was available to me.
      As a researcher, I love every moment of my work. It is important that you not only work hard in your field, but also work hard towards a passion, that will truly make you like your job, as it has for me.

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      Madhumidha Murugan answered on 2 Mar 2020:

      Hi Sally,

      Thank you for the question. I became an engineer because I wanted to see with my own eyes in real life what I study, think, understand, learn and what I did out of it.

      I like my job as an engineer as it gives me chances to engage myself in a problem by thinking and looking for answers. The skills it teaches me is what makes things interesting and lively.

      Cheers.
      Madhu.

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      Anthony Newell answered on 2 Mar 2020:

      Hi Sally.
      I became an engineer because I enjoyed learning about science and how things worked and wanted to do something practical with that knowledge to benefit society.
      I like my job as an engineer because I get to solve interesting and different problems every day.

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      Olga Ormond answered on 4 Mar 2020:

      Hi Sally,
      I became an engineer mainly because I enjoyed puzzles and figuring out solutions to maths problems. I have worked in a few different jobs and enjoyed them all.

      I worked on mobile phone networks for Ericsson in Dublin and Montreal. I worked as a researcher in UCD and DCU, this was again in the area of communications networks (wifi and mobile phone networks). I then worked by helping other scientists and engineers to write project proposals to get funding to do their research projects. Many of the projects I worked on had strong beneficial environmental impact.

      I now work in science communication, helping to write about the project work that a project team are doing, creating a website, a twitter account, information flyers, posters, and short reports on the work and the results of a project. I also help the team to look at their results and how to get those results used in a product, used for further research or used for education (e.g. a training course) or used to make rules (for regulation) or standards.

      Training and working as an engineer helps you to build lots of different ‘transferable’ skills like research skills, team work, problem solving and logical thinking, attention to detail, creativity, and project management. Building up these skills means that you can work in many different types of jobs.

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