• Question: What is your biggest challenge as an engineer?

    Asked by sh1v4n1 to Amanda, Ben, Dan, Gary, Samer on 25 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Ben Drumm

      Ben Drumm answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      For me it’s trying to establish what a design needs to achieve. In school a teacher will say ‘do questions 1-5 for homework’ so you know exactly what you’re doing. In my job our briefs are a bit more vague, so you have to spend time digging around and talking to people before you really know how your equipment has to perform and therefore what work you need to do…!

    • Photo: Gary Boorman

      Gary Boorman answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      Making sure projects get completed on time, on budget and to the original requirements. Usually people I work with are not fully sure of what it is they actually want to do – it’s my job to help write a specification, and suggest new ways of doing what they want.

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