• Question: What drives you to do engineering every day? What makes you love engineering?

    Asked by card521yore on 3 Oct 2024.
    • Photo: Steve Potterill

      Steve Potterill answered on 3 Oct 2024:

      Problem-solving and using my initiative. Most days are different and produce sufficiently fresh challenges. Having worked hard for years to gain experience, it is great to have the opportunities (from employers or customers) to exercise my own judgement to solve problems. One such time was when a large organisation was certain that they needed a large change to IT systems to solve one of their problems of communicating automatically with their partners: after having been asked to look at the problem and talked to several of the folks involved in the various organisations I persisted in a couple of people together from those other organisations to agree small changes to protocols and a small-ish change to the way data was compiled, thereby avoiding the massive cost of large IT change.

    • Photo: Callum Morris

      Callum Morris answered on 18 Nov 2024:

      The variety of the work that you come across as an engineer is what drives me. The role as front line support engineer gives so many challenges from keeping the plants running, to improving things for operations.

      It’s great being able to take your abilities and apply them in ways that you can see make a tangible difference.

    • Photo: Amal Lavender

      Amal Lavender answered on 18 Feb 2025:

      i love working out how things work, problem solving and working with people so engineering allows me to do both 🙂

Comments

  • Photo: Alexander

    Alexander commented on :

    Partly the challenge of problem solving and partly the sense of satisfaction in seeing my ideas and results, that have been generated in an office or lab area, actually applied at industrial scale.