• Question: What made you choose to be an engineer? What age where you when you decided that?

    Asked by maze022gas to Tom, Sanjeev, Orla, Fiona, Eimear, Cillian on 2 Mar 2020. This question was also asked by Somethingunique673.
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      Fiona Malone answered on 2 Mar 2020:

      I liked studying maths and science and I was really good at art so I wanted to study something that combined all these things. I was about 17 or 18 when I knew I wanted to be an engineer

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      Eimear O'Hara answered on 2 Mar 2020:

      I took up Engineering as a Leaving Cert subject and just loved it! You get the chance to design something and build it yourself, and that allowed you to be creative too. While maths wasn’t my favourite subject, it’s a vital part of being able to create something that actually works!

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      Tom Hodgkinson answered on 2 Mar 2020:

      I didn’t really. Biology was always my favourite subject but after my degree I became really interested in engineering new replacement organs for people with diseases. I decided to look into this area some more and through this saw how much biology and engineering over lap. There are lots of very new and exciting areas of research looking at how engineering solutions can solve biological problems. When you think about it our bodies are just like living machines and we are engineering new techniques, like 3D printing, to hack the system!

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      Orla McGee answered on 2 Mar 2020:

      I was 17 and I went to an Open Day at NUIG and someone told me about engineering and showed me the devices you make and told me about the things you study. I found it so interesting so I decided to become an engineer.

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      Cillian Thompson answered on 2 Mar 2020:

      I was never really sure until I started doing it to be honest. I actually always wanted to be a Paramedic or a Fireman. I suppose my best subjects in school were Biology, Maths, Physics, and Technical Graphics (DCG also) so one day I typed them into google and saw jobs related to biomedical engineering. Once I read the description I decided to do that in college and I have not looked back since!

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      Sanjeev Kumar answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      I was about 16 when I started thinking about my prospective career. During the final year of my senior secondary studies, I was interested in both Biology and Mathematics (apart from physics and chemistry). Initially, I was confused between medial and engineering as my career. However, I was interested more in medical, and I wanted to be a doctor to help cure patients. I wrote competitive examinations to take admission into a medical college. However, medical entrance examinations in India are highly competitive, and I could not succeed in this pursuit.

      As I was also good at mathematics and engineering was my second choice, I decided to make my career in engineering. Today, I am a happy and satisfied engineer. I love my job, and it gives me satisfaction when I design something new. Recently, I have been involved in developing the devices, which can be used for wireless health monitoring of the patients in a hospital.

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