• Question: How did you get into your field of work and what inspired you to do this?

    Asked by meganhumphreys to Ed, Keith, Tish, Nicola, Rachel on 8 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Keith Beattie

      Keith Beattie answered on 8 Mar 2013:

      I was always curious about how and why things worked – as a child I was always annoying my parents by dismantling things around the house (vacuum cleaner, television, tape recorder – if you know what that is) to see how they were made – by the way its better to do this with supervision, as health and safety is now a much bigger consideration in all that I work on. My parents are not engineers, so putting things back together was sometimes a challenge! I was inspired by a excellent maths teacher at my school who came from an engineering background.

    • Photo: Nicola Lazenby

      Nicola Lazenby answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      I used to love watching Grand Designs – so I could have been inspired by Kevin McCloud! I did however enjoy maths and physics and would have liked to have gone into Product design or architecture but these required me to be a lot more arty than I am!

    • Photo: Natasha Watson

      Natasha Watson answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      I got into engineering when i realised I wanted to have a career which had the creativity aspect of design mixed with science and maths; which is exactly what engineering is to me! My inspiration came from many different things; architecture, Grand Designs, my teachers, my parents… it all kind of came together to inspire me to go into structural/civil engineering.

    • Photo: Edward Taylor

      Edward Taylor answered on 16 Mar 2013:

      I got into my field of work through my dissertation (big final year project) at University. I worked on building a control system for a robotic remote control plane which could fly itself. I really liked that work and so went and joined a company which specialises in control systems for aircraft. Then while at the company I found out about environmental testing of the equipment, found it interesting so thought id give it a go!

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