• Question: are you a techer

    Asked by snowball007 to Alexander, Aron, Jess, Neil on 19 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Aron Kisdi

      Aron Kisdi answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      My day job is not a teacher, I am a systems engineer.

      I do however lecture at university sometimes, and I teach my colleagues or other engineers about things. I am also learn new things all the time so in a way we are all teachers and students in all our life.

    • Photo: Alexander Finch

      Alexander Finch answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      Not me, no. This is the first thing I’ve done in a school since I was in school myself! Although maybe in a month I might get to go and teach some students in a Dutch school about space which I think would be fun 🙂

    • Photo: Jessica Marshall

      Jessica Marshall answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      I’m not a teacher, but I do do a lot of things with schools, I try to go into at least one school a month and I also have a mentee at a school. I do also teach newer engineers who join the company, so I am enjoying that too.

    • Photo: Neil Bowles

      Neil Bowles answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      I teach as part of my job, as I work at a university. However, this different to being a teacher in a school. I give lectures to lots of students and have classes with a smaller number (2 or 3). I also have a research group that includes undergraduate and postgraduate students, and I work with them to develop new experiments and spacecraft instruments.
      The students in my research group are working on specific individual projects. For example one of research students is building a robot that measures how light is scattered and absorbed off of the surface of the Moon or an asteroid. This is to help us work our how heat is moved around so the spacecraft, lander or people in spacesuits don’t get too hot or cold.

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