• Question: What is next for engineering?

    Asked by bfarmer to Adam, Alexander, Aron, Jess, Neil on 13 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by yellowumbrella2.
    • Photo: Jessica Marshall

      Jessica Marshall answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Engineering is involved in everything; from machines to treat illnesses or help surgeons to producing the energy that we use to the technology that is so much a part of our world. If you think about engineering as ‘solving a problem’ then that will give you an idea. Therefore the next steps are to look at some of the biggest problems the world has and help to solve them. To do this, we need to keep solving all the smaller pieces of the jigsaw to solve the big things – for example if we could make solar panels more efficient then we could use them more widely and not have to rely so much on carbon producing energy.

    • Photo: Alexander Finch

      Alexander Finch answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Much the same as we do now 🙂 Keep finding good solutions to real problems, and make the world a better place to live!

      In space engineering, some of the exciting things we’re working on now are new rovers and spacecraft to explore the other planets and things in the solar system, new telescopes and science experiments to explore the rest of the universe and more powerful satellites that will help us understand Earth and provide services – like TV, internet and communications – even better than before…

    • Photo: Aron Kisdi

      Aron Kisdi answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Making our life sustainable and better quality and Earth and explore space. But we have been trying to do much the same for the past 3000 years or so.

      In space exploration I think finding and directly observing Exoplanets, and also exploring the Solar System with landers and robots.

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