• Question: what is your favourite type on engineering????????

    Asked by victoriamcgregor to Adam, Alexander, Aron, Jess, Neil on 11 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Aron Kisdi

      Aron Kisdi answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Biomimetic engineering

      It means imitating life. Nature is fantastic, it has very elegant solutions to many problems, it is very efficient in many cases. I think we can draw inspiration from biology to improve many engineering designs.

    • Photo: Jessica Marshall

      Jessica Marshall answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Argh – Aron has the same thought as me! But it us true – I love very simple engineering, often the simplest designs are going to work the best, be the most reliable and often are the most beautiful and elegant. It is very easy to overthink a problem – a ‘classic’ example (and I don’t even know if it is true) is that America spent a lot of time designing a pen that would work in the zero gravity of space. Russia just took up pencils.

    • Photo: Neil Bowles

      Neil Bowles answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      I actually really like designing cameras for looking at other planets, but I’m not particularly good at it. I normally end up handing my ideas to a specialist optical design engineer to make sure the idea for a lens or a mirror can actually be built.
      I also like designing and building electronics.

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