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Asked by anon-374660 to Polly, Jonathan on 17 Nov 2023.
Question: What was the process that led to being an engineer
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Jonathan Allen answered on 17 Nov 2023:
It all started when I was very young and wanted to know how my toys worked – so I would take them apart and try to put them back together again. This often didn’t work very well so I had to keep trying until I got it right. I didn’t know it then, but this is engineering – problem solving again and again until I find the answer. I then studied maths and sciences at school and found I really enjoyed them. This led me to get GCSEs in maths, physics, chemistry and biology – and I took maths and physics forwards to A-levels. After school I took a year out to work in a factory to see what ‘real’ engineering was like before going to university. I did two university degrees in engineering (MEng and PhD) and worked in different engineering companies during my school holidays. After I finished university I joined my current company and worked on lots of different engineering projects to get better and better – and I’m still learning new things every day today!
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Polly Osborne answered on 17 Nov 2023:
I only found out what an engineer was when I was 24 years old! At that age I got back from travelling and was looking for a job. I wanted to do something to tackle climate change so I thought renewable energy would be a good thing to work on. I was volunteering for a charity whilst looking for a job, and through that I met someone who was looking to hire people into their electrical engineering company. So I joined that company and they paid for me to do an electrical engineering foundation degree at the same time as working. Since then I’ve been working for 7 years and gradually I’ve pushed to work on more projects which help deliver low-carbon energy connections. Careers are much wigglier than I originally thought! There isn’t just one way to become an engineer 🙂
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Chathuri commented on :
Well I always wanted to be engineer, just didn’t know what type of an engineer. I love math so I did Math for my Advance Level and then I did a course in Electronic Engineering. Then I did my bachelors in Electronic and electrical engineering. In here I got to see different side of engineering such as telecommunication and so on and I realized I like electrical engineering more. So I did my masters in electrical power engineering. Then I joined my company as a graduate electrical engineer 2 years ago and I recently got promoted to electrical engineer level 1. My way is just one way of been an engineer. There are so many other ways to become one 🙂