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STEM Enterprise Q&A

STEM Enterprise Competition

Let's meet the STEM professionals answering your questions:

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Katerina Gonos

Russ Hall

Rohin Titmarsh

David Bott

Siddartha Khastgir

Freeha Azmat

Your questions

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1. What interested/inspired you as a child to want a job in engineering?

2. How do you feel working as an engineer now, is your job something you expected when you decided that you will be an engineer?

 

3. During education, did you do your own engineering projects and research at home? And did it help to expand your knowledge for when you did your exams?

   

4. What is the industry like?

5. What jobs are available and how can I get started with experience at home, workplaces or courses / apprenticeships?

   

6. When doing higher studies after GCSEs what was the route most of you took? If A levels what were the A levels that you chose?

   

7. What do you suggest doing for someone who has decided to take A levels and plans to go to a University?

   

8. There are so many routes in engineering like automotive, electrical, mechanical engineering etc. When do you get that kick of what actually you have to do specifically in engineering?

 

9. What do you think would be more handy in universities and later in a job - product design or computer science. I am struggling to choose between these two A levels. Other than this I am choosing maths, further maths and physics.

 

10. Is all the work you receive physical or is there any desk work?

 

11. At what time in your life did you know what type of engineering you wanted to do? And did you have to change your course of education (e.g. university degree) for it?

   

12. What is the most challenging project you have worked on, and why?

   

13. Which part of STEM is the most important to society?

   

14. RE: Olympic opening ceremony. They did all the live events and it was a big task. I was wondering how they did it all? I saw the re-run of the practice runs of the 2012 opening ceremony and saw all the engineering going on there - it was great - all on a budget.

   

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