I think engineering is solving problems
it's taking fundamental principles in
physics chemistry and the life sciences
putting them all together and then
creating something which can be then
applied and have real-world impacts.
That could be anything from designing bridges to trying to 3D print a kidney
but the most important thing is it's applied to the real world so you got applications
that are helping people and improving
our society it's how you get from an
idea or a design to a working real thing.
so I think engineering as a discipline
gets taken for granted the greatest
thing about an engineering success is
when things don't go wrong
I think i've always been a bit of an engineer
I was the sort of child who was out in
the backyard building things and solving
problems and I loved finding out how
things work I'm a very nosy person I had
always loved maths and physics and i'd
always been very interested in how
things work how to take things apart how
to put them back together I think I
wanted to study engineering just because
it just gave it that real-life
application and allowed a bit of
creativity and innovation into the
science and theory that I really love so
much. At Imperial we're a very diverse
community so you've got people from all
around the world and they each bring
their own unique take to a problem
I love how international Imperial is I
get to study something that I'm
passionate about with lots of other
people who are passionate about the same
things but from all over the world
Imperial College London has been a
champion of multidisciplinary research
so as an engineering school we get to
interact with the departments in the
life sciences buildings but also the
faculties of medicine to do true
cross-disciplinary research and innovate
in areas which can have big impact
we've got mechanical engineers working
with electrical engineers working with
aeronautical engineers and I think
that's quite a unique thing that's quite
hard to find it attracts top researchers
from all over the world and for me
getting to work with those people is the
best thing about being here
Engineering has to be of interest to the
wider public it underlies everything
that they use and do every day and I
think engineering is all about the
challenges and making new ways of doing
things one of the key things that drives
innovation is the people and without the
people innovation just takes longer
I think we need more engineers and I think
to make the most of the skills that are
out there we also need more diversity in
engineering everybody can be an engineer
and there's a sort of fallacy that you
have to be one shape size or person and
often when we look back we'll see one
person who apparently made that great
change but in practice it's a whole team
of people who are contributing to a
collective effort
