Last updated October 19, 2017 at 1:34 pm
No idea what actually happens in Robotics and Engineering jobs? What could a career in these areas hold for you? These short videos highlight a range of roles from making garlic picking machines work, security system design & designing various parts of submarines, to calculating how to make a building safe, playing with robots and carving a TV presenting career out or being in charge of making a plane testing environment safe.
Alicia explains some top tips for surviving a double degree at university, and why she is following the path she is in Bio-Technology and Chemical Engineering, and what is might lead to. She also talks about why Science is so important, whether you want to go to university or not.
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Arna is studying Civil Engineering and talks about her plans for her future with the possible pathways of her career that interest her the most, as well as some insights into some other areas of Civil Engineering that would be open to her. She talks about how she got into Engineering and how its really all about problem solving.
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Chris & Simon work at Dermatec as project engineers & they love the variety and hands on nature of their work. Whilst what they are doing is quite different from their university studies they’ve found, overall, the scientific principles of investigation and methodical processes are common themes throughout all the projects they work on and talk about how their education prepared them for that.
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Laura talks about her role as a development engineer working on the signatures team at Deep Blue Tech. She utilities a lot of the basic skills she learnt at school in Maths, & Physics classes, as well as communication skills, which all help her with problem solving – the core of her work. Above all she says her work is fun and can’t think of another job in Australia that would allow her to do the work she does in the way that she does on a daily basis.
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Meet Sarah, an Engineer at Nova Systems. A lack of direction, by her own admission, meant she wasn’t the best student for most of her educational career, but now she has a PhD and draws upon skills such as team work and communication just as much as her maths and science knowledge. She believes one of the most exciting things about working in Engineering is not only making a real difference to people’s lives, but the variety of things she gets involved with via work.
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Sarah & Taneysha explain what engineering really is – essentially its solving problems using team work and communication skills – explaining some of the different branches and the actual everyday applications of the different types of engineering. They are both passionate about robots, computers and the fact that a wide range of careers in engineering are for everyone, no matter their gender.
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Jessica, Ben & Craig all work in different areas within submarine engineering, but work together to make sure it all integrates well. Ben explains how he wasn’t really academic at school, but has found a way to utilise his communication skills and how his perception of what an engineer is was totally off, Jessica talks about how gender isn’t a barrier and Craig talks about how his passion to find creative solutions to problems is the corner stone of what he does. All of them agree they have found a career they love, where they make a difference and draw upon many varied skill areas.
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Follow Zoz Brooks as he explains how a career in TV was borne out of an interest in chemistry at an early age so he could make his own fireworks. This lead to a study in computing and becoming an engineer to facilitate making robots. He sees himself as a general problem solver with technology being the solution. Where could your curiosity take you?
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Hilary Jones
Hilary is the Contributing Editor for Education at Australia's Science Channel and the Education Specialist. She has a wide ranging background in a variety of Educational settings both in Australia and the UK, and a deep love for biology, Star Wars and ultra dark chocolate. Not necessarily together - although creating an accurate X-Wing out of 90% cocoa solids chocolate would be a dream come true (please send the plans if you have them).
Science and technology is as much a part of our cultural fabric as art, music, theatre and literature. They play a significant role in our daily lives, yet, in a world dependent on science, we often take them for granted. Australia’s Science Channel believes every citizen has a right, and a responsibility, to be informed, and our mission is to create programs to bring that about.
