• Question: Who is your engineer And Who is your role model.

    Asked by St,Annes20 to Sarah, Jeffrey, Ilaria, Frederik, Conor on 9 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Jeffrey Roe

      Jeffrey Roe answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      I really like James Dyson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dyson
      He has an amazing story about he got this inventions made.

    • Photo: Frederik Gossen

      Frederik Gossen answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      I like the story of Larry Page and Sergey Brin. I’m not sure whether I would say they are my role models but their story is quite impressive.

    • Photo: Conor McGinn

      Conor McGinn answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      I have a bunch of role models and a few favourite engineers. Firstly engineers… Close contendors: Leonardo Da Vinci, Howard Hughes (aviation pioneer), James Wyatt (insanely prolific architect in Industrial Revolution UK), Karl Benz, Jack Parsons (self-taught rocket scientist), Alan Turing, Rodney Brooks (roboticist), Richard Feynman (ok so technically a physicist but I’m still going to count it!). Overall favourite: Nicola Tesla – imo the best engineer to have ever lived on the planet. This guy was so unbelievably good. I dont think any engineer has ever left a mark on the world the way Tesla did. This guy (and all the other people I have mentioned) SHOULD be studied in your history class in secondary school!!

      Ok onto role models… All my role models are people I know personally. My dad for sure. I have had a few coaches that I really look up to, my old athletics coach in particular. My grandfathers brother is a really senior academic in Trinity, and has been an incredible mentor to me over the years so him also. I’m sure there’s more..

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