As someone quoted:
“To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.”
Engineering is meant to create, design, solve, analyze and evaluate solutions to a particular problem. It helps us to become revolutionary. Developing these skills at the early stage of our education will always be a plus. Let’s hear what our SWEet Professional Members answer this question:
What influenced you to work towards a career in the engineering field?
Shephil Philip
B.E in Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani
Solution Architect, IBM
There is a quote by Albert Einstein – “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” The same curiosity made me ask questions like “why” and “how”. Curiosity encouraged me to solve problems and also made me create new problems to solve. That influenced me to build a career where I will wake up every day as a kid with curiosity to learn, experiment and solve more.
Pooja Deolankar
M.Tech in Computer science and engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology
Software engineer, IBM
Aristotle had said –
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
That says practice makes a woman perfect in what she wants to do. The engineering field interests me and is my passion, so I love to invest my time in developing new skills and learning new technologies. Once it’s about liking and passion then practicing certain skill becomes natural and enjoyable.
Aishwarya Saraswathi H M
B.E. in Computer Science Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University
Consultant for Supply Chain Services, IBM
We (90s kids) grew up in an age with games like dave, NFS 2, GTA VC. Playing these games, I had always wondered “what if this option was there in that game… what if that option.” This question about “what if” is what got me into engineering. Programming concepts taught at the time helped me to make my first app as part of my graduation project and kick-started my career in a similar field. Now with concepts like AI, ML, and cloud, it favors the creation and development of the ideas/solutions to a problem. As and when the solutions or the ideas turn into reality, it motivates more to analyze and solve the problem.
Do you have a question for our women engineers at SWE? We’d love to hear from you! Send your questions to swenext@swe.org. We’ll answer you directly, or your question may become a future SWEet Wisdom column!
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