• Question: How do you implement Science and Maths into your work?

    Asked by Willrus to Chris, Holly, Lyd, Mark, Michael on 13 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Mark Dougherty

      Mark Dougherty answered on 13 Nov 2015:

      I was laughing to myself reccently because I had to use trigonometry when designing something in a factory.

      I remember being at school and thinking “when will I ever need to use this?”

      We had to fill angry bird pasta shapes into plastics pots but first had to work out how to drop them down a slide 5 meters tall. We had to work out the best angle to release them so they wouldn’t break (it was a bit like playing the game in real life) I had to use maths to work out the length of the best angle, so my maths teacher was right 🙂

    • Photo: Michael Sulu

      Michael Sulu answered on 19 Nov 2015:

      This is a really good question,
      science and maths are ways of describing the things we do in engineering.

      For my physics and chemistry come in to the way we mix and feed bacteria, and biology/biochemistry is all about trying to get the bacteria to make what we want them to make. Maths is a useful way of relating all of the science together!

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