• Question: what kind of engineer are you?

    Asked by Pheebarella to Chris, Holly, Lyd, Mark, Michael on 16 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Mark Dougherty

      Mark Dougherty answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      I’m a process engineer, this means it is my job to turn recipes made by chef’s in a small kitchen into a huge scale. I have to design the process that will allow us to make 1 million cans of beans a day!

      I need to decide how to pump our tomatoes to make the sauce and how hot our ovens should be to cook the beans!

    • Photo: Holly Miller

      Holly Miller answered on 18 Nov 2015:

      I am also a Process Engineer but making cars instead of beans 🙂

      I am given set parts which need to be fitted to the car, in particular the engine, and I need to confirm that they can be fitted and write the processes explaining how they will be fitted and which tooling is required.

    • Photo: Michael Sulu

      Michael Sulu answered on 18 Nov 2015:

      I am also a process engineer, but specifically a bio-process engineer.

      I take the discoveries that scientists make and industrialise them. as an example, this week some people came to us having made about 1 Litre of something containing yeast and a malaria vaccine, we turned that process into something making 10L with 10 times the concentration of yeast, so we made 100 times more vaccine!

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