What is the moment that made you realize engineering was the right path for you?

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When I already graduated as a petroleum engineer I was working in good drilling, thanks to different studies and tests that I did, I managed to optimize well drilling times in 1 week, in our work it means a magnificent advance. There I knew that this is my place.

I am an electrical engineer, I always felt that this was my path, today I work with solar panel technology, and I feel that it is the job of my dreams, I realized that this was my destiny when I helped my uncle to work as an electrician in a summer vacation.

I am a mechanical engineer, my father had a mechanical workshop and I really liked the manufacture of parts for old cars, I became a specialist but it was mostly in aesthetic matters, today I have a 3D printer for engine parts, my own workshop and my beloved title of a mechanical engineer.

I always felt that my place was a factory or a large industry, but my career was not very clear, I liked process management and that is why I studied to be a project engineer, I graduated 12 years and have worked in 3 different companies in the best jobs ever.

I knew for a fact I wanted to keep pursuing engineering after I got to perform some cool materials research with one of my professors. I loved the process so much I just couldn't get enough of it

I was interested in engineering every since high school but it wasn't until I began to see the potential salaries that I knew for a fact I wanted to pursue it. I get to do something I love AND get paid well for it? Sign me up lol

when I took my first engineering class in college and I loved it. I enjoyed being able to apply math and science to solve real-world problems.

Probably around the first time I tried to explain to my friends and family what "engineering" means and I got the ol' deer-in-the-headlights look from them. It makes perfect sense to me but not everybody really "gets" what we do, ha!

I always knew it would be something science-related because I love learning how systems work. I didn't want to work in the healthcare sector (my Mom's an RN, no thank you) so that meant biomedical engineering was out. But I was offered an apprenticeship by a mechanical design engineer while I was still an undergrad, and it really struck a chord with me.

When I was a kid I always wondered how people decide where different buildings and roads should go. Sounds silly but I always just wanted to know. Then in high school I took a really basic engineering class and found that a lot of my classmates had the same mentality, where if someone said "I don't know why it's designed that way" it just made them press in harder to understand the meaning behind the system. I felt like I had found a niche that was just perfect for me. I love this job.

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