Interview with an Engineer

Interview with an Engineer: Composites Team Leader

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Lucy Fielding

Name: Lucy C.D. Fielding

Age: 24

College: Jesus

Engineering Specialisation: Materials and Aeronautical

Fourth year project title: I’m actually doing a PhD now, on “Understanding the toughness and ductility of novel steels with mixed microstructures”. My fourth year project was “Aerodynamics of a Solar Car” – or it tried to be.

What your PhD actually involves: Grinding. Which, as it turns out, is the steel version of sanding. Oh, and occasionally skiving off to build solar cars.

Height: 160 cm (0.91 Tom Grimbles – although when you control for the sex and ethnicity variables, I’m actually taller than he is)

Anything else that you feel defines you: Er, steel. And bad engineering jokes. Oh, and I hate rowing with the fire of a thousand suns.…
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Interview with an Engineer: Aerodynamics Team Leader

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Lucy Fielding

Name: Qichao ‘George’ George ‘Qichao’ Zhao

Age: 21

College: Fitzwilliam

Engineering Specialisation: Aerospace

Fourth year project title: Internal Flows of a Solar Vehicle

What you’re actually doing for your fourth year project: Underbody Aerodynamics of a Solar Vehicle, and an Integrated CFD Workflow.

Hah. No, I just run random meshes and then scarper to play badminton.

Height: 175cm (1.02 Tom Grimbles)

Anything else that you feel defines you: I’m CHINESE!…
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Interview with an Engineer: Mechanical Team Leader

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Lucy Fielding

Name: David Jessop

Age: 21

College: Clare

Engineering Specialisation: Civil & environmental

Fourth year project title: CUER Eco Chassis

What you’re actually doing for your fourth year project: Playing with plywood

Height: Taller than Tom

Anything else that you feel defines you: Sailing…
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Interview with an Engineer: Electrical Team Leader

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Lucy Fielding

Name: Daniel Chambers

Age: 22

College: Selwyn

Engineering Specialisation: Electrical

Fourth year project title: Distributed Maximum Power Point Tracking on a Solar Vehicle

What you are actually doing for your fourth year project: Building some rudimentary MPPTs that won’t ever see the light of day (or Australia) after I’m done with them. Meticulously removing hundreds of lines of surplus code.

Height: 6’3” (1.103 Tom Grimbles)…
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Interview with an Engineer: Technical Director

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Lucy Fielding

Name: Thomas Alan Grimble

Age: 22

College: Robinson

Engineering Specialisation: Aeronautical

Fourth year project title: Computational Study of the Aerodynamic Stability of a Solar Car

What your fourth year project actually involves: Slamming my head on a desk when the CFD fails to work. Look, I even have a picture:

Height: 5’8’’

Anything else that you feel defines you: If I had an aura, it would read “Kick me”. I’m always really nice. Apparently people take advantage of that.

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Interview with an Engineer

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Lucy Fielding

Welcome to what will hopefully become a new regular feature on our blog. Every few weeks we will bring you an interview with one of our many highly-skilled design engineers. From the Technical Director to a lowly pleb on the aero team (in this case the same person), we’ll present a cross-section of life inside a solar car team.

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