This is Engineering Day: Are engineers really who you think they are?

'Engineering is all about hard hats and dirt and is not for women' dispelled by Structural Engineer Preeti Mistry:​ 

'You have to be a maths genius to be an engineer' dispelled by Engineering Geologist Holly Fisher.​

'Engineering Geologists study the ground for construction projects. We determine the strength of the ground for foundation or earthwork design, and identify and mitigate any possible hazards associated with the ground; soft soil, faulting, groundwater, sinkholes, landslides, mining, weak rock etc. all have the potential to cause problems for construction. 

I hated maths. I loved geography and geology, so I studied it at university. There, I discovered that engineering also involves understanding the intricacies of the ground, the shape of the land and how it got that way, groundwater, history and human interactions with our environment.​'

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