Question: why do write about engineering and why do you find out the science behind it?

Aaron Boardley answered on 9 Nov 2015:

I love writing and I love science, so I wanted to find a job that combined the two. So I write about engineering for two reasons:

1) I really love understanding how things work. I like being creative and designing and making things as well as science, and engineering is a perfect mix of these things – so for me it’s the ideal thing to write about.

2) It was an engineering organisation that had a job vacancy! Realistically, if there wasn’t a job available writing about engineering, but there was a job available writing about computers, or medicine, or zoology, then there’s a chance I might be writing about that. In the past I’ve written about psychology and economics, for example. I genuinely do love writing about engineering, but partly I’m just here because I’m lucky that this job came up at the right time.

That second answer is also why I need to find out about the science behind the subject I’m writing about – because there’s always things I don’t know. Because I write about a big range of things I can’t be an expert in all of them, so I always speak to people who are.