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WHAT and WHO inspired you to become an engineer

Suzanne Flynn
I am carrying out an unscientific piece of research.  Please can you help me by telling me WHAT inspired you to become and engineer and WHO inspired you to become an engineer?  I am hoping to use the anonymized information at a networking event for IET Fellows later in the year.  Thanks for your help.  Suzanne Flynn, Deputy Chair, IET Fellows Panel
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    I guess it was my Dad who first inspired me to become an engineer - he was a painter & decorator by trade, but also an enthusaistic radio ham. When I was a little girl (in the 1950s) he made our first televison set from an old army surplus 5" green CRT and  big cabinet full of valves!  We watched the Coronation on it and it was one of only two TVs in our village at that time! My grammar school was a girls school and engineering was never mentioned - I was supposed to become a Maths teacher.  However, having taken O & A levels a year early and not having very good results for the A levels I went to the local Tech for a year, before going to Uni. It was there that the Career's Adviser suggested that what I really should do at Uni was engineering, not maths, as I wanted to make things work!    I ended up doing a Cybernetics & instrument Physics degree at Reading Uni from 1965 -68 and it was a most interesting course with a mixtures of electronics, control engineering and computer science.  It was only the third year that this course had run and we were the first group to include girls - all three of us graduated in '68. 
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    I guess it was my Dad who first inspired me to become an engineer - he was a painter & decorator by trade, but also an enthusaistic radio ham. When I was a little girl (in the 1950s) he made our first televison set from an old army surplus 5" green CRT and  big cabinet full of valves!  We watched the Coronation on it and it was one of only two TVs in our village at that time! My grammar school was a girls school and engineering was never mentioned - I was supposed to become a Maths teacher.  However, having taken O & A levels a year early and not having very good results for the A levels I went to the local Tech for a year, before going to Uni. It was there that the Career's Adviser suggested that what I really should do at Uni was engineering, not maths, as I wanted to make things work!    I ended up doing a Cybernetics & instrument Physics degree at Reading Uni from 1965 -68 and it was a most interesting course with a mixtures of electronics, control engineering and computer science.  It was only the third year that this course had run and we were the first group to include girls - all three of us graduated in '68. 
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