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Allison Atkinson is a technical and academic writer, leveraging her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and Master of Arts in English.
Some engineering work is routine, but difficulties will often arise. Some projects may require you to deal with difficult clients, return faulty parts from a supplier, navigate unclear permitting instructions from government agencies, or the problem you are assigned to solve may just be inherently challenging. When answering this question, show the interviewer that you are capable of working through problems using the resources available to you and that you do not give up at the first sign of difficulty.

Allison Atkinson is a technical and academic writer, leveraging her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and Master of Arts in English.
"My team's senior design project was very open-ended. We were supposed to design an app that helped children develop fine motor skills. The client's vision was for a very simple interface, but our professors wanted us to come up with something more complicated. On top of that, the app was supposed to be developed using iOS, which none of us had done before. So, the difficulty of the project came from the end goal being unclear and the method of getting there being totally new. We found that frequent check-ins, with the client, with our professors, and with each other was the key to making sure we were all consistently moving in the right direction. I set up the regular meetings in Outlook and made meeting agendas and sent out the minutes afterwards to make sure this happened."

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