{"id":1527,"date":"2023-04-03T14:30:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2023-04-04T11:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T02:05:59","slug":"kosta-manning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/2023\/04\/03\/kosta-manning\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosta Manning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Honours Degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Robotics), 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWhat is your current role and responsibility?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am the Project Engineer for Robotics and Automation at the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute. I am the lead engineer for robotics projects and daily institute robotics and virtual reality operations across the Factory of the Future laboratories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you like most about what you do?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy job gives me lots of variety and I get to learn a lot about new and upcoming robotics and virtual reality technologies &#8211; as a technology enthusiast, I find great joy in trying and using new and exciting technologies in these streams before they become more widely adopted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the achievement you are most proud of?<\/strong><br \/>\nI have worked on a few different and exciting projects since I started my engineering career, however I think I am most proud of an achievement I never envisioned attaining. I recently worked with director Garry Stewart on a on a robotics and dance project where we were able to create a live performance between five professional dancers and four robots &#8211; I never envisioned myself working in the arts, so this is a recent achievement I am pretty proud of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there any experience from your time at Flinders that has had a lasting impact on you professionally or<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>personally?<\/strong><br \/>\nI think the experience that gave the most lasting impact was my work integrated learning &#8211; not only did this enable me to find work in my final year of university, it also helped me kickstart my career in robotics and technology research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think engineering will look like in 30 years?<\/strong><br \/>\nI think engineering will look very different, but the thinking processes will be the same &#8211; I think AI and other technologies will become a lot more mainstream and apparent in our day to day lives and I am excited but also a little anxious to see how this will impact future work and future generations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What advice do you have for your younger self, or for students beginning an engineering career?<\/strong><br \/>\nDo as much learning outside of university as possible! Join an engineering club or do some self-guided work experience! This helped me a lot, to make some valuable connections and to learn the valuable technical and interpersonal skills I use daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honours Degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Robotics), 2020 What is your current role and responsibility? I am the Project Engineer for Robotics and Automation at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4958,"featured_media":1528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[830,2073],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-science-and-engineering","category-study-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}