--- title: "My engineering journey: Ansible Motion's Technical Director Kia Cammaerts" description: My grandmother understood how things worked, designed things, bought and used tools, improvising when needed, to great effect. That sowed the seeds in me of wanting to understand the functional nature of the things around you, and of using that knowledge to improve them. 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Recently, IMechE profiled Ansible Motion's Technical Director, Kia Cammaerts, about his background and experiences as an engineer. ### ![kia cammaerts technical director ansible motion ltd](https://www.ansiblemotion.com/hs-fs/hubfs/News_Images/kia-cammaerts.jpg?width=1200&name=kia-cammaerts.jpg) ### *Kia Cammaerts* My grandmother understood how things worked, designed things, bought and used tools, improvising when needed, to great effect. That sowed the seeds in me of wanting to understand the functional nature of the things around you, and of using that knowledge to improve them. I went to do physics [at the University of Reading] but had an epiphany during a lecture on control engineering: seeing mathematical modelling used to predict the behaviour of physical systems – and I was enthused to follow a mechanical engineering path. [Read the full article on the IMecheE website, to learn how Kia started Ansible Motion. ](http://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/my-engineering-journey-ansible-motion's-technical-director-kia-cammaerts) [![New Call-to-action](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/453384/008a845e-9575-4321-92f2-4292bceacbba.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/453384/008a845e-9575-4321-92f2-4292bceacbba)   ### Subscribe now ### Popular news ### eBook **Better by design: 10 Advantages of Ansible Motion DIL simulators** ![10-advantages-front-page-01](https://www.ansiblemotion.com/hubfs/CTAs/2021-CTAs/10-advantages-front-page-01.jpg) [![download](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/453384/27bb9213-08a2-4b19-9221-6993ee9fa690.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/453384/27bb9213-08a2-4b19-9221-6993ee9fa690) ## About Ansible Motion Founded in 2009, Ansible Motion creates and deploys technology associated with the physical and logical simulation of human-experienced vehicles. 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