Dear Colleagues I am always filled with some horror when I look at the quality of documents I have put together some time ago. So, an improved version on Myths...
Dear Colleagues, As an engineering professional, you have no doubt come across MCCs (or motor control centres) at some time in your life. This is an assembly of one or...
Dear Colleagues In essence, the more experience a firm has in producing a particular product or service, the lower its costs are. Fairly obvious one would think, but something we...
Dear Colleagues The splatter of body parts and guts in the nightly feast of crime and police shows has made forensics a household name. And the emphasis today has shifted...
Dear Colleagues Imagine scanning a broken part that is no longer available (for your vintage car) into your computer and then printing out (in 3-dimensions) a replacement in plastic in...
The Art of Support: EIT’s Learning Support Officers InformationCategory Education10 September 2020Written by: Quintus Potgieter The Engineering Institute of Technology (EIT) is a unique global institute, delivering online engineering short...
Dear Colleagues ‘You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not? (George Bernard Shaw). I believe that one of the...
Dear Colleagues Please forgive me dear (engineering) reader (and perhaps, gardener) but surely there is nothing more irritating than the strident noise of lawnmowers or mulching machines with their staccato...
Dear Colleagues ‘A sheet of graphene (a form of carbon that appears as hexagonal shapes arranged in a flat layer) the same thickness as plastic refrigerator wrap, stretched over a...
Dear Colleagues Recently a motorist had his finger chopped off so that thieves could steal his expensive car. He was using biometric based fingerprint identification for the car. In applying...
Dear Colleagues ‘The explosive nature of a pipeline,is not far away from the force of a military explosion.’ So remarked Jim Hall, former (American) NTSB chairman. As recently as 2008,...
Dear Colleagues, It is all quite frustrating - the more you learn about a particular technology, the less you feel you know – esp. in the context of measuring flow...
