Dear Colleagues Although it will vary from region to region and from country to country, times are still a little uncertain in engineering. The traditional disciplines within electrical engineering, for...
Dear Colleagues A useful chapter on Training with Impact Get your advance copy of a chapter on Training with Impact from our forthcoming book on Presentation and Instructing Skills for...
Dear Colleagues How many times have you changed jobs? Sadly, in today’s world, nothing goes on for ever, including your ‘spot’ in a company. Apparently, in the course of his/her...
Dear Colleagues As engineering professionals we should all be passionate about protecting our hard won designs and intellectual property from the pirates and less than scrupulous commercial denizens. There are...
Dear Colleagues I like to think I am one - an engineering entrepreneur that is. And vaguely successful. Although, I must confess that when I see the salaries earned by...
Dear Colleagues Thanks for the flood of responses to the engineering quiz. Full answers are below and we would like to congratulate our winners: Mr Patrick RichardsMr Brett DixonMr Mike...
Dear Colleagues Although there is the inevitable hype about what an incredible economic year beckons us as we farewell the great recession, I have my reservations. I reckon things are...
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 As the festive end of the year approaches – the season for giving, it is a great time to examine how we can use our engineering skills to...
Dear Colleagues Whilst on a ship a woman enquired of Herbert Hoover (who later became US president in 1929) what he did for a living. His reply; “I am an...
Dear colleagues In these rather challenging times, it is especially important to value yourself and to extract as much value from your engineering expertise as you can. It is also...
Dear colleagues, In 1902 CY O’Connor, one of Australia’s greatest engineers, constructed the longest pipeline in the world. It was designed to carry water from Perth to the desperately dry...