Dear Colleagues You’ve just won a great contract but have to work in a team. Great, a technical challenge, but in groups! As engineering professionals this is not our best...
Dear Colleagues Murphy’s Law is especially quoted in engineering and as most of you would well know the gist of it is: ‘If anything can go wrong, it will’. Often,...
Dear colleagues Thanks to all +120,000 readers for your suggestions - please keep them coming. As you know with your CAD design work, working in 3-d is almost upon us....
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 Over the past few years we have heard a lot about virtual reality – computer generated worlds in which one can be completely immersed. Interestingly it has never...
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 My good sparring partner, Luke Hancock, who is our IT guru, has kindly made some comments on the new Windows 7 due to hit you shortly (thanks Luke)....
Dear Colleagues, Networking is now a critical part of your career. And it shouldn’t be when you are urgently looking for a job before the “work” roof caves in. Networking...
Dear Colleagues When you have a permanent job in a company, your income is pretty certain. In the real, but cruel world of consultant, contractor and contract, however, life can...
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 Since the early seventies, I have watched as engineering careers have morphed into five distinct types: ‘corporate’, ‘learning’, ‘contract’, ‘skilled global’ and ‘manager’. I would be most interested...
I am currently travelling with a roadshow, presenting short information sessions in various mining towns in the Australian outback. It has been quite fascinating to learn what is happening in...
