Dear colleagues 1. Back to school After being a few (or indeed many) years in the workforce, is it worth going back to school, or, for my British Commonwealth readers;...
Dear Colleagues I trust that you have had a great break over the past few weeks. I certainly had too much sea, wind and surf; but managed to improve my...
Dear Colleagues In our home, we celebrate a Scandinavian Christmas on the eve of the 24th December. Whatever your religion or culture may it be a time of peace and...
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 1. Well, a year has barreled past with bewildering speed and we again make our comprehensive 2009 Engineering Planner/Diary, free to the first 30 of you that request...
When I was a junior engineer in a large multinational company, I was always bemused by the succession planning for engineers and technicians. Potential for advancement up the technical ladder...
Dear Colleagues A good engineering colleague, Terry Cousins, was scratching his head yesterday wondering how a day share trader could possibly add value by trading stocks on an hour-by-hour basis...
Hello to you all, Steve is languishing in hospital having had a rather tatty, ruptured appendix removed. In the past you contributed to the following document: Commonsense Engineering Safety Tips...
Hello to you all, Steve is languishing in hospital having had a rather tatty, ruptured appendix removed. In the past you contributed to the following document: Commonsense Engineering Safety Tips...
I was somewhat bemused – actually horrified - at an innovative use of tagging at some nightclubs. A tiny RFID tag is apparently injected into a regular nightclubber’s arm to...
Dear colleagues Most of you will chortle quietly when it comes to protecting your intellectual property (IP). “What intellectual property?” you may think, with some exasperation. But you will be...
Perhaps a generalisation, but I believe as engineering professionals we tend to work independently, without much enthusiasm for communication - something regarded as the domain of politicians rather than of...
