Dear Colleagues, Last night at a Careers Expo attended by happy throngs of kids and parents, one dad (a practising engineer) indicated to me that he had advised his two...
Were you born to be an engineer? Were you supernaturally gifted with the skills necessary to become an engineer? Or can engineering be taught? If you have an innate skill...
Friday night (the 25th of August) a tropical storm hit Texas in the United States of America. 60cm of rain fell overnight (23 inches) with a total of 50 inches...
Members of our EIT team attended the SkillsWest Expo this last weekend to show off our course offerings. Our EIT stand showcased a clever robotic arm which visitors were invited...
The United States has just witnessed the first total solar eclipse in 38 years. For some US states people would have observed a partial eclipse, but for 14 other states,...
Hadi Harb is a qualified Engineer, research scientist, consultant, and business owner. He lends his invaluable knowledge to the Engineering Institute of Technology as a lecturer too. His typical subjects...
Engineers have IQ mastered, but do they have emotional intelligence (EQ)? An engineer takes to a popular engineering online forum and writes: “I can’t get a job because I’m too...
A pedestrian bridge on the N3 road in Bedfordview, in Johannesburg collapsed in the early hours of the morning on Tuesday the 8th of August 2017. The bridge collapsed onto...
There are more than enough photographs of abandoned buildings on the internet to fill tome, but the history behind them is often overlooked. Oftentimes abandoned buildings speak of a troublesome...
We have all heard of the common engineering jobs such as Electrical Engineer, Civil Engineer, Mechanical Engineer and Software Engineer; let’s take a look at some of the uncommon and...
What can house 1,000 passengers, a boatload of cargo, and 850 vehicles? You guessed it. A ferry. The UK Government’s Department of Transport in their 2016 Provisional Sea Transport...
Are you willing to travel internationally for work and study? This is a loaded question. A range of considerations would be pondered and include family, need for excitement, ambition,...
