How to avoid engineering career killers - 11 Tips
Dear colleagues We are closer to the end of the year. Did you achieve what you set out to do on the 1st January 2007? Perhaps you never gave it...
Real time engineering collaboration
Last week, we had to urgently collaborate in writing a short article with two other engineers – all of us on different continents. This was the most unusual experience in...
Where on earth has the Electronics (or indeed, plain old) hobbyist gone to?
I remember clearly, when I was in my teens, experimenting with crystal radios and being quite excited with the first crackly reception of the local AM radio station. Or connecting...
Invest in your people before you lose ‘em
Recently I received this note from one of my colleagues. I have deleted company names for this purpose. “Last week the XYZ company made me a fantastic offer that will...
Safety - Different countries/Different standards or not?
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...
Tethered to your desk and smothered by your work – whilst mobile
I know I am one of the major culprits here. I have an insatiable desire to keep up with everything happening in our engineering business. I am tethered to my...
Woz - What an inspirational engineer
Admittedly, Steve Wozniak (‘Woz’ to his buddies) of Apple fame is somewhat of an eclectic engineer and definitely not everyone’s cup of tea. Many engineering professionals would be decidedly twitchy...
Why our engineering education system is broken and what to do about it
We employ an eclectic mixture of experienced engineers, graduate engineers and engineering students both on permanent staff and on contract at IDC Technologies. We run many courses every day throughout...
Excellence in Australian Engineering
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...
Have we forgotten the most important asset of our businesses ?
Once a team of accountants runs their ruler over your business, you can bet your bottom dollar that first they will be looking at the assets in terms of plant...
Fingertip Engineering Knowledge
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...
The Great Move
Well; the great move to our new home up the road was (sort of) completed yesterday. To 1031 Wellington Street. Things had got untenable at our older offices with everyone...
