Dear Colleagues The economic stimulus package that president Obama signed into life last week had an interesting side effect. Most of the jobs created (or protected) require some sort…
Dear Colleagues First of all, thanks for the enormous response to common sense tips on safe practice and commissioning. We have been working on putting this into booklet form and…
Dear Colleagues Back into the engineering fray or selling a unique engineering skill You may have been out of main stream engineering for some time or you may be eagerly…
Dear Colleagues Moving into a new engineering job or simply moving from college to work I have noticed that a number of you (perhaps more than usual in the past…
Dear colleagues 1. Just before launching into my somewhat brief consideration of smart grids please think about this: We are running a forum on smart grids in Melbourne, Australia, in…
Dear Colleagues Your survey I was intrigued by the economic survey that you (almost 1000 respondents) happily undertook last week. Interestingly enough, the results indicated that for slightly more than…
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. 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…