Posted by Chris Rand.
The disastrous floods which hit Yorkshire, the East Midlands and more recently southern England have brought a second flood on to the streets: civil engineers in hard hats saying “I told you so”. And they certainly have been saying so, for a long time; I’m sure you only have to look at the Institution of Civil Engineers web site for the evidence. (more…)
Posted by Chris Rand.
A few new things to talk about this week with regard to Engineeringtalk. Firstly, I’m excited to announce that later this month, we’ll be merging the separate Industrialsafetytalk site into Engineeringtalk. This will give us a whole new section on health and safety issues, which always seem to generate a lot of interest from readers. The problems in designing products to meet differing worldwide standards are obvious, and it’s useful to be able to provide you with news from various standards bodies, as well as from suppliers who are experienced in dealing with the differences. (more…)
Posted by Chris Rand.
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, which was created from the IEE and IIE, has over 150,000 members, and can consider itself to be one of the leading voices of our profession. When it warns of an recruitment crisis in UK engineering and technology, I would hope that the government takes notice. And the IET’s annual “skills survey” of 500 companies says that a crisis is exactly what we have. (more…)
Posted by Chris Rand.
Being at the receiving end of a lot of articles, I often get asked by manufacturers to recommend good freelance technical writers. After all, if you get it right, investing a few hundred pounds in having a good technical article written can pay for itself many times over. (more…)
Engineeringtalk and this Editor's Blog is now edited by Dave Wilson
Dave was the Editor of Digital Design, Electronic Systems Design and The OEM Integrator in the US between 1980 and 1990. More recently, he founded e4engineering (now The Engineer Online) at the start of 2000 and Technology Horizons in 2006, both for Centaur Media. His mood varies with the fortunes of the NASDAQ and Nikkei indices.
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