Engineering Qualifications and Experience

This is    https://jim-quinn0.blogspot.com/      Qualifications Definition

      See      https://jim-quinn.blogspot.com/       World Stories

      and     https://jim-quinn4.blogspot.com/     JQ +

      and     https://jim-quinn41.blogspot.com/    Design for the disabled

      and      https://jim-quinn6.blogspot.com/     Money and The Poor

BJA (Jim) Quinn BSc CEng FIMechE CPD
Tornado Design Engineer
           27th November 2023 IMechE HQ Talk                https://events.imeche.org/ViewEvent?code=TLE7656

Just so you know - there is a problem with this Google software for it WILL NOT always retain the Medium font size I set, so it is not my fault that you see  ....... variation! And I have found that correcting it does not mean that it stays corrected!!

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Professional Engineers :

https://www.imeche.org/about-us/imeche-governance/governance-and-finance-reviews/code-of-conduct-explained    VERY IMPORTANT

https://archives.imeche.org/archive/institution-history/royal-charter

      We  think about Investment too:

40% of Tornado secured British jobs, 40% Deutsch jobs, 20% Italia jobs.     The F35 price is very high, with few jobs here and only a small tax return....

Employees pay income tax and VAT on purchases, and Business pays Corporation tax, so the actual price of a British Tornado is reduced by about 20% probably ( = half of the 40% investment) !:

If you do not "Call a spade a Spade", you duck the issue, and rarely find the better solution.

I hate being caged in UK after Brexit (only 90 days residence in 180 allowed in EU), for it is a silly arrogant country, dominated by no-qualifications needed MP and majority average non-thinkers, who deny Design Engineers existence (unless we work in Defence!!)......by ignoring their Independent Creative Helpful Thought and Top Level Planning, so respected in other countries by Government.

Who do Government employ in Quango like HS2 Ltd? - nobody with Qualifications, and they Spend and Spend without embarrassment at their so Excessive plans - 20sept2024 update? - now listed after my pressure, in 

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/high-speed-two-limited/about/our-governance     Mark Wild OBE, FREng was appointed December 2024, but not mentioned! Dr Nelson Ogunshakin is a CEng and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

And the Education Ministry recognises only up to the Academic PhD, while experience shows in CEng and Fellow which go way above and beyond that - without Govt knowledge! Good job they selected Mark Wild CEO of CrossRail (or Elizabeth Line) with Knowledge at last instead of the fairy tale writers... who really ought to be kicked out since they spent so much collectively, with little to show for it, and continued a very high speed fantasy unchallenged, such that 30 miles of tunnel is planned between London and Birmingham's 115 miles!!! We IMechE Engineers wanted capacity not such high speed. The higher the speed the fewer the trains because of stopping distance, and the straighter the track - so you cannot go around hills, but have to expensively tunnel.......

MP's are elected by the public to represent them in Govt, but Govt needs Good Thinkers to solve the problems that MP want solved, which is where Design Engineers work - we clearly should not waste our valuable thinking time in talking to very many Constituents, often many times about the same thing! That is what MP are employed to do, and why they do not need top qualifications, but do need to chat a lot.

Look below     for Qualification definitions

                       Jim  BSc CEng FIMechE CPD    

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Valuing thinking:-         updated 28th June 2024

CPD, Continuous Professional Development, means thinking further, wider, and keeping up to date. Last night, I attended the Fusion discussion webinar at the Royal Institution on 2nd February 2024, and enjoyed being brought up to date on JET's achievements in Oxfordshire, seeing progress on ITER in SE France, and hearing about the laser fusion project in the USA where they produced more power out than was input, for the first time in fusion history, last year. As they said, fusion energy has been researched for over 60 years now, and has still a way to go. The Fusion Scientists have been trying all sort of ideas/guesses to produce better results, which they have actually obtained, but nowhere near well enough for a power station yet. They have had to ask why something happened like "that" in their tests, and then to work out how to improve the result, and achievement is difficult. The Aerospace Engineer does exactly the same thing, but we set ourselves more realistic targets of a few years - about 10 years on the Tornado aircraft engine - including testing to satisfaction in the end, of course.

See   https://jim-quinn7.blogspot.com/    for fusion plasma tube measurements.

The thinking processes, testing, asking why, and producing solutions, gives a sense of regular satisfied achievement for the Engineer, that the Fusion Scientists lack, for theirs takes more than a lifetime to achieve the satisfactory finished product - and many Scientists are only able to point to a detail that is theirs, probably not understandable to the Public, and rarely a finished product (though Vaccine Scientists manage it!), that the Engineer is able to claim.

The same goes for many scientists - like understanding the meteorology of Jupiter's clouds or Ganymede's magnetic field - even Earth's weather prediction processes are not understood by the Public - just note: tomorrow, rain or ice, and it has taken years of dedicated work to do that satisfactorily. Engineers are able to achieve happier more fulfilling lives......?

Mathematical ability rates very highly in both Engineering and Physics, but Engineers know far more about reliability, predictability, misalignment, tolerance, repeatability, machine tooling, factory planning, quantity, than Scientists, and Engineers also have to understand Science and its possibilities, to apply it.

UK Government employs Chief Scientists, but the Engineer knows far more overall than they do! And yet there are no Chief Engineers in Government - who else should lead infrastructure projects? Unfortunately, the Government appoints financiers for infrastructure top level, and the Engineer is then only employed at a low implementation level - stage 4 - after the cost profile has been inadequately explored. Strategically a mistake, for there was no top level Engineering Challenge in HS2 of the wasteful, expensive, politician glamorous, 250mph speed, when capacity was required, not so much speed. 

The Government should implement the Vee diagram learnt from high technology engineering product thinking, and as HS2 showed, they never completed Stage 2 before launch - they only checked the ground subsoil strength after launch (8,000 boreholes not done) - this could have changed the route because they subsequently discovered the need for bigger, more costly, engineering works! Isambard Kingdom Brunel planned the GWR route in 1835 from London to Bristol, avoiding hills (only 1.8 miles of Box Tunnel), and opened the 116 mile route in 1841 - what did HS2 Ltd do?  33 miles of tunnel in a 117 mile route from London to Birmingham.....talk about expense!

                                              Jim

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Qualifications:

 BSc(1965) CEng(1985) FIMechE(1994) CPD Human Failures(2024)

Note: to become a CEng today requires an MSc, because the Tony Blair Government Education System downgraded the BSc exam to allow "inadequate" people to have qualifications......Industry's need not changed, for they need BETTER educated people anyway.....to compete and win overseas.

See below  for Definitions.....

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CPD is Continuing Professional Development and in September 2023 I completed a 6 hour course on Gears and Gearboxes successfully, thanks to Graham Penning the Lecturer, Chair of the British Gear Association, and Visiting Professor of Practice, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Careers advice: 

Tell students the different Types of Engineer:-

All Engineers use established mathematical equations (often built into software to reduce calculation time or to design in almost miniature sophisticated multiple detail) applied to new creative designs, to establish their predicted integrity, subsequently proved on test, and sometimes redesign and retest, to meet the original requirement.

The word Chartered must be held inviolable, and identifies professional competence and quality, and should be awarded by better defined Chartered Professional Bodies and Learned Societies.

CEng (Chartered Engineer) needs a Master’s degree level. Chartered Engineers develop solutions to complex engineering problems using new or existing technologies, through innovation, creativity and technical analysis, and prove themselves through successful hardware or software test.

https://www.imeche.org/membership-registration/become-a-member/chartered-engineer

IEng (Incorporated Engineer) needs a Batchelor’s degree level. Incorporated Engineers maintain and manage applications of current and developing technology and may undertake engineering design, development, manufacture, construction and operation.

https://www.imeche.org/membership-registration/become-a-member/incorporated-engineer

EngTech (Engineering Technician) needs 2 A levels or NVQ/SQV Level 3 or similar to start. Engineering Technicians apply proven techniques and procedures to the solution of practical engineering problems

https://www.imeche.org/membership-registration/become-a-member/engineering-technician

ICT Tech(Information and Communications Technician) requires 2 A levels or NVQ/SQV Level 3 or similar to start. They support a range of functions which utilise ICT solutions, and hardware and software components.

https://www.theiet.org/career/professional-registration/ict-technician/how-to-apply

and for the BCS, British Computer Society:

https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/get-registered/rittech-the-registration-for-it-technicians/

AND to become a 

Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers FIMechE:

In 1994 JQ was awarded with the qualification: Fellow of the IMechE (FIMechE). He was already a full Member (MIMechE) having been a Graduate member (GIMechE) since 1967, and he was a CEng (Chartered Engineer) too.

See https://www.imeche.org/membership-registration/become-a-member/fellow#:~:text=A%20completed%20Direct%20Fellow%20CEng,sponsors%20must%20be%20a%20Fellow.

Typically, Fellows are professional engineers working in a senior role with significant autonomy and responsibility and will be able to demonstrate the following qualities:

Essential

You must demonstrate these Essential characteristics

1) A position of senior responsibility and/or significant autonomy in your particular field

2) Demonstrable Leadership qualities

3) Influencing policy and strategy making decisions in either a technical or business environment

4) A structured approach to Continuous Professional Development 

5) The promotion of the Engineering Profession to young Engineers and potential Engineers

Desirable

1) Highly specialist knowledge in a specific area of Engineering

2) Technical or Engineering Resource Management and/or personnel management and development

Optional

1) Responsibility for a budget and the associated risk

2) Application of a significant range of fundamental principles and complex technologies across a wide and often unpredictable variety of contexts

3) Active development and application of new technologies in Engineering and related areas at a senior level

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My BSc came from what became Bath University in 1965:

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Learning

        Jim Quinn BSc CEng FIMechE CPD    Design Engineer

This is    https://jim-quinn0.blogspot.com/     Education

See also https://jim-quinn4.blogspot.com/    JQ extended CV

       also https://jim-quinn3.blogspot.com/    Misbehaving !

       and  https://jim-quinn.blogspot.com/     World Stories

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email to Matthew Lesh    IEA www.iea.org.uk       22nd July 2024

There seems to be a growing argument for big tariffs on Chinese made EV cars. Am I out of date on the "free market", and protectionism too?

I think there should be no tariffs on Chinese made cars! If I want a new car, why should I not buy a low cost one?

The French were all for low cost car parts from China, to sell (inside) more French cars, and with no tariffs then! I do not know about UK.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/bidens-new-china-tariffs-history-provides-good-reasons-almost-everyone-worry

Quote, from page 7 : "In 2018 and 2019, Trump imposed an additional 25 percent tariff on Chinese solar products as part of his broader “Section 301” tariffs on about $300 billion in annual imports. To top it all off, the U.S. government has initiated several other trade actions against Chinese solar imports suspected of containing polysilicon—a key solar input—made by forced labor from China’s Xinjiang region. (Never mind, of course, that it was the original 2012 duties on Chinese imports that helped kill off the United States’ burgeoning polysilicon industry.)"

My comment on this "Quote" paragraph - To eliminate extreme poverty in PRChina (90% of their population, 40 years ago), the Government had to "Move" people from some "extreme no income" rural areas only patchily eating and not producing, to Towns where there was more support, and they worked for very low wages, but better than anything before. 

There is no Extreme Poverty in PRChina today because of their 40 year effort, from the CCParty imposition. So "Forced Labour" it was, but a very good thing for many! It depends on your perspective, and PRChina still has a bigger %age of people living below $12 a day compared with UK, so the CCParty needs more ideas yet ..... 

but no help for the about 4 million reckoned by NGO to be in poverty in the UK today, for the 2010 - 2024 Govt Blames them for it!

                           Jim           4th August 2024
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Chengdu : Home of the Panda!

Chengdu is a city with the presence of all five major religions, including Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Christianism, and Islam. The city boasts a long history of religious dissemination. It is the birthplace and cradle of Taoism.

Chengdu Aerospace designed and now produces the Chengdu J-10 light-weight multi-role fighter and Chengdu J-20 fifth-generation jet fighter, that are considered to be two of the most advanced weapons in China's inventory, as well as the CAC/PAC FC-1 Xiaolong very light-weight multi-role fighter that is produced in cooperation with Pakistan.

Chengdu Aerospace has been cited for its success in developing China's first fifth-generation aircraft and stealth fighter jet. Its development led China to become the second country in the world and the first country in Asia to possess fifth-generation and stealth technology

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https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202407/1316173.shtml      ........

..........An important external background of this meeting is that economic globalization, which has been ongoing for decades, is facing unprecedented threats, with increasing distrust and division plaguing international political and economic relations. The development of technology brings opportunities but also creates problems. For instance, 

the development of internet technology creates more convenience for people but also generates new security risks; 

advanced technology improves production efficiency but also exacerbates wealth inequality in some places; 

the prevalence of social platforms accelerates the circulation of information but also leads to an increase in fake news. ............

Adhering to the use of opening-up to promote reform, development, and innovation, China will continue to advance its opening-up to a higher level. People have reason to expect fruitful results from the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, which will accelerate the upgrading of China's connectivity with the world to a higher level and bring more opportunities and cooperation to the world.

         Jim              17 July 2024

Ongoing !  :       New for me was   : valuable   https://www.cybok.org/

Cybok :

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More Learning required ! :         

But note China (the PRC) did eliminate Extreme Poverty in that 40 years, and they are now looking to reduce the numbers living below $5.50 a day.......from whom do they get their ideas? (more learning required!)

                        Jim                               7th July 2024

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I have set out on a Learning Investigation .........

Why is the USA so Insular? Their Supreme Court is now focussed on Politics, having lost its Ethical Standards ....... somewhere. 

I sent this by snail mail :

Chief Justice John G Roberts

Supreme Court of the United States
1 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20543

USA                                                         3^rd July 2024

Dear Chief Justice Roberts,

1) You will obviously know that Apollo went to the Moon and back because of good logical understanding of the Engineering.

2) My background is also in Aerospace Engineering, but European, and with logical thought too. Particularly we used Plain English to communicate complex situations across several different "1st language" non-english peoples.

3) I am now retired, and spending a little time looking at the outside world, among which is the Legal One, and I am disappointed that it is so poor logically compared with my Engineering one.

4) I think that Law is Software for the PUBLIC, to Limit their Actions according to Agreed Publications, and it needs to be clear, so that ALL can understand it, including Presidents. But Quality Counts, as in computer software, and I am concerned for you!

5) I think I understand your point of view about the recent US Supreme Court's interpretation of the Law as it relates to the US President's Immunity, but your Statement has become misinterpreted by others who have now said that the US President is immune from legal action – you have poorly communicated I think.

6) The USA President is NOT IMMUNE from prosecution, except when Congress agrees he or she has done OK - and says so collectively with one voice. If Congress does not agree with the President's action, they, and the Courts, can take prosecuting action of some sort, or even the Public can in a vote, or even the UN in a vote, because the US President CANNOT be immune.

7) I would like you please to Clarify FOR the PUBLIC, the USA President's Legality of Action using something like my suggestion above - with my non-copyright compliments.

8) I Submit this under the 1948 UNDHR Article 19, and providing help to the USA under Article 26.

Yours sincerely

         Jim

B J A (Jim) Quinn BSc(1965) CEng(1985) FIMechE(1994) CPD(2024) 

          https://jim-quinn.blogspot.com/

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I have set out on a Learning Investigation .........

Xi Jinping's Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, aimed at the "West", comes from the over aggressive "West" continually sniping. There are none so stupid as those who think they are not stupid - I refer to the UK Government whose sometimes double standards are despised, and whose snappy aggression causes  :

.......How does the UK discuss with China how to help the World's poor? What do the FCDO often recruited from Eton know - not intellectuals ......why not learn from China?, instead of harassing them.

Unfortunately, the UK MP think they are god's gift simply because they have been elected - they forn (fawn?) on the rich often ..... MP should recognise they are there to represent the people, not to Govern them, for that requires expertise they generally do NOT have, so many lacking Industry experience  - they change Ministry jobs at the drop of a hat with short tenures on the way, so they lack any in depth thinking, just skirting feelings rather than Thought. And who has led the poor Civil Service.... ? The Prime Minister is also Minister for the civil service - what does he or she know about GOOD qualifications AND Experience?

The UK needs good Industry People to Govern, who would have publicly displayed Qualifications they are Proud of, and would welcome discussions and ideas with/from China, collaborating too as appropriate - challenged by the MP representing all of the Public in proportional representation of course...have you noticed that nobody in Government Appointment notices has any Qualifications listed - other than Royal Honours, which are only given to about 2,000 people a year - less than 0.007% of the eligible population......,and the website says that "if there are too many in a year, some are refused"! In other words, if you are worth an Honour, you will not get one on this rule! What a lousy, crony like, system. And not many people nominate candidates anyway (Nobody is encouraged to do so in Industry), and there are no Mechanical Engineers on the Honours Assessment Panels, with just one Electrical Engineer - among so very many others - money people, particularly, seem to receive Knighthoods and Lordships !). The UK Honours System should be abandoned, except perhaps for those who work voluntarily in Charity - and then only a Single Honour, not grades from poor people up to rich people! 

And ABANDON the word Empire for gods sake......it was a hugely Nazi like imposition on poor peoples! There seems to be an Institutional Negative onto poor people still.....Government and big Company Directors! Why has there NOT been Aid Funding for Palestine? And Yemen, for example, where UK spreads its money to so many so thinly = about £3 a person per year !! They should concentrate on the Poorest First to bring them out of Extreme Poverty -  COPY CHINA, who have done so well over the last 40 years..... thus YEMEN, and then Yemen would not fire missiles so easily - against the Nazi.....If UK provided 100 times that amount in Freely Given (no return required) machinery and construction (the profits taken by the Yemeni, not the rich fatcat), and stopped other Nations from receiving any at all......and encouraged other rich Nations to support their own ONE poor Nation.......like a Foster Child, who you welcome into your home for .... love of humanity - and nurture their Future.

                         Jim                                   7th July 2024

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The Global South is perceived differently by China.... five Principles help.

China has eliminated Extreme Poverty within 40 years, having started at about 90% in extreme poverty. What an amazing achievement - you understand.......

China's 70 year old Five Principles shown in     https://jim-quinn.blogspot.com/    are just the job for the rest of us, including me - if only the "UK" would adopt them too.....stop sniping at China, stop supporting the Israeli Nazi and their cohort USA, 2% tax the over £10 million rich, BRING the 4 million UK Poor out of Poverty,....... and HELP the World's poor - like the Houthi in Yemen.

The UK should be standing up to the USA, criticising them strongly, for they appear to support Israel still - there is a moral code principle of support for those suffering a continuing holocaust in Gaza, and the UK should educate/punish the USA accordingly, not just sycophant obediently to them.

Hamas and Palestine need support, for they have been severely downtrodden and bullied by Israel, who have denied them a state (the "no state"), so they can claim they are terrorists, for Hamas and Palestine have been ignored for so long, the only thing they could do was Launch Weapons to DRAW ATTENTION TO THEIR PLIGHT..... 

The "West" talks about Democracy, but have denied its principles internationally to Hamas and Palestine. Minorities in UK are ignored by the Bully majority politicians too......so we know that Hamas have been Stamped on, but they have access to weapons they are prepared to use - I understand them, and I despise UK politicians who similarly bully nurses and the suffering disabled......as Hamas and Hezbollah and Houthi (they are Human too).

Watch the DVD - it has violence in its rescues, but the Stars are committed to their friends,    and some emotion. Put your observant self in others shoes.....

The UK land demands in Kenya in the 1950's resulted in many murders, and in 2024 they bomb the Poorest Nation in the World, Yemen. Only money seems to count to them, perhaps even causing a "grabby" nature of relations with other Nations.

The USA/UK retirement from Afghanistan led to huge Human Rights issues for Women and Girls - all because the "Wests" politicians thought it would make them popular at home - no moral code! The UK could have gone it alone i think because their number did not need to be huge to support/train the most at risk, front line, Afghan Police/Army! No thinking about persuading their constituents that staying was good for the potential, already known, Afghan Human Poor! 

The usual UK political numbskull non-thinking - now also known for not protecting the Poor today, with their sneers at pro Palestine protests. The Israel Government has caused this with their decades long "I AM RIGHT, I AM RIGHT, I AM RIGHT, YOU ARE WRONG, YOU ARE WRONG, YOU ARE WRONG" "no state for Palestine" and "apartheid" politics in the area, .........Hamas propose a "two state" years ago, and was despised for it - by the UK too.    This next chart ..... 

.......shows how much people elsewhere in the World do not like the UK much....

China thought hard how to care for its poor .......

(a lesson to the UK who cannot be bothered ? - 4 million in poverty, and welfare benefits squeezing lower in 2024 - UK),

........ and had to decide that many in rural areas whose land was "dead" Must be moved to urban areas so that they had a chance to earn money, and possibly support those left back "home". The standard of living greatly improved. The Chinese Government also introduced a welfare system and unemployment benefit to help confidence further.

The Chinese Communist Party, CCP, has taken a dislike to Capitalism for it encourages the Rich to become Richer, while exploiting the much less well off, and ignoring the very poor. They have a Good Point ! And  

The "West" snipes yet again, without addressing the issue in their own country. I have read that the CCP does actually seek ideas to help it identify the priority needs and to think about solutions (the UK Political Party system denies that Design Engineers have any ideas, who are not even mentioned n the 2024 General Election Party Manifesto's after such a disastrous HS2 five times money overspend - do they never learn that their MP launched projects are just crazy wastes of taxpayer money !). What a stupid lot they are. 

I am not yet clear on the solutions part in China - are they employing Design Engineers as Top Level Decision makers for better cost effective programmes? I do not know, yet.... 

Design Engineers are grossly ignored in the UK by allocating them to lower responsibility jobs - the UK thinks Scientists are more important, but all they do is focus on details - 

...........it is the Design Engineer who works Holistically from the top, with more ideas, and far more knowledgably.

                       Jim                 28th June 2024

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