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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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