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Leadership: men and women of Vision
One characteristic I have noticed throughout history is that leaders are often visionaries. Examples are many and varied and below are just a few examples pulled out of the hat that have inspired generations. Steve Jobs was very much a … Continue reading
Posted in failure, history, leadership, quotations, quotes, success, Uncategorized, vision, visionary
Tagged failure, history, leadership, quotation, quotes, success, vision, visionary
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Leadership: Perseverance under Pressure
Failure is not an option … Continue reading
Posted in courage, failure, leader, leadership, mistakes, quotations, quotes, space flight, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged apollo mission, churchill, failure, great leadeship, leader, leadership, lincoln, perseverance, pressure, quotations
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Leadership: Vernon Johns – forerunner to Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1948 Dr Vernon Johns, a straight talking man, became pastor & leader of the Dexter Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama – predecessor to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. The church helped instigate the civil rights movement in America in … Continue reading
Posted in black people, civil rights movement, courage, equality, leader, leadership, peaceful protests, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged 1950s, alabama, america, black people, church, civil rights movement, courage, equality, leader, leadership, martin luther king jr, pastor, racism, vernon johns
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Shackleton – Success under failure
In late 1914 Ernest Shackleton and a team of 27 men sail towards the South Pole to be the first to cross the Antartic continent but unfortunately the expedition became a failure very early on as the ship Endurance became … Continue reading
Posted in courage, Exploration, leadership, mistakes, success, Uncategorized
Tagged adventure, antartica, courage, Exploration, failure, leadership, success, team leadership
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Twistocaloric Cooling – new refrigeration technology
One fifth of global electricity consumption is from air conditioning and is a significant contributor to global warming. A more environmentally friendly development from the University of Texas has emerged and is based on twisting and untwisting fibres. The method … Continue reading
Effectiveness of Cloth Masks against respiratory infections
Cloth masks have been used in healthcare and community settings to protect the wearer from respiratory infections for many years around the world. Masks have two functions: firstly to prevent transmission of respiratory infections from infected person (source) to another … Continue reading
Posted in design, Health, humor, humour, medical, Medical Engineering, Pandemic, quotations, quotes, technology, Uncategorized, Virus Infection
Tagged design, Health, Infection, Masks, medical, Virus
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3D CAD – The Evolution Journey
3D CAD was first introduced in the 1990s and was a game changer at the time. Before this CAD was 2D and replicated traditional hand drawn engineering or archtitectural drawings on film or paper, a process that had been around … Continue reading
Reverse Engineering
A rather counter intuitive title for a blog, but as I have often heard ‘one has to retreat to advance’ ! Reverse engineering in essence is the design process in reverse. The need for reverse engineering arises when one has … Continue reading
Posted in 3D CAD, 3D Scanning, business, design, Engineering, humour, manufacturing, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, project engineering, quotations, quotes, Reverse Engineering, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged 3D Scanning, business, design, humour, measuring, Reverse Engineering, technology
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Integrity in engineering & governance
Jet Engine under test Recent events in the UK and US led me to think about integrity in our world today, especially in places of leadership and governance, and even within our own professions – mine being engineering. Their … Continue reading
Posted in business, design, Engineering, failure, Gas Turbine, humour, Integrity, jet engine, manufacturing, material science, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, Politics, quotations, quotes, turbine, Uncategorized
Tagged design, failure, humor, humour, Integrity, jet egine, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, Politics, quote, quotes, technology
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Covid 19 – hands to the plough
It’s amazing that in challenging and difficult times communities and even professions pull together to combat the ‘enemy at large’ and it’s consequences. At the risk of blowing the trumpet for IMechE, they have informed us of the following: “Our … Continue reading
