Category: Engineers

  • NASA: Congratulations on Curiosity Landing

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    Curiosity Landing We were an excited bunch of Engineers as we watched the live feed from NASA of the landing of Curiosity on the surface of Mars. Given the telemetry delay of 15 minutes, the real landing had already happened. Here we were looking back in time as we were watching history being made. The…

  • Visualisation: Part 1

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    Positioning As an Engineer, I have been educated to think in Engineering Concepts. One of the old jokes about education is that it narrows the number of people you can have an intelligent conversation with.   Today’s blog post image was provided courtesy of Dr Marc Dussault, The Exponential Growth Strategist who is always on…

  • Engineers in Business

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    Ideas Worth Pursuing   BRW recently ran an article by Matt Barrie on business ideas that are worth pursuing. If you haven’t heard of Matt Barrie, he founded Freelancer. In the article he wrote about business ideas that interest him, and what doesn’t interest him. In particular he had a sideswipe at us Engineers about…

  • Australian Manufacturing Jobs

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    Australian Manufacturing Jobs In some recent conversations it became clear to me that most people I talk to in Australia don’t understand both how large the Australian Manufacturing sector is or how critical manufacturing is to Australian Employment and Australian Financial Prosperity.   In Modern Economies Need Manufacturing I cited research by Professor Goran Roos…

  • Music Electronics

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    On the threshold of a career I have often been asked about how I got into Engineering. I got a serious reminder of it on 23 November 2011 when I went to see The Moody Blues in concert in St Kilda. I had started a science degree at Deakin University in Waurn Ponds, Geelong, and…

  • Exponential Entrepreneur 2011

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    Exponential Entrepreneur In 2010 I was pleasantly surprised to receive an Exponential Entrepreneur of the Year award from our Business Mentor Dr Marc Dussault, The Exponential Growth Strategist of Exponential Programs. Only 5 awards were given out in 2010.   A year has gone by and I was surprised and very pleased to be awarded…

  • Ray Keefe IEEE Senior Engineer

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    I recently went through the process of applying for Senior Engineer status with IEEE. It is something I should have done years ago and I was prompted by the Victorian section of the IEEE.   It turned out to be much harder than I had anticipated and I wasn’t surprised when the letter announcing I…

  • Interview with an Engineer

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    I recently met up with Clint Steele who is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering at Swinburne University and also heads up the Ingeneers Network which is intended to provide practical and networking support for Engineers. Clint brought a video along and asked me a few questions. These were: How did you gain employment after graduation?…

  • Some Engineering Humour

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    Engineers do have a sense of humour Engineers might seem terribly serious about their work, but Engineers laugh too. And of course, what makes them laugh is as unique as the work they do. The classic Dilbert series of cartoons by Scott Adams are a case in point.   This first example of Engineering Humour…

  • Squash Lessons for Engineering

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    Squash Lessons for Engineering The picture in today’s post comes courtesy of Dr Marc Dussault, The Exponential Growth Strategist. At his recent Exponential Business Building Bootcamp, he demonstrated how a Squash Racquet gets broken from repeated use.     So what does this have to do with Engineering? Glad you asked.   First, I have…