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IMechE Glasgow Web Officer (me) needs Feeback

I'm the new IMechE Glasgow Web Officer and I'd like your Feedback I have recently been in contact with the guys and girls at IMechE Glasgow and South West Scotland and they have appointed me web officer of the regional website. There are a few projects currently underway; my role being to redevelop...

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Terex Factory Tour with IMechE

Last night myself and a few other members of the 4c crew set all our sat nav’s to Motherwell for IMechE’s Big Truck event at Terex. For those of you who don’t know, Terex make those ginormous dumper trucks (among things) that race around mines carrying ridiculous 100 ton payloads. The event...

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IMechE NEL Wind Turbine Event

The IMechE put on an event last week alongside NEL which brought me to the wind turbine test facility at Myres Hill. I got a behind the scenes tour of the testing processes and got an up close and personal view of some of the latest wind technology. With all the press surrounding alternative energies...

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Make ‘Engineer’ a protected title

“Engineering suffers from an image problem. People believe that engineers simply fix things, but we don’t: we invent things. Unfortunately the false image is propagated by hundreds of companies out there who term repair-persons and equipment installers ‘Engineers’. Engineering suffers from...

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