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How are you celebrating National Engineers Week in your organisation? This week is National Engineers Week, a time to acknowledge and celebrate engineers' important role in driving innovation and shaping our world.  Consider the following ways to support and enhance the work of your engineers: 🔹Embrace continuous learning: encourage ongoing education and skill development to keep up with the evolving engineering landscape. 🔹Encourage innovation: create an environment where engineers can experiment and innovate. 🔹Recognise achievements: take time to acknowledge and celebrate the successes and contributions of your engineering team. Adhering to ISO standards is important in engineering, ensuring quality, safety, and efficiency. These standards help streamline processes, reduce errors, and encourage innovation.  Explore the advantages of ISO certification for engineering on National Engineers Week. https://lnkd.in/eSqtsF4P #NationalEngineersWeek #EngineeringExcellence #ISOStandards

Happy Engineers' Day! 👷♂️✨ To all the engineers out there, today is a day to celebrate our resilience, problem-solving spirit, and ability to thrive under pressure! Remember those engineering days when underperformance felt like a regular part of life? 😅 Whether it was a brutal exam, that never-ending project, or simply trying to survive each semester, we’ve all faced the toughest leg-pulling from friends, family, and professors alike. Now, whenever someone rejects our ideas or try to come for us, it’s nothing new! 💪 We were immunized long ago by those four (or more!) years of being told how much worse things could get. If you could survive engineering viva, all-nighters, and group projects gone wrong, there’s no comments that can break your spirit, learn and move on. We've been through the worst of it—and that’s exactly what makes us stronger, sharper, and troll-proof! Here's to the engineers who learned early on that failure is just another step towards innovation. Enjoy your day, keep building the future, and don’t forget to laugh at all the struggles that made you invincible!

It's National Engineers Week! This observance occurs annually between the third Sunday in February and the fourth Saturday of the month. The event aims to celebrate engineers and their exceptional problem-solving skills. Initiated in 1951 by The National Society of Professional Engineers, National Engineers Week now embraces the theme "Welcome to the Future" to commend current breakthroughs and encourage a more diverse and innovative engineering future. During this time, take a moment to acknowledge the engineers in your life. Also, don't miss the interesting fact we've shared below. #stubbseng #nationalengineersweek #STEM #engineers 

Where will engineering take you? 📈 We are kicking off Engineers Week with a story from Anthony Fasano, PE, F. ASCE about how his engineering background prepared him for much more than just a career in engineering. ⭐️Where has your engineering degree led you? https://bit.ly/EngWeekAF ⭐️ #Engineer #EngineersWeek #NationalEngineersWeek

Countdown Alert: Only 10 days left until the three-day World Engineering Day event! 3rd March - Annual Engineers' Run 4th March - Engineers' Conference 5th March - Engineers' Oath Have you registered yet? #WED2024 #WorldEngineeringDay2024

Last week we sent the 2nd edition of our NEW e-newsletter - GROUPTHINK - to a small number of people. Link in 1st comment to see what you missed 👇 #ukeng #engineeringexcellence #ukmfg #engineeringnews #ukengineering #scottishengineering #engineeringinsights

2023 was an eventful year filled with exciting developments in various industries! Check out Inġ. Michelle Cortis, RTTP's article, '2023: An Eventful Year in Review,' to learn more about the breakthroughs that shaped the year for the Chamber of Engineers. You can read the full article in #issue67 of Engineering Today or by following this link: https://lnkd.in/erPT6hKu #2023review #eventfulyear #ChamberOfEngineers #EngineeringToday #Issue67 

💡 Comment: It’s time to rethink engineers’ role in the world If were going to attract more people into engineering we need to think differently about how we articulate the role that engineers play in our modern world writes Andrew Churchill OBE FREng, chair of JJ Churchill Ltd. and the Engineers 2030 working group. Read the article here 👇 https://lnkd.in/e-VuxB3w #theengineer #skills #careers #engineering

Innovation starts with engineers. Here’s to the ones who keep building, solving, and inspiring. Happy Engineers Day. #engineersday #engineering #engineeringlife #engineeringlove #engineeringexcellence #engineeringinnovation #engineeringheroes #techengineers #futureengineers #engineersoftomorrow #engineeringcommunity #engineersrock #engineeringskills #engineeringpride #engineeringmagic #teachmaven #training #placement

Engineers: The Art of Using Speed and Science to Solve Problems 🛠️💡 As engineers, we’re constantly tasked with solving complex problems, often under tight deadlines. The challenge? Balancing speed and scientific accuracy without compromising the quality of the solution. 🚀Speed isn’t just about moving fast—it’s about efficiency and knowing when to apply science to solve problems. But can we truly balance being fast while maintaining scientific integrity? The renowned comedian Don McMillan, a former engineer himself, hilariously captured this dilemma in one of his sketches using a Venn diagram: Science + Solve Problems = 🏅 (Nobel Prize) Science + Quick and Dirty = 💊 (Drug Dealer) Solve Problems + Quick and Dirty = 🔫 (Hitman) And right in the middle, where science, problem-solving, and being quick and dirty overlap, you find... the Engineer! 🧑🔧 This comedic take brilliantly captures the tension engineers face daily. We need to use science to solve problems, and yes, sometimes speed forces us to go the "quick and dirty" route—but we always return to ensure precision and reliability. So, let’s embrace the intersection of these qualities. As engineers, we can innovate fast, but with the care and responsibility that makes our work impactful and lasting. #Engineering #ProblemSolving #Science #Speed #DonMcMillan #QuickAndDirty #EngineeringHumor #Innovation