Engineering, the Developing Career—A Personal View

Abstract

The President refers to his early career in teaching and research and outlines some of the benefits. He identifies his involvement in offshore engineering as one major turning point in his career. It was a great opportunity for real collaboration between industry and higher education; progress usually required a multi-disciplinary approach and commitment from engineers, scientists and managers alike. Having added subsequently to his direct experience of industry, commerce and government departments and to his contacts with other professions in engineering and science he offers a few of his own thoughts on the health of smaller manufacturing companies, on the environment and on waste, each a matter critical in its own way to our future, nationally and globally.