Category: Engineers

  • Ray Keefe: IEEE Senior Life Member

    Ray Keefe: IEEE Senior Life Member

    IEEE Senior Life Member I recently received a letter from IEEE informing me that I had been awarded an IEEE Life Senior Member in recognition of my many years of loyal membership and support of activities of IEEE. And included this certificate. This was not something I was expecting and so a very nice surprise.…

  • Podcast with an Engineer

    Podcast with an Engineer

    Ray Keefe on Australia’s Advanced Manufacturing Edge Rick Merten of InsideOut Group has an Engineering Success podcast series.We did an interview together and the results were amazing. One of the best one-on-one interviews I’ve ever had. You Can’t Design a Solution to a Problem You Don’t Understand: Ray Keefe, Successful Endeavours. Why we need electronics…

  • Attracting and Retaining Engineers

    Attracting and Retaining Engineers

    This post was written by Juliana Queiroz, engineer and founder of What Engineers Want, a consulting company that helps manufacturers and engineering firms to unlock their engineers’ full potential towards excellence and innovation. Overcoming labour and skill shortages Businesses stand or fall on the quality of their people – don’t you agree? If we cannot…

  • IEEE Collabratec

    IEEE IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, is the largest professional engineering body in the world and has a world wide focus. I am a Senior Member and have always found it worthwhile. In the days before the Internet was as useful as it is now, they were the best source of regular…

  • Software Costing

    Software Costing There is an old saying that goes something like this: “hardware is almost free and comes from China; but software is actually free and comes from India”. Actually not such on old saying, and certainly not true. But we do see signs of this myth being alive and well when providing project pricing and…