Category: Engineers

  • NASA: Congratulations on Curiosity Landing

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    Ray Keefe
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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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    Ray Keefe
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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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    Ray Keefe
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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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    Ray Keefe
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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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    Ray Keefe
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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…