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Supply Does Not Create Demand
I have written many times about the massive oversupply of chemical engineering graduates. As the graphic below shows, making lots…
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You Didn’t Really Think That Through, Did You?
I recently had a discussion on LinkedIn about my definition of Pinch Analysis – “A largely academic exercise to minimise…
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Scientific Wild Ass Guesses, Rectally Extracted Estimates and Risk Assessment
SWAG (Scientific Wild Ass Guesses) and REE (Rectally Extracted Estimates) are sufficiently commonplace in engineering that these terms will be…
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Artificial Stupidity
My lad loves to draw, so I recently bought him a 1950s A0 drawing board and drafting machine on eBay.…
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There’s no fool…
A publisher recently sent me an anonymous review of a proposal I had submitted for a future writing project, which…
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Jack of All Trades?
I’ve had cause recently to reflect on the range of things we engineers are expected to do sufficiently well, even…
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Covid’s Effect on Process Safety
I was recently discussing the presently unexplained fire in hydrocarbon storage tanks at the Pertamina refinery in Indonesia, and musing…
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Spectrum is Green?
I recently put up a link on social media to an article published a while back on “making room for autism”…
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Is It Legal? Is That Enough?
Compliance is a tricky issue. Achieving technical compliance is something which all professional engineers should be familiar with. But are…
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The CPD Hamster Wheel
So, I was discussing CPD with my wife yesterday whilst walking the dogs. She’s an accountant, and her professional institution…
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