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Monday, 11 September 2017
There has been a recent article on The Conversation about the world鈥檚 first ethical guidelines for driverless cars. It is good to see that people are trying to influence how this new world is going to look and this is being seriously considered by legislative bodies. The description in the article triggers some important questions [鈥
Wednesday, 21 December 2016
I recently read an article on the Nesta blog 鈥淔all in love with the solution, not the problem鈥� which is a phrase to immediately get a system engineer鈥檚 interest. I鈥檒l immediately say that I鈥檝e not worked in the development sector and so I鈥檓 not going to comment on the efficacy of the proposed approach in [鈥
Friday, 11 March 2016
果冻影院's Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) has won a major 2 year contract to provide space systems engineering training to the next generation of systems engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA). MSSL's Technology Management Group will deliver the training at a venue close to ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the [鈥
Thursday, 03 December 2015
Following my PGCert in Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education I鈥檝e taken to thinking more about the profession that I have joined. I like finding metaphors and analogies to understand the world around me and that I occupy, and this time I thought about an analogy between curators and teachers. This article is [鈥
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
The recent issue with emissions testing has highlighted a few issues which are very important within the field of systems engineering, and indeed engineering in general. The first is ethics, and is one that is considered important by the various professional bodies representing the engineering professions. For example, to quote from the Institute of Engineering [鈥