To mark The Year of Engineering, here's Sydney Padua's envisioning of my personal engineering hero, the one and only Isambard Kingdom Brunel:
If you haven't already read it, check out Sydney Padua's comic novel The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, featuring the founders of computing and other Victorian engineering heroes in all kinds of bonkers derring-do. (T-shirts, coffee mugs, etc. are available from Zazzle).
The UK Government has designated 2018 as The Year of Engineering, and launched a campaign to promote engineering in all its forms as a career. I still think of myself as a systems engineer; the skills I learnt have been invaluable and widely applicable throughout my career as an executive and director.
If you haven't already read it, check out Sydney Padua's comic novel The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, featuring the founders of computing and other Victorian engineering heroes in all kinds of bonkers derring-do. (T-shirts, coffee mugs, etc. are available from Zazzle).
The UK Government has designated 2018 as The Year of Engineering, and launched a campaign to promote engineering in all its forms as a career. I still think of myself as a systems engineer; the skills I learnt have been invaluable and widely applicable throughout my career as an executive and director.