draft-amendment

Call for comment – DR AS/NZS 2980:2018 Amendment 1:2019

Advocacy, Articles for Robert Ryan, Notices and updates, Resources, Welding Centre

We’d like to advise our members who are involved with the qualification of welders to AS/NZS 2980 or compliance to this qualification, that Standards New Zealand is calling for public comment for proposed amendments to it. Welder qualification standard AS/NZS 2980:2018 Qualification of welders for fusion welding of steels – Additional requirements for Australia and…

team-diversity

Are engineers behind the times when it comes to intercultural training?

Articles for Troy Coyle, Career, Industry Development, Resources, ThinkTank@HERA

Surprisingly, this appears to be the case according to research recently released. An interdisciplinary team involving researchers with backgrounds in engineering, intercultural communication, and applied linguistics from universities in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Australia, and Japan conducted the research. They analysed written materials with intercultural communication as the subject, as used in engineering education. They…