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Engineers & Society retweeted
Jun 13
And Construction still is managed by Engineers who let Project Managers runs projects and give feedback.
So an EG can never be a person who they themselves Manage. However an EG needs to be Super Skilled, not “Trained”
I said: Skill = Knowledge Experience…
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@ChangingthingsS ... one of the best.
Jun 13
🇿🇦🌏Meet Prof Tshilidzi Marwala. He is the Rector of the United Nations University based in Tokyo, Japan.
Marwala is also an AI engineer, a computer scientist, a mechanical engineer and a university administrator—a former UJ Vice Chancellor and Principal from Duthuni in Limpopo.
He holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering (magna cum laude) from Case Western Reserve University (US), a Master of Mechanical Engineering from University of Pretoria, PhD in Engineering from University of Cambridge (UK).
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Engineers & Society retweeted
Jun 13
And that will Change Project Allocations, Improve Budget Allocations and Improve Time cycles to complete projects which will result in the Engineering field and Engineering system being optimised. This is not about Construction, it is about Engineering.
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Engineers & Society retweeted
Jun 13
And Knowledge includes knowing as many of the Engineering Fields (Categories) in theory and in Qualifications (not just CPDs) and then you add Experience on top of that.
And then you will be able to relate to the needs of the Engineering field, because of understanding.
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Hello Sir,I'm a 30 year old with N1-N3 Boilermaker certificates but have no luck securing any apprenticeship or learnership. Can you please plug me with any? even if as an assistant 🙏🥺
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Engineers, let’s amplify our own voice.
If a message speaks for our profession, don’t scroll past - like it, repost it, share it. Visibility builds influence. Influence shapes policy.
Stop waiting for others - buy your own off the shelf. #EngineeringMatters #BeTheInfluence
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8/n failures of the Chapter 9 institutions to prevent the rot, I am not convinced that a Chapter 9 institution focused on public sector infrastructure delivery will work but if we get to a point where it does, I think the professional who is appointed should be drawn from a pool
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Citizens are doing their part by voting against poor service delivery. From an engineering perspective, we can strengthen accountability and good governance. A Chapter 9 Engineer-General, empowered to issue binding recommendations, could be a game-changer. Zizojik'izinto #change
7/n two decades of public sector infrastructure delivery. The problems lie in the overall control of public institutions which have collapsed due to ANC cadre deployment. No specific expertise can stop that until we have a new government. As I have also said, given the current
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7/n two decades of public sector infrastructure delivery. The problems lie in the overall control of public institutions which have collapsed due to ANC cadre deployment. No specific expertise can stop that until we have a new government. As I have also said, given the current
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Engineers should consider adding law and/or public administration to their qualifications to be better equipped for public service and leadership in Chapter 9 institutions. It’s time some of us start preparing for these roles. @_HeRo112 @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka do you agree?
Jun 10
I spent 12years studying Engineering, which also included starting another Engineering degree qualification.
My qualifications are as follow:
1. N.Dip. CivilEng (DUT)
2. BSc AgricEng (UKZN)
3. BSc Civil/StructuralEng (NDP-UKZN)
4. MSc CivilEng (UKZN-Hydropower)
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Let me clarify, as I said before, I made these comments in the context of @ChangingthingsS calls for an Engineer-General to provide oversight over public sector infrastructure delivery (maybe I misunderstood the focus but that what it seems to be). I have immense respect 1/n
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Engineers & Society retweeted
Jun 12
Some Engineers actually get involved in more difficult roles than that, they Develop Projects from nothing, then Design them, then Construction then Handover…these ones Create Projects and Employment, such as myself.
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Engineers & Society retweeted
Jun 12
So you cannot put an Engineer-General which is a Construction Manager who does not even understand Engineering, let alone the full cycle of a project? If you would have answered my questions, you would have realised this.
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Engineers & Society retweeted
Jun 12
Engineering is extremely broad and what I believe is that the person that should sit at the top should be an Individual that is Skilled to address most needs of the Engineering Industry and they will be supplemented by their team of Skilled subordinates.
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Engineers & Society retweeted
Jun 12
Which is why I said Engineers need to raise their standards to diversify their knowledge within Engineering to optimise the Engineering system. I did not speak about Construction because Construction is always a product of everything Engineers do.
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Engineers & Society retweeted
5/n in public sector infrastructure delivery. Unfortunately, I don't expect Chapter 9 institutions can combat the failure of current public sector delivery. Regardless of qualifications, current politics trumps expertise...
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3/n the delivery process. Engineers, architects, quantity surveyors all have a role in delivery but their specialist focus does not necessarily equip them to play an overall oversight role. To illustrate my argument, I'd need to go into detail about different delivery models in
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4/n much great depth... In a different forum I may have the space/time to do that. Having said all of this, given how miserably most Chapter 9 institutions have performed, I am still not sure an Engineer-General, or Construction Manager General, would be able to address the rot
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2/n - many professionals play a role in project delivery but but for oversight, not specialist functions, I'd argue that Construction Managers, with both their technical and general management skills are perhaps best suited to be the Engineer-General since the focus is primarily
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