Young Engineers And UK Engineets Turn to 3D Printing

[Brian_Krassenstein]

The UK is hoping to regain its glory in engineering, beginning with the new generations, who are busy learning about how 3D printing is used in the industry. KMF Sheet Metal Engineering has centered their annual Young Engineer of the Year Contest around 3D design and 3D printing, inviting 25 high schools to choose four teams from each of their schools to compete in a Dragons’ Den round in March, where those finalists will go on to the last competition on June 18^th, 2015. For more details, check out the full article: http://3dprint.com/36052/young-engineer-awards-uk/
Below is a photo of a previous participant with a sponsor

[Mjolinor]

The UK has zero possibility of getting any sort of excellence in engineering.

For the most part the paper pushers have spent the best part of the last 50 years trying to get rid of them completely.

Engineers are better respected in every country I have been to than they are in the UK, they are still considered to be grease monkeys in the UK.

[Feign]

Well, they might have a pretty good chance at attaining relative excellence, lowering standards is pretty easy.

... Seems to be the route the education system in my state has taken.

[Mjolinor]

The requirements of teachers to spend most of their time with "pastoral care" instead of actually teaching is why i will not do it.

To my mind pastoral care is a parents job, a teachers job is to teach. The reason I like teaching for the Open University is because teaching is all you do and the students are grateful for every single second you devote to them, you just do not get that on pre graduate levels and you still have the crap to put up with at graduate level for the first 2 years of the course.

UK will never have a good level of graduates until they re-instate teaching instead of babysitting as the primary pastime in schools.

[old man emu]

One hundred years ago, Australia had what was called the "White Australia Policy". It was an policy that was aimed at severely restricting immigration from Asia and the Orient due to the belief that the Yellow Hordes would overwhelm the majority British population and take white peoples' jobs.

One hundred years later, we still restrict immigration from these areas, but our politicians have overseen the emigration of our manufacturing industries - the major source of employment for those who do not have the skill or will to attend university - to Asia and the Orient. We even go so far as to dig great big holes in our land and transport the spoil from the holes by the ship-load to Korea and Japan. It comes back to us as Toyotas and Hyundais.

So we have a great pool of under-educated young people whose best chance of some sort of employment is flipping burgers in a franchise of a US restaurant (?) chain. Our trade schools are closing due to lack of student numbers because there are no jobs for trades people. Automation is killing off jobs in the warehousing and logistics areas. We are becoming a nation of domestic servants.

The biggest joke on us is that we export all the raw materials to make iron and steel, but can't at least smelt iron here because the Environmentalists make a song and dance about the amount of carbon dioxide we would produce it we did it here. Producing it in Korea or Japan produces just as much, plus there is the extra bit produced during transport. Yet again, we don't do any processing of the millions of bales of wool we export annually. We could recover tonnes of top-soil and lanolin if we at least washed the wool here instead of sending it greasy to overseas manufacturers.

It is even so bad that General Motors, which has produced motor vehicle in Australia since 1949, and Ford, have announced that they are withdrawing from motor vehicle manufacture here in 2016. Since 1949, the Holden make of car, produced by General Motors-Holden, has been called "Australia's Car". One of Australia's post-war traditions has been the rivalry between Holden and Ford. That'll go now. Our children will only know sake suckers.

OME

[Mjolinor]

Give it a few more years and Toyota, Nissan Honda etc etc will open car plants in Aus and your government will be grateful for the jobs just like it happened here in the UK.

The cycle of history to be repeated for ever and ever and ever......