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Engineering News is on top of training and education offerings with major changes afoot to get better qualifications aboard for our tradespeople to combat already alarming skills shortages. Management consultants and advisers keep engineering business people up to date with the latest techniques and sales skills needed to compete. From security and protection, maintenance and shutdown services to banking, finance, insurance and commercial real estate.
BEHEADING THE ‘NORM’ IN TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT
Counterfeiting has been around for centuries.
It has, and as the world continues its march toward globalisation, will always be a problem. Continue →
EMEX 2018 – a not to be missed edition!
In less than 12 weeks’ time, New Zealand’s leading Engineering, Manufacturing and Technology trade exhibition, EMEX, returns to Auckland and it’s set to be of a scale never seen in its almost 40 year history! Continue →
CORROSION SPECIALISTS’ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
Training and education is a vital part of the development of anyone working in a profession. Continue →
Hyrdatorq heads Fieldays’ innovation
Hydratorq walked away with the Launch NZ Innovation Award and the Locus Research Innovation Award in the 2017 Fieldays Innovation Awards. Continue →
Siege of Engineers as VANZ hits Rotorua
VANZ Conference Report ’17 by Angie Hurricks
On the 16th – 18th May, Rotorua was overcome with a siege of engineers and the like as we all converged on the city like a great swarm to get together for our annual conference. Continue →
Engineering e2e: students flock to study
In an industry screaming out for engineers, the e2e programme has helped lift the profile of engineering from 10th to 3rd place in New Zealand student’s career considerations. Continue →
A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE BUSINESS WORLD
Top team: Liam Currie (left to right), Thomas McLean, Achsah Stewart and Samara Davis have taken Bottle Bolt from concept to launch. Continue →
NEW BLOOD INJECTS ENGINEERING LIFE, OTHER BLOOD BOILS AT ‘MESH-GATE’
Samara Davis was a natural at SouthMach 17 selling the many advantages of Bottle Boost, part of a school-based business project. Continue →
Rocket Lab’s Matchett betters strong Young Engineer competition
The 2017 Young Engineer of the Year is Rocket Lab’s Lachlan Matchett, announced at the IPENZ Fellows’ and Achievers’ Awards in Wellington recently. Continue →
THE CHAOS THEORY OF MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
Opinion by profile manager at Maintenance Engineering Society of NZ (MESNZ), Craig Carlyle
The fact that you have read past the title suggests that a nerve is already twitching when maintenance and chaos is used in the same sentence. Continue →
Core engineering kicks off in Canterbury
University of Canterbury students entered one of New Zealand’s most modern and exciting education facilities for the first time last month. Continue →
2017 MESNZ Engineering Scholarship
As part of the MESNZ objective “To encourage New Zealand training into tertiary education and technology”, a MESNZ Scholarship worth up to $5,000 is to be offered each year, for the specific purpose of covering tuition fees. Continue →
WOMEN MAKE THEIR MARK ON AUTO INDUSTRY
The face of Fraser Engineering’s automotive engineering department is changing with two young women now working as production assistants
The face of Fraser Engineering’s automotive engineering department is changing with two young women now working as production assistants at the Lower Hutt based company which is part of a rapidly changing industry that is becoming more high tech and facing significant skills shortage. Continue →
Press Release from the National Maintenance Engineering Conference
Fielding High School student Ryan Stewart
Fielding student awarded prestigious national engineering scholarship
A passion for building and racing motor bikes and problem solving has landed Fielding High School student Ryan Stewart the Maintenance Engineering Society of New Zealand (MESNZ) Bill Buckley Scholarship Award. Continue →
Workplace deaths and injuries need to be reduced at least 25% by 2020
Workplace deaths and injuries need to be reduced at least 25% by 2020
Every year an impressive number of New Zealanders die or are seriously injured while working. Continue →
PRESS RELEASE: WELTEC ENGINEERING QUALIFICATIONS ACHIEVE INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
Graduates from WelTec’s School of Engineering will now have their qualifications officially recognised globally. Continue →
Got a Trade Week brings out future business leaders
Celebrating the achievements of engineering learners is a highlight for the team at industry training organisation Competenz
Celebrating the achievements of engineering learners is a highlight for the team at industry training organisation Competenz. Continue →
Building skills for the future
GOT A TRADE WEEK 2015 – 21-28 August
GOT A TRADE WEEK 2015 – 21-28 August – is part of a national campaign to raise awareness of on-the-job training and careers in New Zealand’s trades and services. Continue →
Health and Safety in numbers: have to or want to?
There seems obsession to measure health and safety at present and these often take the form of so called lag or lead indicators. Continue →
New editor appointed at NZ Engineering News
Greg Robertson has been appointed to the position of editor of NZ Engineering News, taking the helm in June. Continue →