• Question: Describe the most significant written technical report or presentation that you had to complete.

    Asked by Zak to Emma, Withdrawn, Eleanor, Angela, Andrew on 5 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅImADog, Adamjw2002.
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      Andrew Pidgeon answered on 5 Mar 2016:

      When you get experience and qualifications you can submit an application to become a chartered engineer.

      For this you have to put an application together that says why you should be selected and that you tick all the boxes to be considered. The final stage is for you to give a presentation about how you meet the technical knowledge areas and competency areas in an engineering task. It has to be 5 slides and a maximum of 15 minutes (with 45 minutes questions and answers!!)

      This is then presented to 3 experienced and chartered engineers who are very knowledgeable and very experienced. This is the most significant presentation I’ve had to do to date

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      Eleanor Sherwen answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      My biggest technical report was a whole pack of information I had to get ready for a new product which had electronics, a lithium ion battery, and wifi in it.

      When you sell a product you have to check it obeys the law and is safe. The requirements to make it safe are written into ISO documents (International Standards Organisation) and some of the ones for electronics are very complex. I had to write up all the details of each part of the electronics to show it met the technical standards. I also had to do a full risk assessment, which is thinking up all the ways the product could hurt somebody and how likely it is, then writing down what you’ve done to make the risk as low as possible. Plus I wrote the service manual and the first draft of the production manual. It was an odd situation – normally a design team would do that together, not just one person. It was soooooooo much writing! I often have to write reports about testing to ISO standards but usually it is much much easier.

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