Helping engineers speak the language of business.

Big data pitfalls for engineers from the Financial Times

Software developers can easily run their programs on thousands or even millions of test files from their archives, but the opportunities provided by large datasets can be elusive.
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Why have one mentor when you can have a network?

Your world is not your mentor’s world. In my experience, it’s more useful to have a network of mentors, each offering you a different viewpoint when you need advice.
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Good Design™ marks for Nucleus CR110 Remote Assistant Fitting (left) and the Nucleus CR120 Intraoperative Remote Assistant (right).

My decade of design at Cochlear

The Australian International Design Awards gave Remote Assistant Fitting and the Intraoperative Remote Assistant its Good Design™ mark. Expressive Engineering was involved in much of it.
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The injustice of credibility in communication

Communication builds credibility, which enhances communication, which builds more credibility. It’s an unjust cycle as the credible become even more credible all too easily.
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Do you design like you communicate?

Great engineering design communicates its function without needing an explanation, and this requires empathy and communication with users.
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Communicate or you don’t engineer

The first step in improving your communication is a personal one. At heart, many technical professionals find it difficult to accept that technical work can be the subject of debate.
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The 2011 Expressive Engineering Debating Series at NSW Parliament House

The Expressive Engineering Debating Series in review

On three separate occasions at NSW Parliament House, the engineers had out-argued and out-witted their famously outspoken opponents. First lawyers, then economists, then architects.
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