Years ago, it was common for engineers to only do external learning such as Professional Development Courses via expensive multi-day events such as conferences and tradeshows. While these still have their place, in today’s information centric environment; it seems much more important that an engineer knows where to get the best information from quickly, and what the developing trends are. Professional Associations such as APEGBC, along with all Engineering learning institutions and companies need to get into the new ways of distributing information, and quickly.
Any Professional Engineer who is not reading beyond their professional magazine is doing themselves a disservice. Get an account for Google Reader and start learning from news reports and blogs around the world, it’s amazing what you might learn…
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I agree with you:) actually I agree with you:) actually I have decided to write a blog about Internet for civil engineers in the future (of coarse in my own language Persian, you know I’m not good in English:)). I always read your blog and a few other civil engineers’ blog via Google Reader. But I’d be appreciate that if you write here about some blogs and also some meager resources about civil engineering here. I’m studying Mechanics of Soil and Foundation, and interested in web based applications for civil engineers unfortunately there are a few out there! and I’m thinking of some kind of web 2.0 work on these apps.
Yassina, Thanks for reading! Yassina, Thanks for reading! This post came out of a frustration I have with older and/or less technical engineers and managers not appreciating the value of the internet as a resource and work tool.
I’ll make a point of blogging about any neat sites or technologies I discover in my travels!