Mechanical engineering | Wiki-Answers

What is your story? How did you come to run a business?

I spent over 25 years leading international business at the highest level, ultimately a plc, putting me in a unique position to deal with contemporary business challenges.

I am now an, Oxford, UK based, award winning international motivational business growth speaker who inspires and entertains my audiences with my acclaimed Staying in the Helicopter® programmess. Over 10000 CEOs, business leaders and others have achieved transformational change through my thought provoking and entertaining talks laced with real-life stories, anecdotes and humour.

I am also an author, accredited SME business advisor, mentor, consultant and independent director focused on business development and success.

I have extensive experience across a broad spectrum of businesses - from small start-ups to large multinational corporations; from high tech manufactured products through basic commodities, to people based services businesses and not-for-profit organizations

I spent seven years as Group Chief Executive of a FTSE quoted, high tech industrial instrumentation group with 12 operations over four continents. The company was listed in the UK Government’s ‘Competitiveness’ White Paper and gained a reference in the US Forbes magazine as one of the top 100 overseas companies and has been used as a benchmark case study by two business schools on culture change and business re-engineering.

I have run businesses for major multi-national corporations and has been a tutor with one of the leading leadership and teambuilding programs for over 25 years.

I am a Past-President of The Professional Speakers Association, a former Vice-President of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and a Liveryman with The Worshipful Company of Marketers.

Clement Edet [clemzpercy]

What is your specialty? What applied knowledge and methods do you use in your work?

My specialty is Marine Engineering,
i have passion for Mechanical repairs onboard foreign going ship. A great deal of my knowledge come from offshore engineering

Jamie Hamilton [anechoicchamber]

What is your specialty? What applied knowledge and methods do you use in your work?

My specialty is mechanical engineering and acoustics. I have a passion for learning about vibration, and have worked in consulting with interior acoustics, noise and vibration isolation, HVAC noise analysis, and sound isolation analysis. I also have passion for manned aerospace after two summer internships with Johnson Space Center. I have done multiple projects involving life support and sustainability.

Gregory Wyszynski [wyszyna]

Do you think you are up to date in your sector? How do you keep up to date?

I read technical magazines, books. Not only in Mechanical Engineering but also in Technology - I am very interested in new technologies - especially from mobile technology, like tablets, smartphones etc.

Dr. La Vergne Lester Thatch [thatchtalk]

How have your past experiences prepared you for teaching? How did you become interested in education?

I started teaching at a young age. As a little girl growing up in Guyana, I would gather my friends around to teach Mathematics and Science. My mother was a teacher and headmistress of a high school in Guyana. She continued to teach in the US, her specialties were Special Education and Reading. She was a certified Reading Specialist. We moved to the USA when I was 12 years old. Also, at the age 12, I was reading through the E volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica when I came across the word Engineering. I told my mother that I wanted to study Engineering in Collage, being more specific I said, Mechanical Engineering. While working on my Masters of Engineering, I worked in a Special Education classroom as a paraprofessional. One year and a half later, I was a Science teacher in a middle school teaching Life and Earth Sciences. But, I was hired for a Mathematics position. Engineering prepared me to teach both subject areas.

Steven Mikel [stevenmikel]

What role does technology play in your creative process?

I graduated from the Ohio Institute of Photography, and spent many years as a traditional technical Illustrator at O'Neil and Associates in Dayton, Ohio and was planning on a BS Mechanical Engineering degree at Purdue. So, I come from a fairly technical background. I use my photographic experience as a tool for "capturing" a scene or idea and giving me the ability to work at a later time by viewing the unaltered photo, at a distance, pinned to a wall of my studio. This facilitates my ability to recall what I noticed and felt when I was at the original location. In regards to this specific question: I believe that "creative process" is a gift and skill. And even though I do use technical programs and techniques for other graphic art I am responsible for such as advertising, web design and marketing graphics, but I do not use technology, or feel it is appropriate, within a "fine Art" medium such as watercolors.

vincy mananthan [muvincy]

Which university subject required the most from you in order to pass?

mechanical Engineering

vincy mananthan [muvincy]

What did you play with as a child? Does your profession have anything to do with your childhood toys?

As a child when I was 5years I wanted to be a driver of LCV. That facinated me a lot. my father had given me toys like bus, cars, light comercial Vehicle, train etc.But when I was at 11 years, I used to help my mother for stiching few cloths. I found a driver driving a van in Pedeling sewing machine. This really contributed in my decision of choosing mechanical engineering as my professioinal subject

Roger Harrop [theceoexpert]

What is your story? How did you come to run a business?

I spent seven years as Group Chief Executive of a fully quoted (on FTSE), high tech Industrial Instrumentation Group with 12 operations over four continents. The company was listed in the UK Government’s ‘Competitiveness’ White Paper and gained a reference in the US Forbes magazine as one of the top 100 overseas companies and has been used as a benchmark case study by two business schools on Culture Change and Business Re-Engineering.

I have run businesses for major multi-national corporations on four continents and have been a tutor with one of the leading Leadership and Teambuilding programmes for over 25 years.

I left the corporate world 6 years ago and wanted to "give something back". I believe business is simple - it's us that make it complex and I realised that I have the ability to truly make it simple for everyone!

I became accredited as an SME business advisor and then learnt the skills to be a top international professional speaker - and I love every day!

I a Fellow, Member of the Board and President of the Professional Speakers Association, a former Vice-President of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and a Liveryman with The Worshipful Company of Marketors.

Sam 沈健詩 [leonidkogan]

Have you completed formal art studies, or are you self-taught?

I majored in mechanical engineering at school and worked as a engineer for over ten years. However, I like to sketch at leisure time , copy any images that attract me so much, in this way I taught myself how to draw.

Alex Shtylman [alex1254]

What is your specialty?

ALVIRO Consulting was established in 2003 to provide exhibit design, database development and consulting services.

With over 14 years experience in trade show and exhibit design production and over 16 years experience in professional mechanical/industrial design engineering we can offer a variety of exhibit design services from modular systems (such as OCTANORM, AGAM,Delta Matrix, etc.) to complete custom build design. Our services may include not only conceptual design and color renderings, but detail drawings and specifications as well. We will also coordinate installation and dismantling and field services if required.

Dewanand Waldo [dewanand3000]

What did you first read? How did you begin to write? Who were the first to read what you wrote?

The first books I read were in the Dutch language when I was a young innocent hindustani boy in Surinam (Paramaribo, main city). I remember the funny stories of ‘Pietje Bell’ and ‘Pinkeltje’. The famous book with title “Alleen op de wereld’ (Alone on the world), written by Hector Malot made a deep impression on my mind and I think this was the first voluptuous book I read completely without any illustrations.

Later on at the high school. as a teenager in Surinam, I had to read ‘Jude the obscure’ of author Thomas Hardy as a punishment from my English teacher for being to naughty during the lessons. I would be excluded from the exams if I did not made a good summary of this huge book in English. And I read it with the help of an English to Dutch dictionairy and completed the handwritten summary on time. This was the first English book I read and now I must admit that it was a good punishment for me during my wildly youth.

How did you begin to write?
When I was studying on the University of Technology in Delft city for mechanical Engineering I discovered that writing was my passion. Later on I discovered that mass communication gave me a kick, and it gave me a feeling of being high and stoned.

During the period 1990 till 1995 I was semi-illegal in the Netherlands and was very lonely, depressed, suicidally and casteless. My own family chased me away, because I was a failed hindu man. Hindu girls did not wanted to marry me, which broke me down deep inside my heart and disrupted all my love feelings. In the Hindu culture people expect you to commit suicide, when you are a failed man, without future. So I was in serious problems during that time period. Then I decided to start writing. My first handwritten book was in Dutch, with title ‘Holland, paradise or hell?’. I also started writing about my theoretical research about the complex and dynamic multicultural society, because it fascinated me a lot. Later on after 1993 I bought my first personal computer (a 486 with 8 megabyte Ram and a harddisk of only 40 Mb, with the prehistorical DOS 5 and Windows 4.1 operating system) and started some writing and research projects.

Who were the first to read what you wrote?
I remember that I published an article about Vedic Mathematics during the year 1989 in a small Hindu magazine and that my first readers were the Hindustanis in the Netherlands. Later on I published in papers of foreign and Hindu people in the Netherlands, all in Dutch, during the years 1999 till 2001. In the year 2001 my first English texts with titles “Boycott It Europe” and “The Mahatma and his criminal son” were published on some big Indian and Hindu sites and I got tens of thousands of readers. Till our present time these articles are online and I was surprised when an Indian man in the Netherlands told me last month that he saw my article in India. I felt very good and was proud of myself.

Since january 2004 my own website went online and it has become one of the biggest sites of an independent (hindu)writer in the small Dutch language region (only 22 million native readers), with almost 1.3 million words in profound and excellent Dutch written by me. It is clear that roughly 500 000 Dutch speaking people must have read something from me on the web till the present day.