• Question: Give me an example of a time when you had to teach a skill to other engineers?

    Asked by lewisjeffries15 to Graham, Luke, Maksim, Ruth on 20 Jun 2014.
    • Photo: Ruth Gregory

      Ruth Gregory answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      I had to teach apprentices how to take all the measurements and what tolerances to work at on site. I went through one foundation with them so that could understand what I have to do and then I watched them do their own foundation.

      The things I taught them:
      How to take a GPS measurement
      How to use the distometer
      Use of an inclonometer
      Use of an anonometer
      Use of a sound meter
      How to record the information on a tablet
      What documents to refer to if there are any on site queries
      Explained why we need to keep to there tolerances.

    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      i have had to teach other engineers how do carry out a general and principal inspection of a bridge.

    • Photo: Graham Wiggins

      Graham Wiggins answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      lewisjeffries15 –
      Hi,
      I last “taught” someone something new a few hours ago. had to show my boss/linemanager how to do something on his computer…..
      Earlier in the day, I demostrated how to check power is leaving a new type of “fuseboard” to my co-worker. ( it has a safety switch that can be frustrating if you don’t know it’s there )
      I’ll be doing a lot more “teaching” in a few weeks, when the next Work Experience student visits for a week, and maybe a few weeks after that when the next apprentice heads our way ( or not as applicable )

    • Photo: Maksim Schastny

      Maksim Schastny answered on 22 Jun 2014:

      I had to teach some of the apprentices on how to solder on the vero board.

      Also I introduced them to using Digital Multimeter in order to do some basic tests.

    • Photo: Luke Fry

      Luke Fry answered on 24 Jun 2014:

      Throughout my apprenticeship we would all teach other different things as we were all better at different things. I was good at the academic side and so would help with that where possible. Since then, I have taught people how to use the CAD package Solid Edge and supervised work experience students and apprentices which involves a lot of teaching!

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