Engineers & Society

#1 Infrastructure matters ARE engineering matters
#2 Advocating for African Union's states to embrace Engineering & Engineers, and the future #EngineerGeneral

[Engineers & Society @ChangingthingsS]

Chapter 9 institutions give voice to key professions, Auditor-General, Public Protector, @SAHRCommission.
Yet the engineering profession, critical to infrastructure and service delivery, is missing.
This is a constitutional gap. Engineers must be at the table. #EngineeringMatters

[Lazola Makalima @_HeRo112]

@ChangingthingsS @andrewmerrifie7 @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka @ECSAOfficial Which is why I place the option for consideration for Skill = Evident Knowledge + Experience… And the sooner the better…

And Knowledge being as many Engineering fields as possible, if you want somebody in that Senior Position.

If not, we may be ok but not optimised.

Thanks.

[Engineers & Society @ChangingthingsS]

@_HeRo112 @andrewmerrifie7 @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka 🚧- Engineer‑General: Minimum Qualifications

• A recognised Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (BEng/BSc Eng) or Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Engineering, with a Master’s degree or higher(MEng, MSc, PhD) strongly preferred.
• Pr Eng or Pr Tech Eng)...
#Ch9EngineerGeneral

[Engineers & Society @ChangingthingsS]

Engineers should consider adding law and/or public administration to their qualifications to be better equipped for public service and leadership in Chapter 9 institutions. It’s time some of us start preparing for these roles. @_HeRo112 @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka do you agree?

[Lazola Makalima @_HeRo112]

@ChangingthingsS @ECSAOfficial @wfeo @faeo_ng I spent 12years studying Engineering, which also included starting another Engineering degree qualification.

My qualifications are as follow:
1. N.Dip. CivilEng (DUT)
2. BSc AgricEng (UKZN)
3. BSc Civil/StructuralEng (NDP-UKZN)
4. MSc CivilEng (UKZN-Hydropower)

[Engineers & Society @ChangingthingsS]

@_HeRo112 @andrewmerrifie7 @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka "Engineering is one of the keys to the sustainable development of our societies, and to activate its full potential, the world needs more engineers and more equality"
Audrey Azoulay, @UNESCO Director-General
#AgendaForEngineering #HumanRights #Ch9EngineerGeneral #CityEngineers

[Lazola Makalima @_HeRo112]

@andrewmerrifie7 @ChangingthingsS @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka And Construction still is managed by Engineers who let Project Managers runs projects and give feedback.

So an EG can never be a person who they themselves Manage. However an EG needs to be Super Skilled, not “Trained”

I said: Skill = Knowledge + Experience…

Thanks.

[Jos Molefe @JosMolefe]

@ChangingthingsS ... one of the best.

[Engineers & Society @ChangingthingsS]

@JosMolefe 🇿🇦 has globally recognised engineers, yet still faces high unemployment, inequality, and inadequate infrastructure. It is imperative that Parliament and the #GNU take decisive action, led from the Office of the President.
@ParliamentofRSA @GovernmentZA @PresidencyZA #engineering

[Lazola Makalima @_HeRo112]

@andrewmerrifie7 @ChangingthingsS @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka And that will Change Project Allocations, Improve Budget Allocations and Improve Time cycles to complete projects which will result in the Engineering field and Engineering system being optimised. This is not about Construction, it is about Engineering.

Thanks.

[Engineers & Society @ChangingthingsS]

@_HeRo112 @andrewmerrifie7 @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka "To our nation's engineers, I say, your country needs you now more than ever before. Let us build a future together... A future in which scientists & engineers are valued by society, for indeed, you are the pride of a nation.
Nelson Mandela, Former President of @GovernmentZA 1993

[Lazola Makalima @_HeRo112]

@andrewmerrifie7 @ChangingthingsS @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka And Knowledge includes knowing as many of the Engineering Fields (Categories) in theory and in Qualifications (not just CPDs) and then you add Experience on top of that.

And then you will be able to relate to the needs of the Engineering field, because of understanding.

[TM7 @Hermitbhudda]

@ChangingthingsS @moabelo_tshepo @ParliamentofRSA Hello Sir,I'm a 30 year old with N1-N3 Boilermaker certificates but have no luck securing any apprenticeship or learnership. Can you please plug me with any? even if as an assistant 🙏🥺

[Engineers & Society @ChangingthingsS]

Engineers, let’s amplify our own voice.
If a message speaks for our profession, don’t scroll past - like it, repost it, share it. Visibility builds influence. Influence shapes policy.
Stop waiting for others - buy your own off the shelf. #EngineeringMatters #BeTheInfluence

[Engineers & Society @ChangingthingsS]

@andrewmerrifie7 @_HeRo112 @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka @andrewmerrifie7 @_HeRo112 thank you for being the wind beneath our wings. Please consider turning some of these ideas into an article or opinion piece - here’s one platform you could use: https://t.co/fydesTsjLa by @hardhatprof

[andrew merrifield @andrewmerrifie7]

@_HeRo112 @ChangingthingsS @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka 8/n failures of the Chapter 9 institutions to prevent the rot, I am not convinced that a Chapter 9 institution focused on public sector infrastructure delivery will work but if we get to a point where it does, I think the professional who is appointed should be drawn from a pool

[Engineers & Society @ChangingthingsS]

@andrewmerrifie7 @_HeRo112 @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka The Engineer-General should be appointed from among qualified professional engineering practitioners. @ECSAOfficial

"The busiest people in the public infrastructure development are politicians, accountants & lawyers, but not engineers”
@VictorAfrica
#Ch9EngineerGeneral

[Engineers & Society @ChangingthingsS]

Citizens are doing their part by voting against poor service delivery. From an engineering perspective, we can strengthen accountability and good governance. A Chapter 9 Engineer-General, empowered to issue binding recommendations, could be a game-changer. Zizojik'izinto #change

[andrew merrifield @andrewmerrifie7]

@_HeRo112 @ChangingthingsS @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka 7/n two decades of public sector infrastructure delivery. The problems lie in the overall control of public institutions which have collapsed due to ANC cadre deployment. No specific expertise can stop that until we have a new government. As I have also said, given the current

[andrew merrifield @andrewmerrifie7]

@_HeRo112 @ChangingthingsS @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka 7/n two decades of public sector infrastructure delivery. The problems lie in the overall control of public institutions which have collapsed due to ANC cadre deployment. No specific expertise can stop that until we have a new government. As I have also said, given the current

[Engineers & Society @ChangingthingsS]

Engineers should consider adding law and/or public administration to their qualifications to be better equipped for public service and leadership in Chapter 9 institutions. It’s time some of us start preparing for these roles. @_HeRo112 @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka do you agree?

[andrew merrifield @andrewmerrifie7]

@_HeRo112 @ChangingthingsS @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka Let me clarify, as I said before, I made these comments in the context of @ChangingthingsS calls for an Engineer-General to provide oversight over public sector infrastructure delivery (maybe I misunderstood the focus but that what it seems to be). I have immense respect 1/n

[Engineers & Society @ChangingthingsS]

@_HeRo112 @andrewmerrifie7 @DrMsiziMyeza @omtimka Engineers are key navigators in the complex “minefield” of the construction project lifecycle.
#EngineeringLeadership