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The Structural Engineer, Volume 70, Issue 5, 1992
The first published report on CPD, prepared by a joint working party of the Membership and Education & Examination Committees, appeared in the February 1986 issue of The Structural Engineer. At this time the Institution was among the leaders in the engineering profession in promoting CPD. M.G. Baker
From time to time in the course of his career, a structural engineer may be called on to act as an expert witness in civil litigation or arbitration. In order to carry out this role in a professionally competent manner, it is important that certain basic principles of the legal system are understood. This article, brief though it is, sets out certain guidelines for the structural engineer as an expert witness, and particularly points out the pitfalls that beset those who are inexperienced in the workings of the legal system. P.J. Cole
Attitude to design accuracy It comes naturally to a structural engineer to take a great deal of care in what can be considered to be the mathematical part of structural design, after the real engineering part of deciding on the form of the structure, where to place fixing moments, hinges, etc., has been completed. The mathematics used to be described as the perspiration after the inspiration of the real engineering although, in these days of computers, perhaps ‘eye strain’ should be substituted for ‘perspiration’. J.A. Baird