Profile: Sally Jones

Letters this month include discussion on: Late payment of fees, the CM exam pass mark, the recruitment market and the Institution's Structural Awards 2014 event.

Undergraduate course lecturer, Harry Partridge, discusses the importance of developing the more intuitive and creative side of the brain — and describes how a short course in art given to final year civil engineering students at Sydney University has endeavoured to encourage students in this direction.

James Norman is excited about the future of structural design, believing that engineers will be freed up to explore new materials and pursue regenerative strategies by increased automation. As his latest book is published, he talks engineering, education and ethics with Helena Russell.