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FB: Personal Profiles Task

Hi there! Hereunder you will find some important feedback from your exercise presenting yourself to your new employer in the form of a 'Personal Profile'. Please READ this, commit to memory and USE this in your future work/English conversations as soon as you can: once you USE it you OWN it and it will come naturally in future. OK? I WILL go over this in class….. Tutor's observations: I set this up as a professional exercise and was expecting a professional response, yet I think only three people actually produced something using a PC: why?  If your boss asked you to produce something for the company magazine or website, it goes without saying that he would expect it...

posted on: 6 Nov 2012 | author: tjolley

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Defs.

Definition of Mechanical Engineering. Synthesis by Tony JOLLEY, based upon the list of attributes brainstormed by the two Mex groups in October 2012 at ENSISA, UHA Mulhouse, France:   Mechanical Engineering is the name given to the field of endeavor representing the systematic application of the scientific theories, principles and practices enshrined in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Technology to the solving of problems requiring a physical, manufactured/constructed output.  In addition to such ‘hard’ sciences, it also harnesses ‘softer’, yet no less important, qualities and skills such as curiosity, creativity, ingenuity, determination, communication and vision which, taken together, are the drivers of innovation which have fuelled the Ascent of Man [Bronowski, J. 1973] from the first crude tools such...

posted on: 23 Oct 2012 | author: tjolley

TEXTILES Definitions

First Group's Textiles Industry Definition The Textiles Industry operates globally to transform raw inputs from their natural or synthetic states into finished products to meet general and highly specific industry and consumer market demand for such things as fabrics, clothes upholstery and more specialised products [such as memory-retaining and fire-retardant materials]. The means by which this is achieved is rigorously quality-controlled; combining 'hard' engineering sciences, chemical processes and industrial machinery with 'softer' human skills such as creativity and design expertise in the spinning, weaving, knitting, materials-treatment, finishing and dress-making of fibres and yarns. Originally the dominant means of production was 'hand-made' or 'crofting', but since the Industrial Revolution, Textiles has become a machine production system for the global...

posted on: 23 Oct 2012 | author: tjolley

TEXMEX

posted on: 18 Oct 2012 | author: tjolley