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From: psci-com: on the public understanding of science
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Green
Sent: 28 June 2002 09:20
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Copus/PEST and engineers
Is it possible that the UK's lack of dedicated engineering and
technology
institutes contributes to the problem of little UK engineering news?
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No. It is not possible. We have as many engineering and technology
institutes as we have "scientific" ones.
Here are a few to amuse you: IMechE, IEE, IChemE, to pick the most
obvious. Then there are the specialists in aerospace, oil, production
and on and on....
But few of these organisations seem to think it their job to push the
work of their communities. So while the IoP is happy to tout physics to
the world, engineering bodies seem to promote only themselves.
It may help that some of the scientific organisations have throwing
publishing ventures that provide good PR fodder. When did you last get a
press release from an engineering publication?
I appreciate John Pullin's fear that the engineers would get swamped by
the scientists. Maybe the answer is an engineering COPUS. But that would
be yet another body.
MK
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