N E W S Beca appoints MD in New Zealand Beca recently appointed Darryl-Lee Wendelbor as managing director, New Zealand. Ms Wendelbor has been a key member of Beca’s senior leadership team since 2011 as operations manager for its substantial Environments business. Her track record in delivering transformational outcomes was demonstrated in her sponsorship of the launch of Beca’s successful design practice in 2015. She is known for her collaborative working style and as a great coach and mentor for the firm’s emerging leadership talent. New Dormer logo unveiled Dormer Pramet has revealed an updated design of the Dormer logo – the brand used to identify its range of rotary cutting tools. The company has two global product brands: Dormer, featuring a wide assortment of HSS and solid carbide round tools for drilling, milling and threading applications; and Pramet, covering a variety of indexable tools for turning, milling and hole-making. The new Dormer logo brings it in line with the company’s global identity, creates a closer connection between the two product brands and further promotes its now widely used ‘chip symbol’. It now has the same font style and size as the Pramet logo, which remains unchanged. The official launch of the new Dormer logo will be at EMO Hannover 2017 in September, although it will start to appear in several locations from July onwards. This includes product packaging and labelling, as well as marketing collateral including technical material and product brochures. 8 July 2017 Engineering e2e: students flock to study Voyage inside a turbine blade Examining the cooling channels and other inner workings of Inconel 718 turbine blades has become a reality thanks to research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The team at ORNL has used neutron imaging to check out the cooling channels of the additive manufactured blades, providing a non-destructive means in order to get a better understanding of structural elements and in turn improve design. With structural integrity playing a huge part in a turbine blade’s requirements, each blade has cooling channels that allow air to flow through and exit the porous shell of the blade, maintaining a stable temperature for the assembly. Due to their nature, each turbine blade requires a series of rigorous testing procedures. How’s this done? A short-pulse proton beam generates an intense pressure wave in the mercury that drives high-cycle fatigue in the target vessel and cavitation of the mercury. The proton beam initiates a rise in temperature of approximately 107 K/s. Once the beam pulse is finished, pressure interacts with the target, generating a dynamic response. The mercury is also bombarded by neutron flashes at a rate of 60 times per second. Simple. In an industry screaming out for engineers, the e2e programme has helped lift the profile of engineering from 10th to 3rd place in New Zealand student’s career considerations. The Engineering e2e programme has achieved its goal of 500+ engineering graduates per year by 2017, a year early, which will be welcome news for industry, says Minister of Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Paul Goldsmith. “It’s very pleasing to see all the hard work by Engineering e2e, Futureintech, tertiary institutions, engineering professional organisations and others has really paid off,” Mr Goldsmith says. The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has confirmed 511 graduates from priority engineering courses in 2016, a full year ahead of schedule, for a total of 2,151 graduates in 2016. Set up by the Government in 2014, the Engineering – Education to Employment (e2e) initiative promotes engineering as a career to students. “Engineering e2e’s successful public awareness campaign has already lifted the profile of engineering from 10th to 3rd place in potential student’s career considerations. “More than 500 additional graduates each year is a step in the right direction though we still have quite a bit of work to do to address the balance of graduates across Diploma of Engineering (Level 6), Bachelor of Engineering Technology (Level 7) and Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) (Level 8) qualifications. “Our big challenge, supported by employer feedback, is growing enrolments at institutes of technology, which specialise in level 6 and 7 qualifications,” Mr Goldsmith says. “So I am pleased to see Engineering e2e is working closely with the ITP sector, and with engineering professional bodies to really focus on employer engagement to grow the pipeline of workready engineers.” Engineering e2e has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA) and IPWEA is collaborating with e2e on its sponsored degrees pilot programme which is being funded by the TEC. Sponsored degrees would enable both on-the-job training and the completion of a Level 7 qualification in engineering, like the Bachelor of Engineering (Technology), and are particularly relevant for rapidly changing, high-tech industries. “Engineers help build the infrastructure that makes up our modern world. New Zealand needs more engineers to meet the growing demand for construction and infrastructure, and this Government is focussed on meeting those challenges into the future,” says Mr Goldsmith.
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