摘要: |
My family background was a major factor; my mother was a science and maths teacher, and my father was a lecturer in the physics department at the University of Leeds. I did three separate sciences at 0-levels when the norm was to do an integrated course. This suited me at the time but made me to look at working in areas of applied science as opposed to pure science. Having spent most of the 1990s doing interesting things with bridges and other structures, I was given the chance of doing some highway engineering, working on the London primary route re-signing project. This was only supposed to be temporary but by the time we had published the revised Traffic Signs Manual (TSM) Chapter 8 in the noughties it was obvious I was having too much 'fun' doing traffic signs and decided to leave IStructE and join the IHE. The Chapter 8 roadshows the IHE did at the time showed a commitment to training in a form that was effective and useful to practitioners at different levels; also, they were a nice bunch of people! |