Alasdair Anderson:

Now my plea - this thread is supposed to be about UK-SPEC Edition 4 and there is a separate thread dealing with the recognition (or not) and value of IEng. Can we please use this thread to discuss the changes to UK-SPEC.

 

Well we can try, but I think so far pretty much most views seem to agree with yours that it sort of looks ok but it's difficult to tell and we'll need to see how it works in practice, except for Peter whose views are expressed in his original post. 


Funnily enough I was just thinking about the new layout, because I've been asked to give an internal presentation on it at work, and the new layout is actually much easier for that. And in 3rd edition I most often found myself using the "three side by side section" which of course was landscape already. 


My feeling is still very much that it's gentle evolution rather than revolution, absolutely the litmus test will be when panels start applying it...but I do think the examples are a bit better now, the old examples (for all grades) sometimes felt like they only applied to the technical director of ICI!


Cheers,


Andy

Alasdair Anderson:

Now my plea - this thread is supposed to be about UK-SPEC Edition 4 and there is a separate thread dealing with the recognition (or not) and value of IEng. Can we please use this thread to discuss the changes to UK-SPEC.

 

Well we can try, but I think so far pretty much most views seem to agree with yours that it sort of looks ok but it's difficult to tell and we'll need to see how it works in practice, except for Peter whose views are expressed in his original post. 


Funnily enough I was just thinking about the new layout, because I've been asked to give an internal presentation on it at work, and the new layout is actually much easier for that. And in 3rd edition I most often found myself using the "three side by side section" which of course was landscape already. 


My feeling is still very much that it's gentle evolution rather than revolution, absolutely the litmus test will be when panels start applying it...but I do think the examples are a bit better now, the old examples (for all grades) sometimes felt like they only applied to the technical director of ICI!


Cheers,


Andy