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Whether you're brushing up on familiar topics or trying something new, these resources support your learning and help you develop valuable skills. 

Explore all 29 technique sheets down below:

  1. Writing user instructions - Preparing user documentation for a variety of devices (e.g. EV, incubator, connectors for struts in a temporary building) that can be used by people who have limited technical and reading abilities and may be working in non-native languages. 
  2.  Risk analysis - Conducting a risk analysis for a process or project and identify key safety practices and equipment that would be necessary (legally) and advisable (good practice).  
  3. Environmental assessments - Considering the environmental impacts of a project (e.g. building a new gigafactory to make batteries) or change (e.g. a switch to EV cars) in the immediate and medium-term and for the local area and more widely. 
  4. Working with triangles - Calculating unknown angles and side lengths in triangles for assessing engineering measurements. 
  5. Working with shape and space - Calculating volume, height, angles of corners, articulations of a 3D shape (e.g. an incubator, temporary building, storage containers) based on measured or published data. 
  6. Useful formulae - Calculating safe working parameters for structural components (e.g. incubator trolley, temporary building roof or struts) based on measurements of properties of materials and published data.  
  7. Converting between units - Converting between different measuring units as appropriate (e.g. Celsius to Fahrenheit or Kelvin, metres to inches, metres to millimetres or kilometres). 
  8. Calculating power and energy - Calculating the power usage for a device or installation based on experimental measures and published data to plan a suitable power supply system. 
  9. Costing a project - Estimating the costs of manufacture for a device or structure (single prototype and multiple copies) based on cost of individual components and manufacturing costs.
  10. Knowledge inventory - Identifying the knowledge base appropriate to a project and the likely future needs.  
  11. Feedback - Providing respectful, honest and helpful service to a colleague, subordinate on a product or service.  
  12. Self-reflection - Reflecting on performance – how self-reflection can help development. 
  13. SMART objectives - Reviewing the characteristics and use of objectives to drive development.  
  14. The urgent-important matrix - Identifying priorities and strategies for work.
  15. Rights and responsibilities - Identifying key rights and responsibilities in the workplace and how they affect working life.  
  16. Managing meetings - Facilitating a meeting to explore possible solutions to a problem, generate a decision and a report with clear recommendations and their justification.  
  17. Teamwork - Developing strategies for successful team working – and suggesting behaviours which can undermine teamwork.  
  18. What’s worth doing? - Deciding which parts of a project or work package should be done first.  
  19. Choosing a site for an engineering project - Conducting a site survey for a construction project (e.g. cliff railway, EV charging station, temporary building) or installation (e.g. installing a computer server, refrigeration unit) taking measurements of key features to produce a detailed map with significant measures clearly marked.  
  20. Making a pitch - Preparing a pitch or proposal for a piece of engineering work (e.g. a cliff railway, production facility).  
  21. Delivering a presentation - Present a pitch (e.g. a cliff railway, production facility) to a body that will make the decision on basis of needs, costs, suitability, sustainability.  
  22. Responding to a brief - Developing a strategy to deliver on a brief or win a tender.
  23. Managing large projects - Using timelines, GANTT charts and systems to organise and track project progress. 
  24. Preparing reports - Understanding the nature of reports (content and structure) and prioritising what should be included, or omitted, from key reports.  
  25. The engineering design process - Using the engineering design cycle to stimulate creative solutions to problems.  
  26. Planning a project - Creating a detailed plan for a project.  
  27. Keeping a logbook - Using a logbook to record key events in a project.  
  28. Creative thinking - Increasing your ability to think creatively.  
  29. Constructing a project strategy - Developing a high-level plan to tackle a complex problem.