Month: February 2016

Booming Infrastructural development is turning Geotechnical Engineering

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Booming Infrastructural development is turning Geotechnical Engineering one of the most highly paid, Easy- entry and In-Demand Jobtunnel

Geotechnical Engineering deals with engineering activities of earth and materials. Being a part of civil engineering, it is also used across industries such as petroleum, mining, or any other engineering activity related to construction.

As every building needs a foundation, Geotechnical Engineers are always in a great demand wherever there is a construction project carried out. Geotechnical needs should be integrated with construction and architecture activities during a construction project as these methods proposes the civil engineers to lay firm foundations for the building making them strong against any or every threat.

Geotechnical Engineering is the science that explains the mechanics of rock and soil and its applications for construction purposes. It includes the analysis, design and construction of foundations, structures, buildings, slopes retaining structures, embankments, tunnels, roadways, levees, landfills and wharves and other systems that are made of, or supported by soil and rock.

Challenges that Geotechnical Engineers face

Civil engineering is constantly striving to build bigger and bigger structures; Geotechnical engineers constantly develop new techniques to make the underlying ground support for those structures. Longer and higher bridges carrying traffic, skyscrapers and huge buildings, all these are structures that need a firm support to with stand all natural environments, traffic and natural disasters.
New challenges in foundation designs are yet to be faced as mankind is moving forward with long tunnels, higher bridges, speeding highways and more skyscrapers and all this achievement can only be attained having high technically trained professionals.

With all these civil engineering futures, there will and always been a greater need for a Geotechnical engineer. This is a field that will seek innovation with a solid engineering background.

Career Requirements

Students and individuals seeking a career in the field of Geotechnical Engineering can attain high goals possessing requirements such as:

Degree Requirement-  A bachelor degree, although some employers prefer a graduate degree in Civil Engineering.

Entry Level Work- A study about the basic structures is carried out at entry level before moving towards more detailed Geotechnical engineering. The candidate, after graduating, work with the CAD software to design and test structural models for construction purposes. The candidate also takes soil and rock samples to analyze and develop Geotechnical reports to receive construction specifications.

Gain Experience- As the new hired candidates gain experience, they are assigned more complex projects. As they gain expertise, they’ll become a lot of concerned in complicated comes. Geotechnical engineers might analyze specifications for bridges, develop support systems for tunnels and assess property problems for dams.

Attain a License-  All the firms need engineers to be authorized, whereas necessities vary by firms, licensure typically includes finishing associate degree, licensed engineer program, showing four years of documented work expertise and clearing a state examination.

Faculty graduates could contemplate taking a state – licensing examination on the basics of engineering. Those that pass the examination area unit are remarked as engineers-in-training (EITs).

Job Prospects in India

There is a vast demand for civil engineers in India and it’s conjointly expected to induce a lift because the country is now empowered to upgrade its infrastructure with an increase in economic and political clout within the world. The career opens plenty of opportunities across various government departments.

There square measures open equally smart opportunities within the personal sector for civil engineers. A significant gap for qualified civil engineers is additionally in the defense force wherever they will build important contribution to the protection of the country.

jobprospectsGeotechnical Engineering with CADD Centre

CADD Centre is offering a variety of certifications and courses under its various programs for Geotechnical Engineers to shine their career in the field of civil engineering and Geotechnical engineering. Courses are offered in various combinations as well as standalone versions of world’s most popular CAD/CAE software products such as AutoCAD, Revit Architecture, Revit  MEP, 3ds Max, etc.

CADD Centre’s Master diploma programs are offered with an addition course on concept in project management and planning. CADD Centre offers courses such as Master Diploma Program, Professional Program, Diploma Program as well as Standalone Versions.

CADD Centre also offers training and certifications for AutoCAD civil 3D software which is an engineering design and documentation solution which supporting Building Information and Modelling work flows. With all these civil engineering futures, there will and always been a greater need for a Geotechnical engineer. This is a field that will seek innovation with a solid engineering background.

MX Road is another program which candidates learn to build rapid and accurate designs for all types of roads. It is widely used by Civil and Geotechnical engineers and storm drainage/ water/ sewer system designers for accurate and specialized assistance across projects.

The CADD Centre helps candidate’s master features of Civil 3d which is one of the most important software solutions for Geotechnical Engineering purposes:

DESIGN
Design concepts are built for corridor designs, gravity pipe networks, pressure pipe networks, bridge  modelling, rail track  layout, etc.

ANALYSIS
For advanced mapping functionality, using dynamic model and developing civil design models and visualizations analyzing soil and rock formations.

DOCUMENTATION
These certifications not only master candidates in designing the structures for constructions or doing environment analysis, but also, they will master the art of proper formal documentation.

These certifications and courses will help candidates create professional structures, helping turn their ideas into an actual design. They help to produce detailed plans to aid obtain municipality approvals for subdivisions and land developments.

As a developing country, India has witnessed a rapid growth in the economy, and with this, the construction industry has brought cheers to youth seeking to build career in Civil and Geotechnical engineering making its infrastructure more vibrant.

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Look through feature set for Revit Architecture 2015

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Speclookifically built for Building Information Modelling (BIM), Revit empowers construction and design professionals to bring ideas from concept to construction with a coordinated and consistent model based approach. Revit Software delivers BIM tools for architectural design, MEP Engineering, Structural engineering and construction, enabling coordination between various disciplines.
All software tools and programs always have requests to improve to bridge efficiency or technical gaps. With Revit 2015, Autodesk took note on all the feedbacks and acted on those, making Revit a version the users will be pleased to have. Following are some of the significant changes Autodesk took to reform Revit 2015 for Architecture.

Visualization Improvements

Sketchy Lines- This is a most awaited feature of Revit 2015. Revit can now, in all views, replicate the effect of hand sketching. Users will be able to set the jitter and extension controls with simple clicks to soften the appearance of the Revit Model for situations where a subtler image is needed.

Anti-Aliasing- Revit 2015 has been improved to remove the jagged lines you always hated. The new Revit 2015 allows all the views to use this feature and this works in an amazing manner.

Family Parameter Improvement

Tooltips- Many times Rivet experts create complex families and define parameters that control these families. Unfortunately, most Revit users are not supervised by their BIM Managers helping them understand how or what each parameter is doing. With Revit 2015, users are now provided with notes on each parameter defining how it works and how it should be used.

Scheduling Improvements- Schedulers in Revit are powerful tools to manage, display and quantify Building Information with quality control elements in the model. Now users can directly import images into Revit Content using Image Type (Type Parameter) & Image (Instance Parameter). These parameters are useful for either loadable families like furniture, light fixtures etc. or system families such as floors, walls, ceilings, etc.

Usability Improvements

Multiple Trim/ Extend Selection-In the previous versions of Revit tool, made users select individual items to extend or trim while using Trim/ Extend tool. Revit 2015 now allows users to select all the elements using a window that needs to be extended.

With the previous versions of Revit, the task of drawing revision cloud was a work full of hassle with all the clicking required to place each arc segment. Revit 2015, now allows users to use the basic drawing tools, including lines, arcs, eclipses and rectangles to quickly define boundaries for the Revision Cloud.

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Tag Behavior- Users began to rely heavily on tagging elements as Revit experienced improvements in the past. The previous versions of Revit had a tedious method to tag elements, catering to that, Revit 2015 has introduced tag leaders that behave like text. The angled segment adjusts automatically while moving them in views to the tag’s placement.

These are some of the new improved feature sets that are incorporated in Revit 2015 keeping in mind the reviews and feedbacks and requests from the active Revit users. Hopefully these changes will greatly impact all Revit users making their workflow better.

Five ways to ensure that your corporate training initiatives are effective

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To fill up the competency gap towards building a productive workforce to meet global business challenges, companies now devote a lot of efforts, time and money to corporate training. But with less meaningful assessment and little follow-ups, 90% of the new skills were lost within 1 year, some researchers say.

According to experts, what happens before and after training program is as important as the actual instruction itself. Furthermore, effectiveness of the corporate training can be ensured by following:

Analyze your needs: The corporate first should analyze what their training needs are, simply by carrying out training needs analysis. This involves figuring out clearly who needs to be trained and what kind of training is required. A training program without a pre-analysis may not prove to be that effective as it was meant to be.

Focus on Design: The training design needs to be focused for the training – things you do before, during and after the training sessions. The design includes- which technology(s) will be used for training, how the organization will allow the employees to practice the skills and how engaging the learning will be. However the training should be job and result oriented i.e. the employee should not think after the training “So why did I go to the training. I won’t be able to use that in the next three years.”

Select proper guide: Choosing a proper guide for the training program plays a vital role in corporate training programs. The training party or professional should adhere to the following considerations before the company decides to offer training through them:

• Should be approved and authenticated by other organizations to ensure quality of training.
• Should understand day-to-day reality of the organization.
• Should be able to customize their content for the specific firm.

Follow Up: Experts from The Society of Training and Development says that by the time employees go back to their jobs, they’ve lost 90% of what they’ve learned in training. If they don’t use the skills very quickly, they will face big decay very quickly, hence the skills needs to be reinforced and practiced in order to retain the training they received.

Talk to employees: The perspectives and opinions of the employees can be extremely beneficial in shaping the training program making it more effective and company specific. A survey should be conducted at the end or at the later phases if the training to receive feedbacks on what worked and what didn’t.

CADD provides quality training services in a variety of dimensions. Having the biggest network of CAD Training Centres across Asia Pacific and Africa is a training arm of CADD Centre Group, we provide turnkey in-company skill building services and standardized quality development of the employees.

Need for Technical and Vocational Skill Development in Africa

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The term Technical and Vocational skills Development follow the 1997 UNESCO International Standard Classification of Education definition, which is education and training to “acquire the practical skills, know-how and understanding necessary for employment in a particular occupation, trade or group of occupations or trades.” Africa has roughly 200 million people aged between 15 and 24 that are required to be trained to develop skills so that they are either employable or can start their own enterprises. In order to train and modernize their technical labour pool for rapid industrialization and national development, African countries need to embrace Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). The skills shortage is a priority that the Africa’s leadership in various sectors will need to address urgently, otherwise the country would be forced to ease restrictions for foreign workers to be able to meet the human resource requirements. Education and skills can open doors for economically and socially rewarding jobs and can seek growth for small-scale unofficial enterprise. The development of job-related skills therefore, should be a part of Africa’s human resource strategies and its poverty-reduction strategies.

 

Characteristics of Technical and Vocational skills Development systems:

TVET delivery systems are placed to train the skilled and efficient entrepreneurs that Africa needs to create wealth and thus emerge out of poverty. It can respond, not only to the requirements of different types of industries, but also caters to the needs of the learners from different sections of the society, and prepare them for a meaningful and supportable life while giving them employment.

 

The Impact of Technical and Vocational Training in Africa at present:

With the turn of the century, a fresh awareness of the analytical role played by TVET in economic growth and national development has been perceived by policy makers in many African countries and within the international contributing community. In its poverty reduction strategy document, Cameroon for example intends to develop vocational and professional training to promote union into the labour market; Cote d’Ivoire talks about strengthening vocational training; Ghana has associated vocational education and training with education of the youth and the development of technical and business management skills; Lesotho and Rwanda focus on linking TVET to businesses while Malawi emphasizes that it is required to promote self-employment through skills development. Other countries that have prioritized TVET initiatives in their national development policy documents including Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. Below is a graph showing the decrease in unemployment rate from January, 2014 to January,2015 from the data collected by Federal Reserve Bank.

The Education minister of Rwanda in Africa, Musafiri stated that expanding the training for technical and vocational skills development will bring innovative solutions to various challenges in the country which is its top priority requirement. The growing youth population of Africa comes with high energy, creativity and talents and the time has come to be able to utilize it by the development of their technical and vocational skills.

How Employability skills are essential for African Youth

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Need for Employability Skills for African Youth:

“Employability Skills can be defined as the transferable skills needed by an individual to make them ’employable’.” The future economic growth of any nation is determined by the potential skills of its youth, and not by its capital or material resources. In Africa, the number of highly qualified, skilled yet unemployed youth is increasing to one of the greatest populations in the world. “The current trend indicates that this figure will double by 2045”, according to the 2012 African Economic Outlook report prepared by experts from the African Development Bank (AfDB), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the industrialized countries’ Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), among others. The Youth accounts for 60% of all Africans that are unemployed, according to the World Bank. In North Africa, the youth unemployment rate is 30% which is even worse in Botswana, the Republic of the Congo, Senegal, South Africa and several other countries. South Africa has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world (29.8 percent) approximating to roughly 4.5 million unemployed people, of whom the majorities are young people (Census 2011). According to the African Economic Outlook, “on average, more than 70% of Africa’s youth live on less than US$2 per day, the internationally defined poverty threshold.” Despite the complex and unclear relationship between education and employment, post-basic education in employment skills development programs have been identified as potential solutions for the African youth that is facing employability challenges. If youth skills are accessed with the purpose of empowerment, the youth would be able discover new domains while getting employment. CADD Centre is the prime solution provider for the industries in Africa giving them a strong base to be able to compete in the global marketplace. This results in the development of the economy of Africa as well as employability skills in individuals.

Impact of Employability Skills in African Youth:

They are extremely important as jobs today require individuals to undertake multiple tasks at once and these skills develop broader range of job-specific competencies in individuals. Education and skills can open doors for economically and socially rewarding jobs and can seek growth for small-scale unofficial enterprise. With the establishment of various government entities and SETAs, the opportunities of youth employability have been improved through their skills development process .Youth employment challenges will be handled and economic growth will be promoted through the construction of these skills. Thus, it is imperative to teach youth employability skills in order for them to sustain and progress in an information economy and thus eradicate unemployment and poverty.

Since drafting is not a preferred job by other elite countries, it gives them ample scope to get into professional career. In the words of Zambia’s Prime Minister, “Youth unemployment is a ticking time bomb,” which now appears to be perilously close to exploding thus Africa’s education curricula should include skills and enterprise development.