About Engineer-it

Timeline

July/August 2020

Sponsored by the Institution of Structural Engineers and the Instution of Engineers in Scotland (IES) , undergraduate civil engineering students at Glasgow University, Amy Lillico and Ann-Cathirn Reismann worked with Iain MacLeod of IES in the development of a prototype information resource for structural mechanics. The outocme was Stempedia. This was developed initially to support the structural mechanics component of the SQA HIgher Science subject but is also relevant to a first year Statics subject in a unversity currciulum more.

The software platform for Stempedia is a Wordpress template that was adequate for testing of ideas but was not suitable for a well structured information resource.

November 2020

Lina Guermache, an undergraduate student in Civil Engineering at Glasgow University tested the suitability of MediaWiki as the software platform. (MediaWiki is the free software platform used by Wikipedia). He set up a limited version of Stempedia usng MediaWiki on his own hosting system.

January 2021

A decision was made to adopt MediaWiki as the software platform and change the name of the resource to Engineer-it.

February 2021

The version of the resource developed by Liam Guermache was transferred to eit.engineers.scot and the name was changed. It was decided to have the resource organised into chapters, each chapter being the responibility of a group. The intital chapters will be titled:

1. Structural engineeirg

The experience with Stempedia showed that in order to demontrate the role of structural mechanics in the design of structures it was necessary to provide a wider range of information.

2. Strategies for egineered solutions

This will provide information on topics such as Critical thinking, Leadership, Communication, etc.