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PROFILE : My journey to Professional Registration - Innocent Gininda

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Innocent Gininda shares his journey to becoming a registered Professional Engineer (PrEng), emphasizing the importance of mentorship, early preparation, and understanding ECSA requirements. He offers advice to aspiring PrEngs, highlighting the value of diverse feedback and a positive mindset. My journey to becoming a registered Professional Engineer (PrEng) culminated successfully in November 2024. I was fortunate to begin my career at a company with a Commitment and Undertaking (C&U) Agreement with ECSA and a robust mentorship program. This commitment to training engineers to the standard required for Professional Registration provided me with essential resources and a structured path to track my experience against ECSA requirements. Early exposure to these expectations instilled a positive outlook on registration and solidified my desire to achieve this milestone. My views on Professional Registration have remained consistently positive throughout this journey. Working alongside ...
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NEWS: World’s first 3D-printed steel bridge opens

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The world’s first 3D printed steel bridge has opened to the public in Amsterdam.


The pedestrian bridge is a result of a multi-disciplinary team of experts collaborating on the future design of public spaces.

It was printed by robotic arms and equipped with an innovative sensor network, linked to a digital twin computer model that monitors its performance in real-time.

This means that everyone who walks, runs, or cycles over the bridge will generate data, which will help to monitor the bridge’s structure and provide information about how it’s being used.

As a new material, safety is crucial. The in-built sensors will constantly gather data on strain, displacement, vibration, air quality and temperature.


This data will be used to create the digital twin of the bridge, which can then predict how the structure will behave as the bridge is used. This will allow maintenance needs to be highlighted at the earliest opportunity, and also help engineers understand how 3D printed steel might be used for larger scale and more complex building projects.

The Alan Turing Institute’s data-centric engineering (DCE) programme has been integral to the bridge’s development, with researchers undertaking the materials testing and designing the digital twin, incorporating Autodesk’s software.

They have teamed up with 3D printing company MX3D and Joris Laarman Labs, which designed and built the bridge.

DCE programme director Mark Girolami the team is “incredibly excited” about the project.

“Not only is it a stunning design, but with the sensors inbuilt into the fabric of the bridge it is also pioneering ground-breaking digital twin technologies,” he said.

“It is a significant step towards making huge changes to how we think about and improve the engineered world and our built environment. It is fantastic to see the project coming to life and the public engaging with it.”

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