Recommendations for Professional Development Courses

dirtychinchilla · 22 May 2017 at 16:06

Hi all,

I was just hoping that you might be able to give me some suggestions as per the title. Work are offering to send me on any courses that I might want to development me professionally, and I've had ages to think about it but really have no ideas.

To give you some perspective, I have a BEng degree and Prince2 Practitioner qualification. I work in the building services industry, HVAC specifically, and I do a few different things - CAD and BIM, excel programming, and then handling projects from inquiry stage all the way to delivery. These are typically small scale projects, so Prince2 hasn't helped me much here. I think I'm heading towards a more managerial position in the company's mind, which sounds good to me.

I literally have no ideas though! So if you do have any I'd really appreciate hearing them.

Thanks in advance,

dirtychinchilla

dirtychinchilla · 24 May 2017 at 10:50

Hmm OK, thanks for the suggestion. The worry I have is that what I do I don't think is genuinely engineering. How do you build up to that? I was a member of IET, but then changed it to IED...but at the end of the day I'm not sure that mattered. Anyway, I gave up my membership as I didn't want to pay for it!

dirtychinchilla · 24 May 2017 at 15:21

Did we go to uni together?!?! I went to Leeds. Bloody Matlab. I will never use that I'm afraid.

dirtychinchilla · 24 May 2017 at 15:29

Did you?! Doing what? How do you know it's me?

dirtychinchilla · 24 May 2017 at 15:46

Scotty123 said:
The Matlab and Labview stuff. Because you told me when we played Minecraft together on the OCUK server of course!

Oh yeah, I vaguely remember now! Sorry!! That server was amazing, Matlab was not.

dowie said:
I don't understand the hate for Matlab, might get overtaken by Julia in future but at the moment it is pretty awesome.

I just don't have any need to use it.