Lack of real "Design" work.

[PJW]

Don't disagree. A fiurther twist which I know well when i last got my design licence is that you actually DON'T need to have done much design; the CACs seem far more focussed with the procedures for managing change, determining what to do when there is an error etc etc than actually the design per se. Whereas all the ancilliary is important, it was galling to have saved a box full of what I thought were good examples of the range of designing I had done, only to find that when compiling the evidence folder it was my email archive that was far more valuable resource for the evidence that was actually needed!

I'm heading towards my design license (Hopefully late 2013) and while I'm confident i can obtain this license, others i work with are not.

Point blank the reason is design work being out sourced to other countries. Why is this a problem?

Here in England the work more often on big contracts is sent to India or other such places in order to cut costs, which means people in the UK only get to review the designs.

This of course makes doing real "Design" work impossible.
Making the criteria you have to meet very hard to do.

To achieve getting your license here in the UK becomes very tough, with people hoping and fighting for scraps of work. While you may have one or two designs to your name, this seems to not be enough.

Without being able to do hands on designs, the ability to learn and achieve becomes both frustrating and upsetting.

Will this continue into the future. I wonder.

I would like to hear some peoples views on this. Maybe just to spark some conversation about the future of signal designers, something that was discussed at the last IRSE event in Manchester.

Regards
Grem