Stirring response

15 July 2008

You are always banging on about 'sexing up' engineering to attract more young people to the profession.

So why do you insist on including letters such as 'Causing a stir' (Talking Point, 30 June) which dealt with the most effective method of making coffee? It does nothing but reinforce the engineer stereotype that we are all nerdy, badly-dressed, socially inept dweebs who would rather spend all weekend updating the software on our PCs than actually getting out more.

I can picture the stirring expert mentioned in the letter now — and it's not a pretty sight.

Ian Brixey

Aeronautical & General Instruments

Poole, Dorset



Thank you for your observations, but we felt that the letter, far from demeaning engineers, raised a valid issue in a lighthearted way. It was published in the same spirit as all readers' letters included on these pages — editor