Nicholas BowickinCoinmonksA Systems Engineer’s Guide to… BitcoinI’m a Systems Engineer. I work on multi-billion dollar aerospace and infrastructure programmes. At that scale, we’re thinking about broad…Feb 24, 2022Feb 24, 2022
Nicholas BowickA Systems Engineer’s Guide to… The BlockchainI’m a Systems Engineer. Not the software type. The hardware type. Planes, trains and automobiles. The Michael Saylor type.Feb 20, 2022Feb 20, 2022
Nicholas BowickHow can Scotland’s railway adapt to a post-COVID world? Our history might have the answers…I returned home for lockdown for precisely the same reason I left — because nothing ever happens round here. Like many rural areas of the…Jul 1, 2020Jul 1, 2020
Nicholas BowickHow cognitive bias can sink your engineering projectsBillions overspent. Years behind schedule. Furious customers, angry politicians, dramatic resignations.Dec 17, 2018Dec 17, 2018
Nicholas BowickGuys, guys! I think the skills shortage might be an illusion…If you stand in front of a mirror and whisper “Java experience” three times, someone from Accenture will appear in a puff of smoke and…Sep 9, 2018Sep 9, 2018
Nicholas BowickPinching pennies on Systems Engineering? Here’s what it’ll cost you…One of the issues that we encounter in the Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) team is quantifying the value of an industry systems…Jul 23, 2018Jul 23, 2018
Nicholas BowickRobots aren’t going to take your job — trust me, I’m half robot alreadyRepent, repent! The robot revolution has arrived. You arrive at work on Monday to find that you’ve been replaced by a Terminator. It’s done…Apr 23, 2018Apr 23, 2018
Nicholas BowickHow to fix mental health in engineering (starting with myself)As a chartered engineer, I pride myself on cold, robotic logic and an ability to recite pi to fifty decimal places. But my cybernetic brain…Jan 28, 20181Jan 28, 20181
Nicholas BowickMcGonagall — Scotland’s other poetIt’s nearly Burns night, the date that Scotland celebrates our national poet, Rabbie Burns. However, for the last few years I’ve insisted…Jan 18, 2018Jan 18, 2018
Nicholas BowickWill driverless vehicles make trains redundant?I don’t know when I suddenly felt qualified to comment the future of my industry, but thought I’d give it a punt.Nov 25, 2017Nov 25, 2017
