National precision jargon specialist

Learn to be a national pre­ci­sion engi­neer­ing spe­cial­ist whereby you will be able to throw water pre­cisely at the back of your own head. While running.

The ZoCard I found said, “Join a new breed of tech­nol­o­gists get­ting our hearts pump­ing. Pre­ci­sion Engi­neer­ing — it’s not just your life you’ll redefine”.

I didn’t get it, so I went to the SPETA web­site and found out that this Pre­ci­sion Engi­neer­ing Spe­cial­ist Pro­gramme is an ini­tia­tive of EDB, WDA, Spring Sin­ga­pore and SPETA. SPETA, in their own words, “are a non-profit trade asso­ci­a­tion rep­re­sent­ing locally reg­is­tered com­pa­nies engaged in the man­u­fac­tur­ing of moulds & dies, jigs & fix­tures, metal stamp­ing, metal cast­ings, plas­tic and rub­ber mold­ings, pre­ci­sion machin­ing, pho­tonic and semi-conductor equip­ment, aero­space and auto­mo­tive parts, as well as in pro­vid­ing ser­vices related to the pre­ci­sion engi­neer­ing industry.”

They also write very long sentences.

They also say of the “PE Man­power Ini­tia­tive”, which is what the ZoCard was about, “is a struc­tured in-employment upgrad­ing pro­gramme whereby the Sin­ga­pore Gov­ern­ment and indus­try jointly pro­vide spe­cial upgrad­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for engi­neer­ing can­di­dates in employ­ment through part-time PE spe­cific diploma or equiv­a­lent means.”

The civil service-esque use of “whereby” makes it a lot clearer though, doesn’t it?

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