Which way did you go when you graduated?

manufacturing here

10/31/2008 9:41:33 AM

engrineers

Manufacturing.

10/31/2008 10:06:49 AM

design

10/31/2008 10:20:13 AM

design

10/31/2008 10:38:05 AM

are these really the only options?

i guess design

10/31/2008 10:40:54 AM

more design... but not really. I am a product engineer

10/31/2008 11:12:15 AM

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"are these really the only options? i guess design "

10/31/2008 11:30:56 AM

design, with the intent to go to manufacturing when i get some time under my belt

10/31/2008 11:39:01 AM

Design. But my job deals more with analysis.

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10/31/2008 11:42:02 AM

does sales count?

10/31/2008 11:42:29 AM

i guess working in power generation counts as manufacturing?

10/31/2008 11:54:16 AM

engrish

10/31/2008 12:05:45 PM

what category does structural engineering fall into? I make sure buildings stand up - I guess thats design?

10/31/2008 12:34:39 PM

^erectionist

10/31/2008 12:52:29 PM

design

10/31/2008 12:55:18 PM

Design...but we do construction too...Civil is hard to make this call.

10/31/2008 1:09:33 PM

manufacturing field..
Application Engineer... kinda sales

10/31/2008 1:15:10 PM

first jerb...project engineering with some design, lots of project management.
this jerb...inside sales engineer (mostly sales to dealers, independent factory reps)...basically dealing with custom tailoring applications to end user's requirements and quoting prices accordingly.

10/31/2008 1:32:59 PM

so dan, you take the specs from the customers and give them to the engineers.

10/31/2008 1:57:32 PM

HAHAH

10/31/2008 2:07:55 PM

Actually, I am one of the engineers. We've got inside sales engineers, the boss, and draftsmen.

Means I don't touch AutoCAD hardly. I do spec out the job based on requirements and spend time contacting vendors for specialty items AND deal with over-the-phone troubleshooting and questions from our reps and end users.

And if anything needs design work, I have input on that as well.

10/31/2008 2:08:31 PM

manufacturing

10/31/2008 4:22:13 PM

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"are these really the only options? i guess design "

10/31/2008 4:32:11 PM

I'm the design/construction POLICE (commissioning)


ohh yeah and i do some design too.

10/31/2008 4:41:03 PM

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"AND deal with over-the-phone troubleshooting and questions from our reps and end users."

sounds like a pain the the ass.

10/31/2008 5:25:06 PM

1st job (right out of school) - manufacturing
2nd job - design/research and development
3rd job - project management

i absolutely hate manufacturing. I really want to get back into research and development, but those jobs are hard to come by.

10/31/2008 5:51:41 PM

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"are these really the only options?"

ehh testing/machining/designing/autocad. Thankfully we've just hired a machinist with some actuator and valve experience.

10/31/2008 6:46:18 PM

I worked in manufacturing when I was in school. Now I help design the manufacturing plant.

10/31/2008 6:49:57 PM

Neither.



My engineering knowledge hasn't been necessary, but it does come in handy sometimes.

10/31/2008 7:26:06 PM

grad school

10/31/2008 7:36:39 PM

grad school

10/31/2008 8:16:32 PM

design engineer somehow without a masters degree. probably the only one on staff

10/31/2008 8:20:08 PM

wow, bunch of nerds here

i'm in mechanical reliability and love it especially if i have to fill in for a maintenance foreman and get that extra $340 a week

most of the time though, its failure analysis, vibration analysis/predictive maintenance, scheduling preventative maintenance and oiling routes, updating drawings and BOMs, and trying to reduce redundant and obsolete parts from the storeroom where we have about $30 million in working capital tied up right now

all this to get ready for our $380 million worth of expansion projects next year, #5 woodyard, new 4.5MM#/hr solids recovery boiler, continuous digesters, and pm drive upgrades

a lot of people overlook the maintenance side of things, but there is a lot of need and its easy to move up fast, not to mention it pays damn good

10/31/2008 10:49:44 PM

^Your company needs my company's products. I can configure a deaerator system, blowdown tank, and boiler feed pumps, as well as condensate recovery shit and the like. We also do some controls as well. I just worked up a proposal for a DA system for Boeing in Seattle to handle condensate recovery, water deaeration, and variable speed boiler feed pumps with discharge pressure feedback and PLC control. Allen-Bradley CompactLogix with PanelView Plus 1000 touchscreen HMI. But that was only about a quarter of a million. We don't actually do the boilers themselves...but I'd like to get to where I worked on boiler design and sales.

10/31/2008 11:07:32 PM

^^what mill do you work for? I do consulting for pulp and paper clients and others

11/1/2008 7:54:04 AM

manufacturing (quality control) Design co-op, Design, Design, Design, Grad School, Design Intern, Finishing Grad School, Design.

Manufacturing SUCKED b/c I was running around ALL day long in order to keep up with the lines... A lot of people complain about staring at a computer all day long for design... I see it as free internet access all day long and a being enabled to build stuff.

11/1/2008 10:31:00 AM

Manufacturing engineers have to design stuff all the time, at least, where I work they do. All of our automation robots, machine improvements (cnc and automatic hydraulic machining centers), custom cutting tools, and machining processes are all designed by manufacturing engineers. The design engineers just give us the print of the part they want x number of (I know plenty of stuff goes behind that too, but that's not my point).

11/1/2008 11:05:06 AM

Design engineer at a major oil and gas company. I help in designing major oil, natural gas, and LNG facilities (on-shore and off-shore). The major oil companies contract out all of the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction. So my job is more project management than actual designing.

11/1/2008 10:11:50 PM

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"Boeing "

we've quoted so much shit for them and they never order anything no matter how interested they act. primarily we've quoted automated systems for painting their planes. just a heads up..maybe it works out better for you, but every time we got our hopes up they never would cut us a PO

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11/1/2008 10:18:33 PM

I'm looking for a design job... but I ain't graduated yet.

11/2/2008 8:01:28 PM

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"We don't actually do the boilers themselves...but I'd like to get to where I worked on boiler design and sales."

I have some contacts down at the charlotte regional office for babcock and wilcox if you're interested, they are still hiring, they made me a damn good offer last year.


Our new one is gonna be a combustion engineering, b&w is overcommited to nuclear right now.

11/3/2008 10:19:27 AM

Design.

11/3/2008 10:43:58 AM

Construction (Project Management)

11/3/2008 4:36:09 PM

I was hesitant at first but I really enjoy my job that is in the manufacturing side of engineering. Every day is a new challenge or a new problem. I get to manage not just project money but also trade resources and lead production workers (indirectly).

Get to mess with big machines worth millions of dollars and can kill people haha!

Perhaps i didn't get the full expierence of design in my co-ops but so far i have liked the former thus far much better. Best of all I do not have to spend my whole day looking at a computer or sitting in a office.

Although I do think i ended up in one of the better "manufacturing teams" and being the only electrical in a process/chemical focused part of the fiber optic glass making process puts me in a unique position.

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11/3/2008 5:05:32 PM

manufacturing

11/3/2008 5:51:12 PM

Design yo

11/3/2008 11:10:25 PM

http://www.wareinc.com/making_steam

I ain't too sure how to embed this...

11/4/2008 12:58:00 AM

making cleveland steamers?


cmon dan, this is the lounge

11/4/2008 6:50:48 AM

Making Steam

11/4/2008 9:39:24 AM

I do delivery point (substation) coordination so I guess design

11/4/2008 10:02:26 AM