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askengineers_train
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"content": "I graduated from mechanical engineering, female, top of my class, resigned my first job after graduating due to mistreatment. Like you, I suffered a lot in school, I’ve always struggled with mental health and being a smartass cute female engineer that draws a lot of attention and also suffers anxiety, depression, panic attacks and you know what (s.a), just made everything worse, like you, I spoke up, they laughed at my face but I decided to go on, worst decision ever, I broke when I decided I had enough from all those mistreatments I didn’t deserve, chose another path, and to be an entrepreneur, seriously, I don’t care about what anyone says and thinks, we need so much less than societal expectations and contexts make it seem, I just want to be alive and well, but I’m still figuring that out. Be blessed, you’re alive, and you have a right to keep your dignity and only choose environment where they appreciate you. Don’t worry about taking a different path, it all can take an unexpected turn anyway. Focus on your purpose, you did it for a reason, what was your reason? What do you want to leave behind? What is your contribution to society? It doesn’t have to be anything else than what you decide. Being satisfied with your life is on the top list of the most important contributions you can make. Hope you get out of the brain fog.",
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"content": "Feeling Conflicted after Leaving Electrical Engineering Hi all! I graduated 4 years ago with a BS in Electrical Engineering. The schooling was rigorous and I hated the pressure I was under. But I kept going and graduated. I'm a female, and throughout my schooling and internships, I had a fair deal of sexism and aggression. It got so bad that I had to go to HR of the companies I interned at, and the dean of my college. I thought I'd be okay after I graduated, but alas, here I am. I started a new job almost 2 years ago at an engineering firm. After leading many projects and receiving a lot of praise from higher ups about my performance, I was initially turned away from a promotion due to \"company policy\" that I couldn't receive a promotion either a year. Alright. Whatever. I enjoyed my job, but didn't enjoy the stress, so some extra money would have been nice. I find out later that the 2 fresh out of college male engineers all got promotions in under a year, despite them being behind on projects. I was livid. I've already had so many negative experiences in engineering, I was at my breaking point. I was treated differently, given unfair expectations, and overall was dismissed or had my own projects explained to me (I could write a whole other post about just this). So I left and transitioned to Data Analytics and Data Science. But now I'm not an engineer, something I've been doing and working towards for most of my life. I don't even know where to go from here because I feel conflicted thst I left, and that I let down all of the women who will come after me because I gave up. I've been in Data Analytics for a month now and kinda like it, but I'm having an identity crisis and don't even know what to do with myself anymore. Has anyone here transitioned out of engineering due to the environment? Just looking for any advice, because I feel so conflicted. Thanks.",
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l67wgo
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askengineers_train
| 3.617647 |
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"content": "I didn’t have internship experience, took me a year to find a job. I think with covid it will be a lot worse. I have a few friends with MS degrees and 4.0 GPAs and they didn’t find jobs yet with the pandemic. Even if you had an internship it will still be difficult finding a job. OP, I would highly suggest applying everywhere in the US (if you are in the US). I know of two positions in my company that were not filled because the individuals who were accepted denied the offer because of the job location. After you land your first job in the engineering realm you will then be able to go just about anywhere I think.",
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"content": "How terrible would graduation without internship/experience be? Hello all. I am in the second half of my 4th year (will graduate at the end of my 5th). I am in Electrical Engineering. ​ Thus far, I have not had an internship. I didn't have my license my Sophomore year (I hated driving as a teen so I was a late bloomer receiving it), so didn't have a way to drive myself to one. The end of my Junior year is when Covid became huge here and a lot of workers were getting furlouged; many companies canceled their internships, so there were very few positions available. That really threw a wrench in my plans. Now I'm at the end of my \"Senior\" year (again, I have one more year to go) and am applying around but honestly, I'm not sure what my chances will be. My GPA is a pretty steady \\~3.0, which I know isn't the highest, and my part time jobs have not really been engineering-oriented. ​ If I don't land an internship this summer, how badly will the affect my chances of finding a job post-graduation?",
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"content": "In my opinion, the difference between a bad intern and a good intern is this: a bad intern asks their coworkers \"I'm stuck, what do I do?\" whereas a good intern says \"I'm stuck, I already tried X, Y, and Z and they didn't work, what should I try next?\" It's hard to say from your description which type of intern you were. Look back at your experience and think about how you reacted to problems you encountered. Did you immediately run to your coworker/supervisor for help, or did you spend some time trying to figure it out yourself and only ask for help when you'd exhausted other options? Also, did you improve over time? Were you asking for help less at the end of your internship then at the beginning? These things will tell you where whether you need to make some improvements or if your employer just had unrealistic expectations.",
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"content": "Got some harsh feedback from my manager, seeking advice Hi guys, I'm a senior in college majoring in EE. I was working at an internship at a pretty big company over the summer. Almost everyone in my team had a Master's and 10+ years of experience vs me who was experiencing their first time in the industry. I did think my project was way out of my knowledge level but I did think I was learning a lot over the summer. My manager and team essentially gave me feedback that they really enjoyed working with me and that I have the eagerness to learn but I constantly needed their help and don't have much technical prowess and they can't do much hand-holding. Idk, is this not how internships were supposed to be like? It just took a major hit on my confidence and he also said I wouldn't be getting a return offer after graduating. I told him that I would be open to other positions in the company that need less experience, and he told me that other ppl have been asking about me but he has to be honest and mention my weaknesses. While I do agree with him that I did lack a bit of fundamental knowledge but am I being judged a little too hard for this? I've been doing well in school but the industry design game was wayyy more complicated than anything i've seen in school? I am glad he gave me the feedback because its important I knew but how do I be better in the industry? I want to use this as motivation and improve my skills. Seeking advice and others opinions, and how to get my confidence back lol? Sorry for being a bit over the place. Thanks!",
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kpwftg
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askengineers_train
| 5 |
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"content": "I tried... quit on a Thursday, came back well rested from a long weekend on Tuesday with a 26% raise.",
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"content": "Did you leave your engineering career because it was too stressful or not rewarding?",
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askengineers_train
| 3.142857 |
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"content": "Shared spaces wherever possible. Putting more responsibility on drivers and pedestrians, though counter-intuitive, is actually more likely to increase general safety and decrease wasted time. A lot of problems that arise in most traffic systems is an unspoken reliance on the system itself to mitigate hazards and dangers, and these almost invariably lead to more start-up losses and other time detractors. I could write a lot more, but I don't have time right now. It's a fucking brilliant solution. There's a great short documentary on a couple shared spaces in Bristol, UK and somewhere in Sweden, but I can't find it right now. An excerpt on its philosophy from the wiki page: > The goal of shared space is to improve the road safety and vitality of minor roads and junctions within the street hierarchy, particularly ones with high levels of pedestrian traffic by encouraging negotiation of shared areas between different road users. Shared space minimises demarcations between vehicles and pedestrians thereby, according to some authorities including the UK Government, reduces the dominance of motor vehicles and enable all users to share the space. In work done for the UK Department for Transport MVA (2010) explains that shared space is a \"design approach rather than a design type characterised by standard features\". > Hans Monderman suggests that an individuals' behaviour in traffic is more positively affected by the built environment of the public space than by conventional traffic control devices and regulations. > A reason for the apparent paradox that reduced regulation leads to safer roads may be found by studying the risk compensation effect. > * \"Shared space is successful because the perception of risk may be a means or even a prerequisite for increasing objective safety. Because when a situation feels unsafe, people are more alert and there are fewer accidents.\" > * \"We're losing our capacity for socially responsible behaviour...The greater the number of prescriptions, the more people's sense of personal responsibility dwindles.\" (Der Spiegel quotes Monderman) > * \"When you don't exactly know who has right of way, you tend to seek eye contact with other road users. You automatically reduce your speed, you have contact with other people and you take greater care.\" > * \"To understand how shared space works, it is important to move away from reliance on 'rights' and laws, and to recognize the potential for conventions and protocols ... Such conventions and protocols evolve rapidly and are very effective if the state does not intervene through regulation.\" (Shared Space Expert Team) > The introduction of such schemes have had positive effect on road safety, traffic volume, economic vitality, and community cohesion where a user's behaviour becomes influenced and controlled by natural human interactions rather than by artificial regulation. Every single locale that has implemented shared space has seen an often drastic decline in the number of fatalities, casualties, and accidents.",
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"content": "Traffic engineers of Reddit, how would you redesign the highways, streets, and other infrastructure of your city? Say that you have the chance to redesign the transportation infrastructure of your city from scratch. Would you re-route highways away from downtown? Add more turn lanes? Have fewer intersections? How would you do it?",
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l3n6vr
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askengineers_train
| 5.272727 |
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"content": "110k, ME, PE, 7yrs, HVAC, central FL",
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"content": "Would anyone like to share their salary and to help others negotiate for more? Discussing wages is the best way to empower employees to argue for more. If you could share your salary, discipline, years of experience, industry, and rough location it would help inform others too. I’ll start: $89,000/yr, ME, ~5 years, electric utility, Central Florida, USA. I’d love to see this become a regular topic, but I’m genuinely curious to see where other users are at.",
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rpo7yh
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askengineers_train
| 3 |
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"content": "I kind of like physics and astronomy more but engineering and especially software engg is a much more rewarding career financially and you get to see the impact first hand, which is satisfying.",
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"content": "What made you interested in Engineering?",
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dzmt2v
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askengineers_train
| 6.333333 |
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"content": "You pay how much for an ambulance ride???????",
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"content": "Need a security clearance for my first job out of school, will my credit prevent me from getting it? My credit score is about 600, and I have about $3,400 in collections from an ambulance ride and hospital visit before I had health insurance. This was about 4 years ago. Will this affect my ability to get a clearance? Everything else I have is on time student loans and credit cards that were paid on time, which I assume won’t be a problem. The job requires a secret clearance.",
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sovr9x
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askengineers_train
| 4 |
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"content": "It starts quite formal but then all of a sudden it's a year later and you answer the phone, \"hey big dog what's up\"",
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"content": "How do you address your manager/supervisor on a call as an incoming intern? I am conflicted in how to address one’s manager/supervisor, basically the person that your position reports to. I’m starting a new internship this summer and i have a call scheduled with my manager and I don’t know how to address him. Should I go first name , Mr. last name or sir or not mention his name at all.",
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z56v69
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askengineers_train
| 6.75 |
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"content": "We upgraded to windows 10 for everything for this very reason. Anything not supported is disconnected from the internet.",
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"content": "Is it true that majority of the industrial/laboratory etc computers use Windows XP? If yes, then doesn't it pose a major risk since it stopped getting security updates and general tech support from Microsoft quite a while ago? Also, when are they expected to update their operating systems? Do you forecast that they'll be using XP in 2030 or 2050? And when they update, will they update to Windows Vista/7 or the latest Windows version available at the time?",
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gl7pa6
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askengineers_train
| 4.722222 |
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"content": "Do they still have the accelerated Masters program? I graduated from UF in 2014 with dual degrees in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. My mechanical degree hasn’t made much difference as far as I can tell. I wish I had participated in their accelerated Masters instead.",
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"content": "Is it worth it to stay an extra semester and add a mechanical degree to my aerospace engineering education? Hey r/AskEngineers! I’m an aerospace engineering student at the University of Florida. I’m about to enter my junior year of study (scheduled to graduate in Spring of 2022) and I’ve got a quick question: Is it worth it to stay an extra semester, take 3-4 extra classes, and graduate with a mechanical degree as well? I would have to stay in college a few months longer which delays a possible paycheck and adds to my student debt (even though I have a scholarship for tuition). However, staying an extra semester gives me two summers before I graduate which gives me a little more breathing room to get an internship and possibly study abroad if I get the chance. Add on top of this that I haven’t found exactly what I’m passionate about and it leaves me in a bit of a conundrum. Will the benefits outweigh the costs (to the best of your knowledge)? Will having both degrees make me look more desirable to employers or will it be negligible? And will having both degrees increase the amount of jobs available to me? Thanks for answering my questions!",
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mhwo8m
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askengineers_train
| 4.5 |
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"content": "My best advice: Wait a year. Now is not a good time to get into teaching. It’s something you might love, but current circumstances have taken away most of what is enjoyable about the job. After next year, hopefully, once schools have found their stride after going through a major pandemic and handling major losses in learning, it might be fun again. I can’t even imagine being a first year teacher right now. Pure misery without any of the reward, I’m sure.",
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"content": "Has anyone here left engineering to teach? Has anyone here left engineering to teach? If so, what grade level and subject did you teach? Also what made you leave to teach and do you regret leaving the field of engineering? I’m considering this career path myself and I want to hear from others if they’ve already had this experience.",
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"content": "I (male) work at a small structural consulting firm with four PEs. One of those PEs is a female. We certainly don't treat her any differently than any of the males. I'm sure it depends heavily on where you go to work, but I would imagine you'll have a good idea what the company \"feel\" is like during the interview process. Don't forget that you're interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you. Good thinking with the master's in structural. I learned easily twice the amount of practical structural information in my master's as I did in my bachelors. Good Luck!",
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"content": "Female civil engineers, how would you describe your first job experience? I'm a female civil engineering student and in about a month I will be getting my Bachelor's degree and will start looking for a job (to gain experience), as I will continue with my Master's studies. I wanted to know from other female engineers, how hard was it for you to find your first job? How did you like it? Was it hard? What were you doing at first? How was your relationship with other engineers, especially men? Did they make fun of you at work or did they appreciate your thoughts&your work? I'm really exited to start looking for a job but I'm also terrified of how other engineers are going to treat me. I don't want them to make fun of me or laugh at me because of my lack of experience, or even worse, to judge me because I have chosen \"a male's profession\" to be my profesion.",
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askengineers_train
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"content": "Yeah, start looking ASAP. Your job has more red flags than a Soviet military parade. You can omit your current job on your resume.",
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"content": "Is it normal to start looking for new jobs less than a month after starting one? Hello everyone. You'd is gonna be a long one so bear with me.. I recently accepted an offer for my first full-time position after graduating (BSME) and boy did I make a mistake. Now I won't say there were no red flags during the interviews, but I thought hey anything is better than the $18/hr you were making. Their offer included no vacation time for the first year, and they wanted me to start almost immediately. During my first day I found some stuff which belonged to the guy who worked there before me, and after digging deeper it turns out that he quit on the spot almost 3 months after working there (without even having a job lined up!!!) so it seems like he was pretty fed up. I thought you myself well hey, shit happens and that doesn't mean that you'll end up in his shoes. But boy was I wrong. I got no formal training at all. My boss (who runs my department which is basically me and one other guy with ~5 years experience) works from home 3 days a week and even when I get to see him he NEVER answers my questions. He just smirks and answers my question with another question and that's it. The only upside is my coworker who helps me whenever I need him, but even he's flying out next week for some field work with the company and won't be available. The final straw was today when he emailed me something to do and just left me hanging. My coworker was in a meeting so I went to ask my boss to elaborate on some stuff in his email and he ended up smirking, laughing and politely telling me that I'm an idiot. Luckily my coworker had finished his meeting and he helped me for a while before I got stuck again on a part which they don't manufacture and don't have a number for, so my coworker suggested doing it in a certain way and when I showed my boss he started mocking me. My coworker then came to my desk and suggested 2 other ways, one of which didn't work and after doing the second one which worked my boss just left without saying anything.. So here I am right now, and I decided I should get back on the market and maybe I'll be able to land something in a few months (given that it took me several months to land this one). Now I'm unsure what to do regarding my resume. Should I keep it off my resume? Or should I put it? I know it'll probably be a huge red flag from a recruiters pov, but at least they'll know I'm not unemployed.. What do you guys think? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.",
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askengineers_train
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"content": "Water is gonna lose to land or toxic waste, but just to run the numbers on it, apparently some California farmers are paying $17 per acre-foot. An acre-foot, google tells me, is 1233 cubic meters, which is 1233 metric tons. So water is about 1.4 cents/ton... delivered.",
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"content": "What's the heaviest material that can be bought for the cheapest? If I had (eg) $10,000 to spend on pure weight, what can I buy? Cheapest:heaviest",
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vkn1vs
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askengineers_train
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"content": "look into the requirements for a work visa.",
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"content": "Engineers that have moved from the US to Japan, what do I need to know? A little broad of a question but let me explain. I have one more year left to my mechanical engineering degree with the math minor, I’m taking a year off to work with a Japanese company that has an office in my state, I want to try and move to Japan after college. So, what do I need to know? Have any of you climbed the ladder until you got moved by your company? What can I expect the pay to cost of living ratio to be? Anything you can share will help. Thanks in advance.",
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"content": "Assuming you are not a student?",
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"content": "Looking for a free engineering design software, any recommendations? On the lookout, and all the ones I've found come with an incredible monthly payment, which is nowhere near my budget. Does anyone have any free recommendations for a free software?",
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"content": "Anything goes with recruiters, especially if you’re not desperate. Just know that if you ask they’re probably going to use it to bait you into getting on a call with them.",
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"content": "I keep getting LinkedIn messages about job opportunities from recruiters, is it rude to ask how much it pays right away?",
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"content": "Male engineer here who has worked in manufacturing and construction environments. Look for some outdoorsy or slightly rugged type pants from brands like Columbia or Carhartt. I have no idea what Carhartt has in female pants but I am sure they have some good products. For footwear, look at Keen Detroit, Flint, or Dover safety toe boots. A female coworker recommended the mens versions to me 10 years ago and Keen is the only safety shoes/boots I buy now. Very comfortable, durable, protective. Consider getting a jacket suitable for the manufacturing environment. Something cotton fabric that is sturdy. Something like the LL Bean mens Field Coat but in a female cut. I strongly recommend no polyester or nylon fleece in any kind of manufacturing environment that has any kind of hot work activity. Lots of female engineers I work with wear jeans and a tshirt in manufacturing environments. Congratulations on starting your career! Ask lots of questions - dont be afraid to ask - we understand that you are learning and want to help you develop your skills and experience.",
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"content": "Female engineer dress code Hi! I am about to start my first engineering job/ co-op in January and I’m super excited but also a little nervous. It is a manufacturing engineering role in North Dakota (so it’s gonna be pretty cold for a while) I was told dress code is “jeans and a polo” which I personally find to be pretty difficult to dress to because the jeans and polo combo on a girl just doesn’t come off the same way as a guy imo. Any style recommendations/ examples would be greatly appreciated because I’m having a hard time figuring out outfits that could be put together without being over dressed",
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"content": "It really depends on what you want to do. In R&D where I work, knowing full factorial analysis is kind of a big deal. So perhaps check that out. I also am a biomedical engineer if that helps.",
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"content": "What kind of statistics do engineers use? I am an engineering student, and I am about to finish my semester taking a statistics course. As I prepare for my final exam, I was wondering if there are any particular topics in statistics I should put extra focus on understanding to better prepare myself for an engineering career? What kind of statistics are often used in the engineering field?",
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"content": "I (American) used to work for a large German multinational engineering firm and completed a 6-month stint in Stuttgart as part of a rotational program. I would say I had a pretty significant advantage as an English speaker coming into that role as the group I was with conducted a lot of business with non-German customers and having a native English speaker helped tremendously with communication on that front. However, as others have noted here, they do prefer conducting internal business in German as much as possible, and there will be times where you'll have to interface with people who know little or no English, particularly in life outside of work. ​ I would highly advise doubling down on the German lessons. I took some basic classes before I left for Germany and then took a few more while I was there. I also had a boss who was very accommodating (he was originally from Spain and learned German on-the-fly) who set up a great challenge for me wherein the amount of English I used in the office had to lessen month-by-month until I conducted an entire day's business in German. ​ Another practice I found super helpful was exchanging emails with a native German speaker in my office who wasn't very good with English. He would send his emails to me in English and I to him in German. Then in the quoted section of each reply, we'd put in corrections with explanations so that we could both improve our language skills. ​ Lastly, while I was only in Germany temporarily on a company-sanctioned program, I did manage to find a few other Americans who managed to secure full-time roles in Germany. It wasn't easy and they really had to master German to earn them, but it is possible.",
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"content": "Engineer wanting to move to Germany/Austria from England. Have any of you moved to Germany and can share your story and lessons learnt? Hi guys, I'm a kiwi living in England with my German girlfriend and we're wanting to move to Germany or Austria. Have any of you made the move from an English speaking country, and could tell me your story? I have 7 years experience designing boilers for coal and Renewable/Sustainable Energy power plants. As well as district heating. My German is poor, but I'm willing to take lessons to improve it.",
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"content": "Highway Engineer, here. A lot of people talking about zoning, and jurisdictional complications but I think it's way simpler than that. Money. I've worked on a few small scale grant projects and they inevitably get gutted by budget. Us, the consulting engineer says, \"You want a traffic calming project with a cycle track? Great. One of the best traffic calming measures for this corridor is tree plantings because the vertical features naturally help to reduce speeds.\" \"Okay says the town, give us an estimate.\" *We provide a concept and estimate* Town: That's way too expensive. What can you remove? Consultant: Well, not much. Town: What about all these trees? And that roundabout? Why is that costing $200,000 Consultant: *provides well reasoned and sourced backup for these measures as the minimum required for traffic calming* Town: Take out half the trees and eliminate the roundabout. *Project gets built as basically a mill and fill (pavement replacement) with a handful of trees. Repeat over and over for all projects*",
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"content": "Are \"Stroads\" as bad as this youtube explainer is claiming? Non-engineer here, and I just watched this youtube video called Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere). Link = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM The TLDR (as best as I can explain) of the video is: Northern America is full of things called \"Stroads\" which are a combination of streets and roads, but are bad at being both. The U.S. and Canada should instead model their roads on the Netherlands model where their cities are full of Fast roads, slow streets, and safe bike lanes, and ultimately this is faster and safer than the American Stroad model. My questions are... 1. Is this video exaggerating how bad American Stroads are and how good Netherland roads and streets are? Or is their assessment pretty much correct? 2. Would a netherlands style road system even be possible in the US? I've lived in Utah my whole life and to get anywhere you basically have to own a car. And not necessarily because utah cities and towns cater the most to cars (although they do), but because the distances between cities and towns are large enough that getting to work on a bike or by foot isn't terribly feasible (in my opinion). Meanwhile in the Netherlands and Europe it seems like everything is much closer together, making non-car ownership and travel feasible there, but not here. 3. If U.S. Cities did decide to switch to the netherlands model and turn all or most of their 'Stroads' into streets/roads/bike-roads how would or should they go about it from an engineering perspective? Is it kind of too late at this point because it would take too much money and time to completely redo our gigantic American road system? I'm not an engineer so I'm really just curious what the experts have to say about this whole issue.",
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"content": "1) linguists don't make any money 2) math is easy",
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"content": "What are the reasons you're an engineer? I'm currently studying aerospace engineering, and I'm not really sure it's for me. The prospect of being an engineer is being less and less interesting the more I do it. So what are the reasons you became an engineer? What do you like about it? What do you hate? I guess I just need something to motivate me to engage a bit more and carry on. Thanks in advance guys.",
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"content": "One thing on Reddit that kills me is that everybody thinks that companies use planned obsolescence. Like they want their engines to fail after 60,000 miles. That's not how it works. Companies design stuff to last a minimum amount of time. So that engine needs to last *at least* 60,000 miles. If it lasts longer, great, but they aren't going to put anymore money into it to make that happen.",
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"content": "If certain car brands have been known to consistently make reliable engines for decades, why do so many carmakers still make unreliable engines? I know reliability isn't all up to the engine, but I wanted to make sure the question isn't overly broad, although if you can add on or relate it to other parts of a vehicle I'd appreciate it. But basically Toyota and Honda has consistently made reliable cars, with reliable engines that last a long time. Car brands with mediocre reliability have also designed cars with reliable engines such as the Ford 4.6L modular V8, Buick 3.8 V6, Chevy LS, etc. Yet overall many car brands, some more than others, often make engines with major points of failure. Why don't they learn from themselves and their competitors what are potential failure points, and what works? Is it just being cheap on R&D and thinking that an engine that works for 140k is \"good enough\"? Is most of the development and simulations focused more on power and fuel efficiency rather than reliability?",
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"content": "Do your job and go home. Usually work like 8.5 hours, but a lot of that is cause I'm trying to time traffic. I usually eat breakfast at work. In any job, occasionally shit happens and you deal with it, but it is far from frequent for me.",
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"content": "What's your work-life balance like? Fellow engineers, how many hours per week do you dedicate to your job? Do you get time to cater to your hobbies or social life after that? While I don't work crazy hours (and have good performance review), I'm fighting against this constant pressure to work weekends and evenings. There's no real emergency- a lot the deadlines are fake and internal. While I usually don't miss any I'm reaching a breaking point. My supervisor is a workaholic and that doesn't help the problem. Skipping gym, eating out, sleeping late is not my preferred lifestyle. How's work culture at your company? Are you pressured into working late? I'm wondering if it's a geographic trend or an industry trend. So it would be helpful if you don't mind telling me that also",
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"content": "The Martian",
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"content": "What are some of your favorite engineering books? (Not necessarily textbooks)",
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"content": "As an ME and former industrial welder/laborer/odd jobber, 9/10 times they are right and I go on to explain nearly every critical part of the process and what's likely the issue. All for them to go wow dang I should call someone then. Like what? I just said it's probly an easy fix, yeah it took 10 minutes but the part is $20 and the service call is $200. But it's still annoying.",
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"content": "does anyone else hate when non engineers say \"you're an engineer you should know how [X] works\"? Literally anything from changing the oil in a car, why the radiator isn't working or why their computer won't connect to the internet. I haven't a fookin clue about most of these things, but thats apparently unacceptable for an engineer lol",
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"content": "\"Engineering is approximate physics, for profit\" We rely on pure scientists to advance ideas, but engineers to work out if/how to exploit them commercially.",
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"content": "Are engineers scientists? A lot of people seem to be saying no over in World news. What is the consensus on that? Bit of discussion going on in this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/eipsoy/thousands_of_people_have_fled_apocalyptic_scenes/fct96it/ Most people seem to be be rubbishing the idea an engineer is a scientist.",
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"content": "Play factorio because life’s too short to work on weekends",
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"content": "Engineers working full time, how do you motivate yourself to develop your skills during your free time? Hey guys. I'm 4 months into my first job after graduating. It's not something I'm interested in at all but I'd been searching for months and was grateful to get a job related to my degree (ME) even though the offer wasn't great at all. Now the issue is that I want to move to another industry, and that requires me to pick up some new skills, but can't seem to get started at all. My job is 8-5 with about an hour of commuting each way, so by the time I get back home and make something to eat I have a couple of hours before I go to sleep. I tried getting started one night but it seemed like my brain was extremely slow at picking up what I was looking at. I have no idea what to do, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!",
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"content": "I bill my time and probably spend 48hrs of real work per week - billing time really changed my mindset about how much I actually work during the day. But when I'm off the clock I'm off the clock 100%",
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"content": "In a typical day or even week, how many hours are you doing actual work? My job has a lot of down time and I’m always trying to find things to do or read up on when I’m not busy. Curious to see how other engineers are at their job",
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"content": "Wtf this can’t be the typical engineer, right??? I mean I’m in college right now for EE and I don’t think I’d ever put myself into my work that much cuz dude there’s more to life than satisfaction at work, try to find satisfaction in yourself through other things outside of work. Like what the hell you’re going to run yourself down, like explore some hobbies or anything.",
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"content": "How am I supposed to chase a \"work life balance\" when I'm incapable of achieving satisfaction at work? I'm really sorry if this is the wrong subreddit, but I feel like my sentiments can only really be understood by people in my field. A few years ago, after a soul rending 9 month job hunt, I landed a job two orders of magnitude better than I thought I'd ever get. During my first two weeks, I swore to myself that I wouldn't waste this opportunity and that I'd spend my first six months on the job working as hard as I possibly could. I read every single piece of company documentation I could get my hands on, and convinced enough people I was their workhorse, until they gave me enough overtime work to afford books to purchase and read. I spent every cent I made from overtime on furthuring my career and learning how to do my job better. This felt amazing. Weeks passed. I got better and better at analysis and was able to get more noticed by my boss and I got more, better work to do. 6 months came and went. After 9 months I realize I still hadn't properly unpacked anything other than my kitchen and my bedroom. The sense of job fatigue I was counting on happening to me wasn't happening. I clearly wasn't trying hard enough. After 10 months I light the fire even harder. I wired up a timer to my power strip at my desk to kill it so that I would be forced to read the books to keep myself entertained. A year passes. I get challenged to expand my comfort zone of analysis even more to the point where it makes me finally, truly fear that I didn't know enough. I buy 8 books on the topic and take two weeks of vacation to read them all without telling my boss what I really did on vacation. 14 months pass. The sense of job fatigue I was counting on happening to me STILL wasn't happening. All that was starting to happen was the occasional piece of emotional fatigue that was caused by dealing with irrational coworkers and typical kinds of office politics. It quickly went away, and the sense that I was doing something wrong had returned. At home, I have no energy. My apartment started to increase in disorder. I set my bills to autopay, knowing that the time lost to dealing with intentionally confusing bill paying systems would cost me more than the equivalent amount of time that I could have gotten by just working more overtime for that duration. I'm bored. I'm miserable. Everybody I know around here is already married, or only does socially interactive activites that cause me physical discomfort such as strenuous excersize or binge drinking, or even worse... Golf. I conclude that my improvement must have been happening too fast and that the work I was doing wasn't challenging enough for me. I show my boss what I knew how to do now and he agrees to let me take on even more work in hopes that it keeps me satisfied. At this point it's clear that he's terrified of losing me. He wasn't expecting my level of development at all. I got a significant raise out of the blue a week or so later and all I was really able to think about was \"oh NICE I'll finally be able to afford these books I was meaning to get.\" I visit my family for the first time since I started work and it's nice, but I can't stop thinking about work. I can't stop talking about work. Every third sentence made its way back to engineering without me realizing it and everyone in my family quickly grew sick of it. I wasn't even trying to talk about it. I get back from vacation and I need more distractions from life so I ask for more work and recieve it. By the fourth week of the new schedule it's back to only taking me 40 hours to do all of the tasks and the nihilistic dread sets back in. The sense of job exhaustion I needed to happen to force me to stop working like a madman and seek relationships with other people still, despite everything, hadn't happened yet. Then the plague hit. I'm essential. I've spent an average of 65 hours a week at work for an average of 6.2 days per week from May 2020 to today, January 10 2021. All of my reading has to be done at work now because I was finally given access to the small library of internal company documentation on all the little ins and outs of how to do my job properly down to the last nitty gritty detail. None of that reading comprised any part of those 65 hours per week. In June, I ask my boss for more work. I tell him that no matter how hard I try, the paniced and overwhelmed feeling of having too much work to do has never come, and I ask him what else I can do to get better because at this point I haven't felt satisfied in weeks. He tells me the worst thing I've ever heard. \"I'll be honest, about our current job, I've got nothing else to teach you. You're doing great, beyond great, and in every way that matters, you probably know more than me now.\" I... do not take this well. I ask him why he was lying to me. It's fucking impossible that he wasn't lying to me, he had 20 years more experience than me, but he insisted I'd read every book he'd ever heard of, and that all there was left was to gain more experience. What the fuck am I supposed to do about that, wait?! I tried re-igniting hobbies. Nothing stuck. It's been a few months since then. I'm still working trying to get that fix but it never comes. I haven't seen my family in 15 months and the scariest part of all of this is that I'm honestly feeling okay. I feel like that character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire whose brain is being cooked to death by a telepath constantly giving him a feeling of being right on the verge of a massive breakthrough but that feeling of breakthrough never happens. I feel like I could do this forever. The only way to get the feeling of discovery at this point is to just do analysis practice on my own. Everyone at work that I speak to doesn't understand that I'd rather die than go back to college for a higher degree than a bachelors at this point, and all of them either keep pretending like there's nothing left I could possibly learn or tell me to read books I've already read. I can't imagine anything more fun than what I'm doing right now and I'm appearantly very good at it. The only things I can imagine doing right now that would bring me more joy is trying to settle down and start a family, but despite everything, I still don't feel like I'm ready for that yet even though there's almost nothing I want to do more. You can't train that. I'm lost. He's mentioned that I should try to ask him for another raise if I'm unsatisfied but there's nothing left I can buy that will scratch the itch at this point. The though of leaving my work unattended only fills me with fear at this point; not relief. I can't vacation to see my family without the threat of killing them, and no matter how badly I want to see them, I know I'll only be able to think about work while I'm there. I can't turn it off. I can't prevent others from continuing to worsen the pandemic without breaking laws. I can't reunite with my friends from college without hating myself because it devolves into me spewing about my work for hours on end I don't know how to be this systemically satisfied but also so specifically miserable. What should I do?",
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"content": "* Graduated in a Financial Mathematics Degree. * Accepted Job in Process Safety Management [Mainly doing SIL Calcs and scribing assessments] * Moved to Job for a SIS PLC manufacturer - Role was the Engineering Resource for the sales team. Got to learn PLC Programming more, as well as more business/sales stuff. * Moved to a Startup doing Industrial Cybersecurity Assessments and we manufactured a Solution/Product. * Moved to a Large Consulting company doing Industrial Cybersecurity Deployments and Assessments. So I basically went from Financial Risk to Process Risk to Industrial Cyber Risk",
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"content": "Engineers who aren't working in the discipline you went to school for, what's your career path/overall experience been like? I went to school and graduated with a degree in IE. The company I had interned a few years for had an opening for their process safety management engineering position, which I was offered and accepted. Obviously, the most linear path to becoming a PSM engineer/coordinator would be a chemical engineering degree. I was just curious how common it is to not work directly in the same field you studied.",
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"content": "You know what he put on his Facebook page. You do not know what he told the company that hired him. You don't know what kind or level of \"engineer\" he is and I'm guessing there's some serious animosity between he and you. Drop it.",
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"content": "Caught someone lying about having an engineering degree, he is already employed as an engineer. What do? A peer I went to high school with, had on facebook, he went to my university, and graduated in my class. I know neither was true. Kind of shocked me to see this. I know he didn't do this. I asked him, and he ignored the message. Any suggestions on what should be done? Intelligence and credentials aside, he is not a good person, I've seen him do horrible things.",
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"content": "Yeah I was surprised to see Boeing listed by OP - out of all major engineering firms?? I work at Boeing and it’s been great. Experience definitely varies depending on the team but that’s the same at any large company. I can see there being more negative comments right now but they’re literally going through the toughest time they’ve ever gone through. Morale is low and there’s a lot of shuffling happening meaning change which people don’t like. Also they’re not an IT company. They can’t release a product every two years and study what worked and what didn’t work via rapid prototyping. So they move slow. I got my masters completely covered, my weekends are always free, I largely keep 8 hour days, my team and manager are chill. If I want to learn something new I speak with my manager and he assigns me a project somewhere else within his team. I make really good money, six figures, and that doesn’t come at the cost of my work life balance (something a lot of these tech companies with 130k starting salaries expect you to give up in exchange). I’ve picked up some hobbies that bring me joy outside of work since I have consistent hours. I play guitar with my friends local band. I practice sailing, mountaineering. I sell produce from my farm on weekends during the summer and occasionally do software dev gig work. I travel internationally every year for two weeks. I suppose it’s a ‘vanilla’ life compared to what social media paints but I love it. I would double check your expectations of employers and make sure they’re justified. There are toxic companies for sure but a toxic culture and a culture that’s not a good fit for you are two different things.",
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"content": "Companies engineers should steer clear of? What companies engineers should stay away from? I heard bad things about Boeing and Tesla (toxic corporate culture, mismanagement, high turnover rate, etc.). I'm just wondering what are the other companies like that.",
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"content": "Regularly. I loaned out my intro to Chemical Engineering and never got it back, so bought a used copy for about $3. Intro to materials has been really valuable over the years. I’ve bought used copies of a better fluids text, and intro to machine design. (Chemical engineers don’t learn machine design, but everything runs on bearings.) The nice thing is that after the class, the edition doesn’t matter. An older edition is normally dirt cheap but just as relevant.",
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"content": "How Often Do You Refer to College Textbooks? I am a recent aerospace engineering graduate and most likely will have to move across the country when I get my first job. I have a box full of my undergraduate course textbooks, and I am trying to figure out what to bring and what to leave behind. Do any of you ever refer to your textbooks from college? If so, is it specifically the textbooks that line-up with your job description? (i.e. a material and processing engineer referring to mechanics of materials textbooks)",
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"content": "You don't a problem with a PE license, you have a problem with your company. It sounds like a bad environment.",
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"content": "Do I really even want my PE? I’ve been working as an EE for over three years, and I’m getting to the point where all of my coworkers/supervisor are really pushing for me to get my PE. But the truth is, I don’t even want it. When I look at their jobs and the stress that comes with it, I’m asking myself, why would I ever want that? I don’t have kids, I don’t need the money, I don’t have any desire to climb the ladder, and I definitely don’t need the constant bombardment that seems to follow. I have a low stress, non-management position and I would like to keep it that way. I enjoy engineering, but I just want to do my designs, work on some programming, and then go home. I don’t want anything to do with work until the next day, and that just doesn’t seem possible once I get my PE (and promoted). Becoming the technical lead on projects sounds dreadful to me. Checking emails until I go to sleep, or being on-call is not my idea of a good time and they can keep the extra pay. Anyways, just ranting, but If anyone has been in a similar position or if you never got your PE and you work in an industry where the PE is abundant, how did that work out for you?",
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"content": "Two come to mind. 1. A VP who approved any project or requisition over $100k (which was every one of our projects practically) demanded we not use abbreviations in the justifications, including commonly used abbreviations in our industry. For example, 69kV needed to be written as 69,000-volts or 69-kilovolts. We are a power utility. 2. After missing a bunch of emails from a customer, it was determined the content blocker our IT department had switched to was flagging \"Dike\" as \"sexually explicit language\". Our IT director initially refused to create an exception and literally said, \"They need to change their phrasing.\" The town we were doing business with was literally named Dike.",
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"content": "I was once asked to stop separating things into separate layers in my drawings, because it made them \"harder to edit\". What's a request you've gotten that made you want to bang your head on the wall? It was a serious request. Apparently tabbing over to the sheet format layer to edit the title block was disrupting their workflow. What absurd requests have y'all gotten lately?",
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"content": "Talk to your management if you're not comfortable doing something, get it in writing from a superior. That way when it comes back there is a paper trail. If they won't create a paper trail they don't want it done. I doubt a trusted independent test lab is going to put up with fudging the data.",
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"content": "Asking for experiences from other engineers who blew the whistle. What happened? Hi all, I have an ethical decision weighing on me this weekend that likely will be surfacing Monday. Just wanted to get some thoughts as to if anyone has encountered this. Using a throwaway account for reasons. I work as a test engineer at an accredited independent test lab and have a customer that is asking us to do things on his parts to make them pass. There is a backstory that I won't go into too much, but from talking to other people, there is some evidence the gentleman who did this testing previously and this customer would often fudge data on the reports to make them pass. The gentleman retired and I was hired on to continue this testing. The industry does have some semblance of use where lives could be affected. Ethically there is no doubt in my mind we're venturing into a moral dilemma, so I made the decision that I won't try to make them pass intentionally. Within reason I understand that circumstances of setup may affect the test too, where if they were not tested right it would also fail. Relying on the customer for feedback was part of the loop up to this point. Regardless I'm looking for advice from engineers who may have blown the whistle. How did it work out for you or in your experience? Did management support your decision? This is a high profile customer, so there would be some fallout I think from it. Thank you all in advance!",
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"content": "Becuase it's digging out and moving tons and tons of dirt. What the hell kind of question is this? lol",
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"content": "Why are tunnel boring machines so slow?",
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"content": "I've been recommending this book a lot: Safe is not an option My personal opinion is that we should make sure people are fully informed about the risks and then we treat the any deaths the same way we would deaths from dangerous hobbies (for tourist flights) or deaths in the workplace (for employee deaths). That is pretty close to what the current FAA rules require; they have some basic standards and then it's about informed consent. It's a bit like the rules for experimental aircraft. I think there's likely a role for somebody like OSHA, or perhaps an independent review board funded by the various companies. Saving a crew is really hard. You need to be able to get there, which is possible in low orbit if you have another vehicle ready to go, but very hard on other orbits. Getting to the moon, for example, is going to take a few days even if you can launch right now. And then you need to have a way to transfer crew from one vehicle to another, assuming the problem is the first vehicle. For ascent, you might have an escape system that helps, so if so, you would use that. For descent you are probably just stuck; either your are going to make it or not. And anywhere else, it's unlikely that anything will happen that will leave you time for somebody to make it to you; if it's minor enough that somebody could get to you it's somewhat likely you could fix it yourself.",
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"content": "With the rise of commerical space flight there is bound to be accidents. How do you think governments and space companies would respond? How would engineers save a crew that is stranded in orbit or even deep space? With how fast companines like spacex are progressing this is bound to be a problem in at least the next 100 years.",
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"content": "I'm gonna put this out there.... wages have not kept with inflation at all. How do I know? This is the perfect subreddit for this question. I've wanted to be a mechanical engineer since I was 6. I remember taking the tests and stuff as a kid In 2008 (aka 14 years ago now. Well over a decade...) do you know what the average listed salary for an engineer back then was? 70k to 80k. Do you know what the average listed salary for a mechanical engineer is now? 70-80k. This shit is a joke. I'm 14 years older and one thing I have for myself is I remember shit well. We are screwed and another recession is coming... I just hope it isn't as bad as 2008. My family as a kid was upper middle class then and all it took was 2008. We lost everything within 10 years. Dad lost his management job. Mom lost her job and got diagnosed with severe chrones disease. Lost our house in 2017 or so. I doubt many will see this as it's a comment section with high comments already. But I would never forget much about my dream career I've had since I was in 2nd grade. Especially not numbers like salary. We are fucked. And how does this relate? From what I can tell most every job is like this. Underpaid. People that already had degrees worked to get jobs. New people fresh out of college need jobs. Let's not forget people that go back to college. Tech jobs are expanding fields. Companies are focusing heavily on profit I'd know grew up with surrounded with management. They will do whatever possible to cut costs and increase profits and for some reason its heavily focused on quarterly profits and doesn't take into account long term at all. Add in American ignorance for lack of a better word and company's have a field day coming here. We're one of worst countries in the world when it comes to workers rights. Even so called \"third world countries\" lots of company's are willing to start up or build up here because it's such a big money maker. Look no further than the automotive industry as an example. I work at a BMW manufacturing plant. The amount of cut corners for profit is ridiculous. And we're facing head count issues even though they pay higher than most. Nobody wants the extreme work or can handle the extreme work for the just above average livable pay but shit working conditions and complete lack of benefits aside from insurance. In a industry filled with injuries the biggest thing you need is time off which we get barely any of.",
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"content": "Is it just me, or has every company been just understaffed and overworked since 2008? I've worked my whole life in the U.S. and I'm old enough to have started working before 2008. I've also worked in a variety of places my career, geographically, big company, small company, government, environmental, mechanical, electrical, manufacturing. I don't know if it's just nostalgia, but I definitely remember that before 2008, deadlines were realistic, and somewhat important. As many articles, studies and memes will tell you, after 2008 layoffs, people were told to do the job of 2 or 3 people. And that never seemed to change in my experience. Ever since then, it seems like projects are on the tightest of margins. One person going on vacation at the wrong time ruins everything. The people that do things are scrambling to get stuff done the night before. There's no admin help to take care of the stuff like purchasing and travel arrangements, you need to do it all yourself. The modern day engineer is so overworked and overcommited and over-depended on for projects that it's absurd. And in my experience projects do end up slipping or having bad endings when the single point of failure leaves. No one's loyal to the company and we're all moving around for raises. So latent problems just get passed to the next generation like a hot potato. People develop an existential attitude of \"it's not my problem, I'm just here for 40 hours, maybe for a couple of a years\". Covid has added a whole new level to the malaise of most people. I understand that this is the most logical and rational and self serving way to work, but it does feel like the pride and camaraderie and sense of accomplishment in engineering is gone. The MBA-style of management has reached it's asymptote, there's nothing more they can squeeze from us. A lot of people have that attitude from the old Soviet Union - \"They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work\". Some the of the places I've worked have me scratching my head at how it stays in business. I myself have had stretches where I've hopped places, getting raises without ever having produced a deliverable. Am I just romanticizing the past, or did the way engineering projects are organized at work really permanently change after the 2008 financial crisis? It kind of makes me sad.",
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"content": "I worked as a design engineer for an HVAC firm and we all said H-V-A-C. Sounds like it was a fluke, though.",
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"content": "Do you say \"H-VAC\" or pronounce \"H-V-A-C\"? Why? In school, I was explicitly told that you should only say \"H-V-A-C\" but since joining the workforce I hear some people say \"H-VAC\". I wanted to poll here to see other people's experiences.",
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"content": "This just happened to me as well. Got let go from a small engineering firm because I've been to distracted and can't get my work done. But it was not my first job. I hate the engineering field I'm in. Perhaps that is part of it. Sounds like you had shitty management.",
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"content": "Well, slacking off and messing around at my job finally caught up with me, and I was let go today. Would appreciate any advice I worked for a little under 3 years at this company doing design work and 3D modeling. Very computer-oriented position; I did spend some time overseeing fabrication or visiting customer sites, but 90% of the time was in front of my computer. I spent more time than I care to admit on reddit, news sites, car forums, etc., and my boss formally talked to me several months ago about staying focused work and being sure to give 8 hours a day of work, which he felt I was not doing at the time. So I cleaned up my act for a while, really dove into my work, and did pretty well for a while. I don't know why I found myself so easily distracted again. I'm good at the work when I take the time to do it, and I really did put in a lot of effort a lot of times, it's not like I didn't get things done. But the way we scheduled work there lent itself to allow me to easily slack off rather than doing more and better work. We had many concurrent projects going on, and a fairly small team, so the engineering manager (my boss) would tell each person what to work on based on current priorities, then when you finished that up he'd tell you to start or continue something else. Instead of going to him and figuring out what to do next though, or maybe making sure what I just finished was truly excellent and as good as I could do, I'd go on reddit real quick to check a couple posts, give myself a break. I guess over time breaks became more frequent and longer, and my productivity had noticeably fallen. Boss apparently got fed up with it, called me down to HR and gave me the boot. I know I have no one to blame but myself, but I don't know where to go. It seems like I don't work well in environments like that with minimal direct oversight, and I feel like sometimes I need prodding to keep me focuses and working, which certainly doesn't seem like a good trait in the professional world. I don't try to slack off and not be focused, yet it continually happened at work. My worry is that I'll have difficulty finding another job -- being fired from your first \"real\" job surely doesn't look good -- and that when I do, I won't have the discipline to do any better. I mean this is a serious eye-opener for me, and I'd like to think I'd be smart enough to not make the same mistake again. On the other hand, I thought that when I was written up *that* was a serious eye-opener for me, and yet here I am. I guess all of this is to say, I'm highly upset with myself and with the situation, and not sure what to do. I thought I was good at what I did and never would have imagined being fired. Has anyone here been through something similar? I'm feeling a mix of shock, depression, anger (at myself), and worry, and I'm pretty scared of the immediate future for myself. Any advice would be deeply appreciated. Thanks to anyone taking the time to read this. **TL;DR**: Allowing myself to be easily distracted by the internet has cost me my job, and I don't know what my immediate future looks like now.",
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"content": "Yeah, it's okay 👍",
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"content": "Is it okay to switch from Mechanical Engineering to Computer Science? I completed my Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and after spending a year working in the industry, I find that it's something that I wouldn't want to do long term. I have always enjoyed working with computers and am an avid tech follower. Is it possible for me to switch to working with computers? I know there's a lot of different things that could be done in computer science but I wanna see if it's possible to switch. One idea I have is to do my master's in computer science. Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated!",
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"content": "I feel like experience is way more valuable. A lot of people want the prestige or maybe aren't ready to go into the work force. It would be interesting to see if masters degrees correlate with higher income. Having a title doesn't necessarily equate to greater competency. The merit of ones competency equates to value provided. If you know what you are doing you can prove it through your actions .",
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"content": "Can we stop pushing masters on students still in school, recent grads, or those with little to no industry experience? Masters degrees are speciality degrees. Telling someone with little to no industry experience to spend 2 more years in school, paying for it, I feel is not right. Most employers will pay for it, *if it's necessary*. Students have no idea if they'll actually like the work they do, so why push a specialization before they know they'll even like the work? Or even if they can get a job in the field. /rant",
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"content": "Roads and other types of infrastructure are extremely expensive to build and maintain at the scale much of the country currently requires them. This series of videos does a good job explaining the big issues with how we structure a lot of our land development in the US and Canada. https://youtu.be/7IsMeKl-Sv0",
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"content": "Why are roads always in such bad shape and what can be done to stop them from degrading so fast? Cracks are being repaired on the two year old road in front of my office and the freeways in my state have been in constant repair since I was a kid. Is that really the best we can do for the money? Just seems odd to me.",
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"content": "Never! Mine are in a filling cabinet in my office. I've had to consult notes and even hw problems and it really helped jog my memory. I use my statics and strength of materials books regularly. Keep your class materials.",
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"content": "When do you guys toss out all your college notes and books? I'm a Civil PE that's been out of school for about 6 years now. I have a bookshelf worth of class binders, books, and reference manuals that I've never opened since the class finished. Am I crazy for hanging on to them?",
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"content": "Happy with my career. EE at an aerospace company. It's in a small town but part of one of the largest aerospace systems company in world. My job isn't the most exciting but after some time i feel that I have opportunity to advance into more interesting positions. Pay is good and Cost of living is low.",
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"content": "How many of you are dissatisfied or disillusioned with your career choice? There was recently a thread over at /r/personalfinance and a similar one on /r/financialindepence. Of those reddit users, approximately half \"tolerated\" their career as a means to an ends (in this case, financial freedom). I want to pose a similar question to you all. In school, engineering is hyped as the end all be all. After entering the working world, I can see that it is not even remotely true (unless you work for a very small company). * How many of you dislike your work or simply tolerate going to work for a bigger goal? * How quick after graduation did you realize that \"maybe I made a mistake?\" * What field are you in?",
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"content": "Won't forget being told this after having lunch \"Did you know there's a tendon that connects your stomach up to your eyes? So after you eat your stomach gets heavier and drops and it starts to pull your eyelids down.\"",
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"content": "What’s your favorite quote from your engineering seniors? As a new EE, mine is: “Ugly is not a defect” - Senior Mechanical Engineer.",
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"content": "If WFH were, indeed, cost and mission-effective, these companies would have been doing it earlier. As someone who has managed a small engineering and manufacturing company for 20 years, I think WFH is totally dependent on the communications and work discipline of the employee and the need for increased management skills by the employer. I would not get my hopes up.",
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"content": "Do you think your company will relax WFH policies after covid-19 calms down? WFH seems to be a mixed bag among engineers of different disciplines. Some people say it has vastly improved their productivity and gives them that extra time to spend with family. Or the social isolation of WFH and home distractions has brought productivity down. I'm more in the hardware/software overall computer engineering field. Some FAANG level companies like Apple/Google/Amazon for engineering I've heard generally frown on WFH, and would like everyone to come into office. I'm wondering if these companies will notice any productivity boost and while I think allowing everyone to WFH 24/7 is not feasible, it would be prudent to allow employees at minimum 2 days out the week to WFH. It could have so many benefits. What do you think? In an ideal scenario in my head for software engineering, a company of 100 could lease office space for only 50 employees. They could have flexible workstations and stagger who comes into the office on certain days. It'd reduce traffic and give everyone more time to spend outside of commuting. The area where you live and real estate wouldn't matter as much if you don't have to commute everyday. A downside I can think of is employees fighting each other over which days they would want to WFH vs. coming in.",
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oo1bol
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"content": "If you get the new job, you'll never need to reference this first job again. Leave on your own terms. Nobody will question or even notice a two month job gap directly post-graduation.",
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"content": "Should I leave my first engineering job after two months due to a lack of interest and a toxic environment? I’ve followed this subreddit for several years through most of my Electrical Engineering program. I’ve based many of my career-related decisions on the advice given to others. Now I’m hoping those that are more experienced than myself can give me advice on a big decision I have to make. I’m a recent graduate who is two months into my first job. I took a Controls Engineer job I wasn’t interested in several months before graduation because I was afraid that something better wouldn’t come up due to the state of the economy. It’s ~45 minutes outside of a major midwestern city, which I moved to, in a very rural area and within a few hours of my hometown. My plan was always to stay a year and get a job 10+ hours away from home through contacts at companies I am fairly certain would hire me. After about a month, I was testing the project I’m assigned to in the shop with some of the electricians. One of the electricians did a bad job wiring a panel and when the head of field service saw it, he started chewing out the team leader in charge of the electricians. He called the team leader racial and anti-gay slurs multiple times during his rant. This is the same guy who told me “not to get stuck here like I did” during my first week. For reference, the head of field service has been with the company for 17 years since it was founded. I’m assuming this isn’t the first time something like this has happened and it won’t be the last. I left my job as an electrical technician at almost thirty years old to finish my degree so that I could avoid working in the middle of nowhere in an environment like this. I was angry so I went home that afternoon and applied for a very rare Embedded Systems Engineer job in the downtown area of the city I moved to. I felt like I was little under-qualified but I thought my experience might be a good match since I had multiple internships that involved testing electronics and writing code even though I have very little experience coding in C++ like they are asking for. I am very passionate about this kind of work and there aren’t many opportunities like this within driving distance of my hometown. I would like to stay as close to family as possible. Well, they responded to my application and I interviewed with them yesterday. I haven’t gotten a formal offer yet but I have a very good feeling that I’m going to. If I’m offered the job then I think I’m going to take it. I realize this shouldn’t bother me but I hate to leave so soon because of my manager, who has gone above and beyond what he should do to train me. He’s new to management and I feel bad leaving him high and dry like this for a reason outside of his control. Should I be worried about potential backlash for leaving a job after such a short period of time? Should I tell my manager why I’m leaving? Are there any other problems that could arise that I haven’t considered? TL;DR: Thinking about leaving my first job after recently graduating because I’m not interested in the work and I’ve witnessed others dealing with a toxic environment. Is this a bad decision? Should I explain to my manager that I’m leaving because of the reasons behind the toxic work environment?",
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"content": "I'll offer a unique perspective - my wife works for a hospital that is part of a public University and as such can view the salary of everyone at any time. Initially this caused some irritation similar to what you're experiencing here, but that evolved into understanding that different people come in at different levels, and that hiring requires paying people what they're currently worth. Most people won't take a pay cut. Anyhow, the point is, she knows what the position is worth. You'll always make more money by moving companies. Would you entertain a job offer doing the same thing for the same amount of money? Of course not! Deliver results, argue your value. If they don't value it, move on. Then you're the person who makes more as an experienced new hire.",
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"content": "How do I un-see my co-workers salary? I was looking for estimates for a component. Found an Excel labeled ESTIMATES. It contained everybody's salaries in order to estimate jobs, per hours worked by each employee. It seems \"experienced\" new hires are paid more than long-term employees. This makes my future with the company bleak. It also seems maybe my second job will pay better? Too many questions. Just wish I'd never seen it at all.",
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"content": "Why.... not?",
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"content": "Why do they design cars with gas tanks on the passenger side of the vehicle?",
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"content": "My salary and lifestyle would allow me to pay my loans (50k) in 2 or 3 years. You need to weigh the opportunity costs of your debt payment. Paying off quickly will mean that you are unburdened by student loans and will make it easier to get a house and car, plus it just feels great. That said, if you are diligent about allocation, you would likely come out ahead by choosing to put your extra money into your 401k or IRA. Of course, your debt interest is guaranteed while investment interest is volatile.",
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"content": "Engineers how long did it take you to pay off your student loans? I’m not in college yet, though I’ve been thinking about college lately. I’ve been wondering how long it would take to pay off student loans, specifically for 2 years community college, then 2 years state college. I’m also conflicted between mechanical and civil engineering, and at that what subset in either one of the two. It would be 14,800.00 for the tuition of the state school without the meals/books (using the calculator), and 8,500 for the community college. Totaling about $46,600. I know engineers make a pretty good amount of money, so if you guys are comfortable answering… how long did it take you to pay off this amount of money?",
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"content": "I wish I took the time to join more clubs related to my personal interests. I was so focused on studying and going out with friends that I missed many of the other opportunities that a university offers. Outside of that environment I feel as if there are fewer occasions and limited access to try out a variety of different activities. I likely would have met more people and had a more fulfilling collegiate experience.",
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"content": "What are some things you wish you knew before completing college? I am currently in my first semester of my senior year. I was wording if anyone had anything they wish someone had told them before the were done with school and began their professional career.",
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"content": "Not sure why you discount updating excel files or procedure manuals as it will likely be similar to that? Examples I can think of are: Writing test protocols, creating test rigs / methods using test equipment. Analysing results. Input into design from results or just verify product.",
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"content": "What are some real examples of work that entry-level engineers do? I'm studying mechanical engineering and I'd like to get into the test department where I currently work. It's a very large department where they do all the testing for this region of the US. They've posted a few entry-level, ACTUAL \"no-experience-required\" jobs, and the starting salary was around $80, 85k. I'm curious what is expected of someone joining either an entry-level role or a test engineers role and what are some real-world examples of work they do? I'm painfully curious of what actual work someone does for an entry-level position, and not just updating excel files or procedure manuals.",
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"content": "Chemistry, Coffee.",
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"content": "How did you get your start? How did you guys figure out what specific job you wanted to do. What has brought you to this current point in life?",
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"content": "Fuck no. If the company asks my sorry ass to sit in a chair and gives me nothing to do, I'm being paid to sit in that chair. I could literally be at an amusement park right now instead. You're paying me to be here and be available/working/whatever is expected of your role. By the way, federally mandated paid breaks are a thing. Something something boss makes a dollar while I make a dime, that's why I shit on company time.",
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"content": "If you aren’t actually 100% working during the workday, are you suppose to work overtime to make up the lost time? During a normal 8-9 hour workday I believe that most people aren’t working the whole time, whether it’s using the restroom, heating up your lunch or feeling burnt from looking at the screen for 5+ hours. Do you stay a little bit later to make up the difference in lost time of not actually working?",
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"content": "I have a 2.91 GPA and I graduate with BS in Chemical Engineering next week. I'm hoping it gets up to a 2.95 when I graduate. I just took the FE last week and if I pass hopefully that makes of for the sub 3.0 GPA. I'm also interning this summer which I hope helps lead to a full time job.",
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"content": "How important is your GPA after graduation? I'm about 3 semesters away from graduation (BSEE). My GPA has slowly been slipping away. I started with a 3.67 and it has fallen to a 3.08. I expect it to fall a little more after finals next week. I don't think I'm stupid I'm just not a good student. My wife and I moved overseas almost 5 years ago. I wasn't able to find work without a degree so I eventually applied to ASU's online EE program. During my time in school we've had a baby girl (who's 3 now) and traveled the world. We're now living in Japan and with graduation nearing we are thinking about moving back to New Mexico. I'm wondering what this will look like to potential employers. I'll be in my early 30s when I start looking for a real job. Being abroad has also made internships impossible. If anybody has had a similar experience or advice I'd love to hear it. Thanks",
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"content": "Start looking for a new job, but ask for a raise anyways. If you don't get one, take the new job, but sprinkle a few copies of this list in the breakroom, on the copier and just simply laying around. All those screaming ethics this and ethics that can go pound sand - this person's company decided that ethics were not a priority by leaving this list unprotected on the network and for having such ridiculous pay disparity. What else did they not password protect? SSNs? Other personal data?",
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"content": "Accidentally discovered salary lists While looking for a specific file at work, I accidentally came across something labeled with \"salaries\" that wasn't password protected. I didn't think the company's security would be that sloppy but apparently it is. Of course I was curious and now I know all the salaries at my work. The document doesn't disclose names, only values and department names but the company is small enough (30-40 salaried folk) that I can deduce who gets paid what. I knew I was underpaid before but I assumed everybody was. It turns out we have kind of a bimodal distribution and I'm in the bottom 20% of the bottom half of salaries. Furthermore, because the lists are small I can deduce some of my coworkers with half the seniority as me are making more than I am. ​ Is there anything I can realistically do with this information or is it a bad idea to disclose that I know anything at all? I could see it damaging relationships with my coworkers and boss if they get offended. Location: Canada (Ontario) PS: I'm not mad at my coworkers. I'm annoyed with my work for this income disparity. The video from \"Adam Ruins Everything\" seems to apply here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xH7eGFuSYI",
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"content": "I think it is related to the country and the subject. My coworkers has a bachelor and he was underpaid, but after 10 years now he is even more or less. In general i would say the master is worth it, especially if you work part time next to your master. If you need to go in debt for a master degree then it is a risk and i am not sure if it worth it then. I don't think you can do a master without a thesis. Also why would you want that? the thesis is the best part imo!",
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"content": "Is it worth getting a Master's degree for getting more & higher paying jobs? Also is it possible to do a non-thesis (course related) master's degree immediately after your bachelor's degree? Hello fellow engineer's, as the economy looks depressing currently (and probably for the next year or two) I am considering continuing on with my education to better set my self up in a position for higher pay and more opportunities when the economy does pick back up. And so here are some general questions I would love to know the answers to: Do employers really notice the master's degree clout? How considerable is the average pay increase? Most importantly is it even possible to enroll into a master's degree program that's only course related and 2 years in length, right after you're bachelor's degree with maybe 1 year of engineering related work experience in you're pocket? From my understanding 2 or 3 year work experience is required or highly recommended dose this mean their are exceptions? If so in what case?",
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"content": "If your company ever gets investigated, YOU will be thrown under to bus. **Your employer will not give a shit about you.** That is a guarantee. You are already at risk of losing your career, a ton of money, and possibly jail if an investigation opens. I would refuse to make any more false reports (do this via email and keep a copy for yourself at home). If you get fired for refusing to falsify reports (you will be told you've been fired for a different BS reason) you have the evidence to go after them and tell the automotive companies you make parts for. DO NOT CONTINUE FALSIFYING REPORTS",
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"content": "Faking Test Reports - advice I'm looking for some advice if possible. I currently work in testing for a company that supplies parts to OEM automotive companies. I am responsible for testing components that we sell them for adherence to standards (stuff like SAE standards and ECE standards). ​ Sometimes I report to my manager and director that an item has failed testing, and they have me draft up a report (which I dont put my name on) that states that the item has passed testing. We are accredited by our national body to say that these items are road legal via this testing. We then give these reports to our customers (automotive OEMs). I have also found evidence of this occurring in the past, i.e photographs and data stored that do not match with the relevant test report. Whenever I raise the issues everyone agrees that its not ideal but I am told it would be the same wherever I went to work, no matter the industry. They say that experience shows that the product is safe and that it's an engineering judgement call, and that the standards are overly restrictive. I'm getting more and more irritated by this every day, and it's causing me lots of stress. It's only ever done to meet target dates set by salespeople and management, when they say there \"is no other option\". I'm only relatively junior, having just been an engineer for 2 years, and have had one year at this company. Is this normal wherever you go? Should I be sucking it up? Has this ever happened to you or someone you know? Do I have liability? I'm fine with making judgement calls, weighing up risk and reward, but i'm really uncomfortable with my company lying to consumers regarding safety.",
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"content": "I’m not eating that foot long sub unless it is engineered to my satisfaction.",
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"content": "Are sandwich engineers and domestic engineers really engineers?",
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"content": "At my second engineering job, 1.5 years in, just got a 23% raise a month after my 4% yearly. My first job didn't do any raises or anything. Just find the right company and they'll treat you. Only reason for fast changes is being super competitive or just getting bad companies",
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"content": "Do you really have to change companies every 3-5 years to move up? I'm a young engineer that started my first salaried job earlier this year. I've heard a lot that you have to change companies every 3-5 years to get promotions and raises beyond the 2-5% annual cost of living raise. I'm happy where I am and I'm not thinking about moving right now, but I like to keep my eye on what might lie ahead. Honestly, the idea of having to find a new job, interview and negotiate a contract and then get assimilated into a new team every couple of years sounds exhausting. Has this saying proven true for most people, or what are my alternatives?",
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"content": "\"For my age group, the current morality table suggests I will live to be 77 or so.\"",
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"content": "What do you tell an employer when they ask you “How long do you plan on being with us?” I’m about to get my college degree as a technologist. It’s like a pre-engineering college degree that gives us the option to either get a job as a technician after our 3 years training, or continue onto university to become an engineer. I was told it was different from most pre-engineering programs in that they teach us a lot of hands-on and practical problems, like a class on how to handle 120 volt systems, as opposed to most college programs that just stuff you full of math and physics with the specific goal of continuing studies at university. Anyway, I was told that what students often do is take extended internships for a few years, and they can use the experience as credits, replacing certain classes they would otherwise have had to do when they do finally go back to university. I felt like doing that, but when it came up during my interview (at a pretty fancy laser design company near where I live), the interviewer implied that they prioritize people who plan on staying longer. So I decided to bend the truth and said I planned on staying with them for 5 to 10 years before going back to university. I didn’t end up getting the job, because she told me they wanted longer commitments. I actually spoke with the two students who got the internships and asked them what they told the interviewer. They each said they planned on staying there forever. When I asked them if that was true they laughed and told me they’ll probably be gone and move onto university before 1 year has passed. All this to say... is it normal in the industry to lie when asked these sort of questions? I can imagine it’s super useful to companies to have stable, loyal, long-lived employees in their retinue. But has it reached the point where everyone always lies at this question, so the companies adjust their expectations accordingly? So that if you’re a naive fool like me and say the truth, the interviewers think “Oh crap, he said he’s staying for 5 years, he’ll be gone within a few months.”",
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"content": "Get a side hustle. Multiple sources of income is always great. It can potentially set you up nicely if you wish to change jobs in a years time. Also take up a hobby, go gym etc. Improve yourself.",
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"content": "I am one year into defense and I hate it. I am one year into defense contracting and I had it. I work for a big company think Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, NG, etc. I have to stay one more year because they paid for my masters. How can I survive another year without breaking down due to bore out? I have assignments that a high school student could perform. I feel like I am here as a warm body.",
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qk0liu
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"content": "Not moving jobs more often.",
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"content": "Whats the dumbest mistake you have made as an engineer? Just curious.",
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"content": "The short answer is yes, but it's a bad idea. The long answer is that it's way too risky because if there were a Catastrophe, it would shoot radioactive material over a very large area. A jet engine has 4 major parts: compressor, combuster, turbine and nozzle. You could use the nuclear energy to replace the combuster, though how you would safely and quickly throttle up and down would be something to overcome. Not to mention the fact that you'd have to protect the crew and passengers from radiation in the form of lead shielding or some kind of water jacket, which would be a lot of added weight. Also, having fuel on board is kind of nice because you can move it around to control cg positioning.",
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"content": "Can a nuclear power jet engine be developed, and if so, what would the exhaust gases be made of? I can understand a nuclear powered propeller driven airplane, and I know this has already been created along time ago. But can you develop a nuclear powered jet engine?",
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"content": "I think they usually use mineral oil, no?",
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"content": "Is propylene glycol sufficiently electrically insulating to safely submerge a whole computer in it without shorting or electrolysing anything ?",
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"content": "Depends on a lot of factors. Standby systems should have circulating pumps. My emergency diesel generators use them. A car that is pretty regularly started, uses more modern materials and new oils, probably can get away without them. If you are starting the vehicle somewhat regularly and operating it to temperature, you are removing accumulated moisture and maintaining a prelube coating based on your oil type and the impacts are minimal.",
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"content": "Engine wear So a lot of people told me that a lot of wear in a engine happens upon startup if so why isn’t there a separate oil pump that circulates the oil before startup so that less wear occurs?",
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8bj1a9
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"content": "Smoothly slotting in a gated shifter.",
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"content": "Just for fun: What is the most satisfying mechanical sound?",
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1xu70i
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| 3 |
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"content": "\"Band aid\" fixes to project procedures. We don't use our business system like its meant to be used, so the majority of our project planning and workflows depend on data that is exported from the ERP system as excel files, which are then used in calculations and forms. When we try something new (or fix problems that come up), priority #1 seems to be to preserve the \"way its always been done\". This leads to working around already resisting workarounds, heading towards a situation where no one knows exactly where reported labor, materials, and engineering are coming from.",
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"content": "What do you dislike or even hate about your job?",
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takrk7
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"content": "I was laid off out of the blue along with 14 other engineers a week before Christmas. It was a punch in the gut and I was in shock for days. They offered me a severance package of one months salary and I had to sign an agreement not to sue them for wrongful termination. They escorted me to my desk and had me write down all my passwords and gather my personal effects. They then escorted me out of the office. The next day I was on the phone with recruiters I knew and contacts in my industry looking for a new job. In my case, I was fortunate and had several prospects by the end of the week. I doubt you are getting fired if you fucked up months ago, you’re probably worried over nothing. If they are letting you go, it will probably be a layoff with severance, not actually being fired. It’s very rare to actually fire someone due to liability for wrongful termination. Cheaper to layoff and pay severance. When you apply for new jobs, just tell them you were laid off due to restructuring. No one will think twice because it’s common and has no bearing on your abilities.",
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"content": "Have you ever been let go? What happened after? My boss asked me to come see him first thing in the morning. I did fuck up a pretty big project end of last year owned by a significant client. I have a feeling I’m gonna be let go. Been in this company for 3 years. If that’s the case, what’s next? Should I start looking for a job right away? Then what should I say to the interviewers?",
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rvgf2i
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"content": "Apply. Went from aircrafts to rockets. First job was in construction.",
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"content": "How do I get a job as an “aerospace engineer”? I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering, a little over two years of experience working as a “mechanical design engineer” on things much less technically complex than aircraft or rockets or missiles. How do I get a job as an aerospace engineer? How do people get these jobs at places like Northrop, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, and so on? Are they complete geniuses with stacked resumes? I feel as though I’m likely way too dumb to even get one of these jobs, but I suppose there’s no reason not to ask.",
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rpo7yh
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"content": "Growing up, watching Star Trek reruns (this was pre Next Generation) my favorite character wasn't Kirk or Spock, it was Scotty. Always there to fix something, make it go faster, or figure out the nuts and bolts of the whole thing. Eventually got a job at an auto parts store/machine shop and wound up doing a lot of the engine rebuilds because I wasn't old enough to drive and deliver parts places.",
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"content": "What made you interested in Engineering?",
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"content": "Way too many people making generalizations in this thread OP. Some of you take homework far too seriously. A majority of engineers do not recreate the wheel, they copy, adapt, and improve. Seems like some of you have forgotten that obvious truth. As for OP, Simply report it to your Professor and they will handle it.",
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"content": "I’m a MSEE student grading TA. Some EE undergrads in a 400-level course accidentally submitted the answer key as their hw (they usually submit a printout from their iPad, which they write on), should i trash it or give it to the professor? Have you ever had to burn a student?",
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"content": "OP mentions that this is an international company. Most international companies I know of have hundreds of even thousands of employees, usually in multiple locations. OP didn't tell us how big his company is or how big his team is. They could be hiring to add to the team, which would explain why the posting is so similar. Or they might be hiring for a different location. He is worrying for no good reason, I think.",
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"content": "Just saw a posting for my role. Advice? So I came across a job posting on LinkedIn that's the exact description for the role I was hired for. The only difference is the amount of experience they're asking for, which still makes it worrisome as it's close to the amount of experience I have. I have heard nothing about us needing to hire for this role, and I have not been talked with regarding conduct, performance, or anything. I work at an international company, so maybe this is standard, but it's starting to creep me out. I'm wanting to ask my manager for an informal review of my performance so far, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea? Can anyone advise on a strategy to go about this?",
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ca7jjf
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"content": "Simple doesn't always mean right. For example- excel is a great tool for doing some quick numbers forecasting. It is an ***awful*** tool for doing project management. Don't let your planning tool become your operational tool- spend the money on a good project management system tailored to your needs. I have personally seen multi-million dollar space projects being actively managed on a horrific spreadsheet.",
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"content": "Engineers of reddit, what are the simple engineering solutions you wish people knew?",
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su98g1
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"content": "Whatever you do, be consistent. Some people get cool stuff and other people get shot stuff.",
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"content": "What would you like to get when you start with a new company? I’m working in our onboarding experience program. Is there any branded swag you’ve gotten that left an impression, or some procedure you think every company should follow when bringing on a new engineer?",
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"content": "lots of data and heritage dating back to the birth of flight itself. lockheed martin has been building airplanes before most countries had air forces.",
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"content": "What is the nature of knowledge that Lockheed (for eg.) has about manufacturing military aircraft (for eg.) that no one else can replicate? As an engineer-by-degree but not-even-close by training (a product India is famous for producing), I was fascinated to learn about how it requires decades of in-house knowledge (and a ton of sustained funding) to make extreme machines like jet engines and military aircraft. This was driven home by this Quora answer : https://www.quora.com/Why-does-India-not-use-reverse-engineering-to-build-weapons-instead-of-buying/answer/Toms-Thomas > Imagine you are the head of the engineering team responsible for getting the Soviet copy of the Nene operational, you report directly to the Beloved, Fearless, Doston ka Dost, Dushmanon ka Dushman, Dear Leader Uncle Stalin— an experience no sane person looks forward to. > > These are the questions your team, meaning you, must answer:- > If a fitting is built with a clearance of 5mm from the surrounding components, why is it 5mm, why not 2mm? or 20mm? What is the rationale here? > >What is this hole for? Its not on any of the other engines. Manufacturing error? Something specific to this engine? Something missed on the other engines? > >Hmm, the guys at the lathe station tell me they cannot grind the axle to the tolerances we need for the primary compressor spool, lazy shirkers! Perhaps a few months in a holiday resort in Siberia will make them more enthusiastic. > >How did the Brits bend these feed pipes to such precision, every time we try it, the pipe cracks, or kinks, or both, it can’t be hot forged, the cross section would distort, it can’t be cold worked, its too brittle for that. How did you do it Mr. Cripps? > >We still can’t get the first stage compressor disk to spool up to XXXX rpm without cracking, we have replicated the British design to the micrometer and still the damn thing keeps flying apart, what kind of heat treatment did they apply during fabrication? So I wanted to ask you experienced engineers : what is the answer like? what form does it take? Is it like a formula that academic literature can never hope to discover? Is it like a specific material ratio that works for no known reason? Is it like a design that is ridiculously complicated that no genius in their spare time could come up with? Or is it something so breathtakingly simple that is nevertheless so counter-inbuitive that no one could derive from public-domain engineering knowledge? The problem is, I have never done any real engineering creation (unless you can count a few thousand lines of trivial code), but I have dabbled in research (masters in computational engineering). So I don't know what very complex and difficult engineering knowledge looks like, other than a hard research paper on, say, numerical solution of stochastic stiff partial differential equations, with hundreds of theorems from topology. That's the scariest thing I can think of.",
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"content": "Look up AgentJayZ on Youtube. He works at a workshop that repairs jet engines, and you get to see what those engines look like on the inside. He also explains some aerospace concepts. Really cool channel. ​ I would also recommend Tech Ingredients. It's a channel that does random projects, but are very well explained. Examples of his projects include a miniature Jet Engine (The most impressive DIY I've seen yet), refrigeration, magnetism, boats, speakers. Really cool channel. The videos are pretty long, they're about 30-50 minutes long but it's worth it.",
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"content": "What are good engineering/science youtube channels to follow? I follow Real Engineering and Scott Manley. I used to follow VSauce before they became inactive. What are good channels to follow if I want to learn more about or just appreciate engineering and science. Im very interested in mechanical and aerospace content but I appreciate any suggestions even in other fields. Thanks in advance!",
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"content": "That’s a good question, I think I might use ‘stiffness’ for both and rely on context to tell which one. Maybe ‘rate’ as in spring rate for the linear stiffness (N/mm) depending on the context as well.",
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"content": "What is the correct term for certain stiffnesses? Hi, My first language is german, but i have to write an englisch document, which refers to two different kinds of stiffnesses. Unfortunately i am not sure how they translate correctly in english. Therefore, i would be really thankful if anyone can help me here. Is it correct to refer to the stiffness of a material calculated from a stress strain curve (like the young's modulus) as material stiffness \\[N/mm²\\]? (In german i would call it \"Werkstoffsteifigkeit\"). And is the stiffness of a part refered to as component stiffness \\[N/mm\\]? (in german i would call it \"Federsteifigkeit\") It would be great if anyone can confirm this or tell me the correct terms for these two cases. ​ Thanks in advance!",
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"content": "Most metals in service are not above 150C",
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"content": "How does hydrogen embrittlement happen and why do we need to look out for it when used as rocketpropulsion as most metals are immune for it above the 150°C",
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2sxduo
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"content": "if you're having that much trouble getting responses, you might want to consider having a professional review your resume. that's wayyyyy to many applications to be getting that few responses.",
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"content": "What does one do if they can't find a job? I have applied to over a 500 positions at different companies. I do the cover letter thing. I get one reply for every 100 applications. I am currently pursing a Masters degree in Electrical engineering at state university. I graduate in 4 month and I'm really worried because all my class mates were hired. It's not looking like I will find a job either because most positions for the fall have already been filled.",
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"content": "It picked up in the last year I'd imagine due to covid.",
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"content": "When did this sub become a place to discuss generic HR problems? I left reddit for a while and came back here expecting to find the usual technical problems and info on new fields, instead, I see 80% of posts have a \"Career\" flair and are just whiny monologues griping about office politics. What the hell happened to this place?",
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"content": "You probably can but it’s a dumb way to spend money. Edit: part of good engineering is to find an optimal solution that meets all the requirements. Over building renewables to meet peak demands is not an optimal solution when you have to curtain generation during the other 2/3 of the day. Edit2: it’s pretty common for CA to curtain it’s solar generation during the day for over production, but our electricity rate is also some of the highest in the country cuz solar production drops like a rock between 4-9PM.",
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"content": "Would it be feasible instead of using batteries for renewable energy, to just overbuild renewables where that resource is plentiful for the whole country? I know it sounds like a dumb question. But instead/ in combination with grid tied batteries, would it ever be feasible to just put a bunch of solar panels in the south, a bunch of wind turbines in the Midwest, and overproduce to account for transmission losses, and varience in demand?",
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t98gjx
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"content": "You need to watch Silicon Valley. Absolutely brilliant.",
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"content": "what do you think a tv show about engineers would look like? Doctors, lawyers, cops, and even more professions have tv shows. Why not engineers? If so, what do you guys think it would look like?",
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| 6 |
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"content": "What is their starting point? Do they need to design the modem chips from scratch, or are they given the main processor and modem chipset?. e.g. SnapDragon chipset? Do they need to write the operating system and applications, or can they take Android and customise it? Any electrical engineer should be able to take Qualcomm's Snapdragon devkit and make a smartphone from it: https://developer.qualcomm.com/hardware/snapdragon-888-hdk",
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"content": "Could a sufficiently talented electrical/computer engineer completely design an entire smartphone by themselves? I heard that the specialization of Engineering disciplines means that there is \"not a single person\" who completely knows how a smartphone works. This seems dubious to me and I would like to know if it would be possible for an experienced electrical engineer to design a smartphone on their own. I know that Steve Wozniak built his own computer from basic electrical components when he was a kid, but then again, I imagine modern technologies like touchscreens, LCD, and WiFi increase the amount of technical knowledge needed to design a phone/computer.",
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"content": "I studied web development and worked for a few years. Never felt satisfied with work and felt I was not doing something I liked. Went back to University and I am now in my last semester in Mechanical Engineering, I am 32 now. My knowledge in programming gives me a serious edge over other people, especially in my field of interest of Robotics and Controls. Do what you love, trust me it is important to love what you do.",
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"content": "Does anyone have any success stories of people who started an engineering degree in their late 20's or beyond? Particularly of people from a trade background who were working at more of a technician level and wanted to go further. What are the pros and cons of doing a degree later in life, particularly one done part time over several (up to 8) years? What benefits does the prior practical experience (and perhaps also life experience) offer and what sort of position do you see these adult students ending up in? I personally am a very hands on person with a burning desire to understand how everything works. Yet I could not cope being at a desk for long periods of time, nor am I particularly great at mathematical calculations, compared to many other people. I'd like to do a degree in electrical engineering part time (takes 8 years, I'd finish at age 36) to test my limits and see what I can achieve, but I'm not sure what kind of employment options suited to me will become available once I am finished. I may end up just an over-qualified electrical/instrument technician (which would be OK I suppose) but I would hope I can put the skills to use in some kind of design work. Are there a lot of on site engineers out there, who are very hands on? Perhaps even in troubleshooting or reliability, rather than new construction? I've also been looking at a degree in process control, which is something new since about 2011 where I live, and seems to be based around manufacturing and a combination of electrical, industrial electronic controllers, and some mechanical. To me it sounds a bit like mechatronics but for big scale industrial, but I could be wrong there. If anyone has any specific advice on this type of degree it would be appreciated.",
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"content": "Invent something or consult.",
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"content": "Besides tutoring, how can you make some money on the side while working full-time as an engineer? ~For paying off debt, maybe.",
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"content": "I don't know if this meets your specs, but this is my favorite design for a homemade precision balance. Maybe with some calibrated reference weights you could make it work for your project? I'd be worried about the interface between the razors being compromised if too much weight is loaded on the arm. I don't know what your project is, but remember why significant figures are on a sliding scale: When things get bigger those smaller differences become insignificant and much harder (and generally more expensive) to measure.",
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"content": "Using a combination of simple objects buy-able at a local hardware store (ie: Lowes) how could somebody build a scale that can accurately measure tenth-milligram differences between significantly more massive objects (around 20g-50g) Please optimize between total dollar cost and simplicity to assemble. I'm thinking in order to get accurate measurements you'd need to subtract out the weight that both objects likely have in common. object 1 ( 30.1298 g ) and object 2 (30.1334 g) measuring normally to 3 sig. fig. would leave you with an inconclusive reading > 30.1 and 30.1 but if you counterbalanced off 30.1g the measurements could be more accurate at only 3 sig. fig. > 0.0298 g and 0.0334 g granted that's just from my knowledge of how the math behind significant figures works. I wouldn't actually know what I'd need to do to get that effect. Incoming help appreciated!",
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"content": "Just start referring to mechanics, tech support and tradespeople as \"engineers\".",
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"content": "I'm a Math major and my friend is an Engineering major, and he is tormenting me with things like \"sin(θ) = θ\" and \"e is basically pi which is basically 4\". What sorts of things could I respond with that would make an engineer cry in the same way?",
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"content": "Sorry I don’t have an answer, but am wondering the same thing. I’m seeing many related positions open with a possible higher average salary than my current field. They seem to me to be less interesting but would love to know more!",
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"content": "Mechanical engineers who started in or switched to HVAC design, do you enjoy it or regret it? I’ve heard HVAC can be boring and less desired than most positions, but I see sooo many mechanical HVAC engineer positions open. How is pay in HVAC?",
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sfut69
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"content": "New job - Tell them what I want, if they lowball me then I walk away. Current job. - show them similar positions and explain why I am worth x and that my responsibilities have increased. If they turn me down then I find a new job and don’t bother with a counter offer.",
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"content": "How do *you* negotiate salary?",
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2p4lik
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"content": "If she's really into engineering, just get her a bunch of those neodymium magnets and some solid copper and steel wires. You can do all kinds of crazy shit with those. Or KSP and legos. Those are pretty awesome.",
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"content": "Not sure if this is the right sub, if not I apologize. Was hoping someone could recommend any good toys or games for an 11 year old girl who is interested in engineering?",
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n7kqdo
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"content": "That nothing will be done _right_ but instead done _now_.",
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"content": "engineers, what are the biggest things about the reality of working in engineering that surprised you or maybe wasn’t talked about enough/at all before you entered the industry? For me, I would say how businesslike engineering really is, like at the end of the day you are doing everything the client wants/needs.",
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"content": "Marine engineer here (basically an operational mechanic who works aboard ships--not a licensed engineer.) No idea about the answer, but it's a *GREAT* question. Following with interest!",
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"content": "Do engineers see what is going on around what they design? I’m an aircraft mechanic and I’ve wondered while busting my knuckles if engineers are basically just told “make this and make it fit here” or if they know what’s actually going on around it. For instance, today, I was replacing a permanent magnet assembly on a generator. In order to get the permanent magnet off, I had to partially remove the oil pump that sits next to the permanent magnet. The kicker to the whole thing is that you can’t totally remove the oil pump, you can only back it off the studs in which it mounts about two inches before the oil pump can’t move any farther because the permanent magnet extends outwards at a certain point. So to get the permanent magnet off, you partially remove it, then partially remove the oil pump allowing you room to finish removing the permanent magnet and if I were taking off the oil pump, only after removing the permanent magnet could I get the oil pump off. The entire time I’m looking at this, all I could think was that a little shaving of material here and there would totally alleviate the problem. So I’m just wondering, do engineers seriously not care about the difficulties in working on stuff like this or do they just not know?",
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"content": "Simplify the model, assume a failure mode, and then add a safety factor on top of that. Materials more often than not (at least today, not sure about the state of material testing and manufacturing back then) have a *specified* minimum yield strength (SMYS), but may actually be stronger. It's similar to how we sent people to the moon before FEA. Yes, FEA would be the tool you use today, but not having the tool does not necessarily make the task impossible.",
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"content": "How did German engineers calculate the theoretical maximum diving depth (crush depth) of U-boats during the second world war? I have asked this over at /r/AskHistorians, but I thought I'd also give it a shot here. Today, 3D and 2D models of designs can be constructed in a modelling software and simulated using 'finite element analysis' to determine relatively accurate values for stresses and displacements etc. These results require complex calculations only possible due to high processing speeds seen on todays computers. Before and During the second world war, how did engineers determine the same values to accurately determine the crush depth of the U-boat?",
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"content": "Almost certainly not. As a mechanical engineer, there's a huge amount of basic background information that is required to be good at your job: knowledge of structures, material science, programming, drafting, mechanisms, etc. Not to mention the non-technical aspects: Problem solving with and without complete information, critical thinking, creativity (if you have classes like that), group work (as maligned as that often is), project planning, resource management, the list goes on. No, I have never calculated a triple integral in spherical coordinates, or solved a partial differential equation using a Jacobean Matrix, or calculated heat transfer through an airplane wing. But those classes were all carriers for a whole lot of other information and skills that may not be directly understood at the time. The classes whose lessons I use regularly (statics, dynamics, materials science, machine design, drafting, etc) significantly outweigh those I don't (high level calculus, heat transfer and thermodynamics), but they were all valuable to build the skill set that I have now.",
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"content": "With all the people saying that they barely need any of the university stuff in their actual jobs, do you feel that you could have practiced your work without going through university at all? If not, which are the crucial lessons that you took from university for your job/s? (Whether it’s actual subjects/courses or a set of skills)",
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"content": "Semiconductors. 2 years experience with a bachelors $110K. I easily outperform my peers while only working 20 hours a week and no one cares because I am always ahead of schedule. They are paying for my masters and will give me another raise when I get it.",
"role": "assistant"
}
] | true |
[
{
"content": "Brag a little.. why is your industry or career choice better than mines",
"role": "user"
}
] |
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