What engineering discipline are you in?

materials engineering left off of poll

 

Electrical engineering working on particle accelerators, beam transportation systems and beam delivery systems.

 

^^ so is what I'm hearing is you work on light sabers.... Dibs on the first production model!

 

Sorry about that buddyo. There are so many disciplines that I tried to stick with the main groups. But thou are not forgotten.

 

Any engineers in California that have worked with/around flares for oil and gas?

Figured there were enough in here, maybe I'd get a ping from one of you.

 

Currently finishing my CHEE degree; tired of working in the position of one and not getting ANY of the perks.

 

With my graduation just around the corner I figured I would share my grad photo.

I must say, the feeling of completion is surreal. This world will throw every hurdle possible in your way to make you fail.

 

^^Looks like another mechanical engineer right there.

 

transferring to UCR next fall for electrical engineering, im an electrician and a high voltage splicer so now time to get my degree and my focus will be on the power side, utilities

 

Studying Mechanical Engineering right now, I hope that it's all worth it in the end!

Ben

 

BSME working in Power Generation

 

Civil but I work at a Nuclear Plant as a program valve engineer...

 

I don't see anything on there for us Ungineers...

 

It will be worth more than you can ever imagine. Great pay, great raises, great bonuses, and tons of opportunity.

 

General redneck engineering.
Not technically a discipline but it works.

 

Mechanical engineering, working in electrical power generation.

 

Working towards a general engineering degree ( mainly focused on machanical and electrical). I go to Loras College which has about 400 kids per class. Theres about 10 per grade for engineering.

 

Go get your own thread!!

 

For those mechanical engineers out there...

I'm a college student going for mechanical engineering. As much as people say they love their job at Boeing or Bosch or some of these companies, what all do you do on a daily basis exactly? I'm looking into the manufacturing business. Bosch I am hoping for specifically. I never understood what mechanical engineers actually "do".

 

Probably the most diverse engineering field.
I've spent almost 30 years in 2 different companies as a manufacturing engineer. First was a smaller company making industrial diamond tools- dressing & grinding tools. Probably the most fun I had in my career as it was all new to me. Did a little of everything - CAD design of products and tooling; CNC programming; purchasing & running new machinery, working with customers. Very hands on.
Started up a new product line, and added production supervisor to the mix. A big part of manufacturing is troubleshooting - equipment problems, mistakes, etc.
Didn't care for the supervisory part, and after 8 years was pretty burned out. Took a nine month hiatus, part of which was spent traveling around the country.
Next was a company manufacturing aerospace bearings. Larger company and not wearing so many hats, so less stressful. More variety of processes & equipment, tighter tolerances to work to, lots more people to work with.
Off & on still doing CAD design, lots more troubleshooting, process development & improvement. Currently providing engineering support for several different production areas. A lot of that is "can't get these parts into spec what do we do?" kinds of issues. Work with equipment vendors & subcontractors(we do most of our manufacturing in house, but do have a few parts made outside as well as special processes such as plating & other coatings.)
We have other ME's as application engineers- working with customers to design bearings for their applications; another group does gauge design & support; metallurgical & heat treat; & some of our management & quality control people have an ME background.
Not all of it is glamorous or exciting, sometimes gets stressful, but every job has its moments.