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What's your occupation

  • Engineer

  • Non-Engineer


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I'm an electrical engineer (RF & Microwave).

I work with cellphone EEs, and one group of them at a mobile phone OEM brews beer in their lab (long hours, gotta have an upside). Pretty good ale, too!

Most of my customers are EEs, and they all seem to LOVE beer, and a lot have brewed.

When I started brewing a little over a year ago, I promised myself I would not geek out with the process. Uh, so today, my brewing log is an Excel spreadsheet with 27 columns. DOH!
 
Not engineer but first six semesters of college were engineering. Can probably still integrate in 3 dimensions too.
 
I'm not an engineer. I'm an undereducated worker straddling the line between lower-middle class and upper-lowerclass. Still like to drink excellent beer though.
 
I said it somewhere before about a thousand pages ago. Having the word engineer in your job description covers everything from rocket scientist to garbage disposal engineer. This is the most worthless thread ever!.....Or since the last one I created at least.
 
I said it somewhere before about a thousand pages ago. Having the word engineer in your job description covers everything from rocket scientist to garbage disposal engineer. This is the most worthless thread ever!.....Or since the last one I created at least.

In that case I change my answer to engineer.
Beer engineer that is:p
 
Elementary school teacher and part-time acupuncturist. I am mechanically disinclined but my brother-in-law is an aerospace engineer (designs engines for Boeing) and his 15 year old son will help me wire my temperature controller so I won't burn my house down.
 
And all this from the same country that thought the depiction during the Olympics opening ceremony of Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a character from a Dickens novel. Get a grip guys. Most of you are NOT engineers.
 
I'm a land surveyor.
Not a damn engineer but I work with them and occasionally re calc their plan data and make things work.

I prefer boundary work to dealing with topo and construction.
 
Architect turned mechanical engineer for a nuclear firm. The architecture industry took a huge hit in the economic downturn...so I adapted. It turned out to be a great career move.
 
I said it somewhere before about a thousand pages ago. Having the word engineer in your job description covers everything from rocket scientist to garbage disposal engineer. This is the most worthless thread ever!.....Or since the last one I created at least.

Very true.
If you are an actual engineer you will have an engineering license that you took an engineering test to get.
Your licence will be governed by your states board of registration and under a separate branch with a board of registration that has engineers and surveyors on it ( usually about a two to one ratio favoring engineers ).
You will have special laws and administrative code that govern your actions and ethical behavior.
 
And all this from the same country that thought the depiction during the Olympics opening ceremony of Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a character from a Dickens novel. Get a grip guys. Most of you are NOT engineers.

I'm one. Not just in degree, but I actually design electronic devices, mostly medical. Schematic design, PCB layout, firmware, soldering, debugging. I have a 1-man consulting company. I know there are others here.

I just finished the board layout for a really cool O2 sensor tonight. It will measure the O2 concentration using light. I bounce red light off a tablet that contains a powder that fluoresces. There is a very small time lag (nanoseconds) between when the red light hits the tablet and when it floresces. I blast the tablet with a high-frequency sine wave then use FFT (fast fourier transform) to measure the lag in response. This lag is proportional to the amount of O2 where the tablet is.

The cool thing is that it can be used in liquid, so works with beer! Once I get it working I'll watch the O2 deplete in my carboy during fermentation. Can't wait.

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Very true.
If you are an actual engineer you will have an engineering license that you took an engineering test to get.
Your licence will be governed by your states board of registration and under a separate branch with a board of registration that has engineers and surveyors on it ( usually about a two to one ratio favoring engineers ).
You will have special laws and administrative code that govern your actions and ethical behavior.

Not even a little bit true. At least not for electronics and mechanical designers.

I imagine this might be true for civil engineers that do sign off on bridges. God, I hope so.
 
That is epic passedpawn. If only I could understand everything you just said! No matter, I can still sense it's epicness.
 
Not even a little bit true. At least not for electronics and mechanical designers.

I imagine this might be true for civil engineers that do sign off on bridges. God, I hope so.

kinda sorta...

I do some civil engineering... but not bridges. Well, once I designed some truss frames that were for concrete forms to support a bridge they were pouring.

Wood truss designers actually engineering the trusses & system, just under the supervision of a civil engineer. Then he'll stamp the drawings after a review. Same goes for engineered wood products I design too, beams, joists, etc etc
 
CPA don't call me accountant. I didn't spend four years in evil medical school to be called accountant. Wait .... :p
 
Very true.
If you are an actual engineer you will have an engineering license that you took an engineering test to get.
Your licence will be governed by your states board of registration and under a separate branch with a board of registration that has engineers and surveyors on it ( usually about a two to one ratio favoring engineers ).
You will have special laws and administrative code that govern your actions and ethical behavior.

:fro: If you are an actual engineer you drive a train and wear a striped hat.

Seriously, I can name maybe 2-3 lifelong engineers I know personally that went through the PE process, including like a gazillion people I know that work at NASA. Are you saying NASA folks aren't engineers?
 
Not an engineer. Graphic Designer by trade. Brewing beer definitely works with my wanting to create things though.
 
I understood i and it is a pretty cool project if it ends up working as expected.


Yeah, I was being silly, making fun of my lack of a brain. I understand what it will accomplish and I think it's truly amazing. The details though are way over my head. :eek:
 
I'm a mechanic so most of my time is spent cursing at engineers under my breath for hiding that last bell housing bolt behind something.
 
Degree in Land Surveying, Certificate in Geographic Information Systems, Partial Civil Engineering degree. Currently designing houses, site surveys and soil analysis for septic/WWTS design. Also work for NYSDEC in the Mineral Resources Bureau.

:mug:
 
I'm in maintenance. Worked closely with some great engineers over the years. Airplanes. Then graduated to management. That was good and bad.

I was asked recently to take on a job as a technical rep for FA-18 aircraft. The job will probably pay the same as my current one, maybe even less. I'm brain dead at my current job, even if it is considered technical. I'll probably take the new job offer. My mind needs to start working again.
 
Degrees in Physics and mechanical engineering from Worcester Poly Tech. Now a Sales Engineer in software.
 
Automated material handling systems maintenance manager, or field re-engineering specialist.

I've had the generic title of field engineer before, but an accredited engineer I am not.

How to answer the poll for folks like me on the fringes?
 
unemployed truck driver / owner operator . now kept house husband and home brewer till i find work LOL. New Zealand based. This is my first time at home brewing so will need all the help I can get . Have just put down my first home brew spirit and will be ready in 3 days for distilling. Will keep you posted on how it works out. I have 2 x 26ltr brew buckets and 1x 5ltr still-spirits distiller. note I have only put 1x 26ltr bucket

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