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Project manager but spent ten years designing plastics for consumer products. Would be a full time woodworker if I could afford it.
 
Nuclear Engineering in school (no degree), Senior Systems Engineer - IT now.
 
TXANM said:
Engineer. I Frac wells, or as the media spells it, Frack.
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My brother was a wire-line engineer for a bit. Not sure if he was doing any fraking.

Recently graduated with a BS in Biology from SC. Applying to medical school currently. Working as a medical technician now.
 
Mech. Engineer from Oregon State University '08. Go Beaves! Worked in the Gas/oil industry :( now in the pulp/paper industry and back in Oregon.
 
Tritonal said:
Non-Engineer here, Weapons systems specialist on the A-10. But boy oh boy I'd love to have a one on one with the engineers who designed that plane
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But it's a plane wrapped around a giant gun, no?
Pilots love flying them apparently.
What is it you don't like about the design/engineering aspect of it?
 
Tritonal said:
Non-Engineer here, Weapons systems specialist on the A-10. But boy oh boy I'd love to have a one on one with the engineers who designed that plane
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Considering the age of the original airframe...you will likely require a Medium to have that conversation.

On topic, not an engineer though my job title occasionally claims I am depending on the company. Project Cost Analyst/Sepcialist/Engineer at most jobs. Occasionally a Logistics Specialist when I work for a DoD contractor. Right now I am a Systems and Proccess Lead which is a fancy way to say I attempt to make order out of chaos fromall the broken reporting systems the refinery I work at has cobbled togther over 100 years of production. In short, my job title rarely has anything to do with my work...the joys of being a contract employee.
 
Not an engineer by job title, but do the exact same work as quality engineer (and yes I know that's different from mech/elec/civil).

BA in history, and working on MA in American history
 
MSc in Precessengineering and Biotechnology.
Currently working on my phD in molecular biology, but i would love going back the engineering route after gradschool :)
 
Tritonal said:
Non-Engineer here, Weapons systems specialist on the A-10. But boy oh boy I'd love to have a one on one with the engineers who designed that plane
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You probably know more about the aircraft's quirks than me, but those engineers are gods in my little ol' Army eyes!!
 
Tritonal said:
Non-Engineer here, Weapons systems specialist on the A-10. But boy oh boy I'd love to have a one on one with the engineers who designed that plane
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I never got to fly her but a few of my colleagues that did all rave about how wonderful it was to fly. Now maybe the maintenance side of things was a different story :D
 
brussum said:
You probably know more about the aircraft's quirks than me, but those engineers are gods in my little ol' Army eyes!!
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Her capabilities are unmatched in close air support but I have had more "hog bites" than I care to admit. Also when you make an 11 stationed beast don't make 23 different bolts to hold them on. She is a work of art that is no doubt.

After a day of working on it maybe I should change my brewery name to "Bloody knuckes brewery". Mechanics would get it.
 
Bringing this one back to the top... My supervisor graduated ISU a few years ahead of me, and worked in a manufacturing facility for a number of years before joining our firm -- and needing to worry about the FE and PE exams. Because it had been so long since graduation before he started the exams, it took him three tries to pass the FE exam, and this year was his fourth attempt at the PE (yes... he took one of those damn tests EVERY YEAR for seven straight years) Last year, he moved into his new house Monday-Wednesday, Thursday his second son was born, and Friday he sat through that M-F'er of a test. Nobody was surprised when he didn't pass. Most of us told him we wouldn't have even GONE to the test.


He just got word that he passed this time. Needless to say, the atmosphere in the office is a little more amped up than normal (and a case of beer is in the break room fridge)
 
Tritonal said:
Non-Engineer here, Weapons systems specialist on the A-10. But boy oh boy I'd love to have a one on one with the engineers who designed that plane
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I worked in fabrication and in munitions for an A-10 ANG unit in Massachusetts. The folks that designed that beast designed it to fight, fight hard, and to fight again. Beautiful design. We should build more of them. The ground-pounders in Iraq and Afghanistan love them.
 
dkwolf said:
Bringing this one back to the top... My supervisor graduated ISU a few years ahead of me, and worked in a manufacturing facility for a number of years before joining our firm -- and needing to worry about the FE and PE exams. Because it had been so long since graduation before he started the exams, it took him three tries to pass the FE exam, and this year was his fourth attempt at the PE (yes... he took one of those damn tests EVERY YEAR for seven straight years) Last year, he moved into his new house Monday-Wednesday, Thursday his second son was born, and Friday he sat through that M-F'er of a test. Nobody was surprised when he didn't pass. Most of us told him we wouldn't have even GONE to the test.


He just got word that he passed this time. Needless to say, the atmosphere in the office is a little more amped up than normal (and a case of beer is in the break room fridge)
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Yeah taking the FE / EIT exam when you're still in school is the way to go. Nobody I know studied, and we all passed it very easily. As a ChemE working in R+D I doubt I'll ever need to get my PE, but it was so easy to take the test that I did it anyway. If I had to do the FE now there's no way I'd remember any of that crap :drunk:
 
At my college, you had to pass the FE to graduate.

Our college did a once a week for 8 weeks review session on all the various topics on the test. But the best study I did was to take a practice 8-hour test, just so I'd know what it was like to sit for one that long.
 
Background in food and construction. Spent 5 years roasting coffee professionally. Now I'm a credit underwriter.
 

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