What's your occupation: Engineer or Non-Engineer

[MidAtlanticBrew]

BSME , SUNY @ Buffalo ... I've designed equipment, automation and products for 25 years. Yet when it comes to brewing, for some reason I just buy well engineered equipment instead of designing/ building myself.

Call it burnout, lack of time, or maybe as I reflect, over a career, 50,000 hours of engineering makes the equipment side less interesting to me, while the wonders of fermentation seem to hold endless, and unexhausted fascination for me, so that's where I study and spend my time.

 

[Sparkncode]

I'm an Embedded software engineer currently involving large power electronics equipment but also have also worked as an electronics technician earlier in my career but its also very handy for my current job.
Got to prove the hardware is at fault LOL.

Writing software to control MW level power electronics is my job but it often requires a deep understanding of the hardware.

That background lead me to making an eHERMS setup.

 

[kh54s10]

I am totally surprised that the percentage of engineers is anywhere near as high as it is.....

 

[MidAtlanticBrew]

I'm not, engineers tend to be crafty and up for a challenge and they are undercompensated for the value they deliver. Paying 10 bucks a six pack when you can brew as good or better means HB'ing delivers both intellectual and monetary compensation.

I am totally surprised that the percentage of engineers is anywhere near as high as it is.....

 

[Bsbrew]

Mfg engineer here.

 

[AZBeer]

Sys Admin

 

[njviking]

Not an engineer per se, but my father was and my wife and I own an electrical engineering firm, So I got that going for me.....

 

[Kampenken]

Finance Mgr. I however am mechanically inclined, enjoy and do a lot of DIY (though my last one was a failure, that I've succeeded at before- sanding a Maple floor- pros come on Wednesday! ).

 

[Bfor87]

Municipal water purification. Definitely not an engineer, but it ties in pretty well with the hobby.

 

[Vandulus]

Information Security professional here, so I'm guessing that Computer Science falls under the Engineering category.

In fact my team is talking about getting T-shirts made: "Beer powered security."
Let's just say that beer critiquing and happy hours are very common

 

[BikerMatt]

Trucker and an entrepreneur. Building streetfighter motorbikes for fun.

 

[rusty_tlc]

Trucker and an entrepreneur. Building streetfighter motorbikes for fun.

Thank you. Trucking is the backbone of the country and the occupation is highly underrated and under appreciated IMHO.

 

[BikerMatt]

Thanks for the thanks I'm in Finland though but I guess it's the same wheels that haul stuff all around the globe.

 

[Northerngal]

I can see how brewing would be attractive to engineers!!

I'm a nurse; I've been brewing for about 3years and I love it.

 

[Invertalon]

Mechanical Engineer. Work in the combustion field doing industrial burner design (steel, aluminum, melting, paper drying, etc...).

 

[BadWolfBrewing]

Electro-mechanical engineer. I do research for vehicle electrification for one of the big 3 american auto companies.

 

[kristiismean]

Web Systems Engineer for a large "trading" firm

 

[bean89]

Not an engineer. BS in Physics.

 

[TANSTAAFB]

Licensed Professional Counselor (mental health therapist)

 

[OleBrewing]

Not an engineer, steel building drafter for 13 years and worked with engineers. now in the aerospace field still working along side engineers.

 

[AaronTheBrewer]

This is funny.
Engineer working in Automation.

 

[Big Monk]

Electrical Engineer. Design in Commercial Nuclear. BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

 

[Ayerate]

I took a couple years of art school for illustration/animation related stuff. I work retail selling alcoholic beverages.

 

[breckenridge]

Addiction psychiatrist. (no foolin')

 

[Sillybilly]

Geologist, working in engineering firm (geotechnical).

 

[Ike]

I am offended and triggered that there is no option that specifically describes me: former engineer (metallurgist) now employed in healthcare (flight nurse).

I'll forgive you after my next beer.

 

[Brutus Brewer]

My title is Sales Engineer, but I have limited engineering training.

***Update***

As of Monday, I am officially an nursing student.

 

[Ike]

***Update***

As of Monday, I am officially an nursing student.

GREAT choice. It's a really good gig. I made almost ten grand a year more my first day as a nurse with an ADN than I did on my first day as an engineer with a BS. Lots of career choices.

If you do actual patient care, do everything you can to get on a unit that does 12 hour shifts. Working three days a week, FTW! I will NEVER go back to the "M-F, usually OT on Sat, even some Sundays" lifestyle that factory engineering pushed me into.

 

[skraeling]

microbiologist...so this is kind of a natural (see what I did there) hobby.

 

[DevilNuts]

Does network engineer count? I also saw someone mention military on page 1, and I fit into both: I teach network engineering to Marines, 2003-Present.