Canadian Council of Professional Engineers Puns

Hey, I have an upcoming assignment for a first-year course that requires me to question engineers of different disciplines. I only know one engineer and I need three total. Only requirement is they must be Canadian and can provide me with their name and company/organization of work (nothing else).

The questions themselves are pretty simple:

• What is your discipline and what is it that your discipline does?
• Describe one of the projects you have participated in or some of the work you have done?
• What advice would you give to new engineers/engineering students to prepare for the 'real world'?

As piping stress engineer, you know there’s a lot more to pipe design than routing. That’s because while they look static, pipes can be surprisingly dynamic. Changing loads can cause them to shift, get overstressed, fail, cause harm and do damage. And when the substances in those pipes are hazardous, there can be perilous consequences for the people and equipment in your plant.

If you’ve already experienced a piping-related problem, the process of pipe stress analysis can ensure you properly diagnose the issue and make a safe, long-term fix. If you’re building a factory from the ground up, it can help you design a piping system that’s as smart as it is efficient. In both cases, pipe stress analysis can help you ensure the safety of your plant environment and your workforce. This simple guide will help you approach that critical process thoughtfully and practically.

The importance of pipe flexibility

Pipe stress design is a balancing act between flexibility and rigidity. Depending on the loads placed on them, you may need to design your piping to be firm and elastic at the same time. Let’s start with the flexible part.

Thermal stresses are the primary reason your system needs flexibility. Pipes grow when their temperature rises above ambient conditions, and they shrink when it drops below. The same goes for the equipment those pipes are connected to. That growth has to go somewhere.

If pipes are not allowed to grow, or to move with growing equipment, they will push on themselves, their supports and the equipment they’re connected to until something gives way. Even a fraction of an inch of growth can generate tens or even hundreds of thousands of pounds of force if the pipes are completely locked in place.

The best way to address thermal growth is by adding flexibility to the system. Most often that comes in the form of flexible supports, expansion loops, and/or expansion joints. The key, as we mentioned earlier, is a balance of solutions that deliver the elasticity you need.

The importance of pipe rigidity

Flexibility isn’t the system’s only need, of course. Too much of it can make pipes vu

Sorry if this was answered before, but I was wondering how many engineers here received their APEGA / APEGS Professional Engineering designation through working as a field engineer in a services company. It seems like we don't do that much in the way of traditional blue print / design work so I was wondering if it can count towards experience for designation.

Thanks for your answers

Probably a dumb question, but thought I'd ask nevertheless. I keep on hearing about how "facebook" or "amazon" or xyz-large-company has 100s/1000s of SWE's, Data scientists, etc., etc. and I'm pretty confused as to what they all do. Like if I take Facebook as an example, I can imagine that they need to maintain/improve their front end and backend, mobile app, messenger app for SWEs. Data Scientist-esque people to analyze user trends, selling data to advertisers, doing UX analytics, (maybe this is where product management comes in?). And maybe a bunch of people in the finance/HR/legal/other departments that don't deal with the core product.

Even with all these, my (probably wrong) impression is that you'd need 20-30 people max to address these, right? What other depts. exist that need SWEs, and how many people are actually needed for the various functions of a large company?

What resources do you recommend For Professional Development Of New Mechanical Engineers?

Just looking for general input/help from others who might work in a similar environment or engineers that helped developed a young team.

We don't have any established standards or training. We use Solidworks 2020. I'd like to eventually develop design standards.

I joined a 20-year old company but with a brand new engineering team (OG's retired). I'm the most senior engineer (10yrs) and I'm expected to mentor and professionally develop the team (4x engineers including me).

We're an industrial automation machine design/build company. We're a small shop (16 ppl) and we don't have a lot of the resources of larger companies.

Engineers are expected to assist with quoting/procurement/inventory management, customer meetings, project management, schedules as well as 3D modeling, design concepts/reviews, 2D detail & assembly prints, drawing checking, technical documentation (i.e. Operations manuals).

Our detail drawings are simple, almost no GD&T, no standard drawing notes, lots of right angles, plates with holes.

Our assembly dwgs are simple with just callouts to COTS p/n QTY and custom p/n QTY. Fasteners are typically left of the dwg (we deliver the machines assembled); the assy dwgs are for MRO.

We don't have a QC department, so parts inspection is minimal/not documented ("did it assemble? Then it's good")

I did this a while ago and it was popular, so I'm doing one again.

From the last thread with some additional info: I think I’m finally able to contribute back to this community, so I’m doing an AMA.

Some background:

• Have almost 6 years of experience as a backend engineer
• Currently at my second job and work 35-45 hours/week
• Have a bachelors from a well-known CS school
• Total comp > 400k (salary + equity)
• Currently work at a well-known company (one of Airbnb, Lyft, Uber)

I have experience in or have experienced a decent amount including the following:

• interviewing (including many of the big N, mid-sized companies, startups)
• negotiating comp after getting an offer
• handling rejection
• interviewed dozens candidates for backend positions
• actually working as a software engineer
• getting promoted & raises
• preparing for interviews as a new grad and as someone with a couple years of experience
• switching jobs while working (including when to know to quit and how to quit)
• budgeting and where to put those stacks of money
• life after college in general

Obviously I’m not a seasoned veteran of the industry by any means, but I think my perspective can help many people in this sub who are still in college or recently graduated (or even more experienced people that are just curious).

Ask me questions about any of the above or whatever else you want. I’ll try to provide detailed answers. Ask away!

Hello! My wife got an enforcement letter from the PEO saying that using the Azure Data Engineer title is illegal and they are threatening with legal actions. We can't believe it!

The most ridiculous part is that she is not a data engineer but has the Azure data engineer cert in her resume.

Anyone else experienced something like this?

P.S.: She doesn't have enough karma to post.

Hi, my name is Lukas and I am an audio engineer/producer looking to get some experience working on games. Video games have been a passion all my life, and I even spent some time taking classes in college to learn more while studying to become an audio engineer.

I want to combine my two passions into one, anyone out there need someone to do sound design/scoring? Not neccesarily looking for a high paying gig, I am more so looking for experience and to hopefully work on something I can get passionate about.

Let me know!

Portfolio: https://www.lukasadgate.com/

(Don't be fooled by the genre of music on my portfolio, I've recorded mostly pop but am by no means limited to that genre)

In High School, I learned that the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy in New York had a constitution and system of representative democracy predating European colonization. I recently found out that further west there were other multi-ethnic political alliances and confederacies. For example, most of the Lake Michigan area looks like it was controlled by the Anishinaabe Council of Three Fires. What do we know about the organization of these groups? Did members hold votes? Did membership provide nations with advantages beyond protection from shared enemies?

Also, as far as I can tell the Great Sioux Nation and Council of Three Fires still exist as organizations in one form or another. I don't mean to imply they're gone, but I would guess that their function has changed over the past 300 years.

Thanks!

Hi guys!

I am in need of some professional advice!

I have recently started a new position as Mechanical Design Engineer Consultant. Before this position, I was a mechanical design engineer, but in aerospace. I am now working in heavy industry. I don't have a lot of experience, but I was hired, for a 3+ years of experience, due to my knowledge in FEA and Topology optimization.

However, I am now designing my first machine. Some colleagues tell me that's a big challenge for someone sow new to the position. In my previous position, I was always that guy that did all the maths and simulations. However, right now, since this is a big company, they just change parts around and don't really do the maths. When I am reviewing my design with senior engineers, I am always finding some basic mistakes, that I was not aware of because I don't know the industry and because we did it differently in other companies.

This being said I am always super motivated, I love what I do, and I am always willing to learn. I am learning TONS

I also admit my mistakes and when I tell in time when I believe I will be delaying my design, and I am always honest saying "I don't know the industry nor the requirements of these machines." I have also suggested improvements, that were positively received, on the respective machines that we could do, but I don't have time to implement them because I fail in the basics...

As a consultant, I have to justify their extra cost on me, but I fear I am passing a bad impression.

So my question is: I don't know if it is normal to feel like a trainee again or are my fears justified, and I should fear losing my job because of incompetence or skills not as good as expected?

I would love to hear similar experiences you had in the past!

Note: I have not lied in my CV. When I was wired for this position, they have checked my CV and my internships.

EDIT: I better explained what advice I needed.

Paternity leave is still a novel concept to many people. Although there has been progress, there is still some stigma surrounding dads taking parental leave. Let's dispel some myths and have some fun!

I'm less than 2 weeks away from starting my paternity leave. I'll be taking time off of work to spend with my infant daughter, and I CAN'T WAIT!

AMA!

My job will give me a bonus if I get the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Certification before the middle of December. They gave me an account on A Cloud Guru for training, so I'm going to be using that.

So, my question is, should I get any certs before going for the DevOps Professional?

I was in a cloud engineer role for a year recently, and used AWS in it, so I'm familiar with the basics of AWS. I'm in a DevOps role now so I know the fundamentals of that as well with Git, pipelines, etc... I'm not using any AWS for it though. Lastly, I have been in IT for a decade and have a solid grasp on all the fundamentals of computers: networking, databases, how to do basic crap like SSH to servers, how public/private keys work, ports, protocols, services, yada, yada, yada...

Right now, I'm thinking that skipping Cloud Practitioner is a good idea since the majority of that I know, and what I don't know of it probably isn't related to DevOps Professional Cert. However, I'm not sure how much of the stuff I'd learn on SysOps Associate and Developer Associate Certificates would be beneficial on the DevOps Professional Exam.

I'm thinking of taking the SysOps and Developer Associate Exams to get a solid grasp of everything that would be on the DevOps professional certification exam.

Does that seem like the best path forward?

Any thoughts or insight would be appreciated.

I see a lot of posts about out in left field Masonic bodies. As a person always trying to find and follow a trend, I’d love to know if there are any other UCC&E members here?

I wrote a blog post about joining but honestly, I didn’t even know I was a candidate until five minutes before I took the degree work so I’m also curious to hear what other people’s experiences have been.

I just finished a final with a UML diagram question and was just wondering.

I got the general gist of DOE (Design of Experiment) from online and youtube but I'm looking to implement it in my department. Does anyone have suggestions learning DOE to an in-depth level? Paid courses are fine since I can probably get it comp'ed from my work.