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Old 03-19-2012, 08:58 PM   #18
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Best jjob I had was called "Service Sales". I had to search out upgrades and revamps on existing equipment, then come up with a solution, sell the idea and then engineer it and see it through to completion. It got a bit hectic when it was taking a lot of engineering time and still had to get the sales done for future work. I was wearing jeans and boots, in the plants and working with the technicians.

I did get a bit put out at some of the over-paid techs that could not do a simple thing like grease a 200 HP motor properly or find an ammonia leak.

One of my early engineering instructors told us that just because you graduated and had an engineering degree....you were not an engineer. They were giving us the tools to go out and BECOME engineers. Over the years I have met a lot of degreed and over-degreed engineers that should never be called an engineer.

I feel every engineering graduate should be required to spend 2 or 3 years in the field ...learning how the engineering is actually applied.

Ken
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