Actually you're not supposed to call yourself an engineer until you pass the P.E. in any field.
I'm sure your company does treat people differently but that is understandable. While you're an EI (engineering intern) or EIT (Engineer in training) You either use that as your job title or consider yourself a designer (or at least thats the way i understand it from what i read).


That being said, i love hvac but i still ask for plumbing jobs from time to time cause i really want to be a dual threat. As you said the industry is very rewarding and there is plenty of room to make a name for yourself. I've been doing this well since i started this thread and have been asked to do presentations all over the south east (on trouble shooting building design with thermo graphic imaging).

1/8/2008 8:03:31 AM

i am not a engineer

but I am still learning my job

why does it got to be about just engineers?

1/11/2008 6:15:21 PM

because they are better than everyone else

1/11/2008 6:38:29 PM

cause i was curious about MY job not yours

1/11/2008 6:55:47 PM

^*4 That's true unless your industry is exempted - as regulated utilities are.

As cornbread said, it takes about 6 months at a Duke Energy nuke to start getting anything real to bite into (that time is spent in training or reading an ass-ton of administrative procedures). I've been at Catawba for 2.5 years now and I have more work than I can even handle. I am also typically thrown into situations which I really don't know much about (like when our fire protection computer failed recently) but I love it.

1/12/2008 12:02:16 AM

Quote :

"^*4 That's true unless your industry is exempted - as regulated utilities are. "

the employees of the utility company are exempted - not the industry. You could work for Progress Energy or PSNC and not need a licence to practice engineering, but a consultant that did work for those companies would need a license to practice.

1/12/2008 8:02:03 PM

JUGGERNAUT





CRUSH ENGINEERS!!!

1/13/2008 2:43:13 AM