Future engineering jobs

Whal sort of engineering job do you do at present or would you like to do In the future What are the attractions of the job Compare answers with others in your group. 

At the end of each month, the field cost engineer collects all current information on a detailed cost report form. As these are actual costs, they can be used to estimate future job costs to completion. Daily reports of unit-cost progress for concrete, excavation, masonry, steel, piping, and electrical work, etc., are then used to predict possible overruns or underruns for the various items. Analysis and comparison with the original estimate point out trouble spots for early attention. If an item is running into difficulty, it is red-flagged to the resident and projec t engineers for remedial action. 

From the cost information, cost engineers can update their estimates so that future estimates will be more reliable. The planners can similarly update their time estimates. Even though this costs money, it is the best way a company can improve its predictive ability for future projects, as well as maintaining control over the current job. 

Personal Brand and Portfolio In times past, keeping an eye open for future job opportunity largely meant keeping you re resume updated, and back then, when opportunity knocked, it came in the form of a promotion with your current employer or a job offer from a large company in a similar line of work. In a world of limited work at the core and increased free agency, the wise entrepreneurial engineer needs to take more proactive steps to de velop his or her personal brand, and a key tool toward doing this is the maintenance of a professional portfolio. 

My job of discussing Keith Gubbins paper [1] would be easier if I disagreed with his summary of the current status and future opportunities in the use of thermodynamics in chemical engineering. Unfortunately for me, his is a fine paper, and it touches on most of the important areas that are likely to prosper during the next couple of decades. However, there are some areas that 1 believe he underemphasizes or whose importance he underestimates. 

If lumber were used to do to the same job as OSB, an excess of 8 billion more board feet of lumber would be needed annually, and this lumber would have to come from laiger, higher quality, more expensive trees. It is easy to understand why OSB is considered as the wood product of future in the construction business. Veneer lumber, parallel strand lumber, and laminated strand lumber are also rapidly moving into the market as engineered wood products.25,26... 

The job of a safety engineer is to review an old or existing plant design, future and old equipment, procedures and operation, estimates, chances of hazards, and their correction to avoid accidents in a new plant design. This appraisal can be done by the following procedures ... 

In 1963 all the outlying warehouses and old mills in Wiltshire were closed down and production of the 700 twin cylinder Constellation motorcycle was concentrated at Westwood. With defence-related contracts now coming to a close, and despite the motorcycle work, there was plenty of spare capacity at the underground factory, which was taken up with any jobbing engineering work that the company could obtain. It was obvious, however, that the future was bleak for Royal Enfield, and no one was surprised when the underground factory finally closed in 1970. A small pan of the works, complete with plant and equipment, was taken over by an engineering firm run by ex-Enfield employees, which continued to operate the site successfully for nearly twenty years. 

Harry s and Sally s job prospects provide many angles to consider in planning for the future in higher education. The four step Planning pro-cess described earlier is used to prompt, suggest and guide considerations for mechanical engineering education in 2030 ... 

Mechanical engineering education is not challenged to prepare students for the job opportunities of the future. 

Organizations Green Jobs, the World Resources Forum, and the Decade of Education in Sustainable Development, to name a few. The United Nations has defined Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as encouraging changes in behavior that will create a more sustainable future in terms of environmental integrity, economic viability, and a just society for present and future generations. This defines the crux of sustainability competency for mechanical engineering education. 

The lack of opportunity to develop systems, sustainability and ethics competency within the educational experience creates difficulties for early career engineers. These mechanical engineers may find it difficult to address challenges encountered because they do not possess the competencies required by workplace. This chapter provides alternative examples to conventional methods, designed to benefit students, employers, society and faculty. Moreover, it explores the future of mechanical engineering practice in the context of job opportunities, hiring... 

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