ReplyWhat will your work consist of at this compressor manufacturer ?
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Hi Guys! I just recently graduated Mechanical Engineering and passed my licensure exam! I would like to inquire your own professional advice on what step to take as an hvac engineer, this is a general question. I just started my first job at a compressor manufacturing company. I just want to have some goals in the future to eye on.
This is my first post as a member of this forum.
Hoping for your kind advice!
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What will your work consist of at this compressor manufacturer ?
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Im still in training but in the future my work will either support the end-users, contractors or oems by calls of by actually supporting them on field.
Thanks for the reply!
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Learn every part of the system and how it affects your compressor. Essentially your compressor either runs or it don’t it’s the components that changes how well it runs.
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I told my wife when i die to sell my fishing stuff for what its worth not what i told her i paid for it
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If you have a BSME, which Licensure test? (PE?) You should have all the necessary knowledge you need to get into the HVAC Engineering side of the business.
The question is where do you want to end up? As a contractor installing and repairing HVAC system or in the factory designing and building the equipment.
If you want to end up installing and repairing you need to find an HVAC contractor, there are many who need PE's on staff to sign and stamp drawings for submittals. If you can find a job with a contractor you can followup with the guys in the flield and start learning that side of the business. Just a suggestion send some Resume' out to larger industrial /commercial outfits
If you want on the designing building side keep sending resume's out to HVAC manufacturers,. There is a lot of compressor design stuff that is applicable back into the HVAC world
Good Luck
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Thanks for the reply sirs!
I think I want to end up on designing and building equipment because I think there is more learning there. You are referring to OEMs right?
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Yes
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If you are going to be designing it, do us all a favor and do some field service work first, so you know what it takes to do certain things and how to place things.
Not trying to be rude but some of the designs that get made are just unreal in terms of how to service it, requires a complete disassembly just to do 1 thing.
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Manufacturers don't care. All they want is the cheapest price possible to make the sale up front. Then they are gone and we have to live with their design. Customer doesn't pay upfront, but they pay forever afterward.Originally Posted by Olivero
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Yup, and if new engineers changed that, we might have a chance at getting somewhere.
The manufacturers won't design it, their Engineers will.
Keep agreeing that's how it is and it won't change and it never will.
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New engineers who would "change that" are seen as not being team players.
Non-team players get traded.
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What are you guys talking about? I really don’t see that much stuff that’s hard to repair. It’s the being hard to get to that really stinks.
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You think the HVAC industry is bad ever worked on a newer automobile ?
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Welcome to H-Talk, the Finest Hvac/r Forum in the World, barr-none. Congratulations to You on Your Graduation, followed by passing your Licence Exam. Please fill in Your About Me Page, so I/We can attempt to help answer all Your Questions.Hi Guys! I just recently graduated Mechanical Engineering and passed my licensure exam! I would like to inquire your own professional advice on what step to take as an hvac engineer, this is a general question. I just started my first job at a compressor manufacturing company. I just want to have some goals in the future to eye on.
This is my first post as a member of this forum.
Hoping for your kind advice!
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Yes, cars and bikes, you have to remove everything to get to anything, I know.
But that's fun ripping apart.
I don't find having to pull all kind of stuff apart or having to lay on my back or side, and reaching under something with no room for my hands to move and things like that, it drives me crazy.
I also don't agree in the "That's what everyone does, so that's what I'll do" mentality, if I can do something better than someone else, I'll do it that way, regardless of how much someone complains, if they don't like it, they can get rid of me. Otherwise, that's how I'll do it, so I feel good about it.
If everyone did that, including the engineer that designs the equipment, this problem would go away.
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You Ok Bro? Thought You were having some sort of breakdown..Lol....Who you talkin at? Me He or She?
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[QUOTE=lzenglish;25783063].
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[QUOTE=VTP99;25783081]Say calibrated beer can cold hand from Ohio, what-chew-want? LMFAO....
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Not having a breakdown, lol. Just speaking my mind.
Not speaking to you Iz, just discussing the general topic of our new up and coming member here revolutionizing the engineering trade by going in the field prior to designing equipment so that he knows what to do and not do to make things easier to work on and work in.
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Speak on brutha! Just wondered. By the way, its LZ, not IZ, as in Landing Zone English..No offence and I do agree with Speaking Minds, so Keep it up Please. You just failed to quote someone i guess. Now if i may, let me say this, i agree that every desk jockey engineer should do a stint in the field. I also believe that every auto mechanic should work as an automotive machinist before he/she goes out into the field, get my drift?
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