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    One Engineer Fights for the Right to be called Engineer

    Is there a website or database where the rules/regulations are compared from state to state for what is engineering/who can be called an engineer? Is the big difference just between: your company can do "engineering work" (ie design/make widgets) but that you cannot custom design a widget for...
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    Calculating Friction

    @pipesnpumps - our company doesn't do too much sprinkler/center-pivot design and its all sub-surface drip for corn/soybean; however I appreciate the advice. to everybody else: thank you, I mentioned this all to my boss and he encouraged me (when I have downtime) to create a spreadsheet...
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    Calculating Friction

    Firstly to darai: I wasn't attempting to besmirch my boss or complaining about my job, haha although I do like to complain about my pay ;) Seriously though, how does me looking through my boss's spreadsheets necessitate that I do not know how to use spreadhseets? I understand your desire to give...
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    What are good skills to learn?

    So I am a recent grad who is attempting to improve his skills at his job. I have kind of an itemized list (beyond the obvious "know what you are doing"). 1. Become very good using Excel - easy way to organize information that is used across all industries 2. Learn Spanish - I am working in SW...
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    Electrician eager to enter Engineering field

    I really don't think that people who are CAD specialists will "die out" they will merely not likely ascend into higher positions. this is assuming they do not have an engineering degree and are like an ITT tech sort of person. Of course, given enough skill, anything is possible (even though...
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    Calculating Friction

    I am a recent graduate who recently got hired by a commercial irrigation company. Got hired, did a bunch of manual labor etc.. to learn the industry and now my boss has me learning how to do the calcs etc... for how to design these systems. I suppose I should qualify this really quickly...
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    FE Afternoon Test - General or Mechanical?

    FWIW the general consensus among the people I talked to during/after the FE was that everybody took the general since it looked a lot easier than the mechanical.
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    Online BSME/BSEE/BSCE (ABET accredited)

    I actually graduated from the University of North Dakota in May 2009 with a BSME. The DEDP (distance engineering degree program) is not an online degree. The DEDP program allows older people/non traditional students who are in other fields to basically take the first 3 years of UND engineering...
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