I'm not in the States so this may be completely different so take it with a pinch of salt but academia is a pretty gruesome environment to work in from the ground up, particularly if you already have real world experience and will be inserted amongst people that will likely have none.
On the...
I work at a Fortune 250 company with about 250 sites across the globe... my team is still deploying crap created in the 90's that breaks every single current best practice in that area. Some large companies will be open to change processes, not everyone.
The amount you can learn off the internet is amazing. I would instead look around and try to find tools that you need and program them instead. Over the years I've programmed the following to help me with my day job:
- Tender request generator. I was managing the plant's instrumentation...
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I'm about to embark on a project to automate a reactor and we'll be using PlantPAX. When reading through the manuals and other application in our plant, I'm a bit confused about the Equipment Modules versus Equipment phases. My understanding is that Equipment Modules put different bits...