how to tackle this type 26

[ac1980]

new to this forum, looking for some valuable suggestion. how do you typically deal with senior persons who are of the "ninja claw" type? i am facing problems with working with an individual who gets to make the calls in projects (by virtue of position), and whenever i come up with better method/mode to do things faster/better, i get completely cut off from that project right after! its almost like i tried to push this person out of his comfort zone and made his insecured, and so being cut off is my punishment. this person expects me to do his "dirty" work at all times, and tries to keep me at bay from all design/engineering work. i would appreciate if someone can offer some suggestion.

 

[beej67]

IMO, many senior engineers have never advanced with new technologies, products, processes, etc.. They continue to repeat what has always worked for them, without questioning themselves. They see them like that, Juniors. Without seeing what the "Duo" can do if they let some space.

Especially in civil engineering / hydrology I think.

The problem with hydrology is both seniors and juniors don't get it, because it's such a dark art.

I reviewed a flood study recently by a very large company, and they obviously had a junior engineer, possibly even a nongineer GIS technician, who ran their watersheds. They were a nightmare. It was for a South Louisiana flood study, so I get how it could be difficult, but the technician / junior engineer had drawn up their basis in such a way that creeks actually crossed their basin boundaries. Also, their CN for the watershed north of I-10 was higher than south of I-10, despite the soils/land cover being effectively the same and south of I-10 being more developed. There were a huge number of errors in the watershed delineation across the board, and this was for a study encompassing many square miles, which reclassified many people's property into floodplain or floodway erroneously.

But it's been adopted. And all on bunk watershed analysis by some youngin chugging out GIS maps with either poor oversight or bad oversight, and it's a product of a Top 25 ENR design firm.



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[KENAT]

beej67, as a PE aren't you ethically bound to raise this flood study with your state board?

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[SMIAH]

Well well, another overly-conservative study... (reclassifying people's property into floodplain).

The Firm should take the blame though for letting a non-engineer delineating a watershed.

Worst is that has been approved blindly.

 

[SMIAH]

Disclaimer :
This map has been completed using the best information available and is believed to be accurate; however, it’s preparation required many assumptions. Please note that there were a huge number of errors in the watershed delineation.

Sounds good.