associates in Mecanical Engineering
and DRs in the School of hard knocks.

 

I finally have realized that even though I make good money at the job I am doing it is not something I want to do for the rest of my life. So I decided to go to school. I will be starting nursing school this year hopefully <depending on waiting list>. I am going to go through the fast track program at our CC its 11 months and then I will come out makin close to 40K my first year. That way I can work 2 days a week and make more than enough money to support myself and turn around and go to a real university and put myself through school to become a Large Livestock Vet. Gawd when I type it out thats lot of school, but I am now willing to make the sacrafice of puttin myself through **** to have the career I have always wanted, and be able to afford more play toys and mods for my truck.
~Heather~

 

AAS in Drafting Technology from Wharton County Junior College (Harvard on the Caney )

I work for a large engineering firm in the petrochemical industry as a pipe designer. We basically build, and revamp refinerys. Pay is good, but its a desk job.

I run cows on the side, but that is just for fun.

 

Associates Degree in Instrumentation Engineering Technology 1994.....I am just finishing an Instrument Mechanic apprenticeship (without attending any classes).






Anyone looking for an Instrument Tech??

 

Bachelors in Computer Science, Minor in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M in 1999.

Technical on paper, country at heart.

 

Does that mean you are available for gauge installs?

Really though, I am curious, what does an instrumentation tech. do? Calibration, maintenance or design of instruments? And what type?

~Rob

 

Ok Doc, so where is the EVIL degree? your sig says six years of EVIL school????


Y'all are making me feel ignorant..... all I got is my " workin' mans degree"
quite proud of it too......

 

How about we old goats that graduated in the 1800's? Do we count? MA in Math and Physics, 11 hours short of my doctorate. Don't even ask me why I didn't go for it.
Bob

 

Did you know Pythagoras? Were you there when he came up with the Pythagorean theorem?

~Rob

 

that was hilarious!!!

on a side note, all my roommates studied engineering with me. we would go to the wild college parties and perform LaPlace transforms on the refrigerators. it was funny because we were well aware of how nerdy some engineers are and to play that role at a party was amusing for us.....nobody got it

Pat

 

we used to spread out at the local all night cafe where everyone went for the closing time food to do our homework. NOthing like discussing quantum mechanics around a bunch of drunks..

or go do homework in one of the lower level class rooms... leave equations on the board for Pre-Algebra students.

 

As and undergrad, we used to do the same thing. Our institution gave us our own lounge. Other folks were jealous since the physics majors had a room of their own. We alway said that when you choose to take the hardest classes on campus, then you have room to talk.

One late night, actually early morning, a few of us went down to the freshman physics lecture hall and wrote our proof of Ehrenfest's theorem from quantum mechanics. Six chalkboards later (its a long proof, algebraically. Takes 3 lines using the Hamiltonian and bra-ket notation), we had some freshman phyics majors drop out.

So after 5 years earning two bachelor's degrees, I guess we had a right to be arrogant.

 

you only had one room? we had keys to the building... open any room in the building except offices and the chemistry lab.

 

Alright, so I left that out......Im NOT currently a practicing medical Dr. - concentrating on Evil these days...

so you want details???:

1985 - BSc. in EVIL Major: EVIL Minor: Chemical Engineering & fine arts (completed that in 2 years)
1987 - MSc. EVIL (general EVIL) - honors
1989 - PhD EVIL - honors
Rhodes Scholar - again, EVIL

As well, I have degrees in ALL of the -ology's and most of the -osophy's.....



Evil is more that a piece of paper - its a state of mind.....

 

Most definitely, guage installs are fairly easy stuff. Although, if I do make another trip to Texas, I probably would be yet another illegal.....I like it down there...almost moved a couple of times.

What does an inst tech do?....well its a huge field. It really all depends on what you want to do, where you work and who you work for. Ive worked in the oil patch, natural gas and pipelines, pulp & paper, research and development of process equipment, and power generation. Basically, an Instrument Technologist works with anything to do with process measurement and control.

I have worked on a variety of equipment.....both construction and maintenance. Just to name a few - pneumatic and electronic control instrumentation, process analyzers, field/plant measurement/indicating instruments, all kinds of switches, all kinds of control valves, process computers, PLC's and plant distributed control systems.

The job mainly involves preventive maintenance, routine repair, installation, and calibration of electronic/pneumatic/mechanical instrumentation and control equipment....I dont do any design, and dont really have a desire to. I like wearing covvies and gettin dirty.