CB1, I agree a engineering manager shouldn't be evolved in details, but believe they should be aware of and approve the final design that their person/people have come up with (and if they have more experience even offer direction). When the manager has never been an engineer, how would they...
What do you feel the responsibilities and duties of an engineering manager should be to the people reporting to him, and to the company he works for, for that matter? It seem there are lots of people in engineering management who aren't engineers. How do you know if the people you manage are...
Dave, It sounds like we could be almost be working at the same place! Let me guess: They gave you about a month to get through and sign off on the 1200 pages?
The mentoring thread got me thinking about this subject. What's the protocol for bring someone new, say coming from a different field: Automotive transitioning into the Medical field, up to speed on how things are done in the new job? How long would it be expected to take, and how many man...
"Senior engineers screw up just as juniors do"
Hmmm, I would hope that would not be the case. Whole point of being a Senior engineer is you've made mistakes that learnt from them, I thought.
I know I'm on a tear now, but thinking more about the whole "Trial by fire" thing, it's just bad all around. What responsible company would allow a New unvetted employee to make any kind of serious decision without oversight?
"Oops! Our released product doesn't work right!"
"Who designed...
"I knew a guy who worked from home that had his computer monitor mounted on the ceiling and a setup so that he could lay in bed all day while he worked. He wasn't injured or anything but I guess it worked for him. I would joke that one day I would read his obituary and it would read that he was...
Sitting for most of the day is apparently really not good for you. When we design assembly cells at my new place standing and moving is now to a requirement, regardless of necessity (this caused some grumbling from the floor). Now there's kind of a "suggestion" that you can have a "standing...
Hello all,
My company was bought out a few years ago, and it's been our practice to update the drawing title blocks to the new company name whenever a part is changed. According to our quality system, vendors have to re-certify the parts for the new rev level. This, of course, makes since...
For future readers: The information can be found in standard BS 5200:1997.
Also worth knowing: If your BS 5200 male fitting is firmly seated in the receiving female fitting, but still still leaking, it's possible the female fitting is a JIS B8363 as they use the same thread, but the male JIS...
"What service conditions? What code are you working to?
What size pipe and what material and what wall thickness?
How will this be used? "
The connection will be offered for industrial service, so I don't know what the service conditions of the many customers will be, or what particular...
