European Industrial Engineer

[Pipeline1972]

Hello all!
As an Industrial Engineer from Belgium, I'm about to move to the US in a few months. I've been reading this forum for a while now, and it appears to me that there are lots of different kind of Engineers out there. Or people calling themselves Engineer.
Here's how it works in Belgium: 4 years of study in a College gives you the title of Industrial Engineer (in Electro-mechanics, Construction, Electricity, Chemistry, etc, etc). Since recently we can call ourselves Master in Industrial Sciences. 5 years of study in a University gives you the well paid degree of Civil Engineer.
So I'm wondering to who in the US I can compare myself to, what can I use as reference? What does Industrial Engineer mean to you, soon-to-be-fellow-US-citizens?
What are the "titles" and "names", generally speaking, I should look up when job hunting? Here it's easy: they either ask for Industrial, or Civil Engineer.

Draftsman - Designer Industrial Piping

 

[Ashereng]

Have you read thread784-142748 ?

It talks about mostly what a Canadian engineer needs to do to become a PE in the US. However, It also deals a bit with who can call themselves an "engineer", in which state, as well as addressing the issue of "industrial exemption", and whether a PE is required to work in various fields. There are over 130 posts, so it may take a while.

 

[MrMojito]

Hello Pipeline,

Hope that you find the USA to your liking, after you move here. I recently found out that many countries define the various engineering disciplines & descriptions differently. What particular type of design work do you plan to do? If you tell me, I'll suggest what you can refer to yourself as here in the USA. In the USA, Industrial Engineers work for product manufacturers, but they don't generally do design work. Mechanical Engineers design manufactured products as well as H.V.A.C. systems for buildings and electrical power plants also. Electrical Engineers also help design manufactured products as well as building electrical systems and power plants. Civil Engineers design buildings & infrastructure. This is how it is generally broken up in the USA. Does this help?

 

[Pipeline1972]

Well, the type of work I'm doing now is mostly the design of piping installations. I spend most of my time on Autocad, and that's what I would like to keep doing in the future. Autocad or other CAD related software. I would love to learn to work with software like Catia or Unigraphics. It doesn't has to be in the piping field of course.

Draftsman - Designer Industrial Piping

 

[Ashereng]

Pipeline1972

So I'm wondering to who in the US I can compare myself to, what can I use as reference? ...

What are the "titles" and "names", generally speaking, I should look up when job hunting?

To answer your questions, it sounds like you are interested in working as a "piping designer" or "piper"?