design qualification
design qualification
(OP)
I wondered if soemone could provide a spot of guidance.
I'm looking to develop my career in the direction of pressure vessel design. The company (UK) i currently work for has a need for vessels which are currently out-sourced, whilst i also see the skill as an internationally transferable skill.
I have a copy of of PD5500, kinding denoted and have skimmed through this, i also have some example calculations, which i have run through.
What is the best method to enhance my experience and how do i go about getting a reconginsed qualifcation / experinece, not having a expetise withiin my current company is quite a barrier.
How do i get to stage at which i am able to carryout vessel design within the workplace?
Has anybody any thought on the course run by IMECHE in the UK?
As a note I have a Masters in mechanical engineering and have be designing bespoke cast iron pressure machinery for some time, via ANSYS.
Many Thanks
I'm looking to develop my career in the direction of pressure vessel design. The company (UK) i currently work for has a need for vessels which are currently out-sourced, whilst i also see the skill as an internationally transferable skill.
I have a copy of of PD5500, kinding denoted and have skimmed through this, i also have some example calculations, which i have run through.
What is the best method to enhance my experience and how do i go about getting a reconginsed qualifcation / experinece, not having a expetise withiin my current company is quite a barrier.
How do i get to stage at which i am able to carryout vessel design within the workplace?
Has anybody any thought on the course run by IMECHE in the UK?
As a note I have a Masters in mechanical engineering and have be designing bespoke cast iron pressure machinery for some time, via ANSYS.
Many Thanks





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Adam Potter MEng CEng MIMechE
www.ax-ea.co.uk
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Rethink your "career in the direction of pressure vessel design".
Undoubtedly, your appeciation of this mature technology would utilize your engineering, scientific and math skills. It is an attractive path for many young engineers who want to see applied solid mechanics turned into heavy metal.
Resist that urge.......look eleswhere....
An engineering carrer in this particular field will pull your lifetime wages down into third world levels. You will be competeing for work that always can and should be outsourced. If you try to stay in the western world you will somehow be sucked into jobs where you must quickly evaluate cracked and broken 50 -60 year old equipment and stake your PE on the outcome. Worst of all, you will always be working for an MBA of one kind or another.....
A few of my analyst friends here in Pennsylvania with 20+ years experience and Masters degrees have recently been discharged from ANSYS. Thier final job at work..???
Why, it was to instruct thier replacements in India on the subtleties of pressure vessel modeling using the latest ANSYS solids modeller.....These replacements will be paid US$6.25 per hour....
Read the tea leaves, my friend...
Keep us informed of your decision
-MJC
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MJC - its a fairly bleak picture you paint. I had heard rumours that the larger petrochem companies were outsourcing some of the simplier structural design to india, it appears that your suggesting the vessel design is following.
Can i ask C2it what is it about pipe stress analysis that protects it from moving to india?
Finally despite the bleak picture are there an positive comments suggestion anybody has, should i forge ahead regardless?
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Straight vessels design for new build'll just get farmed out to India and it's a race to the bottom.
If you do fitness for service type work then there's a better chance you'll be able to get a better salary as half the job is going out and looking at the problem on site and coming up with some solutions.
Engineering's never been the career for big salaries. Anything that's nation-specific e.g. health care, lawyers, accountants which can't easily be turfed out to someone on peanuts has always been better salaried. I even know PhD chemists in R&D (really clever guys indeed) be made redundant when the multinational moved the labs to India.
Get a job in the city siphoning money from pension funds... that's the way to easy money. Just leave your soul on the doorstep on the way in
Adam Potter MEng CEng MIMechE
www.ax-ea.co.uk
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Adam Potter MEng CEng MIMechE
www.ax-ea.co.uk
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I'm glad i retire in a few years before the yellow peril really gets up & going
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What probably won't get much offshored is service/maintenance/repair work. It has to be done where the equipement is.
Regards,
Mike
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Just wondered what is the best method to enhance my experience and how do i go about getting a reconginsed qualifcation / experinece,
Not having a expetise within my current company is quite a barrier.
How do i get to stage at which i am able to carryout vessel design within the workplace?
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Make up your own designs.
Regards,
Mike
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Good luck!
Adam Potter MEng CEng MIMechE
www.ax-ea.co.uk
RE: design qualification
Regards,
Mike
RE: design qualification
good luck.