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How To Be Piping Engineer

How To Be Piping Engineer

How To Be Piping Engineer

(OP)
hei All, Now i study in Applied of Physics. There are learning about all kinds of applied of physics. Can you give me some advise how i can be piping engineer..
Thanks..

RE: How To Be Piping Engineer

PofE,

You should consider changing your field of study to a recognized and accredited mechanical engineering degree program. Pay particular attention to fluid mechanics and beam theory. Purchase and study L. C. Peng's book. Then, probably most importantly, upon graduation, see if you can find a job or opportunity to work with a piping designer (not an engineer, but a person who draws and lays pipe out for a living) for a while.
My experience is that it is easier to be a good piping engineer when you have worked with good piping designers who already know what works and what doesn't.

RE: How To Be Piping Engineer

Are there any cases out there where any mechanical engineer actually wanted to become a piper and set the sights on that target, or was it one of those "I kinda' got pigeon-holed" things.

What would you be doing, if you knew that you could not fail?

RE: How To Be Piping Engineer

(OP)
SNORGY: Have I to change to study mechanical engineer?
Can I just focus study in fluid mechanics and beam theory without change my field of study?


RE: How To Be Piping Engineer

So! You want to be a "Piping Physicist". Generally we prefer to keep our more typically mundane fluids bottled up within tanks, pressure vessels and the occasional pipeline, rather than smash them with TGVs and send them spinning off flying through those nebulous magnetic flux fields. Your genius as a Piping Pysicist might tend to go mostly unnoticed and certainly unrewarded in the day-to-day "find it, process, store and transport" side of the biz, where only the inlet pressure, flow and outlet pressure are of interest and BTW that's secondary to height and axial stress (in that order).

What would you be doing, if you knew that you could not fail?

RE: How To Be Piping Engineer

PofE,

The road to becoming a true engineer, recognized and ultimately accredited as such, will be much easier if you start by getting an engineering degree. There are other avenues towards that goal but I don't know of any success stories of people going down those paths.

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