For Professional Development What Certifications?
For Professional Development What Certifications?
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Other than a PE what professional certifications are required, or recommended, in your fields? What are the good points and bad points.
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For Professional Development What Certifications?
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RE: For Professional Development What Certifications?
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WELDING/INSPECTION
AWS CWI (CERTIFIED WELDING INSPECTOR)
AWS CWEng ( CERTIFIED WELDING ENGINEER)
ASNT LEVEL I, II & III (NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING)
FACILITY/PLANT ENGINEERING
CPE (CERTIFIED PLANT ENGINEER)
RADIO/TV BROADCAST ENGINEERING
FCC GROL
SBE CERTIFICATION
I believe that some of the certification out there is just a method for the certification agency to make MONEY, while others are truly needed.
What are do you think? Is a certificate in a narrow area of expertise required? Should it be part of the process of obtaining a PE?
RE: For Professional Development What Certifications?
Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE)
Certified Manufacturing Technologist (CMfgT)
Both involve writing an exam on manufacturing principles, & the CMfgE requires passing a second exam on manufacturing engineering as well. Having a PE exempts you from having to write the first exam.
It's not a substitute for a PE, but it is a good addition to it for anyone in the manufacturing engineering field. I haven't written it yet (I'm presently working on the PE), but I intend to after the PE.
chris
RE: For Professional Development What Certifications?
CQE - Certified Quality Engineer
CQA - Certified Quality Auditor
CQM - Certified Quality Manager
CRE - Certified Reliability Engineer
ASQ website: http://www.asq.org
Also, depending on what industry, the AWS/ASNT certifications are also desirable in Quality departments.
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We might actually see a win out of that!
However, it is no silver bullet, and unless the management are behind it then it will go the way of all things innovative. We are told it is cost effective, I can see that individual projects are, but I wonder how many of them would have happened anyway, and whether the cost of pulling an engineer out of his job for two years is taken into account.
By the way I'm a green belt, that is, I've attended a week long course and am expected to use it, but if it gets too hard I am supposed to call in a black belt.
Cheers
Greg Locock
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Then, MSCE or other Microsoft certifications are popular for those in the computer field.
If you're in the aircraft industry, a pilot's license might be helpful.
Of course, as you know, you can only stamp documents as a PE in the jurisdictions in which you are registered. There are over 50 jurisdictions, so I guess you could go for all of them. Don't know what good that would really do, but it would be impressive
RE: For Professional Development What Certifications?
Certified Purchasing Manager.
The logic is that if you are managing or working in a set of specialties, you should be able to find sources of certifications there.
That's where I became aquainted with EOQ (economic order quantity) methods. Up until that time, the purchasing types wre filling warehouses with a year's supply of toilet paper and other commodities. I know something was wrong when one purchasing agent wanted to expand a warehouse one year after tripling the size. I later found out that he was going to Las Vegas as a guest of the suppliers.
RE: For Professional Development What Certifications?
At one of the companies where I worked – we had a VERY enterprising purchasing agent. He even incorporated his own little venture and rerouted most of the hardware through it. He worked there for nearly 20 years. At first his company’s prices were 10% lower than the competition – but as soon as they became automatic purchases in the system – the prices rose to 10% to 25% higher. He did keep an inventory and he always made sure that the product arrived on time.
I think that was what saved him. He was fired for his efforts – of course - but they didn’t try to prosecute. His justification was that they were using a “Just In Time” system and he was ensuring that it worked most of the time. After he left – they found out how out of sync their “Just In Time” system was with the real world and were still having problems with it 6 months later.
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