Banana_Duck
Mechanical
So TLDR: I'm a junior engineer progressing to a engineer with little to no experience in hand calcs and stress analysis and I'm concerned about future jobs.
I've been an junior engineer for 8 years now through various apprenticeships and have a BEng Degree in Mechanical engineering which I did part time so I have some basic knowledge, just lacking in experience applying it to industry. My company has been lacking in opportunities for me to develop practice in calculations and FEA, I've only had experience at uni (which I don't think prepares me for the real world as everything is 'ideal' scenarios). The company has a specialist stress department which does the FEA. I cover every other criteria for an engineer easily, just the analysis I struggle with.
I'm browsing other jobs for an engineer and see that most require you to undertake analysis and calcs autonomously, which I don't feel confident with really unless it simple like bolt requirements and beam bending.
So are most jobs supportive in helping engineers or is it expected for them to simply know how to analyse with little supervision and how complex are calcs in general?
Edit: I'd like to add I work in the UK for a large consultantcy with little design so it's not overly common for every engineer to do analysis. I've probably worked more as a project engineer but want to progress to an engineer by say US standards.
Thanks in advance
I've been an junior engineer for 8 years now through various apprenticeships and have a BEng Degree in Mechanical engineering which I did part time so I have some basic knowledge, just lacking in experience applying it to industry. My company has been lacking in opportunities for me to develop practice in calculations and FEA, I've only had experience at uni (which I don't think prepares me for the real world as everything is 'ideal' scenarios). The company has a specialist stress department which does the FEA. I cover every other criteria for an engineer easily, just the analysis I struggle with.
I'm browsing other jobs for an engineer and see that most require you to undertake analysis and calcs autonomously, which I don't feel confident with really unless it simple like bolt requirements and beam bending.
So are most jobs supportive in helping engineers or is it expected for them to simply know how to analyse with little supervision and how complex are calcs in general?
Edit: I'd like to add I work in the UK for a large consultantcy with little design so it's not overly common for every engineer to do analysis. I've probably worked more as a project engineer but want to progress to an engineer by say US standards.
Thanks in advance