dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
Re: The 4th Global War on Terror - Deja vu all over again!
Methinks things have changed since your dad was around
. It's why the company I work for, a large mining and manufacturing company that employs 84,000, prefers chemical engineers (but also accepts mechanical engineers) to do their division engineering work (i.e. laying out the processes but also designing the systems and piping). It's virtually all I do now. Everyone in my engineering group is a chemical engineer. The vast majority in our department are chemical engineers.
I've worked for only seven years in engineering, but in that short time, the mechanical engineers have worked almost exclusively on HVAC applications while the chemical guys are doing the processes, the pumps, the piping, the reactor jackets, the heat exchangers, the cooling towers, the instrumentation, the distillation columns, etc. The only places we rely on other engineers are on the structural, electrical, and controls (the programming and communication). Otherwise the teams of chemical engineers take on the projects. Why hire two people to do a job when one person can do both? Again, it's anecdotal, but our department that handles something like 25%-33% of the company's capital expenditures.
Edit: I have seen some of the coursework for MechEs. Two of my roommates in college were MechEs. I would trust them to do most heat transfer applications including the Google servers.
Methinks things have changed since your dad was around
. It's why the company I work for, a large mining and manufacturing company that employs 84,000, prefers chemical engineers (but also accepts mechanical engineers) to do their division engineering work (i.e. laying out the processes but also designing the systems and piping). It's virtually all I do now. Everyone in my engineering group is a chemical engineer. The vast majority in our department are chemical engineers. I've worked for only seven years in engineering, but in that short time, the mechanical engineers have worked almost exclusively on HVAC applications while the chemical guys are doing the processes, the pumps, the piping, the reactor jackets, the heat exchangers, the cooling towers, the instrumentation, the distillation columns, etc. The only places we rely on other engineers are on the structural, electrical, and controls (the programming and communication). Otherwise the teams of chemical engineers take on the projects. Why hire two people to do a job when one person can do both? Again, it's anecdotal, but our department that handles something like 25%-33% of the company's capital expenditures.
Edit: I have seen some of the coursework for MechEs. Two of my roommates in college were MechEs. I would trust them to do most heat transfer applications including the Google servers.
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