To All Engineers

[kastein]

Smallish world.

I'm an EE and work for ASML as a CSE (Customer Support Engineer). We support the tools bought by Intel (Micron, Samsung etc) that print the circuitry on silicon that Kastein ultimately tests.



I support the tools that keeps him in a job :roflmao:


BTW, Kastein... what Fab are you located in?

oh neat. I'm over in the R&D/engineering section at Hudson, the fab here is F17 but I don't work in the cleanroom.

 

[CherBear]

:cheers: what sort? i.e. what specific sort of nuts and volts do you want to screw around with?

Pardon my incorrect use of terminology...

But I would really enjoy working on electronics that directly interface with mechanical components. Parts like abs brake controllers, electronic transfer cases. ECUs. Things like that.
I find those sort of things much more interesting than just electronics working with other electronics.


After talking with my advisor, I think I will be switching to ECET (electrical and computer engineering technology). I like working with my hands more than being behind a desk.
Hopefully that career path will give me more of what i listed up there.

 

[winterbeater]

From what I see here in Detroit, degreed engineers mostly just process paper work. The actual designs are done more by the CAD jockeys who have hands on experience in the particular product. Things in this field aren't pretty now with most of the work being outsourced to India.

Things may be more locally oriented in Civil Engineering. From what I see from my own small point of view in Quality Engineering is to look at professional certifications. Companies have so many resumes to pick through now, and they don't really know how to assess talent, that they rely on how many professional certifications you have.

 

[CherBear]

From what I see here in Detroit, degreed engineers mostly just process paper work. The actual designs are done more by the CAD jockeys who have hands on experience in the particular product. Things in this field aren't pretty now with most of the work being outsourced to India.

Things may be more locally oriented in Civil Engineering. From what I see from my own small point of view in Quality Engineering is to look at professional certifications. Companies have so many resumes to pick through now, and they don't really know how to assess talent, that they rely on how many professional certifications you have.

That is what I hear as well. I dont want to push papers!! I want to design stuff.

 

[Ecomike]

That is what I hear as well. I dont want to push papers!! I want to design stuff.

Paper pushing may have hidden advantages. Engineering management is more than paper pushing, but may look like paper pushing from outsiders, and may have design work advantages as overseers of grunt work designers. A lot of design work is actually done and tested in a virtual environment on computers now (grunt work), and the only novelty is selecting menus choices for the design, and picking the final design from ones that pass the computer modeling test.

 

[gradon]

I'm an audio engineer at the 9:30 Club and a little place called Comet Ping-Pong.