[Ch...] Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Please sign in to view this quote. This guy is dropping bombs and speaking the truth with a capital T. I love it. Please sign in to view this quote. This is true. You either have to have a Masters or PHD to get any good paying job as an actual chemist or go to one of the very few top chemical engineering schools. When I told scientist that I have a 4 year chem degree they would always ask me "So where are you going for your Masters?". I'm like, I was kinda hoping this degree would be good enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ra...] Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 I also have a chemical engineering degree. Could only get a metal finishing lab job but that got me some machine shop experience. I wanted to switch to some type of programming so CMM programming was the easiest way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ja...] Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Please sign in to view this quote. Typically to be replaced with a more comprehensive model. That's all any of it is. A model. It isn't the answer, but rather an approximation of reality in terms that we can potentially understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ch...] Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Please sign in to view this quote. I remember when I thought it was unbiased scientist who were altruistically updating models to the best of their knowledge. Max Planck would tell you that really science progresses one funeral at a time. A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. . . . An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth. — Max Planck, Scientific autobiography, 1950, p. 33, 97 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ja...] Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Bad early life decisions leading to a 10th grade drop out with subsequent GED scored in the top 3% of the state for that year, followed by a couple semesters of college. Started measuring steel bars in a rolling mill at age 20. Simple analog caliper and micrometer measurements. Now, 26 years later, making just under 6 figures as a Quality Engineer Technician (fancy title for CMM/Smartscope programmer). Moral: "Proper" education may have sped up my career, but 25 years learning from better people than myself made me one of the better people than someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ol...] Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 My degree is actually in History and Politics. I just worked in Politics and hated it 🤣 So started careers again and went from a Quality Admin, to a Quality Inspection Asst, to Quality Inspector - to Metrology Engineer 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ch...] Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 So if I'm reading the stats correctly, it seems like dropping out of collage is the best way to guarantee a CMM programmer job. Is my analysis correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[An...] Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 We have a plant in Usti nad Labem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ju...] Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 I was studying Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University and was set to graduate the Summer of 2010. Then in April of 2010, I was in a longboard skateboarding accident on campus. I fell and hit my head on the sidewalk, cracking my skull in two places and causing a sub-dural hematoma (TBI) as well as two blood clots to form in my frontal lobe. I went into a coma for ten days and was given very little chance of not being left in a persistent vegetative state, IF I survived. I took a medical leave of absence and eventually went back and finished my degree in Spring of 2012, only to discover that I did not have enough professional engineering experience for an entry-level engineering position. 🙄 So, I took a job as a CNC mill operator at a family-owned machine shop, which I was relieved of once the son inherited the shop foreman position. I then got a job in the Clerk's office at the courthouse and really put my degree to good use processing all divorces filed in Escambia County AL from 2014 to 2018. I now work in the quality assurance lab of a machine shop that makes the first one's quality standards seem like a joke ("They took it last time!"). 🤣 Though I DO miss getting off work for Confederate Memorial Day (an official Alabama state holiday), I have to say that since I've started working here, I haven't encountered a single customer going through a divorce, or custody battle, or seeking Protection From Abuse (AL's version of the restraining order). All in all, I'd say I've done pretty well for someone with tright slaumatic bain dramage. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ke...] Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Please sign in to view this quote. Nope 🤣 "Some College" does not mean "dropping out." This may be the case for some, but, for others it simply means that they took a few classes to enhance their skill set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Cl...] Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 High school drop-out. Got my GED so I could enlist in the Air Force, spent the next four years as an aircraft mechanic. Got to see Europe for free! No college, only Calypso, PC-DMIS, Virtual-DMIS, OGP measure-X, Keyence. Became a CMM programmer quite by accident and I love what I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ch...] Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 I think this fits in this sub. I've been working with a local university and will be starting an intern program for our quality labs. What do you guys think would make good projects for an intern? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Da...] Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Please sign in to view this quote. Start them with ballooning a print, then, make a solid model using that print, then, write a program using that model. Teach them how to use curve, freeform and pcm. Run gage R&R. Troubleshoot and edit programs. Make sure to introduce them to this forum, as I have learned so much from you guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ch...] Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Please sign in to view this quote. My first idea was ballooning prints as well. I don't think they teach enough blueprint reading and GD&T in university. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ma...] Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 All interns should be sent for at least one of the following: - Bucket of steam - Skyhook - Left-handed monkey wrench - Steel stretcher - Can of cast iron worms My favorite is to send them to the tool crib with a requisition for a "long stand". When handed the requisition the crib attendant says "those are expensive, we keep them locked up in the back" then disappears for 20 or 30 minutes. The attendant then comes back and says "well I think you stood there about long enough." Happy Friday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ow...] Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Funny Mark 😃 😃 . My favorite is sending them to the tool crib to get a 28/32 socket. 🤣 Seriously though, if they do intend to program CMM's, I'd make sure that they knew how to check everything manually to double check the CMM. Other than gages, that can get fairly intense with height gauges and special fixtures but, ought to be a perquisite before anybody is stuck alone with a CMM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ch...] Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 All good ideas. This will be from an 'Engineering Technology' 4 year degree program. It is kinda like a 'engineer light' sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Cl...] Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Please sign in to view this quote. Yes, give them a height master, sine plate and a test indicator and see if they can confirm what the CMM is reporting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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