Subject: Re: JOB
From: Janet Finney
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 07:16:51 -0500
Keith R. Phelps wrote:
>
> Anonymous wrote:
> >
> > Paul Ennin M.D. wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all I am a new suscriber to your news group. I am a new engineer
> > > and I am looking for a job.
> > > Can anyone help.
> > > In NY area especially!!!
> >
> > I do not know about the New York area, but in the St. Louis area there
> > are no entry level positions open, and it may be that way in many other
> > places. I have been sending resumes out for several years, and no
> > permanent position has gotten less than about 40 resumes. Even
> > temporary 1 or 2 month stints have about 5 or 10 resumes. Many of the
> > entry level jobs that would have once gone to persons with Bachelor's
> > degrees are now being filled with PhD's with 10 or so years of
> > experience in each field because they are being downsized into the entry
> > level positions. The reality is that the supply far outstrips the
> > demand. Maybe if you tried to enter the field 10 or so years ago, you
> > might have been able to enter it, and work continuously and successfully
> > at it. Nowadays, you might want to consider working as an M.D. It
> > might be different in other areas of the country, but if not, it seems
> > doubtful that you might find anything at all.
> >
> > Sorry, -X
>
> I don't believe that. I graduated from UM Rolla in May, and 6/8 people
> in my department had jobs BEFORE graduation. My wife also had a job upon
> graduation from Rolla.
I agree, there are jobs out there. Check the ASSE jobline, they have a
long list of jobs of various levels. Also your local chapter will
publish an ad for you in their monthly newsletter. If you are willing
to relocate west, check the following:
http://www.best.com:80/~assegsjc/
--
MZ
Subject: Re: Calculation of force due to impact?
From: Combustion Dynamics
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:37:29 -0700
If I was to make a stab at it, I would analyse the beam-car system as
a one degree of freedom spring mass system with stiffness k and mass
m. The stiffness of the beam is close to k = aEI/L**3, where a is a
constant, E is the modulus of elasticity, I is the beam moment of
inertia, and L is the beam length. The mass m is obtained as the sum
of the beam and car masses. The spring mass system is subjected to an
initial velocity v0. It would be fairly easy to analyse this system
either by hand or by writing a small computer program. The maximum
force is then the stiffness k x maximum deflection.
The yielding of the beam must also be considered. The ultimate load
carrying capacity of the beam (plastic limit) can be calculated and
compared to the maximum elastic force. If the elastic force is larger
than the plastic limit, the beam yields, and the calculated force is
the plastic limit.
Note that this is a very simplified analysis, but that this may be
able to give you ballpark numbers. Of course, the stiffness of the
car suspension, system damping, etc. will change the results of your
analysis.
Subject: Re: JOB
From: msimon@rworld.com (M Simon)
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 16:26:36 GMT
As the world grows more electronic/technological every day the
long term need for engineers will grow.
If you have exceptional abilities and intense desire stay in the
field no matter how hard now. You will be rewarded.
May I suggest temp agencies/contracting. You will gain a breadth
of experience unavailable at any one job. This will make you
more valuable in the long run.
If you can't get jobs with your current level of expertise you
can always bid low enough as a contractor to win an assignment.
Good luck.
Simon
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Anonymous wrote:
>Paul Ennin M.D. wrote:
>>
>> Hello all I am a new suscriber to your news group. I am a new engineer
>> and I am looking for a job.
>> Can anyone help.
>> In NY area especially!!!
>I do not know about the New York area, but in the St. Louis area there
>are no entry level positions open, and it may be that way in many other
>places. I have been sending resumes out for several years, and no
>permanent position has gotten less than about 40 resumes. Even
>temporary 1 or 2 month stints have about 5 or 10 resumes. Many of the
>entry level jobs that would have once gone to persons with Bachelor's
>degrees are now being filled with PhD's with 10 or so years of
>experience in each field because they are being downsized into the entry
>level positions. The reality is that the supply far outstrips the
>demand. Maybe if you tried to enter the field 10 or so years ago, you
>might have been able to enter it, and work continuously and successfully
>at it. Nowadays, you might want to consider working as an M.D. It
>might be different in other areas of the country, but if not, it seems
>doubtful that you might find anything at all.
>Sorry, -X
In the end people get the government they deserve.
Read "The Weapon Shops of Isher" by A.E. vanVogt
Simon
Subject: Faculty positions at I.I.Sc.
From: bgm@mecheng.iisc.ernet.in (Dr. B. Gurumoorthy)
Date: 31 Dec 1996 20:04:40 GMT
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE invites applications for FACULTY POSITIONS at
the level of ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in the Department of MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
from Indian citizens having (i) Ph.D with following specialization. (ii)
about 3 years postdoctoral teaching/research experience in the relevant
specialization (relaxable in exceptional case) and (iii) outstanding research
record. Applicants must be able to pursue an independent programme of
original research and committed to teaching and scholarship.
Specialization:
Mechanical Design; CAD and Robotics; Applied Mechanics; Materials Processing
and Manufacturing; Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences; Tribology and
Surface Mechanics; Turbomachinery; I.C. Engines and Technical Acoustics;
Product Design and Engineering.
Emoluments: Rs. 10.250/- p.m. at the minimum of the scale
Rs.3700-125-4950-150-5700.
Interested applicants may send: Curriculum vitae, research plan for future
work, list of publications, important reprints and names and addresses of at
least three referees indicating the Dept. to which they are applying to
Prof. S. Ranganathan, Chairman, Division of Mechanical Sciences, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India on or before 31 January 1997. Referees
may be requested to send their assessment simultaneously to
Prof. S. Ranganathan.
Candidates are welcome to contact the Departmental Chairman for further
information by visiting the homepage: URL http:\\www.mecheng.iisc.ernet.in.
Those candidates who have already applied against an earlier advertisement of
1994 can indicate that their old application may be reconsidered with
up-dating of Curriculum Vitae. A request could also be made to the effect
that reference letters previously sent could be used. However, such
candidates are free to reapply with fresh reference letters.
Subject: US-NC-Optical Design Engineer-Aide Inc.
From: recruit@aide.com (Recruiting Department)
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 21:25:53 GMT
Job Title: Optical Design Engineer
Location: Hendersonville, NC
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Ref: MC710
Person needs experience in HID (High Intensity Discharge) optics.
Would prefer a technical degree of some nature (physics, math, EE, ME,
etc.). Will be designing fixtures that use HID. Is dealing in
reflective optics, not refractive as in cameras. This is not a fiber
optics or laser optics type position. If the candidate is a good fit,
there is a chance that the position could go direct.
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Subject: Re: Lathe Design and Manufacture
From: Sean Lloyd Tracey
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 21:16:05 -0800
> Looking at the titles makes me think that
> they could form a very practical and powerful library in many
> third-world nations. An impoverished country's office of economic
> development would do well to buy several copies of each title and simply
> lend them out. You've got all the pieces here to jump-start a smaller
> version of the industrial revolution: first make some charcoal, use it
> to melt and forge metal, build some precise but simple machine tools,
> use the tools to build bigger and better machine tools, make products
> for export and domestic consumption, use the hard currency to upgrade
> industry and infrastructure, and away you go. Come to think of it, we
> could use some of this right here in the United States.
>
I have read those books too. I know this wasn't your point, but we the
people of the United States wrote the information in those books. We
used the information in those books to build this country. We still do.
One day the information in those books will be used to build a machine
like the one's Dr Zeus drew. It will have sixteen wheels and about 24
arms each one with a net. It will be driven by a cat that will use it
to catch all the lawyers and bureaucrats in the land. After the cat is
finished, we will be able to get back to work and improve standards of
living through technology just like we did before they got their greedy
hands in our way.
(Before some bureaucrat rakes me over the coals about how we would live
in a poluted nightmare without regulation, please note that I am only
talking about senseless, ineffective regulation. If you don't write
such stupidity, then I am not talking about you. The Dr. Zeus machine
is fully equiped with a cost/benefit risk assessment meter and will
release you unharmed if you show the slightest inclination of seeing the
big picture before senselessly wiping out an industry with regulation.
I could give examples of what I mean by senseless regulation, but I
don't feel like it right now. It would only distract me from my current
design problem. It has proven difficult to design an arm with the
nimble dexterity needed to catch a lawyer while still retaining the
strength necessary to keep the slime from slipping away.)
Happy New Year,
Sean
