Zulkifli Mamat’s Post

Real Hands on Working Experienced Engineers versus Graphic Engineers or PowerPoint Engineers: Have you realized that Professionals only have applied the most 10 % of those knowledge learned from Universities?  Have you still  remembered how Chemical Engineering Undergraduates calculating manually how many trays required for the fractioning column?  Have you remembered all those Calculus formulas?  Have you ever encountered any Engineers who haven't worked in any of the Plants or Factories, talking, mumbling about real Engineering experiences?  Have you met any Engineers who can't differentiate between a pump or a turbine?  Have you met any Engineers who are confused about cold box process flow?  Let's ponder : (1) That's why, ideally those Engineering Undergraduates who wanna do their Internship Programs to choose any Plants or Factories related to their disciplines.For instance , Petroleum Engineering Undergraduates to be attached with offshore installations. Chemical Engineering Undergraduates to be attached with any of Petrochemical Plants or Refineries.  (2) Same goes with Protege Programs. Choose the Plants or Factories that are merely related to your disciplines.  (3) Any newly Fresh Engineers ideally should expose themselves to the Plant Operations or Maintenance Engineering first for the first 2 to 5 years of their careers. After that, in the case of Chemical Engineers, then they may be assigned to respective Departments such as Technology, Production Planning, Project Management, Risk Management, HSE, Training Capability, Procurement - Tender & Contract, Operation Excellence and so forth.  (4) Avoid being Engineers of none, just acquired superficial knowledge, lacking of hands on technical working experiences, but only mastering graphics and PowerPoint huh.  (5) After 5 years, then the Engineers for instance may pursue any of Industrial Certificates such as Steam Engineer Grade 2 or 1, ICE - Internal Combustion Engine Engineer Grade 2 or 1, SHO Green Book, 6 Sigma, Tripod Beta, etc.  For further deliberations, over coffee session huh. Hahahaha.