Being a chief engineer is an unrealizable dream for someone, but for someone it is a reality. How to become a chief engineer and what education should a candidate have to become one? Let's find out!
First of all, you need to immediately understand that becoming a chief engineer is impossible only after studying at a university.
This profession is not taught in any educational institution in the country, there are no specialized enterprises and courses where one could gain knowledge from scratch and study for a chief engineer diploma.
How to become a chief engineer?
In order to become a chief engineer, you need to have the appropriate level of professional training.
In most enterprises, the list of basic requirements for the level of preparation of a candidate includes:
- Knowledge of labor legislation, labor protection standards and industry laws;
- The ability to characterize the technological process and the activities of the enterprise as a whole;
- The presence of organizational skills that will ensure the cooperation of all departments;
- Ability to organize efficient and safe operation of production equipment;
- Knowledge of domestic and foreign experience;
- The ability to organize educational, educational and methodological work with all employees of the enterprise;
- Ability to prepare reports and submit them to regulatory authorities in a timely manner.
In simple terms, to become a chief engineer, you need to have dozens of professional skills, be distinguished by charisma and skillfully combine technical, humanitarian and economic skills.
To become a chief engineer, you need to be smarter and faster than your colleagues and understand the main functions of the position.
According to the duties, the chief engineer is the leader who is responsible for each unit of personnel and leads the enterprise to success.
He is not just a manager, he is a drafter of the organization's development strategy, and the success of each department and each employee depends on his management.
Ultimately, only a competent and charismatic leader will be able to form a powerful team and save the enterprise from bankruptcy, prevent a fall in production, find funds for development and turn an unremarkable plant into a prosperous holding.
To become a chief engineer, you need to have knowledge at the professional level, understand the specifics of the industry and organization from the inside, know how to fix what no one can fix, how to find new markets and where exactly to increase your influence in order to competently manage hundreds, and often even tens of thousands of people.
In a word, this is a top manager and a business card of any technical enterprise, and it depends only on him whether it is successful or not.
And, of course, it is not enough just to want and become a chief engineer. It is important to have experience and the proper level of education.
What education should a chief engineer have?
Of course, it is impossible to be a chief engineer without a higher education or to gain skills by studying at a school. The minimum education that a chief engineer should have is a university degree in a technical specialty. What will be the specialization, in fact, all the same - a design engineer, estimator, software engineer, metallurgist. There are chances to take place as a person and a professional in any industry.
The minimum experience to become a chief engineer is 3-5 years. But this does not mean that 5 years after receiving a diploma, you can reach a position. First you need to gain experience and seniority in the profile, then reach a less managerial position and work at the enterprise for at least 5 years.
After 5 years, if the candidate is marked by the heads of the enterprise, you can try to become a chief engineer. Unfortunately, this happens quite rarely, therefore, in addition to the basic one, it would be useful to get additional economic education and enlist the support of management.
Although the education requirements for a chief engineer do not oblige him to have a law degree, a law degree would also be very helpful. The chief engineer must know the legislation of the country.
Thus, to become a chief engineer, you have to try. You will need to have seniority, leadership experience and at least a higher education.
To increase your chances, it would be useful to gain knowledge in the field of economics and jurisprudence, to develop leadership qualities and charisma. A specialist who knows the production processes from the inside, is a competent entrepreneur, understands the economic characteristics of the enterprise and is endowed with knowledge of civil, labor, criminal and tax laws has a great chance of promotion.
But to become a chief engineer, you also need to devote yourself entirely to work, improve your skills and literally live by work. The reward will be high wages, the price for which is high responsibility.
Good day. In order to become an engineer, you need to know exactly which one, because there are a large number of engineers, a process engineer, a design engineer, a programmer and so on. And they all differ tremendously from each other, and the sciences that you will study will also differ. For example, I am an engineer-designer of mechanical engineering and at the academy I first studied higher mathematics, which was useful to me further in the following disciplines such as theoretical mechanics, resistance of materials, the theory of mechanics and machines, I also studied the discipline of machine parts and almost all of them were coursework. The same disciplines will be selected for other engineers. But let's start in order.
» After you have decided on the direction, we therefore begin to go even from the school itself, because it is always better to repeat than to teach, especially since classes are now divided into physics and mathematics and humanitarian bias. I think you guessed where you need to go, because there they study in depth algebra, geometry and, of course, physics, without which not a single engineer will be an engineer, because physics is everywhere, it surrounds us everywhere, even though we do not pay attention to it, we are used to that it should be so. We study these subjects at school, although at first they will seem delusional and incomprehensible, but when they are studied together, the picture is much more pronounced, and at the institute, in general, everything will be sorted out by bones. When you finish 11 or how about 12 already and we enter an institute or academy for your chosen specialty, and then the most interesting thing will begin for you, you will understand that no one needs you except yourself. Start learning right away because if you miss something, you won’t make up for it and you won’t understand it, and ask the teachers right away what is not clear. Having missed a small detail by the 5th year, it will grow like a snowball because there the material is so selected that everything is better for developing the humanities, hammer it in for the night until you get involved. And absorb all the information, and also study on your own, because in Instagram 60% is self-learning, this is done on purpose so that we learn to work and be a little independent, we can select and weed out unnecessary material ourselves, analyze everything and draw conclusions ourselves. After completing 3 courses, they often say lafa began, but it wasn’t there, now you need to work on yourself twice as much because there will be state exams ahead and a term paper that smoothly turns into a thesis. You need to pass the exams well and get into the 5th year, preferably on the budget and in the magistracy, because they are engaged in scientific activities, this is a very good school in front of your place of work, because there you will constantly be doing this. Also, you can already start earning money by doing computational and graphic work, laboratory term papers and maybe even diplomas (I advise only correspondence students, they are not greedy for money and there are always few problems with them)
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Hi all! Well, here is my post, strange at first glance, on how to become a process engineer. It is about exactly what you need to start your studies and work as an engineer. We will try together with you to understand all the subtleties of this profession.
The name engineer is borrowed from English ingenium, which means the ability to invent and their main task is both the improvement of both existing technologies and processes and the development of new production methods.
How to become an engineer. What are the engineers
Technological engineer. When choosing this profession, you will have to deal with the technological processes of manufacturing various products from both light and heavy industries.
Design engineer. Well, from the name itself you can already see what the engineer of this direction is doing :-), namely, he designs what the future technologist will have to implement. This category of engineers is also divided according to the direction of activity, because design is necessary always and everywhere.
Mechanical engineer. You know, when I graduated from a technical school in 2004, I became a mechanical technician and when I entered the institute, I planned to become a mechanical engineer after graduating from it, but when I graduated in 2010, I became just an engineer 🙂. So, in the Republic of Belarus now they simply write in the diploma engineer. And so I will tell you that a process engineer and a mechanical engineer are almost equivalent positions in terms of meaning (well, it also depends on where you work). A mechanical engineer is mainly engaged in the repair of technological equipment.
Electronic engineers. These engineers are engaged in the production of electronic circuit boards and everything related to microelectronics. They are actively working at enterprises manufacturing household appliances and electrical appliances.
Power engineers. These people are engaged in the maintenance of equipment and devices that work with the use of electric current, they optimize the processes of supplying electricity and ways to save energy costs for the production of products.
Design engineers. Designers are engaged in the development of, for example, non-standard equipment (containers, special devices, conveyors). They are so busy designing building communications and plumbing, supplying the equipment with the necessary energy carriers.
Civil engineers. Specialists in this industry are engaged in the construction of buildings and structures for both industrial purposes and residential and office buildings.
Well, I told about all this for general development, and our topic is exactly what needs to be done to become an engineer .
How to become an engineer technologist:
- Decide on the industry in which you will work and create.
- After having decided to choose a suitable institute.
- Emphasize the study of mathematics and physics (they will have to be taken upon admission).
- Learn focusing mainly on special subjects (by profession).
- Graduate from the institute and get a job at the plant to take the course of a young soldier for the position of process engineer.
- To work at the factory for a couple of years is not a hack, but by itself developing and studying all this cuisine.
- And now, in fact, you have become a process engineer with which I CONGRATULATE you!
Well, that's where we'll stop. Today I told you about what engineers are and how to become a process engineer. I think everything is more understandable :-). Good luck to everyone and wait for fresh posts, and if you don't want to miss it subscribe to blog updates.
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What kind of engineer is he? I think I know the secret, but be patient, I'll need a big literary example. Here is Platonov's contrast between an engineer and another person in Chevengur:
All the time, Zakhar Pavlovich worked to forget hunger, and he learned to do everything from wood that he used to do from metal. Bobyl did nothing all his life - now even more so; until the age of fifty, he only looked around - how and what - and expected that he would finally get out of the general anxiety in order to immediately begin to act after calming down and clarifying the world; he was not at all obsessed with life, and his hand did not rise either to a woman's marriage or to any common deed. When he was born, he was surprised and lived like this until old age with blue eyes in a youthful face. When Zakhar Pavlovich made an oak frying pan, the bean was amazed that nothing could be fried on it anyway. But Zakhar Pavlovich poured water into a wooden frying pan and on a slow fire reached the point that the water boiled, but the frying pan did not burn. Bobyl froze in surprise:
- Powerful business. Where is it, brothers, to find out everything!
And the bean's hands dropped from the crushing universal secrets. Not once did anyone explain the simplicity of events to the bean - or he himself was completely stupid. Indeed, when Zakhar Pavlovich tried to tell him why the wind was blowing and not standing still, the bean was even more surprised and did not understand anything, although he felt exactly the origin of the wind.
- Really? Say please! So, from the sun's heat? Nice business!
Zakhar Pavlovich explained that the bake was not cute, but simply - the heat.
- Heat?! - the bean was surprised. - Look at you, what a witch!
The bean's surprise only shifted from one thing to another, but nothing turned into consciousness. Instead of intelligence, he lived with a feeling of trusting respect.
Over the summer, Zakhar Pavlovich remade from wood all the products that he knew. The dugout and its adjoining manor place were lined with objects of the technical art of Zakhar Pavlovich - a complete set of agricultural implements, machines, tools, enterprises and everyday appliances - all entirely made of wood. It is strange that there was not a single thing that repeated nature: for example, a horse, a pumpkin or something else.
The above could be successfully rewritten for any engineering field (of which there are many), with all its magic and dualism: penetration into “nature”, on the one hand (in this example, understanding the laws of nature), and alienation from it (in this example - "not a single thing that repeats nature")
In other words, the engineer's secret is
- fundamental knowledge of several areas, and preferably many areas (natural science, theory of mechanisms and machines, information technology, electricity ...);
- technical skills in these areas (not necessarily in all);
- self-motivation to apply and improve these skills, often on the verge of different areas (see above: “I learned to do everything from wood that I used to do from metal” - you need to read before the quote I cited to make it clear that this was not with fool, but just self-motivation in the current difficult living conditions).
The first is curiosity. In the pursuit of knowledge, it is necessary to make a certain transition beyond the “horizon of events”, when the thirst for knowledge feeds itself.
For the second, you need to learn: to program in different languages, to assemble robots from Arduino, to make origami with children, yes, God knows what else.
Well, the third comes under these conditions by itself.
In modern society, an engineer is a highly qualified specialist with a technical education. Many graduates of secondary schools often ask themselves and others the question: how to become an engineer, where to go? First of all, you need to be "friends" with the exact sciences. For graduates of the ninth grade, it is necessary to enter a technical school, and then continue their studies in the same specialty at a university, after which they receive a specialist diploma. It is enough for young people with a complete secondary education to apply to a higher technical educational institution.
The engineer has knowledge of technology, economics and organization of production. It is the representatives of this profession that own all technical discoveries and inventions. There are main groups into which the activities of this profession can be divided:
- The designer is engaged in the development of designs of special equipment, products or components for it.
- The process of manufacturing a product and its processing takes place according to the developments of a process engineer.
- The economist is responsible for planning and economic analysis of the achievement of results.
One of the indications for choosing the profession of an engineer is an increased interest in technology, the ability to think technically, have a spatial and creative imagination. Therefore, technically minded teenagers often make a firm decision: I want to become an engineer!
First of all, in order to become an engineer, you need a thorough training in many technical subjects: engineering graphics, mathematical analysis, strength of materials, materials science and many other disciplines of narrow specialization, which depend on the chosen direction in this profession. Studying this profession, students receive in-depth physical, mathematical and general technical knowledge. Therefore, future applicants of technical universities need good knowledge in mathematics, physics and drawing from the school curriculum.
How to become a chief engineer
The profession of an engineer obliges you to be proactive, able to make independent decisions, be creative in your work and have good organizational skills. An engineer can hold the position of foreman, senior engineer, shift or site supervisor, department head or the entire production. Specialists who possess such qualities in full often become chief engineers, that is, they are the leaders of a certain team of workers.
The chief engineer is responsible for the development of technical specifications for ordinary employees, organizes and controls the work of subordinates, and helps in training young specialists. An important feature for the chief engineer is a sense of responsibility, since the efficient and rational use of labor, technology and the use of funds largely depends on this.
How to become a cadastral engineer
The profession of an engineer allows you to work in many areas of the national economy. These are factories and factories, construction sites and mines, research institutes, transport and military industries, etc. The profession of a cadastral engineer has appeared quite recently. A cadastral engineer has the right to be a person with a technical education who has received a special qualification certificate. A specialist in this profession is engaged in land surveying (determining the exact coordinates of the boundaries of a land plot), developing and implementing relevant plans, as well as preparing a package of necessary documents for state accounting, someone else's property.
