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Recently I have been Interviewing candidates for the post of Design Engineers. It is unfortunate to note that most of them take pride in saying "I modelled this" and "I modelled that". Worse Still I came across candidates (Engineering Graduates from Premier Institutions) saying "I can convert so... many drawings to 3D models in a day".
When tested for basic engineering skills, they are not able to answer even the basics that is taught in the First Year of Engineering.
Where are we heading...?
It is OK to have Pro/E skills. But what about Engineering Skills.
Young Engineers please note. Companies / Organisations can train you on the software, but they would certainly not train you on Engineering.
Pro/E is just a tool, what drives it is our thinking. Everyone can learn to use Pro/E and how to model some parts, but to learn how to think this is something different. I remember what one of my professors said:"It is not important what you learn, you can always look at books, what is important is to learn how to think an solve problems". So how to put on paper the way how you think I don't know. Maybe some Pro/E presentation movie how you work?
hehe true, but i am an engineer and i think i know my basics.
Employers here want to see the pretty pictures and know you can put
the knoledge thats in your head to a nice drawing to be manufactured
and put to market.
i was just wondering on any ideas of somehting that could be
impressive. As i said i am sure that most poeple can draw nice things..
and ive worked on some fun projects but, the real queries is what do
you think an empolyer would find "EYE CANDY" in terms of a drawing.
I've never shown my work because it doesn't belong to me. However, if someone showed me a drawing the thing that would impress me the most is correct use of geometric tolerencing, it seems to be so rare. Not eye candy.
I thought about making a portfolio when I was last looking for a job - but as people pointed out, its not about the designs or the pictures. Its about solving problems. What you put on your resume is that you saved X company Y money by doing Z. It doesn't matter if you redesigned it, found a new supplier, whatever. It all comes down to what you can do that affects the bottom line.
If its an ID job, than a portfolio would be in order, but not when you're designing salt spreaders, etc.
a drawing without hidden lines...lots of sectional views...detail views...dimensional and Geometrical tolerances in place, sectioned Trimetric view of the model and a shaded picture of the model itself without hidden lines shown.
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and i think i know my basics.