For me, as a graduate entering the profession for 2 yrs, the main obstacle is where to find reliable knowledge to learn. I work in a petrochemical company and the design contents are vastly different from those in residential or commercial buildings. Codes are good resources to learn but there are still some special required type of structures I don’t know how to verify my design is safe or not, ie. a circular footing to support four columns used as foundation of a vertical vessel. I post this comment hopefully to receive some advices from people working in a petro firm. Your suggestion could be really helpful. Thank you.
Totally agree with your thoughts on "additional" learning. As semi retired engineers im still reading and researching new information. Its just something ive always done and never questioned. Being a professional engineer means more than 9 to 5 employment. Great videos by the way. Guess youre producing these in your own time!
In my opinion, a licensed profession is a lifelong learning commitment. If you are not interested, just leave otherwise you are dangerous to your profession.
My manager during my placement told me to read 2 books and answer 2 questions on Mathcad for each chapter for one of the books. It wasn’t quite easy but I finished them and thanked him for the books because now I’m back in uni and making use of the knowledge gained from them☺️
I agree and disagree with you in sense that you give the advice and direction but that doesn’t mean you judge of what the graduate do out of working hours. He might be working on learning different skills and still exploring his limits. Or he might have a family commitments. Take it easy with the graduates they ate not the same and the passionated and motivated graduates will definitely distinct themselves and will do further more without been asked.
There's always new information and updates, and the university course didn't cover everything. So learning is very important. I am learning and writing dynamo scripts to enhance my abilities within BIM, this wasn't taught at university and I completed it recently.
Thanks for your video, All of your video is really helpfull for us. I just want to ask you something about masonry design. I dont have any experince in masonry design but i really want to learn what is your recommedation (books or course ?) and which code you use british standard or eurocode. Cheers
The British standard code is much easier to follow if you are brand new to masonry design. Structural masonry designers manual is a book I used when I was a graduate and is pretty good at exposing concepts with design examples to follow
In my opinion, first and foremost you should become professional in a field which you love, otherwise you dishonest to yourself and your colleagues. Therefore, by definition, if in your life yo aim to do what you love, you will of course study in "your time". Now, it is not always that every subfield you love in your field will be perfectly aligned with the core activities of your business/employer, which in this case there is usually some leeway and understanding offered by a reasonable firm who offer further training and guidance. However, the onus is very much on the individual's passion for their chosen career path.
For me, as a graduate entering the profession for 2 yrs, the main obstacle is where to find reliable knowledge to learn. I work in a petrochemical company and the design contents are vastly different from those in residential or commercial buildings. Codes are good resources to learn but there are still some special required type of structures I don’t know how to verify my design is safe or not, ie. a circular footing to support four columns used as foundation of a vertical vessel. I post this comment hopefully to receive some advices from people working in a petro firm. Your suggestion could be really helpful. Thank you.
I actually like that my firm gives us time to learn new things/ invest time into new things. Its not 200% after work hours
For me, as a graduate entering the profession for 2 yrs, the main obstacle is where to find reliable knowledge to learn. I work in a petrochemical company and the design contents are vastly different from those in residential or commercial buildings. Codes are good resources to learn but there are still some special required type of structures I don’t know how to verify my design is safe or not, ie. a circular footing to support four columns used as foundation of a vertical vessel. I post this comment hopefully to receive some advices from people working in a petro firm. Your suggestion could be really helpful. Thank you.
If you want to be successful at anything you must appreciate art of self learning. Without it you will only know what others tell you.
Totally agree with your thoughts on "additional" learning. As semi retired engineers im still reading and researching new information. Its just something ive always done and never questioned. Being a professional engineer means more than 9 to 5 employment.
Great videos by the way. Guess youre producing these in your own time!
In my opinion, a licensed profession is a lifelong learning commitment. If you are not interested, just leave otherwise you are dangerous to your profession.
Looking forward to your videos, Dazz. Valuable to both professional and personal aspects to any graduate/trainee/associate Engineer.
Exactly... I faced it and it is must advice for every graduate
My manager during my placement told me to read 2 books and answer 2 questions on Mathcad for each chapter for one of the books. It wasn’t quite easy but I finished them and thanked him for the books because now I’m back in uni and making use of the knowledge gained from them☺️
Same thing can be said for architecture graduates!
I agree and disagree with you in sense that you give the advice and direction but that doesn’t mean you judge of what the graduate do out of working hours. He might be working on learning different skills and still exploring his limits. Or he might have a family commitments.
Take it easy with the graduates they ate not the same and the passionated and motivated graduates will definitely distinct themselves and will do further more without been asked.
There's always new information and updates, and the university course didn't cover everything. So learning is very important. I am learning and writing dynamo scripts to enhance my abilities within BIM, this wasn't taught at university and I completed it recently.
Thanks for your video, All of your video is really helpfull for us. I just want to ask you something about masonry design. I dont have any experince in masonry design but i really want to learn what is your recommedation (books or course ?) and which code you use british standard or eurocode. Cheers
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The British standard code is much easier to follow if you are brand new to masonry design.
Structural masonry designers manual is a book I used when I was a graduate and is pretty good at exposing concepts with design examples to follow
@@EverydayDazz Thank you soo much you are the most generous man I have known in UK
In my opinion, first and foremost you should become professional in a field which you love, otherwise you dishonest to yourself and your colleagues. Therefore, by definition, if in your life yo aim to do what you love, you will of course study in "your time". Now, it is not always that every subfield you love in your field will be perfectly aligned with the core activities of your business/employer, which in this case there is usually some leeway and understanding offered by a reasonable firm who offer further training and guidance. However, the onus is very much on the individual's passion for their chosen career path.
at 4:00 what was the book masonry called ?
I think it was the structural masonry designers manual
@@EverydayDazz cheers Dazz, managed to get a free copy from uni
What was the masonry book you were recommended?
I think it was “structural masonry designers manual”
I love your videos!!!
Would you mind doing a lateral design example that contain either shearwalls, braced frame or moment frame?
Keep it up
Cheers!
For me, as a graduate entering the profession for 2 yrs, the main obstacle is where to find reliable knowledge to learn. I work in a petrochemical company and the design contents are vastly different from those in residential or commercial buildings. Codes are good resources to learn but there are still some special required type of structures I don’t know how to verify my design is safe or not, ie. a circular footing to support four columns used as foundation of a vertical vessel. I post this comment hopefully to receive some advices from people working in a petro firm. Your suggestion could be really helpful. Thank you.