Instant Engineers?

Fcuk You! IEs are not Instant Engineers. 5year course, puro engineering sciences (ES1, ES11, ES12, ES 13, ES 15, ES21), may ME63, MeTE143, EE6 and EE7, and madami pang iba. bakit, dahil wala ba kaming board exam? Grrrr....

This morning, i had a chat with a manufacturing supervisor, si Queennie. She said something about IEs na the other people looks at IEs as instant engineers. Well, she agrees with me na hindi. Luma na masyadi ang meaning ng engineering or engineer. Engineer=Technical. But how technical is technical? Data crunching? Complex formulas? Heuristics?

Usually, madami nga nagsasabi, pag di ka nagboard exam, di ka engineer, or may right tawagin na engineer blah blah. Well, di ako tinatawag na Engineer Diaz and ayoko actually. Sabi nga ng Comm teacher ko, these are just some sort of status symbol. Engr/Atty/Dr? Skills pa din.

If ang IE eh Instant Engineer. Eh paano na ang CS (CompSci) in which they are sometimes called Software Engineers. So Instant Engineers din ba sila?

But wait! By 2008, hopefully, a law will be passed requiring IE grads to take a certification exam. Yeah, okay lang sa akin na mag-exam. I have to study now!

Anyway, sa mga "engineers" dyan na nagsasabi na instant engineers ang IEs... Sinong boss niyo ngayon? Anong course nya? Where do you go when you need help analyzing the capacity? the impact of your downtime? San kayo lumalapit when you need to buy collaterals? Buy additional tools? Work on tool conversion? Who plans for the future of the company? Who works tactically with you just to ensure that you can ship out millions of units? Sa HR may IEs din, sa Finance, etc. IEs can be Manufacturing Supervisors, Supply Chain Analysts, Logistics Specialists, etc.

I'm proud to be an IE. Bahala kayo kung anong sabihin ninyo! basta alam ko, kahit Grade 3 lang ako sa trabaho, kahit individual contributor lang ako, i work directly with the group leaders, the supervisors, and even the direct managers. They have higher positions but i work with them, and may times na i drive them to work on something that is needed. Di ba Rey?

Anyway, sabi ko nga, bahala kayo. Opinion nyo yan. Ako lang naman eh sana mag-isip muna. Hehehe... :)