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Hi,
I am currently in school at ITT for drafting and design technology. I have one year left before I graduate. I have no previous construction experience. I want to be a Piping Designer, but the school I attend does not teach piping design at all. I have recently accepted a job at a construction company within there pipe fabrication department. I work in quality control. I deal with pipe drawings all day long. What would you advise for me to do after I graduate to move from the quality control department into the engineering department where I would do the drawings. Where do I go from here? Should I do more training or schooling? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
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Hi Gabby
I don't know what its like over there but this is what I do know about here.
In Australia its hard to find a college that specialises in teaching piping design, sometimes if the numbers are there RMIT in Melbourne run Piping Designer course but that is usually made up of freshmen that have landed a job with one of the big consultancy companies that service the MOG industry and now need the schooling.
I suggest you do a diploma in mechanical engineering while trying very hard to land a job as a trainee piping designer.
Piping is a branch of mechanical engineering some TAFEs offer Mechanical design, Applied mechanics or Fluid mechanics streams as the major, I guess if you go down the fluid mechanics stream it wouldn't hurt.
I did my diploma in mech eng (TAFE) majored in Mechanical design while working in the heavy fabrication pressure vessel industry from there I went on to become a piping desiger in mining, oil and gas (MOG).
Did the mechanical design stream help me in the Piping Designer field, well in a way it does, when it comes to stress, flexibility, strength of materials, and the added bonus is you can do mechanical work as well which makes you flexible.
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