[Frank Munga]

So what if the detail engineering jobs are outsourced in India, China, Philippines or other Asian country. It could only mean that the career itself is growing globally.

Where dose that leave you and your colleagues for work in your home country?

[Frank Munga]

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.

[Frank Munga]

Just because your country announces that it will be increasing its oil supply it doesn’t guarantee there will be work in that country for the increase in this oil supply in FEED and or Detailed Design.

Globalisation means that tenders will be sent to whom ever the company wishes to send them, quotes will be gathered and a decision will be made on many factors, one of them being cost.

So you might find that a German company is doing the design in Germany On PDMS or PDS and not in the home country where the facilities are going to be built.

That’s globalisation for you.

To answer the OP when will it pick up?
With humongous design centres being built in India and China servicing the whole world and with their designers and engineers working for one third of the price of their counter parts in the west.

It may never get back to what it was.

[Frank Munga]

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Someone on the maths forum solved it for me.

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