I’ve been on drugs for the last couple of days (okay, I’ve got a cold, and lost my voice) so I have been in a semi-conscious state due to the effects of cough and cold medication.
SOGE is running a series of interviews, so I attempt to turn up and give the candidates an opportunity to sell themselves, seeing they have taken the time and effort to travel from their abodes, which in some cases is very far. Kudos for their dedication.
Anyhow, as I breeze through the interviews in silence, there was one point where I was jolted awake. While interviewing a candidate on how to size a CSTR, the candidate mentioned that they ‘guessed’ the size.
Exsqueeze me? A ChemEng student, doing their final year project, guessed the size of a piece of equipment that has a fundamental sizing parameter? What are they teaching in universities these days? Using the force and insight to come up with solutions? What, they ran out of textbooks and slide rules, not to mention common sense.
If the student’s supervisor accepts this piece of equipment sized as it is and I find out about it, I promise you that I will make the name of the supervisor and the university public for all to see, and complain to the BEM, IEM and IChemE to boot.
Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 
i wave my hands, and the right sized TEG Dehydrator comes into my mind…. hahahhaaa
Standards are dropping, and when jabba gets engineer, jabba breaks them down to pieces and rebuild them….
Jabba: that is why I will send all my pit staff to you, to broken down and rebuilt, kinda like the 6 million dollar man, or marines, or Kessel run slaves.
Bro Wata,
Very true and I agreed with you. When I ‘m interviewed candidates (on technical side) last month, I came across candidates with; I rather call Engineer Based Computer or Computer Based Engineer. There are growing numbers of engineers especially fresh grads (Corrosion/Maintenance/ Pipeline/Civil/Structural/Chemical/Mechanical) brag that they can perform certain (modeling/analysis) using state of the art engineering software. But to my surprised they can’t (defend/justify) their modeling and result of the analysis. What are they teaching in universities these days?
“uni student nowadays are just getting spoonfeeded by their lecturers”-courtesy of former intern supervisor@PRSS..after moment being scolded for my inapplicable MRU design..hahaha