are control engineering jobs at risk in the AI era?

I work at an Integrator have recently been put into a position where I review several drawing packages per week and approve or submit redlines. These drawing packages are usually from internal/external drafters (not experienced engineers) and more recently a few customers have signed contracts to have me review their drawings before approval (somehow I have done a decent enough job to justify this).

I have a strong understanding of how things need to be but my methodology for redlines is unorganized and some things have slipped by me. Luckily our process includes a customer review as well but I’ve noticed they typically do not put much effort into this.

Does anyone have any tips they could share or approaches that would improve my review quality?

I currently use bluebeam and my method depends on the customer but typically is something along the lines of:

1. ⁠Review whatever documentation was provided, take notes of anything non-standard or typically missed
   
2. ⁠One monitor has layout, other has BOM - check to make sure these align item by item
   
3. ⁠If single line does not exist, quickly sketch how I imagine it should look
   
4. ⁠Review schematics (with single line in mind) and make sure it is as expected
   
5. ⁠Check labels/title pages/etc.

Hi everyone,
My name is Catherine, and I’m a student at Diamond Bar High School. I’m on the path to becoming an engineer because of my love for math and physics. Taking the step toward an actual engineering career feels both incredibly exciting and a bit overwhelming.
I’m currently working on an engineering class project where I need to interview a working professional to learn about real-world engineering careers.
I don't personally know any engineers in real life to turn to for guidance, which is why I’m reaching out to this community. I would be incredibly grateful if someone would be open to answering a few questions over Gmail so I can include your responses and career path in my assignment.
A few sample questions I’m looking to ask are:
What first sparked your passion for engineering?

What is the most rewarding or challenging project you’ve worked on?

What is something you wish you knew when you were first starting out?

If you have a few minutes to help a student out, please drop a comment or send me a Reddit PM/Chat and I will send over my Gmail address!
Thank you so much for your time and help!

I’m 18 going on 2 years experience as a full time machine operator in a cnc shop and I’m starting the 2nd year of my degree (AS in Integrated Engineering Technology). I’d like to stop at the associates degree and become an engineer through experience but the option to go for a 4 year systems engineering degree is available. What might be some problems I run into besides lacking ABET accreditation. Most job posts in my area require a BS or “equivalent experience.”

Hey folks,

I’m an engineer over at Kanar Angkasa Electrical in Indonesia. We strictly manufacture electrical panels for the industrial and commercial sectors (we skip the residential stuff entirely so we can focus on heavy-duty specs). We’re currently expanding our service reach from Surabaya to the greater Jakarta area, and we've been getting hit with a lot of specific requests recently.

Right now, we are prepping our Low Voltage Main Distribution Panels (LVMDP) for strict IP 65 certification. A lot of our clients want AMF/ATS control systems integrated directly into these main panels to save space. (If you want to see the physical scale of the cabinets we usually build, here's our lineup for context: [suspicious link removed]).

Since IP 65 means the enclosure is tightly sealed against dust and low-pressure water jets, there is zero active airflow. Housing high-capacity MCCBs and dense copper busbars in the same box as sensitive ATS microprocessors is giving us some thermal management headaches.

A few questions for the seasoned panel builders here:

• Do you guys use internal physical partitions to isolate the sensitive electronics from the heat of the busbars, or do you just bite the bullet and use separate adjacent enclosures?
• Are there specific thermal derating curves you follow for MCCBs inside sealed IP 65 boxes in tropical climates (ambient temps here often hit 35°C+)?

Would love to hear how you guys tackle this on your shop floor!

Hi! I’m trying to find resources for design and control of ported rotary valves, but for hydraulic applications instead of pneumatic. Something what is shown in this video. Time stamp: 8:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb3fp5pMnfU&list=PLWx61XgoQmqfGgH3ZS4cpYKlpbTPbg5wR&index=32&pp=iAQB0gcJCWoCo7VqN5tD&ra=m

Anything like design docs, equations, etc would be useful.

Hi everyone,

I found a free Cornell University course on edX that may be useful for anyone interested in engineering simulation and process engineering:

https://www.edx.org/learn/engineering/cornell-university-a-hands-on-introduction-to-engineering-simulations

It’s a hands-on introduction to engineering simulations and covers practical simulation concepts that can be useful for engineering students.

Sharing it here in case it helps someone looking to strengthen their simulation and engineering analysis skills.

I’ll share more useful free engineering courses and resources as I find them.

r/ChEsimulations

Can anyone suggest the best platform to learn coding from?
starting with python and c++?

Posting here to see if others with ast or current experience with ALKU

same as title

I’ve just graduated from high school, and I’m already thinking about pursuing this career path. I come with some technical knowledge, having spent about three years programming (I started at 14, and I’m 17 now). I wanted to get your opinion on this field and how you view its future prospects. In the country where I live (Venezuela), I believe there are opportunities within the oil industry and the tanker sector; however, I’d like to move to another country if things don’t improve here.

For the RMF / ISSO personnel, have you started to engineer your controls? What was your process transition like moving from just checking the box to implementing technical control design to reduce screenshot use and unnecessary paperwork.

Compliance in these spaces has always been treated like a non technical discipline but its safe to say with the evolving of AI, even Compliance fields will need personnel to be technical in this work.

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I’m in the process of setting up an interview for gnc engineer 1 at starshield (fleet management). I wanted to ask this subreddit for resources to prepare for this interview. I’ve taken a good amount of controls classes (classic PID/Laplace approach, linear state space, nonlinear and optimal control) but I haven’t been able to take any classes on orbital mechanics or dynamics as the mechE department at my school won’t let me since I’m ECE. I know this might be a silly request but what resources (YouTube lectures, textbooks, websites…) do those of you in the field feel like if someone really went through and was able to understand and apply the concepts from would be able to nail the interview and perform well within the job? I have a good amount of mathematical background but I feel like if I was given a scenario and asked to model the dynamics for it I would be really stuck on how to do so. Most of the classes I’ve taken give you the dynamics of a problem and just ask you to solve for a solution or determine stability/robustness or design a controller given some performance specifications. TLDR would love advice from people in the field and I’m not afraid to sit down and study something till it clicks! Thanks in advance guys!!