What are the specific risks in engineering?
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do you mean in terms of the job - like risks of an engineering profession, or design , or actual construction ?
Finding a job. Greenspan himself said to Bush that he wants more foreign engineers etc. to compress the wages.
And recently the lawfirm of Cohen and Grigsby was filmed telling corporate execs. and HR people how NOT to hire US citizens.
Best bet, don't go into any technical field in the US, your government hates you.
go to www.programmersguild.org and search for the downloaded film (from youtube) of the lawfirm of Cohen and Grigsby.
Are you writing a paper, and too darn idle to do research?
I am an engineer - a female engineer with 4 children.
Specific risks include.
1. There's a particular piece of kit I can only operate if I jam it against my left leg. Unless no one's watching, when I can use my Womanly Skills to balance my way across it, like all the menfolk around me. can't. While they were all jogging, I was doing Callanetics once a week, and Raqs Sharqui once a week.
Since their way is the Safe Way, and my way is - by their definition (but they wrote the risk assessment) the Not Safe Way - their way wins.
I'm meant to balance the risk of electrocution/ drowning, against the risk of varicose veins, and think varicose veins is A Small Price To Pay.
Only *I'm* far more likely to die of varicose veins than of electrocution or drowning.
2. Every time I get pregnant, my boss starts looking at me like I grew horns. Every time I have a miscarriage, he looks at me like I'm the Devil Incarnate. Nice women don't have miscarriages.
My boss thinks I'm the Devil - that's a risk, too!
That question is totally a 'How long is that piece of string' question.
Are you a *long* piece of string? A *short* piece of string? Perchance, are you *elastic*?
Do your homework somewhere other than google or yahoo, next time, i would.
Or you risk seriously annoying the Devil Incarnate.
Hsss.
Oh, and. Edward? Your government loves me? News to me... *that'll* be why they killed a bunch of my cousins, then... what you Americans call 'tough love'. Those rules are... the rules. In most countries. If you want to know who invented this strategy - it was not the American government - they're not that smart.
*WE* invented 'we want you to do the stuff our people are too idle and ignorant to do - doctor, lawyer, engineer, techie...'
It's just ironical as all heck that as a result - WE'RE now the third world, too.
Global capitalist (for which read Cohenly) Conspiracy? Invented that...
Anti-semitism? Invented that... but then we're also the people who put the Jew into Jewellery Quarter. We're complex - go figure.
Helen
There are many branches of engineering - the 4 main ones, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, and Chemical and all have their own quirks.
For example an Electrical Engineers greatest common risk is electric shock, so it depends what type of engineer you want to know about - the list could be very long otherwise.
Other examples:
Mechanical - machinery breaking
Civil - Road accident
Chemical - chemiocal burns
Like I suggested there are general risks for each branch, and then there are specific risks for each place of work - in a factory environment there might be fork lift trucks, an oil plant might be oil explosions, nuclear plant might be radiation poisoning.
It would be easier to answer your question if yoy could be a little more specific.
And finally there are the risk to the technicians - those who want to cal themselves engineers but arnt and they have simular risks but might also face the dangers of the general public (for example a computer 'engineer' when fixing a computer at somones home might have an angry dog to deal with)
There are many risks depending in what kind of engr you are and where you are assigned. Even in other jobs there are also many risks. Its even more risky if your jobless because you will dare anything just to have money. Risks ranges from job environment, job related risks and off-job risks such as road/vehicle related accidents.
One of the major specific risks comes from asking stupid questions like "what are the specific risks in engineering?".
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