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By Robert Cook This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series How to Interpret Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams With a Bit of Smoke, a Few Mirrors and a Degree in Hieroglyphics, Anyone Can Learn to Read a P&ID. From CheNected

By Robert Cook This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series How to Interpret Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams With a Bit of Smoke, a Few Mirrors and a Degree in Hieroglyphics, Anyone Can Learn to Read a P&ID. From CheNected

By Robert Cook This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series How to Interpret Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams With a Bit of Smoke, a Few Mirrors and a Degree in Hieroglyphics, Anyone Can Learn to Read a P&ID.   From CheNected

By Robert Cook This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series How to Interpret Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams With a Bit of Smoke, a Few Mirrors and a Degree in Hieroglyphics, Anyone Can Learn to Read a P&ID. From CheNected

When a recruiter doesn’t call you back

by Bill Fester on May 30, 2011

in Jobs, People

Sometimes I forget that not everyone really understands what recruiters actually do, and how recruiting works.  Today  I’ll try and explain a few things about what’s really going on. First, a recruiter is paid by the Client. This means that there’s not really a demand for you as a candidate unless the other party, the […]

Control Engineering 40 Under 40 is a recognition program designed to identify and give recognition to young engineers who have made significant contributions toward the control engineering profession. Help us get young people interested in engineering. We’re seeking successful and well-rounded control-engineering-minded individuals 18 or older and under 40 years of age (as of Nov. […]

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in April for the 21st consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 23rd consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business. From PlantServices.com

What if?

by Bill Fester on May 13, 2011

in featured, Industries, Jobs, People, Systems, Uncategorized

In the improving economy we’re seeing at this point in late Spring,  I can’t help but wonder if there are a lot of engineers out there who have stayed in their positions, waiting it out, waiting out their disappointments until times got better. These folks felt hanging on to their jobs was the prudent course […]

The Security of “Contract” Part 1

by Bill Fester on April 21, 2011

in featured, Jobs, People

The rules for employment have changed.  No one of my father’s generation thought that the concept of a full time staff position until retirement was anything more than the goal of every working man and woman. But the laudable notion of four, or five decade service to one organization, of  joining a firm out of […]

Summary –  Senior Project Manager with over thirty years engineering experience with DCS’s (Fisher DeltaV, Honeywell, Moore APACs, Siemens T3000) and PLC’s (Allen Bradley) in multiple industries (utilities, paper, chemical). Experience includes the specification, design, installation, start-up of field instrumentation and control systems (DCS, PLC), the design, implementation and tuning of control loops and Mimic […]