Nowadays, we are in the 21st of century forced to be digital and fast learner. Developing informational technology rapidly increase and affect the other sectors. Career and jobs need qualified people to work effectively. In this way, I want to carry up about mechanical engineer to be one of the sector that affected by developed informational technology. What mechanical engineering all about? Mechanical Engineering is perform engineering duties in planning and designing tools, engines, machines, and other mechanically functioning equipment. It’s very interesting topic to be discuss because mechanical engineer is one who responsible with the developing country. They take important roles to make country growth because work in many sectors in every company and government.
Some peoples might not understand about mechanical engineer, so what they do then? Mechanical engineers take part to be work in oversee installation, operation, maintenance, and repair of equipment such as centralized heat, gas, water, and steam systems. What they do is related much about how engine work and how to maintains the system become sustain. They work weekly with average work hours in a week is 42.9 hours. In other hand, some engineers might have a lot travel in the specific position. For instance when you ask to work outside city or you should have a training in another country. So they will often to have travel to finish their project.
After that, there are some requirements for being good mechanical engineer. For instance you could read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, or computer-generated reports. Those skills could be mastered by every mechanical engineer to make them as professional engineer. After that, they might be able to assist drafters in developing the structural design of products using drafting tools or computer-assisted design (CAD) or drafting equipment and software (SolidWorks). This to make every engineer keep up date with the growing of technology. Instead they responsible to be competitive engineer to make the company or government growth. Next, being a mechanical engineer will familiar to do research, design, evaluate, install, operate, and maintain mechanical products, equipment, systems and processes to meet requirements, applying knowledge of engineering principles. This is the way the mechanical engineer being most important roles. In order to make people being competent engineer, they might have any certificate related to the engineering as a approving their skill and abilities. Moreover, they will have strong validation for being competent engineer.
In the other hand, every mechanical engineer should has basic skill and abilities. For instance, has strong math and science background, able to solve problem, and hold the strong logic or verbal abilities. Those things is very important before you enter to engineering field even being a mechanical engineer. Because in this work, you will have many relation with those skill. If any engineers capable in those all skill and abilities, it will affected their salary. Because company will see the abilities of their worker, so to have high salary and important position, people should be has all of those abilities. But, work as mechanical engineering has advantages and disadvantages. The advantages when you get high salary and expert in the design media. While the disadvantages are the work schedule that varying then should keep up date with technological growing and mostly dominated by senior engineers.
In the end, we will see the different salaries of mechanical engineer in the Indonesia and United States. Well, mechanical engineer in the Indonesia had paid with minimum $4000 US dollar and maximum salaries in the level of $12,500 US dollar per year. While in the United States, mechanical engineers had paid with minimum $52,882 US dollar and maximum salaries in the $74,894 US dollar per year. That’s very long difference between Indonesia salaries and United States salaries. Meanwhile, the salaries also affected by their work experience. More experienced the engineer so more paid they get. This is the mean by senior dominated in the engineer’s world. Someone who has more experience will lead the other who has less experience. However, work as mechanical engineer very interesting me. I like challenge and mechanical engineering will challenged me as well. It’s my dream to become an engineer, someone who much related with engine and that’s cool. I like to be engineer and I will proud being an engineer.
