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Eduardo
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Where are really nice places with a cool climate where there is an excellent job market for mechanical engineering?
preferably on west coast #mechanical-engineering
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Spruce Cox
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Eduardo,
Great question! I learned that where I lived made much more of an impact on my quality of life than I ever thought it would. Big city, suburbs, rural, hot, cold, windy, nice house on a small lot, older house on some acreage, length/time of commute---these are very important factors to be considered in any job choice. And that goes for your family, too.
Let’s start with the West Coast. I’m sure that areas near the ocean from border to border are going to be cooler in summer than Orlando. From LA south the temperature might meet or exceed that of Orlando but the humidity will not. The farther inland you go, up until you have to cross a mountain range of which there are several, the hotter it gets, but the humidity stays tolerable. I’m sure you know most of this so forgive me if I got too detailed.
But I’m guessing that your main concerns are about the job markets for MEs. I think it’s safe to say that in the bigger cities there will be no shortage of job openings, with pay commensurate with distance from downtown or other centers of industry. When I graduated in 1980, I was specifically looking for aerospace work, so I was limited to Seattle or LA. Today those centers of industry have shrunk in size even as the population has grown substantially. What has replaced that however is what we call high-tech, meaning computers and peripherals, medical equipment, precision parts manufacturing, etc.; not the huge factories from the eighties and nineties but smaller, innovative companies designing and making high-tech parts using high-tech tooling, 3-D printing processes, composites/ceramics and other crazy new materials, all surrounding microprocessors/sensors/software.
Please understand that I retired 4 years ago and have been out of the job market for a long time. I picked up a lot of this information while I was working and since then in my reading. But it is just my opinion. I did not learn this until later in my career, but there is a lot of ME work involved with computers and other products with microprocessors. Heat is one of the biggest challenges with microprocessors getting so small that parts and lines on printed circuit cards are nanometers apart allowing cooling air paths only molecules wide. My nephew and one other guy do all the thermal design for laptops at the big Intel chip factory south of Portland. A friend of my daughter is an ME at Microsoft where he and a few others designed the keyboard/cover for the Microsoft Surface.
Other design challenges for products with printed circuit cards inside are vibration, contamination, shock, static and dynamic loads environments. In my opinion there will also be a need for MEs to build buildings and structures and bridges to replace our aging infrastructure. I do not see money being spent on those now but they can’t wait too long. Good luck.
Great question! I learned that where I lived made much more of an impact on my quality of life than I ever thought it would. Big city, suburbs, rural, hot, cold, windy, nice house on a small lot, older house on some acreage, length/time of commute---these are very important factors to be considered in any job choice. And that goes for your family, too.
Let’s start with the West Coast. I’m sure that areas near the ocean from border to border are going to be cooler in summer than Orlando. From LA south the temperature might meet or exceed that of Orlando but the humidity will not. The farther inland you go, up until you have to cross a mountain range of which there are several, the hotter it gets, but the humidity stays tolerable. I’m sure you know most of this so forgive me if I got too detailed.
But I’m guessing that your main concerns are about the job markets for MEs. I think it’s safe to say that in the bigger cities there will be no shortage of job openings, with pay commensurate with distance from downtown or other centers of industry. When I graduated in 1980, I was specifically looking for aerospace work, so I was limited to Seattle or LA. Today those centers of industry have shrunk in size even as the population has grown substantially. What has replaced that however is what we call high-tech, meaning computers and peripherals, medical equipment, precision parts manufacturing, etc.; not the huge factories from the eighties and nineties but smaller, innovative companies designing and making high-tech parts using high-tech tooling, 3-D printing processes, composites/ceramics and other crazy new materials, all surrounding microprocessors/sensors/software.
Please understand that I retired 4 years ago and have been out of the job market for a long time. I picked up a lot of this information while I was working and since then in my reading. But it is just my opinion. I did not learn this until later in my career, but there is a lot of ME work involved with computers and other products with microprocessors. Heat is one of the biggest challenges with microprocessors getting so small that parts and lines on printed circuit cards are nanometers apart allowing cooling air paths only molecules wide. My nephew and one other guy do all the thermal design for laptops at the big Intel chip factory south of Portland. A friend of my daughter is an ME at Microsoft where he and a few others designed the keyboard/cover for the Microsoft Surface.
Other design challenges for products with printed circuit cards inside are vibration, contamination, shock, static and dynamic loads environments. In my opinion there will also be a need for MEs to build buildings and structures and bridges to replace our aging infrastructure. I do not see money being spent on those now but they can’t wait too long. Good luck.
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