Cdr Sample Mechanical Engineer Essay Example For Students

Cdr Sample Mechanical Engineer Essay CAREER EPISODE 1 Designing of the Side Arm Charger During the time I have worked at XXXXX since February 2001 for approximately 5 continuous years as a full time mechanical engineering expert I have been assigned several engineering design projects. One of the projects I have been assigned at October 2005 to work on was to design the side arm charger of a wagon un-loader system. XXXXX was selected as the designer and execution supervisor of this project. The wagon un-loader system will be installed in KHORASAN Steel Complex (; KSC) at Neyshabour. The main purpose in KHORASAN Steel Complex is to construct a reduction plant in order to increase the amount of produced sponge iron to be used in the steel industries. This plant is going to be constructed within a period of 3 years. In order to supply the required oxide pellet, a railway is designed for the plant. Obviously, the major function of wagon un-loader system is to supply the required oxide pellet to the direct reduction plant. I would like to describe my job in this project in 4 different stages as follows: 1) Total Project Planning ) Preliminary Studies 3) Detail Design and Engineering Documentation 4) Project Execution Planning 1) Total Project Planning 1-1) The design project was to be started at October 2005, so the project leader at XXXXX held an introduction meeting approximately at the beginning of September 2005 and the project organization was introduced to include: A project manager, An engineering coordinator and other discipline coordinators were electrical e ngineering, mechanical engineering, process engineering and fluid coordinators. The project leader also determined a time limitation of only 3 months for all design and engineering activities before implementation supplier selection. The credit for this part of the project was considered to be around 1. 5 million euros regarding an offer received from a foreign engineering consulting firm out of a 150 million euros as the total credit for KSC reduction plant. 1-2) I was supposed to work under the supervision of the mechanical engineering coordinator accompanying with two other mechanical engineer and two CAD drafters as the mechanical engineering design team. In this project the mechanical coordinator assigned me the following tasks to assist him in the project: 1-2-1) Design the side arm charger 1-2-2) Communicate with other coordinators 1-2-3) Prepare the design project plan and predict the executive requirements and interfaces with other disciplines. 1-2-4) Prepare the cost/benefit analysis of the design 1-2-5) Attend the meetings as mechanical design team representative 1-2-6) Preparing and finalizing the project progress reports of mechanical design through teamwork. -3) Approximately about 3 working days later I held a meeting with the mechanical design team members and also invited the representatives of other discipline coordinators’ teams. In this meeting we discussed the mechanical design plan, and our overall estimation on design requirements of each individual parts and equipments. I asked about any available information resources and one of our team members suggested to have a visit of such similar systems active under operation in MOBARAKEH Steel Complex BANDAR ABBAS Harbor. After assignment of design activities, I asked all team members on how to make effective and fast communications when required. Finally we decided to communicate with emails through our INTERANET and provide a flat network connection to inform each other and take the responsibility of each other activities with close relations and communications through a fully authorized friendly working environment. We also defined and agreed on our weekly technical meetings time. 1-4) I suggested providing such a mentioned friendly flat environment for work to my direct boss and he accepted and approved the suggestion. At the same meeting I suggested to communicate the project progress and relevant technical issues each week on Mondays and every body accepted. 1-5) Finally I ordered to prepare a design project draft plan and we discussed it through our technical team and asked for any required modifications from other disciplines representatives then I finalized the mechanical design project plan at the same time when the other teams were working on their own plans. I submitted and discussed the design project plan to the mechanical coordinator and took his approval on the plan. I had planned to complete all the activities including design, verification, and inquiry document preparation and engineering drawing and quality control plan documentation within 3 months. 1-6) After I took the approval of the mechanical design project plan, I conducted to provide an overall cost estimation of the design and execution of such a project considering a parametric cost estimating method based on a conceptual and preliminary draft design and reported the documented results to the mechanical coordinator. Regarding the results achieved we predicted an approximate saving of 250,000 euros only due to mechanical engineering design and execution. 2) Preliminary Studies 2-1) To get aware about the client’s technical requirements, since the wagon un-loader system was designing for the first time in Iran, first of all it was required to know about the function and duty of the wagon un-loader system. I requested a technical meeting with the process engineering team under the supervision of process engineering coordinator to get introduced to such an un-loader system. Nuclear Holocaust EssaySo I conducted to provide a written draft and held a meeting with other top leaders representatives and some non-technical people from XXXXX contract department to discuss and finalize the execution tender documents. After some open negotiations some suggestions were applied and a complete inquiry document was finalized and agreed. In addition I ordered the procurement of the hydraulic drive system and related accessories to XXXXX international partner called IRASCO through our contract department to be on time on delivery of these parts that had to be imported. 4) Project Execution Planning 4-1) After finalizing the mechanical equipments inquiry documents, I conducted to provide an execution project cost/benefit analysis along with the relevant gunt chart for such a project. I combined all these documents together and after taking the mechanical coordinator approval in addition to other coordinators agreement, we passed the inquiry documents to XXXXX contract department for tender. 4-2) The contract department held the tender and finally the execution supplier who was responsible not only for mechanical and total process engineering but also for electrical equipments, was selected and introduced to our technical supervision team. 4-3) I accompanying the representatives of other teams finalized the execution project plan with the supplier and revised the required man-hour per each activity in some areas and helped his technical team with the 2D workshop drawings and other engineering documents provided for ease of implementation. -4) I conducted teamwork to prepare the required quality control plans for mechanical equipments and parts during the 5 weeks to the end of the 3rd month of the design and engineering when the design was completed and the worksho p executive 2D drawings were under preparation. My practical knowledge and experiences in quality control and inspection either in-site or by taking services from outside inspectors and laboratory services always helps me effectively in preparation such a quality plans. I always bear in mind when in execution any suggestions from supplier’s technical staffs have to be studied and accepted if practical as compared to our experienced experiments. 4-5) The finalized project plan passed to the supplier for execution and it was estimated to take around 12 months to be totally implemented and the equipments would be installed. Our final calculations together with all the other teams indicated with the design activities done in XXXXX there was a saving of around 500000 euros out of the 1. 5 million euros offer received from the foreign engineering consultation company. Summary At October 2005, I was assigned by XXXXX to work on a project to design a side arm charger in a wagon un-loader system for KHORASAN Steel Complex reduction plant in Neyshabour. I was working under the supervision of mechanical engineering coordinator of this project and two other mechanical engineers and two CAD drafters were working under my supervision and directly reported to me. I had to perform the following activities: 1) Total Project Planning 2) Preliminary Studies 3) Detail Design and Engineering Documentation 4) Project execution Planning Each of the above-mentioned steps was executed in further sub-steps for further considerations. Also I had to report continuously to mechanical coordinator. To show the progress and respective improvements and engineering design results I prepared project progress reports including engineering details with supporting graphs and charts using Microsoft Power Point. Apart from this I have always tried to achieve recognition from by doing my duties on time and in the best way possible. The engineering design part of the total project was planned for 3 months and we successfully conducted the project and spent no more time even after providing the mechanical parts quality control plan.