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ragnar

Thu Apr 26 2007, 01:21PM

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Service of monitors and power supplies... that's not a half-bad job opportunity... =)

Simon

Thu Apr 26 2007, 11:45PM

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It definitely isn't. I would have gone for something like that. Better than working at an electronics retailer, which was a pretty good opportunity itself.

Coronafix

Fri Apr 27 2007, 03:12AM

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I draw giant jigsaw puzzles.

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Pete

Fri Apr 27 2007, 08:14PM

Registered Member #106 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 09:39PM
Location: Portland, OR and Istanbul, Turkey
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Me? Just your run of the mill Electrical Designer / Bartender / Waiter / Forklift Driver / Database Designer / Welder / Local IT guy for my current company. For which I am actually a Director of an English School in Istanbul Turkey.

I've done so many different jobs that I can't remember some of them. But a lot of good experience along the way.

My best memories are working in Oregon on the Intel sites designing the new fabs and installing the new tools.

Now I teach English halfway around the world.

Pete

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Fri Apr 27 2007, 10:44PM

Registered Member #56 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
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Not to get too far off topic, but I am a little curious...

When you were doing work at Intel (or any other fab), were the clean rooms relatively clean and neat? When I imagine a clean room I see a room that is perfectly organised and neat but all of the ones at Ortel and Tecstar were horrible. Like any drawer you open has 10 year old projects, there are random wires everywhere, a pile of random tools on one corner, a file cabinet of random bits of stock in another...
But then again, I was in the clean room at Aixtron in Aachen (I did not go 1 week last summer without dawning a full 'bunny suit', even when my family took a vacation to Europe...) that is pretty clean, just a few carts with parts on them. But then again, they don't actually don't actually grow anything there, they just test/assemble tools.

AndrewM

Fri Apr 27 2007, 11:33PM

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It depends really, "clean room" is a very broad term. Our "clean rooms" are spotless, both in the intuitive sense and in terms of generally clutter. Sometimes, however, people say clean room when they mean "lab with a laminar flow bench" or worse "just a lab".

Many factors can influence just how tight a ship is run in a clean room, including the class of clean room, any clean room certification that you might hold (or be trying to get), any industrial certification (ISO9100B, in aerospace, for example), etc.

What you described sounds like a "lab" that laypeople renamed out of ignorance.

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Sat Apr 28 2007, 04:18AM

Registered Member #56 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
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Don't even get me started on the labs, by cleanroom I am referring to an ISO certified room that has double doors on it, you have to cover every inch of your body, uber air filtering, etc that we grow semiconductor lasers and do production on uber $$$ mode locked lasers in.

Save for the piles of dust, our clean rooms look about the same as the 'normal' labs.

My favorite is how people seem to like to leave razors (x-acto knives, etc) in the bins of random parts laying around... I swear, a PhD from MIT just doesn't mean what it used to

Adam Horden

Mon Apr 30 2007, 04:04PM

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I am currently a full time electrical and electronic engineering BENG(Hons) degree student at the university of Huddersfield. Was going to specalise in power but I have chosen to do communicaton theroy instead as this enables me to do a BENG masters degree.

I am working part time as a test and assembly tech at a small electronics company called S2S electronics. They are basically subcontractors and take work from other companies. I basically get to test boards or assemble boards. There work is split between the comuunications industry and the power industry. I get to play with 415V 1000A soft start motor controllers and various other circuits that I cannot talk about due to confidentiality purposes.

Its a good job and will be working there full time over the summer while I am not in Uni.

Adam

DDay

Wed May 16 2007, 01:42AM

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I'm a technical writer fresh out of college. Learning some new stuff here.

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KNO3

Mon May 21 2007, 06:24AM

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First time post in chit chat. I work for a rebar company called Barsplice. I operate a 1 1/2 story machine known as a Natco. I absolutely hate it, but the money is alright. This machine is a multi-port drilling operating machine that can process bars up to 2'' ft long. These machines have several setups but they usually have 2 rows of 8 taps, same amount of drill bits on the beginning side. When these machines break down, they break pretty good. I can pretty much fabricate, weld, use milling machines, lathes, threaders, and benders. I wish I had more free time as I go shooting during the weekends, hang with friends and mess with computers. I am thinking about college a lot lately.

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