Wastewater Eng?

Jemmy · 05-08-2008 09:54PM #1

hi all,

So ive done 2yrs civil in carlow and ive been working all summer in the water department in a county council and ive decided thats the direction i want to take.

Can anyone help me figure out where to go from here? Im a bit lost tbh.

Thanks in advance.x

godtabh · 06-08-2008 12:18PM

What part of the water department are you working in?

Jemmy · 06-08-2008 08:39PM

kearnsr wrote: »

What part of the water department are you working in?

Oh sorry wastewater!

godtabh · 06-08-2008 09:23PM

Jemmy wrote: »

Oh sorry wastewater!

As in the end of line wastewater treatment or sewers

Jemmy · 06-08-2008 09:27PM

kearnsr wrote: »

As in the end of line wastewater treatment or sewers

Bit of everything, but doing alot on the discharge licences at the moment for treatment plants!

godtabh · 06-08-2008 09:49PM

Wastewater egneeingering can involve alot of chemistry. Dont know alot about that.

The getting the crap to the waste water treatment plants is a bit more straight forward than that.

You're talking about capacities, pumping stations, GDSDS etc etc.

Dundhoone · 08-08-2008 04:48PM

Finish your engineering degree in Carlow, take work with a consultant who specialises in Water/Wastewater for either 3 or 5 years and then look for an assistant eng or exec eng job with the council. That way, you will get some good design experience before going into the council (which will be far more operationally orientated) and it will stand to you.

If you have options to take process design subjects, or mircobiology /chemistry /environmental law type subjects, take those.

Jemmy · 11-08-2008 05:52PM

Dundhoone wrote: »

Finish your engineering degree in Carlow, take work with a consultant who specialises in Water/Wastewater for either 3 or 5 years and then look for an assistant eng or exec eng job with the council. That way, you will get some good design experience before going into the council (which will be far more operationally orientated) and it will stand to you.

If you have options to take process design subjects, or mircobiology /chemistry /environmental law type subjects, take those.

Yea iv only finished my cert in Carlow and was thinking of changing to a different college because the course in carlow has none of those. It focuses alot on highway maintenance.

Dundhoone · 18-08-2008 03:02PM

Dont panic too much about that, if you join one of the consultancies that specialise in water & wastewater eng you will have plenty of oppurtunity to pick up everything you need. But dont go directly into local authority, you wont learn much there.

Jemmy · 04-09-2008 09:03PM

So the new Energy Engineering course in cork looks really interesting, but tough.

Im so peeved off, i love all this but maths isnt and never was my strong point, makes things very difficult.

dan_d · 09-09-2008 03:11PM

If you've got what is required to get into the course, and you're willing to put the work in, then you should have no worries about getting through it. Otherwise, engineering degrees in college are very maths based, regardless of what it's like out in the real world.If that's what you want and you haven't got the maths requirement, then you'd want to look into alternative ways of doing similar courses.I won't comment on these because I'm not that sure of any of them.

Wastewater Eng?

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