Kiewit Power has a team of engineers who specialize in nuclear energy but they haven't won a major project ($500M+) in years because of the downturn in the industry. A smaller company would have laid off the entire team, but Kiewit plays the long game. The nuclear industry will likely come back someday and we want to be prepared. It's not a desirable market to specialize in at the moment, but like you said the demand will be there in the future.
I just applied for a position at Kiewit. I work in the O&G industry (I design steam turbines for Dresser-Rand/Siemens)
From your profile, it looks like you are from Iowa. Didn't know that my Iowa has jobs in O&G industry.
I worked in woodward for an year, but it was in their aerospace division, so probably didn't come to know about their (industrial side) competitor located in a neighboring state...learnt something new...thank you!
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Thanks man. Wild ride this summer, am I right? Pretty nervous hitting that last refresh on NCEES...
Yep but we did it! Feels great doesn't it?! You had the fortunate experience of going one more weekend without the official word as well ?
I agree that the MERM has entirely too much information. Thank goodness fluids/thermo is early in the merm, because I bogged down in it but it was early enough that I thought I could just plow through it, but by the time I got to heat transfer I was about to throw the thing out the window. I really struggled and eventually signed up for the school of PE class, I took the NCEES practice exam before the course and got about a 60-65% on it. After the course I was really comfortable with that test and tried the PPI practice test and got hammered again in that 60-65% realm. I worked PPI, NCEES, and 6-minute solutions entirely and all of the extra problems from the school of PE course. I think my total study time was in the 170ish range and 70 or so of that was the course. I also have the cameron hydraulic data book and I'd say for people doing fluids it's a MUST, get it early and use it. It has fantastic examples with good details on basically all pumping related questions.
I took MD depth (and wouldn't use it for my current job), but for my studies on Fluids what sold me on that book was the tabulated head losses for standard pipes and flow rates. Literally a problem that would take 5-10 minutes to lookup/calculate/convert friction factors turns into a single table lookup. Time saver.
