What do we all do for a living?

[Slant_Fan]

Jimmy, that you?

BobH

Indeed it is Bob, incognito though

 

[halvor]

This [mechanical and occupant layout]
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but for Medium Commercial Vehicles. Less glamorous than passenger cars but far more profitable.

As in, you design and choose where to put this and that button, the angle of the dashboard and so on? How do you deal with function vs form?

 

[RedSteve]

I am a Civil Engineer. A graduate at the moment so I'm only starting out.

 

[halvor]

I am a Civil Engineer. A graduate at the moment so I'm only starting out.

Congrats on graduating! Which field?

 

[RedSteve]

Congrats on graduating! Which field?

So eventually I want to settle in structural engineering. I've been working a year now on a graduate rotation program in a company where I spend 6 months in a different group in the company. So I'll get a taste of buildings, bridges, water and transport when I finish the 2 year program.

 

[morr]

Power system engineer in a power transmission company.
Salary is decent by third world country standards, but laughable otherwise. As a engineer with masters and 8 years experience I make less than minimum wage of "normal" european countries. Slightly bothered by this and daydreaming about moving somewhere else.

 

[Count of Undolpho]

Wage slave for not enough wages trapped by the leeway they give me to look after my kids.

 

[Lann]

Wage slave for not enough wages trapped by the leeway they give me to look after my kids.

This

 

[p.b]

As in, you design and choose where to put this and that button, the angle of the dashboard and so on? How do you deal with function vs form?

Buttons - yes, but at a later date.

Right now its:
Position and location of the occupants. Size and location of the wheels and tyres. Location of the powerpack (engine, transmission, e-motor etc). Location of the filler pipe, charge port, pedals, gear shifter, etc. Overall height, width, length of the vehicle, wheelbase, track width, location of the 100's of modules in a modern vehicle, wiring routings, Occupant vision. Meeting legal dimensions... It's a rather long list.

Function Vs. Form.
Primary principal - it's designed around the customer (and for a van what the customer wants to put into the cargo area).
There are inviolables that the felt-tip fairies MUST respect (Vision, cooling radiator pack height, ingress / egress, ergonomics,
The rest is negotiations with the design studio - sometimes emotional, occasionally rational...

 

[Randomangle]

I'm still a Bum.

 

[Mikey J]

Did 7 years in the RAF as an avionics technician and then left to become a train driver.

 

[Tommo]

I am a vehicular location and compliance supervisor primarily working at the user interface level.

 

[Randomangle]

I am a vehicular location and compliance supervisor primarily working at the user interface level.

You must have a larger than average hippocampus then.

 

[LEX LUTHOR]

Crime Fighter

Oh no I am Lex should I look out?

 

[markony]

Aircraft mechanic.
Base maintenance on Boeing and Airbus aircrafts.
Working like contractor around Europe.