I'm currently in my 2nd (and final) year of college, studying Industrial Instrumentation Engineering Technology (how's that for a mouthful?
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Basically, I'm studying the monitoring and control of industrial processes, such as oil and gas, mining, pulp and paper, water treatment, etc. from a technologist's perspective. In other words, I'm being trained to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain industrial instruments (monitoring and controlling equipment and devices) used in industry, such as gas analysers, flow meters, pressure meters, DCS (Distributed Control Systems, which is basically a network of instruments allowing easy control of multiple instruments from a single control panel), and the list goes on, and on, and on...
I'm also being trained in project management and engineering of process systems. This means that, basically, I'm being trained how to design the instrumentation on an industrial plant so it is safe, complete, and efficient.
It'a a painfully difficult course, but the pay should be worth it if I survive this last year!
What is somebody like me doing in a course like this? Long story.
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