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<p>I interviewed for Hesston corp a couple of years after
graduation. Spent half a day touring the factory in Kansas that
made straw choppers for combines. Finally the guy told me ( in
the parking lot) that he would love to hire me but I would hate
the job as I would always be fighting the other engineers to
provide access points to maintenance. He also told me to find a
small short line factory/fabricator because I had been on the farm
too long to make it in the world of cost driven engineering.<br>
I went to work as a water engineer for the state of OK 3 months
later... I had only taken one course in surveying in Ag
Engineering. I had convinced my advisors that I was going to work
for a manufacturer and specialize in hydraulic power
technology.. Most ag engineers go to work as civil engineers or
mechanical engineers after graduation. Our courses are a
combination of civil and mechanical with a slant toward farming
and the special analysis it requires. Now the department is
labeled Agricultural and bio systems engineering. I saw red when
they changed the name as I had fought for recognition as an
agricultural engineer in every engineering group at the time... I
got so irritated that I gave up on all of the professional
societies and in 1987 I took the P.E. test in Oklahoma for Civil
Sanitary and Structural engineering due to long established
practice and passed with one of the top highest scores in the last
20 years I was told.. I then took every engineering training
course that the Army Corps of Engineer, Soil Conservation Service,
and the Bureau of reclamation. In 1998 the OK board of
registration decided to audit my professional development hours.
I submitted 857 hours for their review and they determined that I
had the required 32 in the last 2 years!!! In 2007 I took early
retirement and went into consulting. The first 2 years were
pretty lean, but now I can make as much in one short week as I did
in a month and not have to put up with the head cases I had to
work with.... Anyone who has worked in a large organization knows
what I mean..<br>
Cecil<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/18/2019 7:42 AM, James Peck wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I
encountered a man with a new JCB ag equipment dealership in
central Ohio around 2008. He had come to Ohio State to study
Agricultural Engineering and stayed on as an invisible
immigrant. I had to listen to him for a couple of sentences
to realize his was not the accent of Virginia. Hope he made
it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">What kind of
courses does an Agricultural Engineer study that makes them
better suited for tractor design than a Mechanical Engineer?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I once
wanted to go to work for DeLorean. You got farther than I
did.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">[Cecil
Bearden] <snip> </span>
I worked my butt off trying to go to work for MF when I
graduated college with a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering<span
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