Society Of Petroleum Engineers

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Q: what are the relevancy’s of petroleum engineers?
what does it entails to study petroleum engineering and its benefits to the society at large

A: go here : http://www.spe.org/
you’ll find infos

Q: who is better an ELECTRONICS engineer or an PETROLEUM engineer. ?
Help me to find solution on the basis of life style they live and their impact in the society >
help me according to the life style they live their impression on others and money they earn, their need to society and craze in people to opt for either of two as their career.

A: my dad is a petroleum engineer.
he has lots of short term contracts and moves around a lot.
he has worked in loads of nice places (monaco, france, italy…)

i am a specialist electronics engineer. i work hours to suit my childcare,

Q: List of Islamic countries that women are allowed to work?
I am a muslim woman living in a western country who is planning to make hijrah one day. i am also studying to become a petroleum engineer, i would like to know which islamic countries that tolerates a woman working without oppression and is something normal in their society.

A: I won’t guess, I’ll just tell you the places where I know women work professional jobs, through knowing them personally: Lebanon, Syria, KSA, UAE, and Egypt. One of my best friends has been working in Beirut for a few years, and she says her work environment is great. Obviously, that would depend on your employer, but she said it was comparable to Western working environments.

Q: Can anyone tell me please if the essay below is gramatically correct?
The fact that I rebelled the life that was imposed on me as a child and always looked up to what’s bigger than me, challenging myself and striving for knowledge and excellence, is perhaps what makes me proud of myself. I was born in a broken home; my parents got divorced when I was four years old. My mother could not get custody of me and my only sister after the divorce since we live in a male-dominant society, ………., where women have no voice to speak for their rights. Custody went immediately to my father who was a very irresponsible person. Although these days were the toughest days of my life emotionally, they made a very responsible. I was not, as a child, encouraged by my parents or any close relatives to do well in school; my family was always busy trying to resolve their own personal issues, yet I developed in me the love for knowledge and tried to always do well in school and build a future for myself. That was probably my own way of escaping the reality that was imposed on me and my sister, who happened to be just like me a very school-oriented person. I am proud to say that I taught myself, with the help of my sister, the English language. We would always make a list of some new words and compete on who could memorize the whole list first. We would watch American movies on TV and try to read short English stories, and that I think was a very important part of my life because during that time I developed a habit of educating myself by myself.

Because I always loved math and science, it was my dream to be a math teacher or an engineer. As I mentioned in part one, I happened to have some talented friends who were fascinated with cars and electronics -some of them were mechanical engineering students- and that built a real interest in me to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering. Right after I graduated from high school, I was accepted at ………….. University of Petroleum and Minerals to study mechanical engineering. I went to school there for almost four months until I was granted a scholarship to study in the United States from the Ministry of Higher Education in ……….

Ever since I came to the United States and I am trying my best to do well in school and make my future brighter. When I first arrived in the United States, I went to Wayne State University in Michigan, which was a fairly good school, but that did not stop me from looking for what is better and challenging myself again, and that is why I transferred to California State University-Fresno and now I am applying to University of California-Riverside. I believe that UC-Riverside is the right school for me and I hope to be part of the UC system.

With regard to my accomplishments so far, I am part of the Golden Key International Honor Society and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Also, I was recently invited to join Tau Beta Pi-The Engineering Honor Society.

A: Hi, hadi.ala.

The passage is very good, but a few corrections are in order. Corrections are in all capital letters.

Paragraph 1:
It would be more fluid and easier to understand if you began your sentence with What makes me proud of myself is the fact that I rebelled AGAINST the life that…

If your home wasn’t broken until you were four years old, then how is it that you were born into a broken home? (You should consider expressing this point differently.)

…since we LIVED in a male-DOMINATED society…

Although these days were the toughest days of my life emotionally, they made ME very responsible.

…yet I developed A love for knowledge…

…imposed on me and my sister, who happened to be just like me–(EM DASH WITH NO SPACING BETWEEN WORDS AND THE DASH) a very school-oriented person.
(AN EM DASH IS THE LENGTH OF TWO HYPHENS OR YOU MAY USE THE INSERT SYMBOL FUNCTION TO FIND ONE TO INSERT.)
I am proud to say that I taught myself ENGLISH WITH THE HELP OF MY SISTER.

…and try to read short STORIES IN ENGLISH. I THINK THAT THAT was a very important part of my life because during that time I developed a habit of educating myself by myself.

Paragraph 2:

As I mentioned in part one (capital P in part and capital O in one)…

As I mentioned in Part One, I happened to have some talented friends who were fascinated with cars and electronics–(em dash here, not hyphen; and, no spacing on either side of dash) some of them were mechanical engineering students–(em dash again with no spacing) and that CAUSED ME TO DEVELOP a real interest in PURSUING a degree in mechanical engineering.

Right after I graduated from high school, (delete “from”)
[Either I "was graduated FROM" high school or I "graduated" high school]

I went to school there for almost four months UNTIL THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN………. AWARDED ME a scholarship to study in the United States.

Paragraph 3:

Ever since I came to the United States, I HAVE BEEN trying my best to do well…

…and that is why I transferred to California State University-Fresno (PERIOD). Now I am applying to THE University of California-Riverside. I believe that UC-Riverside is the right school for me (COMMA) and I hope to be part of the UC system.

Paragraph 4:

Also, I was recently invited to join Tau Beta Pi (COMMA) the (lowercase T in the) Engineering Honor Society.

Ciao.

Q: Is anyone willing to review my CV?
I have a bachelor degree of engineering & I have been working as a maintenance planner for more than 2 years….I have been looking for a better offer for several months with no hope, can some one tell me if my CV is good? and what to change ? what to add?

Key Qualifications
Maintenance Planning & Maintenance Management in industry field, Industrial Procurement Manager, Welding Inspection & NDT, Mining, Petroleum & Metallurgy Engineer, Automotive Engineer.

Employment & Experience
May 2008-till now. Abu Zabaal Fertilizer and Chemical CO. Qaliubeya, Egypt
One of the biggest fertilizer companies in Egypt and a part of the Polyserv Fertilizer group.

Senior Plant Reliability Sept 2009-May 2010
Set up the preventive and the predictive maintenance plans for plant equipments.
Create a special predictive maintenance program for the most critical equipments in the plant.
Responsible for the shut-down plans.
Handle all plant procurements include spare parts, tools, and instruments.
Provide training for all maintenance technicians & engineers.
Root cause failure analysis.
Allocating the spare parts required for the whole plant and provide 6 months stock.
Contact local & international sellers to find specific parts needed by the plant equipments.
Study and assist any design modification required for the plant.
Responsible for process controls & operations.
Prepare daily reports about plant status and report directly to the general executive manager of the company.
Achieved production stability in 3 months from 200TPD to 450TPD.

Maintenance Planning Responsible Jan 2009-Aug 2009
Responsible for the implementation of all preventive & predictive maintenance Activities in the plant.

Technical Support Engineer May 2008-Dec 2008
Support all maintenance aspects for most of plants in the company.
Follow up & trace break-down reports& analysis then provide technical solutions.
Process control & process auditing according to the original documents.
Prepare the equipments technical data & spare parts list.
Responsible for providing a technical solution to maintain all conveyors systems.

EDUCATION
Bachelor degree in Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Assuit University 2007.
Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the American University in Cairo, 2010. Note: The certificate will be available after project discussion in Sept 2010.

Postgraduate Activities
American University-Industrial Engineering& Maintenance Courses:
Planning for Engineers
Cost Management For Engineers
Reliability Centered Maintenance Implementation
Global Maintenance Management Level I
Planning of Maintenance Operations

ASNT (American Society for Non Destructive Testing) Welding Detection Level II in the following methods:
RadioGraphic Test (RT).
Magnetic Particles Test (MT).
Liquid Penetrant Test (PT).

Trained as a Surveying Engineer in EL Nasr Mining Company, Summer 2005.
Mining surveying in Phosphate mines.

Trained as an Automotive Engineer in CDC WAGIH ABAZA (Peugeot Center of Development and Commerce), Summer 2003.
Car Mechanics (Service & Repair)

Computer Courses, (2002).
YAT Education Center (Web design & development, Summer 2001
-Advanced level of Macromedia Flash MX
-Advanced level of Macromedia Dreamweaver

Language Courses, (2001).
American University English level 6

LANGUAGES
Arabic; Mother Tongue.
English; Fluent.
German; Basics.

Other SKILLS
Mechanical engineering skills.
Management skills.
Computer skilled with a very good command of using MS Office & MS Project.
Analytical skills, self motivated, work hard under pressure.
High communication skills.
Automotive repair expert.

CONFERENCES ATTENDED
Attended and participated actively The 10th International Mining, Petroleum, and Metallurgical Engineering Conference-March 6-8th, 2007.

HOBBIES
Car tuning, online shopping & trading, watching movies, & breeding dogs.

TIPS
I have my own car and driving license.

Please Note:
-All certificates are available upon request.
-Prefer to be informed whether negatively or positively and the
reason in case of negative correspondence so I would get to
improve myself according to it

A: Employment & Experience
May 2008-till now ?

Sounds uneducated , change to May 2008 – Present

In languages , I see your mother tongue is Arab, I think its UNECESSARY to label it has mother tongue. I think it’d look better if it just said “fluent” as well.

Please Note section seems somewhat irrelevant . I like that it says “all certificates are available upon request” you should also add “references available upon request” somewhere in your CV.

“-Prefer to be informed whether negatively or positively and the
reason in case of negative correspondence so I would get to
improve myself according to it”

Sounds very nice of you but it seems innappropriate to me. It’s up to the company’s discretion whether to hire you and its not within their responsibility to inform you why. But I guess you can give it a try! Never heard of someone requesting such a thing.

And why doesnt your CV have an Objective? Shouldnt the objective be the first thing on the CV??

Q: Is anyone willing to review my CV? will choose best answer for best reviewer?
I have a bachelor degree of engineering & I have been working as a maintenance planner for more than 2 years….I have been looking for a better offer for several months with no hope, can some one tell me if my CV is good? and what to change ? what to add?

Key Qualifications
Maintenance Planning & Maintenance Management in industry field, Industrial Procurement Manager, Welding Inspection & NDT, Mining, Petroleum & Metallurgy Engineer, Automotive Engineer.

Employment & Experience
May 2008-till now. Abu Zabaal Fertilizer and Chemical CO. Qaliubeya, Egypt
One of the biggest fertilizer companies in Egypt and a part of the Polyserv Fertilizer group.

Senior Plant Reliability Sept 2009-May 2010
Set up the preventive and the predictive maintenance plans for plant equipments.
Create a special predictive maintenance program for the most critical equipments in the plant.
Responsible for the shut-down plans.
Handle all plant procurements include spare parts, tools, and instruments.
Provide training for all maintenance technicians & engineers.
Root cause failure analysis.
Allocating the spare parts required for the whole plant and provide 6 months stock.
Contact local & international sellers to find specific parts needed by the plant equipments.
Study and assist any design modification required for the plant.
Responsible for process controls & operations.
Prepare daily reports about plant status and report directly to the general executive manager of the company.
Achieved production stability in 3 months from 200TPD to 450TPD.

Maintenance Planning Responsible Jan 2009-Aug 2009
Responsible for the implementation of all preventive & predictive maintenance Activities in the plant.

Technical Support Engineer May 2008-Dec 2008
Support all maintenance aspects for most of plants in the company.
Follow up & trace break-down reports& analysis then provide technical solutions.
Process control & process auditing according to the original documents.
Prepare the equipments technical data & spare parts list.
Responsible for providing a technical solution to maintain all conveyors systems.

EDUCATION
Bachelor degree in Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Assuit University 2007.
Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the American University in Cairo, 2010. Note: The certificate will be available after project discussion in Sept 2010.

Postgraduate Activities
American University-Industrial Engineering& Maintenance Courses:
Planning for Engineers
Cost Management For Engineers
Reliability Centered Maintenance Implementation
Global Maintenance Management Level I
Planning of Maintenance Operations

ASNT (American Society for Non Destructive Testing) Welding Detection Level II in the following methods:
RadioGraphic Test (RT).
Magnetic Particles Test (MT).
Liquid Penetrant Test (PT).

Trained as a Surveying Engineer in EL Nasr Mining Company, Summer 2005.
Mining surveying in Phosphate mines.

Trained as an Automotive Engineer in CDC WAGIH ABAZA (Peugeot Center of Development and Commerce), Summer 2003.
Car Mechanics (Service & Repair)

Computer Courses, (2002).
YAT Education Center (Web design & development, Summer 2001
-Advanced level of Macromedia Flash MX
-Advanced level of Macromedia Dreamweaver

Language Courses, (2001).
American University English level 6

LANGUAGES
Arabic; Mother Tongue.
English; Fluent.
German; Basics.

Other SKILLS
Mechanical engineering skills.
Management skills.
Computer skilled with a very good command of using MS Office & MS Project.
Analytical skills, self motivated, work hard under pressure.
High communication skills.
Automotive repair expert.

CONFERENCES ATTENDED
Attended and participated actively The 10th International Mining, Petroleum, and Metallurgical Engineering Conference-March 6-8th, 2007.

HOBBIES
Car tuning, online shopping & trading, watching movies, & breeding dogs.

TIPS
I have my own car and driving license.

Please Note:
-All certificates are available upon request.
-Prefer to be informed whether negatively or positively and the
reason in case of negative correspondence so I would get to
improve myself according to it

A: If you want anyone to take you seriously, you need to STOP calliong it a CV and call it by its correct name.
You have a RESUME.

Calling it a CV does not make you look smarter, or more qualified.
It makes you look stupid.

A CV is used by college professors and academic and medical researchers to show their research projects.
It is not to show every job you’ve had since high school.

Q: Any prof or recruiter to review my CV,please ? 10 points of course!?
I have a bachelor degree of engineering & I have been working as a maintenance planner for more than 2 years….I have been looking for a better offer for several months with no hope, can some one tell me if my CV is good? and what to change ? what to add?

Key Qualifications
Maintenance Planning & Maintenance Management in industry field, Industrial Procurement Manager, Welding Inspection & NDT, Mining, Petroleum & Metallurgy Engineer, Automotive Engineer.

Employment & Experience
May 2008-till now. Abu Zabaal Fertilizer and Chemical CO. Qaliubeya, Egypt
One of the biggest fertilizer companies in Egypt and a part of the Polyserv Fertilizer group.

Senior Plant Reliability Sept 2009-May 2010
Set up the preventive and the predictive maintenance plans for plant equipments.
Create a special predictive maintenance program for the most critical equipments in the plant.
Responsible for the shut-down plans.
Handle all plant procurements include spare parts, tools, and instruments.
Provide training for all maintenance technicians & engineers.
Root cause failure analysis.
Allocating the spare parts required for the whole plant and provide 6 months stock.
Contact local & international sellers to find specific parts needed by the plant equipments.
Study and assist any design modification required for the plant.
Responsible for process controls & operations.
Prepare daily reports about plant status and report directly to the general executive manager of the company.
Achieved production stability in 3 months from 200TPD to 450TPD.

Maintenance Planning Responsible Jan 2009-Aug 2009
Responsible for the implementation of all preventive & predictive maintenance Activities in the plant.

Technical Support Engineer May 2008-Dec 2008
Support all maintenance aspects for most of plants in the company.
Follow up & trace break-down reports& analysis then provide technical solutions.
Process control & process auditing according to the original documents.
Prepare the equipments technical data & spare parts list.
Responsible for providing a technical solution to maintain all conveyors systems.

EDUCATION
Bachelor degree in Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Assuit University 2007.
Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the American University in Cairo, 2010. Note: The certificate will be available after project discussion in Sept 2010.

Postgraduate Activities
American University-Industrial Engineering& Maintenance Courses:
Planning for Engineers
Cost Management For Engineers
Reliability Centered Maintenance Implementation
Global Maintenance Management Level I
Planning of Maintenance Operations

ASNT (American Society for Non Destructive Testing) Welding Detection Level II in the following methods:
RadioGraphic Test (RT).
Magnetic Particles Test (MT).
Liquid Penetrant Test (PT).

Trained as a Surveying Engineer in EL Nasr Mining Company, Summer 2005.
Mining surveying in Phosphate mines.

Trained as an Automotive Engineer in CDC WAGIH ABAZA (Peugeot Center of Development and Commerce), Summer 2003.
Car Mechanics (Service & Repair)

Computer Courses, (2002).
YAT Education Center (Web design & development, Summer 2001
-Advanced level of Macromedia Flash MX
-Advanced level of Macromedia Dreamweaver

Language Courses, (2001).
American University English level 6

LANGUAGES
Arabic; Mother Tongue.
English; Fluent.
German; Basics.

Other SKILLS
Mechanical engineering skills.
Management skills.
Computer skilled with a very good command of using MS Office & MS Project.
Analytical skills, self motivated, work hard under pressure.
High communication skills.
Automotive repair expert.

CONFERENCES ATTENDED
Attended and participated actively The 10th International Mining, Petroleum, and Metallurgical Engineering Conference-March 6-8th, 2007.

HOBBIES
Car tuning, online shopping & trading, watching movies, & breeding dogs.

TIPS
I have my own car and driving license.

Please Note -All certificates are available upon request.
-Prefer to be informed whether negatively or positively and the
reason in case of negative correspondence so I would get to
improve myself according to it

A: Wow. A resume on answers. Will wonders never cease? Fyi. Don’t try to put this out professionally. It’s way too long.

Q: Is anybody good at history and wants to help me out pleaseeeeee.?
1. Which of the following triggered the Second Industrial Revolution? (Points: 5)
Entrepreneurs figured out how to extract coal much more efficiently.

Geologists discovered vast quantities of petroleum in Germany.

Innovators figured out how to produce steel cheaply.

Engineers developed a much faster steam engine.

2. Why did workers band together to form labor unions? (Points: 5)
to improve working conditions

to revolt

to modernize factories

to make employees work more efficiently

3. Which statement is associated with the correct thinker? (Points: 5)
Adam Smith – government should control most businesses in a country

Karl Marx – all of history has been a struggle between classes of people

Robert Owen – a factory owner’s only responsibility to his workers is to pay fair wages

Keir Hardie – socialism is a new and revolutionary idea that no one has tried before

4. At the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, European leaders started to introduce social reforms. Which of the following was not a reform? (Points: 5)
the establishment of workhouses

guaranteed employment for all working-age people

accident insurance for workers injured in the workplace

benefits to workers who became unemployed

5. What natural resource contributed significantly to the rapid industrialization of Great Britain and Germany? (Points: 5)
gold

silver

coal

wood

6. Which European nation was the largest producer of steel in the early twentieth century? (Points: 5)
France

Great Britain

Germany

Spain

7. Use the information in the box and your knowledge to answer the question that follows.

Look at the list of characteristics in the box. Which additional characteristic would a nation need before it could become an industrial society?

(Points: 5)
plenty of housing for the workers

a steady supply of electricity

natural resources

arable land to grow food to feed the people

8. The United States’ economy prospered more than European economies after World War I. Which of the following best explains why this was so? (Points: 5)
The United States had been spared the physical ruin of war.

European nations were mostly Communist or socialist.

Labor unions in European nations restricted economic growth.

The United States� economy was based on capitalism.

10. Which statement below would an Islamist be most likely to agree with? (Points: 5)
All aspects of society�political, legal, economic, social, and cultural�should be guided by strict Muslim teaching.

If people of the Muslim world wish to become dominant in international affairs, they must adopt Western culture and values.

To improve economic conditions for people in the nations of the Middle East, it is important to promote greater cooperation and understanding with Europeans.

Muslim nations should use the Latin alphabet and encourage more education for women.

11. After Turkey gained its independence, its leader took all of the following steps to transform Turkish life except __________. (Points: 5)
creating a public education system

joining church and state

changing the Turkish alphabet to Latin letters

giving women new rights

12. Both the Arabs and the Jews were eager to attain their nationalist goals in the twentieth century. Where did the two groups experience the greatest conflict? (Points: 5)
Eastern Europe

Iraq

Palestine

Turkey

13. All of the following contributed to the Great Depression except __________. (Points: 5)
American companies did less business overseas

Germany ignored the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles

the value of stocks plummeted and people lost money

Europe struggled to recover from World War I

14. What did Adolf Hitler believe about race? (Points: 5)
The German nation should be one of many races.

Religion is more of a defining force in history than race.

The Aryan and Slavic races should rule Europe.

Race is the defining force in history.

15. Which of the following is not a shared characteristic of communism and fascism? (Points: 5)
The greater good of society is more important than individual liberties.

The leaders are often dictators.

The governments tend to establish totalitarian control over the people.

The governments encourage entrepreneurs to start businesses.

16. From which two classical civilizations did modern Western countries get most of their ideas about the v

A: That’s a lot of homework questions there. Did you make any attempt to answer at least one question on your own? You can find the answer to each and every one of these questions in your textbook.
Truthfully, why should you expect anyone to do your homework for you, especially if you exert no effort on your own. You end up learning nothing, wasting your teacher’s time, and costing your parents money.

Q: Why is Pres Obama so afraid of asking real experts any questions about deep water drilling? Funny thing?
Liberals inspire me every minute.

Check this question:
Why are Republicans so afraid of my questions about deep water drilling?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20100625103434AAe3hsN

Now lets check the facts, who is afraid of what :

All right, lib, lets listen to oil drilling experts… not
“Under my Administration, the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over. . . To undermine scientific integrity is to undermine our democracy. . . I want to be sure that facts are driving scientific decisions, and not the other way around.”

—President Obama, April 27, 2009

The President has appointed a seven-person commission to take what he says will be an objective look at what caused the Gulf spill and the steps to make offshore drilling safe. But judging from the pedigree of his commissioners, we’re beginning to wonder if his real goal is to turn drilling into a partisan election issue.

Mr. Obama filled out his commission last week, and the news is that there’s neither an oil nor drilling expert in the bunch. Instead, he’s loaded up on politicians and environmental activists.

One co-chair is former Democratic Senator Bob Graham, who fought drilling off Florida throughout his career. The other is William Reilly, who ran the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H.W. Bush but is best known as a former president and former chairman of the World Wildlife Fund, one of the big environmental lobbies. The others:

• Donald Boesch, a University of Maryland “biological oceanographer,” who has opposed drilling off the Virginia coast and who argued that “the impacts of the oil and gas extraction industry . . . on Gulf Coast wetlands represent an environmental catastrophe of massive and underappreciated proportions.”

• Terry Garcia, an executive vice president at the National Geographic Society, who directed coastal programs in the Clinton Administration, in particular “recovery of endangered species, habitat conservation planning,” and “Clean Water Act implementation,” according to the White House press release.

• Fran Ulmer, Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage, who is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Arctic Climate Change. She’s also on the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, which opposes nuclear power and more offshore drilling and wants government policies “that reduce vehicle miles traveled” (i.e., driving in cars).

• Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, who prior to her appointment blogged about the spill this way: “We can blame BP for the disaster and we should. We can blame lack of adequate government oversight for the disaster and we should. But in the end, we also must place blame where it originated: America’s addiction to oil.”

On at least five occasions since the accident, Ms. Beinecke has called for bans on offshore and Arctic drilling.

• Rounding out the panel is its lone member with an engineering background, Harvard’s Cherry A. Murray, though her specialties are physics and optics.

Whatever their other expertise, none of these worthies knows much if anything about petroleum engineering. Where is the expert on modern drilling techniques, or rig safety, or even blowout preventers?

The choice of men and women who are long opposed to more drilling suggests not a fair technical inquiry but an antidrilling political agenda. With the elections approaching and Democrats down in the polls, the White House is looking to change the subject from health care, the lack of jobs and runaway deficits. Could the plan be to try to wrap drilling around the necks of Republicans, arguing that it was years of GOP coziness with Big Oil that led to the spill?

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel took this theme for a test drive on Sunday when he said that Republicans think “the aggrieved party here is BP, not the fisherman.” He added that this ought to remind Americans “what Republican governance is like.” The antidrilling commission could feed into this campaign narrative with a mid-September, pre-election report that blames the disaster on the industry and Bush-era regulators and recommends a ban on most offshore exploration. The media would duly salute, while Democrats could then take the handoff and force antidrilling votes on Capitol Hill.

Even as this commission moves forward, engineering experts across the country have agreed that there is no scientific reason for a blanket drilling ban. The Interior Department invited experts to consult on drilling practices, but as we wrote last week eight of them have since said their advice was distorted to justify the Administration’s six-month drilling moratorium.

Judging from that decision and now from Mr. Obama’s drilling commission, the days of “science taking a back seat to ideology” are ver

A: Yeah … it’s funny thing !

Q: What do you think of this breakthrough?
China scientists find use for cigarette butts
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chemical extracts from cigarette butts — so toxic they kill fish — can be used to protect steel pipes from rusting, a study in China has found.

In a paper published in the American Chemical Society’s bi-weekly journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, the scientists in China said they identified nine chemicals after immersing cigarette butts in water.

They applied the extracts to N80, a type of steel used in oil pipes, and found that they protected the steel from rusting.

“The metal surface can be protected and the iron atom’s further dissolution can be prevented,” they wrote.

The chemicals, including nicotine, appear to be responsible for this anti-corrosion effect, they added.

The research was led by Jun Zhao at Xi’an Jiaotong University’s School of Energy and Power Engineering and funded by China’s state oil firm China National Petroleum Corporation.

Corrosion of steel pipes used by the oil industry costs oil producers millions of dollars annually to repair or replace.

According to the paper, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts find their way into the environment each year. Apart from being an eyesore, they contain toxins that can kill fish.

“Recycling could solve those problems, but finding practical uses for cigarette butts has been difficult,” the researchers wrote.

China, which has 300 million smokers, is the world’s largest smoking nation and it consumes a third of the world’s cigarettes. Nearly 60 percent of men in China smoke, puffing an average of 15 cigarettes per day.

(Reporting by Tan Ee Lyn; Editing by Miral Fahmy)

I think it’s great – HOWEVER – how many people out there will recycle their cigarette butts? If you are a smoker – will you?

Recycling is the answer to a lot of things but a lot of people are just too lazy to bother. My neighbor will not recyle her cans, etc. because once, just once, the garbage guys left a can and did not pick it up. Very annoying – So the Earth suffers because she was angry over one single can. I told her that. She’s just lazy.
Hey Anne – feeling a bit guilty are you? I never called anyone names. I asked if smokers would recycle their butts. I mentioned no names at all. I said some people are just too lazy to recycle. Truth hurts?
This is where people are wrong – one person can make a difference either way. One person here and there adds up. If you have children – I hope they appreciate the world they will live in that you have helped contribute to.

A: I think it’s a great idea…if it works like they said
15 cigarettes a day?! that’s is a lot i think they’ll have cigar butts to spare.
and about the recycle dilemma with your neighbor there has been occasions when all that recycled trash just ends up in the same facilities as the rest non-recycable material.

Q: Is anyone willing to review my CV?
I have a bachelor degree of engineering & I have been working as a maintenance planner for more than 2 years….I have been looking for a better offer for several months with no hope, can some one tell me if my CV is good? and what to change ? what to add?

Key Qualifications
Maintenance Planning & Maintenance Management in industry field, Industrial Procurement Manager, Welding Inspection & NDT, Mining, Petroleum & Metallurgy Engineer, Automotive Engineer.

Employment & Experience
May 2008-till now. Abu Zabaal Fertilizer and Chemical CO. Qaliubeya, Egypt
One of the biggest fertilizer companies in Egypt and a part of the Polyserv Fertilizer group.

Senior Plant Reliability Sept 2009-May 2010
Set up the preventive and the predictive maintenance plans for plant equipments.
Create a special predictive maintenance program for the most critical equipments in the plant.
Responsible for the shut-down plans.
Handle all plant procurements include spare parts, tools, and instruments.
Provide training for all maintenance technicians & engineers.
Root cause failure analysis.
Allocating the spare parts required for the whole plant and provide 6 months stock.
Contact local & international sellers to find specific parts needed by the plant equipments.
Study and assist any design modification required for the plant.
Responsible for process controls & operations.
Prepare daily reports about plant status and report directly to the general executive manager of the company.
Achieved production stability in 3 months from 200TPD to 450TPD.

Maintenance Planning Responsible Jan 2009-Aug 2009
Responsible for the implementation of all preventive & predictive maintenance Activities in the plant.

Technical Support Engineer May 2008-Dec 2008
Support all maintenance aspects for most of plants in the company.
Follow up & trace break-down reports& analysis then provide technical solutions.
Process control & process auditing according to the original documents.
Prepare the equipments technical data & spare parts list.
Responsible for providing a technical solution to maintain all conveyors systems.

EDUCATION
Bachelor degree in Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Assuit University 2007.
Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the American University in Cairo, 2010. Note: The certificate will be available after project discussion in Sept 2010.

Postgraduate Activities
American University-Industrial Engineering& Maintenance Courses:
Planning for Engineers
Cost Management For Engineers
Reliability Centered Maintenance Implementation
Global Maintenance Management Level I
Planning of Maintenance Operations

ASNT (American Society for Non Destructive Testing) Welding Detection Level II in the following methods:
RadioGraphic Test (RT).
Magnetic Particles Test (MT).
Liquid Penetrant Test (PT).

Trained as a Surveying Engineer in EL Nasr Mining Company, Summer 2005.
Mining surveying in Phosphate mines.

Trained as an Automotive Engineer in CDC WAGIH ABAZA (Peugeot Center of Development and Commerce), Summer 2003.
Car Mechanics (Service & Repair)

Computer Courses, (2002).
YAT Education Center (Web design & development, Summer 2001
-Advanced level of Macromedia Flash MX
-Advanced level of Macromedia Dreamweaver

Language Courses, (2001).
American University English level 6

LANGUAGES
Arabic; Mother Tongue.
English; Fluent.
German; Basics.

Other SKILLS
Mechanical engineering skills.
Management skills.
Computer skilled with a very good command of using MS Office & MS Project.
Analytical skills, self motivated, work hard under pressure.
High communication skills.
Automotive repair expert.

CONFERENCES ATTENDED
Attended and participated actively The 10th International Mining, Petroleum, and Metallurgical Engineering Conference-March 6-8th, 2007.

HOBBIES
Car tuning, online shopping & trading, watching movies, & breeding dogs.

TIPS
I have my own car and driving license.

Please Note:
-All certificates are available upon request.
-Prefer to be informed whether negatively or positively and the
reason in case of negative correspondence so I would get to
improve myself according to it

A: 1) Most jobs are obtained not by answering classified ads, but by networking. Target industries and companies which you think might have openings that interest you, and ask your friends and associates for leads into those companies or in those areas. Join professional associations to broaden your network; ;most such associations offer career counseling and placing services for their members.

Before placing ads, companies usually look in their personnel files, to see who’s interested in them. Thus, even if your target companies have no openings, send in your resume for their personnel files, w/ a custom-designed cover letter for each company that shows why you’re the best person for that specific job. At this stage, do not include references, because you don’t want them to be contacted by an endless number of firms. You should disguise the name of your current employer, as you probably don’t want it to know that you’re thinking about moving.

2) As to your CV, give some key accomplishments in each position. For example, in your current post, to what extent did your predictive maintenance program save the company money over the past year? Can you say that it reduced breakdowns by x% over the past 12 months? That way, employers can see not only what you did, but how well you did it. Or, you trained as a surveying engineer; to what extent have you put your training to use, e.g., “was in charge of surveying the largest mine in …. region”?

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