Sunday, May 2, 2010

First Month of Industrial Training

Initially, one month seems like a long duration for me, but here I am, completed the first month of my industrial training and without realizing the time passes so fast. In this very first month of industrial training, I have gone through a lot of feelings, from confusion, nervousness, enjoy and sometime guiltiness. But at the same time, I also gain a lot of new working (or engineer) experience through seeing, hearing, talking and of course involving myself in the working process. And not forget to mention, I also got myself some new friends in my industrial training workplace, the engineers, the office ladies, the draftsmen/women and the best part is having two industrial training peers from KLIUC and polytechnic school to accompany me.

Guiltiness, this is the most frustrated and annoying feeling I had. Well, the feeling always occur when I am too free and doing nothing, haha.. Every times I completed my tasks, this feeling will come and haunt me. Although I know I did my tasks, learnt something, still I couldn't cope with this feeling as I need to work nonstop to pull myself out of the hole. Another thing about the guiltiness, I also have this feeling when I asked questions to the engineers. I worry that I will disturb them doing their works or make them feel annoyed. Well, all I can hope is they understand that I am doing industrial training and my jobs is to ask nonstop till I am satisfied, haha..

Talking about the experience I gained, it varies from coloring to designing, haha.. Coloring is the very first thing I learnt when I start my training, which is quite interesting. I think this is a good basic for young engineer to test their intelligent, if you can do the color the construction drawing correctly, it means that you can do an engineer task, haha.. And the second thing is how to fold an A1 sized drawing to A4 size, this task really gives me hard time, haha.. All I can say is A1 sized paper is difficult to handle.

In this first month, I also learn to design some infrastructure such as sewerage pipeline, drainage and water reticulation system. Of course they won't let a young engineer to design the whole thing, just involving myself in the design process, learning through seeing, hearing, asking and do a little bit. I also went to a few sites for inspection such as sewerage treatment plant inspection, drainage inspection and site survey for construction planning.

I have gained a lot of new experience; engineer experience, working ethics, designing prospect and also valuable social skills. But still it is not enough, I have two more months to go, looking forward to learn more and be a better engineer and man.