Profession instrumentation engineer

Instrumentation engineers envision and design equipment used in manufacturing processes for controlling and monitoring various engineering processes remotely. They design equipment for the monitoring of production sites such as manufacturing systems, machinery uses and production processes.

Personality Type

• Investigative / Realistic
• Realistic / Investigative

Knowledge

• Instrumentation engineering

  The science and engineering discipline that attempts to control process variables of production and manufacturing. It also focuses on the design of systems with desired behaviours. These systems use sensors to measure the output performance of the device that is being controlled.

• Environmental legislation

  The environmental policies and legislation applicable in a certain domain.

• Mathematics

  Mathematics is the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. It involves the identification of patterns and formulating new conjectures based on them. Mathematicians strive to prove the truth or falsity of these conjectures. There are many fields of mathematics, some of which are widely used for practical applications.

• Physics

  The natural science involving the study of matter, motion, energy, force and related notions.

• Environmental threats

  The threats for the environment which are related to biological, chemical, nuclear, radiological, and physical hazards.

• Instrumentation equipment

  The equipment and instruments used for the monitoring and controlling of processes, such as valves, regulators, circuit breakers, and relays.

• Design drawings

  Understand design drawings detailing the design of products, tools, and engineering systems.

• Electricity

  Understand the principles of electricity and electrical power circuits, as well as the associated risks.

• Electricity principles

  Electricity is created when electric current flows along a conductor. It entails the movement of free electrons between atoms. The more free electrons are present in a material, the better this material conducts. The three main parameters of electricity are the voltage, current (ampère), and resistance (ohm).

• Control systems

  Devices or a set of devices that command and manage the performance and behaviour of other equipment and systems. This includes Industrial control systems (ICS) which are used for industrial production and manufacturing.

• Electronics

  The functioning of electronic circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware and software, including programming and applications. Apply this knowledge to ensure electronic equipment runs smoothly.

• Engineering principles

  The engineering elements like functionality, replicability, and costs in relation to the design and how they are applied in the completion of engineering projects.

Skills

• Approve engineering design

  Give consent to the finished engineering design to go over to the actual manufacturing and assembly of the product.

• Adjust engineering designs

  Adjust designs of products or parts of products so that they meet requirements.

• Abide by regulations on banned materials

  Comply with regulations banning heavy metals in solder, flame retardants in plastics, and phthalate plasticisers in plastics and wiring harness insulations, under EU RoHS/WEEE Directives and China RoHS legislation.

• Design control systems

  Develop devices that command and manage the behaviour of other devices and systems, using engineering and electronics principles.

• Develop instrumentation systems

  Develop control equipment, such as valves, relays, and regulators, which can be used to monitor and control processes. Test the developed equipment.

• Perform scientific research

  Gain, correct or improve knowledge about phenomena by using scientific methods and techniques, based on empirical or measurable observations.

• Execute feasibility study

  Perform the evaluation and assessment of the potential of a project, plan, proposition or new idea. Realise a standardised study which is based on extensive investigation and research to support the process of decision making.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB