Education programmes of job
Nature of work
It is a profession that benefits many sectors since we can generate electricity from hydropower. He/she works alone and with other engineering groupsHis/her tasks entrusted to water and can be Classified as follows:
In the administrative area:
- Preparing the terms of private and general tenders for all projects of water structures
- Preparing technical reports for the previous water projects.
- Evaluating the performance of, identifying their training needs, training them and working on their skills development.
- Providing with tools for occupational ,health safety, and adequate sanitary conditions, the development of procedures to Ensure Provision of occupational health and safety requirements for personnel and public
In the field of education:
- He/shestudies all civil facilities necessary to assemble , extract and supply of water required for the quantity and quality needed for residential and industrial areas from dams to collect excess water in lakes to be ready to used when needed.
- He/she works on the generation of electricity from dams and reservoirs within a clean environment.
Environment of work
- He/sheworks hard in a tough field environment in the average of ten hours a day, and he/she may need to work in weekends.
- He Works hard in a tough field environment in the average of ten hours a day, seven days a week, sometimes in weekendsto construct if work on performance or investment of dams, In some cases he/she may work overtimes to do large amounts of concrete or earthen landfills that need to be implemented for a long time.
- Dress appropriate for the engineer is thick cotton cloth. He/she also should cover the head with a hard plastic cap to protect him/her from the harsh sun and some materials falling overheads in the site.
- He/she needs multi-technological means to accomplish his job.
- He/she cannot work alone and every the water engineering work needs all other engineering disciplines.
- He/she has to fulfill the conditions of international standard specifications for all businesses no to ensure the quality of the performance
Professional life
- He can Only exercise within his work team both in the private or general sector. And he is often the head of the team or the group that he works with
- In public sector, he/she starts with about 20,000 s. p a month.
- His/her career in hydraulic structures installations develops very fast when he gains practical and management experience through the career progression from a beginning engineer in the execution department and then to management of large Departments in water management companies, when he becomes in charge of planning, design and engineering consultancy
- He/she has to travel abroad to undertake some training sessions, conferences and workshops, or sometimes he/she gives the experience about his field of engineering.Because the field of hydraulic structures installations is forked and develops very fast, engineer needs to gain knowledge about the new technologies.He/she may need to alter the project design with the beginning of the implementation phase in the light of developments in the field work;therefore , he/she is always in need of consultations , transfer experience, and access to all new technology, executive or investment.
Sectors of careers
Engineer Hydraulic structures can be exercised within its professional sectors following:- Agriculture
- Industry
- the sector of providing, drinking water and electricity.
- Structural Engineering
- Geotechnical Engineering
- geo-engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Sanitary Engineering
- Architecture
Getting the job
Access to the profession can be through:- Obtaining a bachelor's degree in hydraulic engineering department of water engineering to have a knowledge about the topics of water, hydrological, hydraulic and structural engineering.
- There is no national exams for this profession there is no need for that because gaining experience the first place is very important.
- Joining the order of engineers.
- Engineer needs many computer programs, including Excel, Auto CAD and other design programs.
Skills
- Working effectively within a multidisciplinary team and be familiar with the various work environments.
- Demonstrating effective interpersonal skills in the work environment in terms of the ability to devise solutions and put forward innovative ideas and quick, technically correct and implemented technology.
- Continuous learning and participating in conferences and scientific events are important things to keep up to date the rapid technological development.
- Accomplishing the required work on time and with high quality.
- Managingtasks and resources must be cost-effective and there should be scalability.
- Commitment to professional standards and ethics of the profession and evaluating the performance of employees and work to raise their skills permanently.
- Of the most dangerous tasks Hydraulic structures installations Engineer is flood control, emergencymeteorological conditionshaving to maintain the stability of the facility, understand the nature of the work of this water property.
- One of the priorities of work is to invest these facilities , conduct surveillance and study various measurements to determine the damage happened to these facilities and try to repair them.
Sources and references
- Bylaws of the Faculty of Civil Engineering Department of Water Engineering at the University of Aleppo – 2006.
- Arab Standard Classification of Occupations - Arab Labor Organization –2008.
- National standards of academic reference (NARS) - The Ministry of Higher Education - 2012
- Books of Hydraulic structure installations at the University of Aleppo and books, different world.
- System of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
- TGL German and American and British studies of water.
- Jaara Abdul Nasser and Mohammed Amin Shaghale: 1997 - Hydraulic structures(1, 2)- Directorate of books and publications university - the University of Aleppo.
- BOLLRICH G. Und Preißler, G :1989– Technische Hydromechanik Band 1+2 Spezielle Probleme – VEB Verlag für Bauwesen – Berlin.
- EWERT , Friedrich – Karl :1981 – Gesamthochschule Paderbord – -Abteilung Höxter – Wilhelmshöhe 44 D – 3470 Höxter 1 - Untersuchungen zu Felsinjektionen Teil 2 – Münstersche Forschungen zur Geologie und Paläontologie – Heft 53 –Münster.
- WITTKE W.:1984 – Felsmechanik Grundlagen für wirtschaftliches Bauen im Fels – Springer Verlag – Berlin Heidelberg New York Tokyo.