ok well for my professional writing class i need to interview and collect some sample documents from some one in my field, mechanical engineering. so i figured i would ask on here if there were any engineers that would be willing to let me interview them and get some of your old documents that you no longer need

thanks in advance

respond on here or pm me or email at midget9121@aol.com

 

What exactly do you need? I might be able to help.

 

Same here...not sure what you're looking for.

*EDIT*
Just saw your e-mail....

 

What exactly are you needing? I might be able to help as well, what time of documents you looking for? Does the interview need to be in person?

 

the interview doesnt need to be in person it would be like 10-20 question nothing to big or hard, and i would just need a couple (2-3) copies of some documents that has writing, basically this is to see what kind of writting an engineer does

so honestly it wouldnt take more then 30 minutes (if that) just email some samples of your writing that you did for your job and to answer some questions that would mostly be basic questions about your job and about the writing you do for your job

 

I might could help out. I dont think I would be able to share any written documents but I could possibly answer some questions.

Are all you guys mechanical engineers, I didnt realize that there were that many of us here!

 

My girlfriend is taking mechanical engineering, what year are you in.

 

I'm a sophomore studying for Mechanical Engineering

 

I believe I'm considered a junior now

Well the documents is kinda a big part of it so if it's a privacy problem it's perfectly fine if they are a couple years old

Thanks everyone for the offers but I do still need someone who can deffinatly do this for me prefferably by the begining of next week

Thanks again

 

Clarify what type of documents you need formal e-mails, technical manuals, journals or published articles. I might be able to give you some of this stuff if I know exactly what you are looking for. A lot of the stuff that I have is for internal company use only so I will need to filter it. I design aircraft so most everything is on a 60-75 year cycle. Even if it is a few years old it is still considered proprietary information. I expect many other companies are the same way.

 

x2

While not an active mech eng, that's my degree. I've been on committees that write technical pubs for aircraft, but certainly cannot divulge those in our lifetimes. That's going to be your biggest issue, is getting people to release documents.

 

Basically I need anything that you write for your job it could even be a note you gave some one, although some thing a little more professional would be great, it could be anything that you listed

 

Same thing in the shipbuilding industry.

 

I'll see what I can do. The problem is that most of my writing goes inside the company. I will have to find something that I would not mind seeing on the front page of every newspaper and the desk of every competitor. I might give the information to you. You pass it on to you teacher who then uses it. From there it get bounced around to wherever and could possibly end up in the wrong hands. The very last thing that I want is a e-mail I sent to my marketing people about something we need to improve to end up in a sales brochure for another company. This seems far fetched but it can and does happen.

 

have any of you been required to take a machining class?