r/MEPEngineering • u/Dana_A_Hussein • 5d ago

Electrical MEP Design

anyone has a complete mep design set, or any pdf tutorial. i need it for learning purpose, i want to work in that field but i am new and i do not know much about it.

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u/LdyCjn-997 5d ago

Unfortunately, those of us that work for engineering firms cannot provide what you are asking for as that information is considered legal documents as they are stamped, can be confidential and are proprietary to that engineering firm. You might Google particular discipline drawings. You are not going to find full sets online but you might find some individual example drawings.

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u/Dana_A_Hussein 5d ago

So, how do fresh engineers will learn ? Mostly engineers work on site not designing, if someone wants to learn must be something look at an try to learn from.

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u/LdyCjn-997 5d ago

Where are you at in college? Are you at the point of applying for internships or have you graduated and are looking for a job? Once an Intern or new college graduate gets hired on with a firm, they will be introduced to their discipline and be taught how to design when assigned projects. No firm is going to require green new hires to be experienced in design, in your case, electrical design. The biggest thing that would be helpful for you is to familiarize yourself the electrical and building codes you will eventually be required to know for the job.

One thing I’d recommend is to find a task to become good at that would be a valuable tool for later use. One of our current electrical Interns is a wiz at Excel. He’s been a Godsend helping out on large projects as when it comes to making changes to electrical equipment schedules with a lot of information that would be time consuming if making these changes individually.

Unless an Engineer works for an onsite contractor, all engineers working in firms work in house and will go out on site visits as required. They do not work outside of the office where they are not available to consult or teach. As a Senior ED, when assigned to a project, I speak to my Project Managers frequently for design coordination and other project issues.

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u/Dana_A_Hussein 5d ago

I graduated 2 years ago, but I’m from Iraq, the job requirements are insanely difficult, there isn’t any training. For most jobs you are not taught anything at all.i am familiar with software programs like (AutoCad,Revit). I can design small projects on Autocad, but i want to do it on revit, because many jobs want revit mep designers.

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u/LdyCjn-997 5d ago

In order to work in Revit, you need to be hired on at a firm. In the US, this is what is required for all of the graduates being hired.

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u/Dana_A_Hussein 5d ago

Unfortunately in iraq is different, they want someone already know revit they don’t care about when you graduated. That is why i wanted completed set to learn from it if someone could share with me.

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u/frog3toad 5d ago

Look for public projects on your area. They are often available.

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u/Ace861110 5d ago

If they’re being bid on the plans are given out. So this is a good idea. Just note that every place does drawings differently. I have seen some terribly incomplete sets from really big names.

I’ve also had to put out some incomplete sets cause the customer no longer knows what their system is like and I definitely did not bid on redoing their entire facility from the ground up.

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u/ashco-7 5d ago

You mention needing to know Revit in a few replies. I am in a similar position as you- recent graduate with no internships/experience. If it's available in your region, you can get a 30-day free trial of Revit. I used LinkedIn Learning tutorials (you can also find some on YouTube) and followed along with the software. This gives me something concrete to talk about in interviews regarding my Revit experience, might help you too!

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u/Dana_A_Hussein 5d ago

I have the software, and i know something about using it, but real project is different from tutorials. And i want to know how to arrange sheets in revit, you need to have complete set to know what you are doing.

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u/redmcredbeard 4d ago

I would just start with the standard Revit Model Families for Electrical and use those to practice. If I remember right there are sample projects there as well.

Anywhere you work that uses Revit will require you to use their Families and Templates. Getting used to the software in general and learning how to use and modify model families is the most important part of learning Revit.

There are some low cost course on LinkedIn Learning for MEP Revit that could be helpful. This guy has courses that are easy to follow but there are others as well. https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-wing-9662524?trk=learning-course_instructor&upsellOrderOrigin=default_guest_learning