Association of Facilities Engineering
Student Chapter S18 | Region IV

Mission Objective

To promote networking opportunities between professionals and students and to stimulate interest in Facilities Engineering via monthly general meetings, company tours, evening dinners and other social events.

"The Plant Engineer"
by Tom Hadley (AFE archives circa 1948)

When production is pleasing and prosperous,
And the plant is all proud of its name,
The plant engineer is a marvel,
And the manager sings of his fame.


But conveyors can catch at the cogwheels,
And compressors can limp and go lame,
And the manager points out his finger,
And the plant engineer's to blame.


And ever the tempo is tightened,
And ever the weak spots appear,
And ever the weak spots are strenghthened,
But never the plant engineer.


The manager manages business,
The man on the lines stakes a claim,
But whenever the plant has a breakdown,
It's the plant engineer that's to blame!


The weekends of work and worry,
The presses, the power and the plant,
It's a job that he loathes - yet he loves it,
He'd quit if he could but he can't.