Statics was one of the easiest classes in the entirety of the engineering curriculum.

All you need to know is:

• ⁠How to draw a FBD (with a defined coordinate system)
• ⁠Sum of Forces in the X = 0
• ⁠Sum of Forces in the Y = 0
• ⁠Sum of the Moment about a point = 0
• ⁠positition vector formula
• ⁠unit vector formula
• ⁠calculate magnitude of a vector
• ⁠projection formula
• ⁠basic trig

If you know these, you can solve any statics problem. You can learn the position vector, unit vector, magnitude, and projection vector formulas in less than 20 minutes.

(Static Moments of Inertia and Friction problems require a couple more basic things of knowledge.)

Just need to rant. I'm non traditional going back for EE. Due to being non traditional with a family and bills, I also have to work. Due to working less to make room for classes, we are pretty broke atm. Got some fafsa, and some other grants that would pay for 100% of my classes. But because I have to work 20 hours a week to make ends meet, I'm only taking 8 credit hours. Unfortunately for me, I already knocked out all my ace electives at the community college.

Well financial aid was posted. It will only pay for 40% of my classes. Lost a bunch of grants because I'm not doing 12 credit hours. Problem being, to reach 12 credit hours this semester, I'd have to take intro to EE, intro to programming, linear algebra, diffeq and calc 3. Which we all know would be impossible to do while working 20 hours a week. And since I knocked out ace electives, I have no fluff classes.

Just seems broken. A student not working and going full time is financially better off than I am. I can't afford to not work. But due to me having to work, I lose aid. Engineering being so time consuming is also part of the issue, as one math class takes the same amount of time as half of another areas semester.

Honestly, it's might be better to stop working and go full time. Working a low wage job just to have the freedom to be able to step away to do the homework, almost pays the same as the aid I would receive. But I'd get done quicker with a couple thousand more in debt per year by not working.

Rant, they really need to change this system. Or at least have fafsa take into account hours worked. If you work 20 hours, that should have a credit equivalent.

Also curious, anyone else run into the same issue? What did you do?

Edit. Since I'm getting a lot of crap. I also have a child, children take time. Driving them to school, moving them around to sitter and events, helping them with school. We also have a home, so I also have to do maintenance. I can't just retreat to my small apartment and spend all free time doing homework. On top of that my wife is also working slowly towards a masters. So we have a lot going on and a lot of balancing we have to do.

That class gave me depression and burnout, I still never recovered from and I have really bad anxiety in dynamics now

Will hand in my thesis tomorrow and felt it was fitting, also if anyone’s into Timoshenko beam elements and wants to do some proof reading :)

To keep a long story short, my dynamics teacher last semester absolutely did not have any knowledge on the subject and taught word for word from the textbook, couldn’t provide help for a simple question yada yada yada. After our first test, she announced that there would be no more tests or a final, and the STUDENTS WOULD BE TEACHING EACH OTHER. Yes, we all had to teach each other a subject we didn’t know. We would read material ahead of time and prepare a PowerPoint presentation. I don’t think I have to even say it, but literally nothing was learned from watching each other’s PowerPoints, not being able to ask questions and not getting any assignments or assessments. At the end of the year she just passed everyone with an A. This was during my athletic season so I honestly was happy with the easy class at the time but now I don’t know shit about dynamics. Has anyone gone through something similar, and how would you recommend actually learning the material?

TL:DR: My dynamics teacher decided to stop teaching us a month into the course, basically gave us all A’s, and now I know nothing.

I'm about halfway thru week 3 and just finished learning about partial fraction decomposition. Everything so far makes sense conceptually, it's just pretty tedious and can be sloppy. This stuff is difficult, but not that much harder than Calc 1. People speak of Calc 2 like it's an urban legend. At what point might I start seeing topics that prove why Calc 2 is so difficult?

Hello all. Joined this sub when I flunked out a few years ago, graduated in December and now have 2 job offers! I want to see what you guys would consider. Both are the same commute.

Offer 1 is 75k with 3.6 bonus as an Associate Application Engineer. Liked the office better and seems to be a great place to be. Job seems pretty chill.

Offer 2 is 75k with 8.5% bonus as a Test Engineer. This role involves more stereotypical engineer work. It’s a cooler job than offer 1, but I hear mixed opinions about Test Engineer work with the documentation and policies. But seems to be closer to what I’d want to do.

I’m really torn, offer 2 seems to have a more fun job, but offer 1 seems to have a better office environment. I’d also add that Offer 2 is a much bigger company and you all know it very well, but offer 1 is also a pretty big company.

What do y’all think? I’m very torn right now.

my first day of classes start tomorrow and looking at all my syllabi 3 exams pretty much make up all of my grade for most of my classes. when should i start intentionally studying / reviewing for midterms. like if i want to get top scores, should i start 2+ weeks before a major exam or even earlier? what does your study schedule typically look like before a mt / final?

I’m grinding a lot of Signal Problems lately (Fourier Transforms, Convolutions, Sampling, LTI Systems (and even non-LTI systems) and many other stuff, I don’t know why, but after doing this stuff for more than a few hours, my head starts HURTING after using my maximum brain capacity into trying to stay concentrated in order to not make STUPID mistakes (like messing up the limits in a definite integral after a variable change), I feel that my brain is fried afterwards and I sometimes have to wait hours for the effect to start vanishing, is it normal that this happens?

I’m currently a senior in EE and will graduate in May. What time am I supposed to start applying for a post-grad full time job? I know this time last year I was mass applying to internships, had most of my interviews in October and November, and all my offers/rejections by the beginning of December. Is the timeline the same for full time jobs or is it later?

I want to work in motorsport for a career and I’m starting my A Levels in a week’s time and I’m taking Maths, Physics and Chemistry, and Further Maths with the option to drop it. I want to do Motorsport Engineering at uni.

I don’t think I would do both years of FM and I would just do the AS. So I have a few questions regarding it:

• How useful would FM be for this course?
• If I don’t take FM, how much catching up will I need to do at university?
• Am I better off putting my time and effort into the other 3 subjects?
• If I do chose to do AS Level FM, will universities look favourably towards it?
• I want to do an EPQ, specifically about motorsport. Will I have better university and employment opportunities with an EPQ specifically in motorsport or Further Maths?

I’m in calc 3 now so I’ll probably be done with my core maths by the time he puts out new videos, but I’m interested to see how he changes them up.

How many commitments(ine. Clubs, research positions, volunteer opportunities) other than working while taking a full time course load do you guys normally take on? And how do you manage it/block out your time commitments?

Long story short

1. I'm btech Cse 5th sem student with specialization I'm Ai/ ds with average cgpa of 4th sem to around 7.02 or some little more if I calculated wrong but it is what it is

2. These are my sub for the sem

Formal Languages & Automation Theory

Digital Forensic

Digital Image Processing

Design & Analysis of Algorithms

Machine learning

3.I legit don't know anything abt coding and am not very consistent abt it in my previous sems, barely passed with less the 50 more than 40 marks out of hundred, so u know my level

1. Tried sticking to it but again and again back to basic i appear without my consent

2. But this sem the subject are very difficult so i want to get started early this time and try and stick to it

3. So plz tell me what language

Which module

Which ide

Which yt guy I see for lectures

1. I will try my best to catch up but I am lost in the path completely and I know many are so it would help them too

TI:dr I don't know anything full blank, make me smart eno

to get 3cr nackage/s

Ok

Background: Current Freshman like a week of knowledge. So first I go to a small private school without a lot of engineering clubs other than maybe FSAE (very new), IEEE and those weird engineering frats. My school isn't well known so I want to stand out through this and build some cool things because thats why I got into engineering

I have the idea of making cool projects with my friends 1st yr. We are thinking of making a drone with an umbrella that follows your around using phone gps so that rain doesn't get on you. 2nd project is like a roomba but for grass so it automatically cuts grass outside so you don't have to everyday.

Once we get those done (hopefully one every 1 semester) we reach out to companies 2nd year and show them what we made and kinda pitch them a partnership for a product or something they want built (hopefully through alums or profs). They could provide funding, materials, or an engineer to mentor us, and we would build and test a prototype for them.

The goal is to make these projects similar to a senior design or capstone project, where students work on a real problem from a company and present the finished project to them. If the company is happy with our work, it could lead to more projects, stronger partnerships, and potentially internship opportunities for students who worked on the project.

We would also document the projects through our website and YouTube channel so companies and students can see what we have built. Over the four years, we could grow the club, take on more advanced projects, bring in more EE, ME, and CS students, and eventually have multiple teams working on different projects at the same time.

I was wondering how much time people carve out per day for job applications, while having a full time course load.

For someone who works minimum wage job , and willing to study engineering (any field) and dont wanna get stuck in loans , are there ways to study online and get a degree that employer can accept?

I am currently in year 11 and do specialist maths, methods, accounting and finance, engineering star and English. I want to do an engineering pathway but think I might need physics to get in. I am unsure in what course to take (this is more in general). is it worth dropping accounting and finance and doing physics in year 12 or is specialist maths and engineering enough. I am good at maths btw.

2 weeks into classes and was removed from calculus 2 after 1 bad quiz grade. Missed 0 classes but I admit I was struggling to understand the concepts but I would have at least liked to try and understand the topics and have a chance. Not sure what to do now since one of my other classes requires calc 2 as a prerequisite and the only other section interferes with my physics lab. Anyone else ever had a similar situation?

Edit he responded to my email about getting back into the course snd all he said was sorry I don’t know if you can register again ask your advisor. What a guy

Final edit my advisor is the goat and the math department chair had me reinstated. Glad to finally have this resolved so I can focus on my classes without the lingering stress

GPA

Yo, hello guys. So I'm currently doing my internship for my diploma in Automotive Mechanical Engineering. I'm a politeknik student, and with my diploma course I wanna know what, which and how should I continue my degree? First off, taking this diploma course made me realize I'm not built for 'Engineering'... I LOVE cars and stuff but not the calculation and whatnot, I'm more of a hands -on person instead of a theoretical-calculation person, and soon I'll be continuing my degree, but idk where I should go or what course I should take .. PLS HELP ME

i took intro to stats and probability during high school so i have at least a background but im literally feeling so fucking dumb in my statistical analysis class in engineering why is nothing making sense suddenly?? did calculus rewire my brain or something