I, 15M, an aspiring engineer. I'm going into my sophmore year of high-school in two days, and it got me thinking about the future. I did well in my honors class last year, and this year, I am again taking an honors class for chemistry. I'm here because I'm scared I won't get into a good college for engineering. I always had a passion for cars, and thus, automotive engineering. I grew up as a car guy, thanks to my dad, and I know there are many stories like mine. My question is if I did a car build and put that on a portfolio, and have it to show to college admission officers of what I did. Me and my dad plan to do it together, and I decided to do a build because I was a member of FRC, but it didn't work out. I was a tag along, to say it simply. It was frustrating getting people to try and teach me stuff, and eventually I gave up trying to get people's attention to teach me, after I figured out they would just try to take over after a certain amount of time. Anyways, that leads me here. Why does it scare me? I feel like if I don't become obsessed with school and do all these other extra curriculurs, my application is just going to look like any other guy that gets rejected. If you're curious about the build I want to do, I want to build out a 2013 Mazda Speed 3 GT. I want to rebuild the whole suspension, get some mildly sharper cams, swap to a bigger turbo, swap to a MLS headgasket, throttle body, full exhaust system with v clamps or a bolted exhaust, dyno tune, my dad promised he'd cover it, kill switch, fuel rails and injectors plus a HPFP, catch can, swap the intercooler to a front mount intercooler, big brake kit, basically everything you could do to it. Plus wheels, tires, and a DIY allignment. Cosmetics and other stuff like a short throw shifter are probably going to be for later when I can more comfortable afford them. I plan to push around 350 or 370 horsepower. So, am I cooked or do I have a good chance at this being a compelling argument for admissions officers? If anyone's actually gotten in like this, can you share your stories? Maybe it might help me sleep at night.

In case you don’t wanna read all that:
1. Is there anything I can do to prepare for an engineering major (that might also pad my application)?
2. What are some softwares I should learn to use?
3. Some simple project ideas would be appreciated.

First off, I apologize if this isn’t really the right sub for this but I digress; I’m currently a junior in HS and interested in majoring in some form of engineering (Heavily leaning to aerospace). Anyway, whenever I see any videos related to becoming an engineer, the thing that stands out most to me is the sheer complexity of the tasks. Besides the fact that I can’t comprehended any of the math on the screen, tons of people have projects and are competing in hackathons or other engineering competitions and I just can’t see myself doing any of those things in a few years.

Considering I’m terrified of going to college and failing out of the engineering school like my dad did, I wanted to ask if there’s anything that I could/should be doing prior to college. I’m mostly interested in designing something, (thanks to the reels showing you easy projects) so I was wondering if there’s any “starter projects” or first steps I should be taking.

I have access to a 3d printer, a high end computer and money isn’t really an object. I did try to do some research before coming here, and most of the stuff I found seems pretty advanced. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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?

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.)

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

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

I'm a U.S. citizen who recently graduated from a university in Mexico with a degree in Electromechanical Engineering.

I'm now trying to start my engineering career in the U.S., and I'm wondering if anyone here has been in a similar situation.

Since my degree is from Mexico, I'm not sure how much of an issue that will be when applying for engineering positions in the U.S. I'm a U.S. citizen, so I don't need employment sponsorship, but I'm wondering how employers and recruiters generally view a foreign engineering degree.

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.

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.

Hey everyone! I’m currently building a 2D CAD tool project and trying to properly support US users. From my research, it seems different industries in the US handle units very differently:

• Scientific / Medical / High-Tech: Mostly pure Metric (mm,m)
• Architectural / Construction: Imperial with architectural formatting ( 1'-6 \: 1/2")
• Mechanical / Manufacturing: Fractional Imperial (e.g., 14 \: 1/2") or Decimal Inches (14.500")

I’ve already implemented Layout scaling so users can map drawing units to paper scale dynamically.

For those of you studying or working in the US: how does your daily CAD workflow actually look when dealing with units? What is the minimal requirements to CAD software from this perspective?

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 a petroleum engineering grad from the American University in Cairo (Egypt). Program is ABET accredited. my gpa's are as stated in the title. i have three years of semi relevant work experience, and i wanna shift careers into renewable energy, AES at Colorado School of Mines is one of the best renewable energy programs in the U.S., but they dont have a sharp GPA cutoff stated on their program website. what are my chances of getting in as an international student? at colorado school of mines or other renewable energy master's in the U.S. for that matter?

I recently started college as an electrical engineer major and I need to complete a placement exam in order to get into calc 1 (Aleks PPl, 1-100). When I took a practice exam without reviewing I got around a 50 (need 76 to get into calc) and after a few days of review and learning new material I didnt know existed i got it up to a 70. I can probably get the required 76 to take calc but I am unfamiliar with most trig, exponentials, and logarithms. I got told by a friend to stay in pre calc and set a good foundation because I will need it for my major. If I were to take that route my plan is to most of my GE this semester take calc 1 2nd semester along with physics. calc 2 I would take during the summer (I would work part time and only take that class).

I just wanted to hear some opinions from other people of which plan would be better, anything helps.

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.

Hello everyone,

I am an electronics and electrical communication engineering fresh grade and I have a very bad GPA 2/4

but I have taped out an edge ai chip for my graduation project and it was sponsored by a small design house on some old node and fortunately this chip went commercial. I also have 2 ieee publications ( the 2 papers are related to my graduation project). I need to apply to a master at one of top tier universities specially in Europe to make up the bad bachelor records but I think I won't be accepted due to this GPA. any recommendations or advices ?

It doesn't have to be sponsored, I can self fund my master

Hey, so I was coming on here to ask if anyone has any suggestions on how many layers of fiberglass I should do when making a fiberglass blitzball bat. Thickness (MM):0.010″ (0.25) thats the dimensions for the thickness of the sleeves. And I hit these balls pretty hard, but I'm also making this a two-piece with a carbon fiber handle and the fiberglass taper and barrel.i just need to know if anyone has any advice because i have all of the things im just not sure how many layers i need for it not to break but still be flexible enough to have a good sweet spot.

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?

Title: Does missing the CSWA actually hurt chances for Mech Design / Mechatronics co-ops?

Hi everyone,

I’m heading into my third year of Mechanical Engineering and applying for May 2027 co-op positions (primarily targeting Mechanical Design and Mechatronics roles).

I had the opportunity to take the CSWA through a second-year design course, but I didn't pass the exam (mostly tripped up by the strict time constraints, though I passed the course itself). I have solid hands-on experience using SOLIDWORKS for actual design projects and feel comfortable navigating the software.

I have the option to retake it in the next couple of weeks (I may have to pay), but I want to know:

• How much do recruiters/hiring managers actually care about having the CSWA on a resume?
• Is it worth retaking right now, or should I focus that time on portfolio/project work?

Appreciate any insights from past interns or hiring managers!

Hey everyone,

I'm an electrical engineering student assigned with a final year mechanical engineering project (our first year is a common year for all disciplines).

They want us to make a a mechanically operated household waste sorting system.

I am genuinley stuck, I've searched every part of the internet for some insipiration...nothing (there's plenty of electronics based ones...but it defeats the purpose of the project).

I have emailed the project supervisor, but got a crappy response.

Project description is attached below:

Best I could think of, is something with a chute, where the waste slides down, I guess that could capture magnetic waste...but then how to flip does one seperate the rest :/

Yo, is there someone who is going to study mechanical engineering in Stuttgart University or is already studying there?

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

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 :)

I’m looking for some advice. Today, I received a call for my first job offer. They are asking for a decision by tomorrow, however I have another company I am waiting to hear back from.

Would it be professional or appropriate to ask for a one week extension before making my decision? The company I am waiting on aligns closer to my passions and goals, but I don’t want to risk losing an offer either. Thank you.