So I was just in here a few days ago about working loads of hours while in school. Well now I have a new issue, or so it feels like…

So I am a mechanical engineering student (second-year) for some context. It has been a dream of mine to be an engineer although when I was younger, I could never put my finger on why I wanted to be an engineer. I kind of thought of engineers as the cool people that make pretty much everything and I wanted to hop on that train and be a part of the engineering industry.

Well.. I have been having some second thoughts. Do I want to do mechanical engineering? I don’t know. I am stuck between civil and mechanical engineering because I think I like the construction side of things, HOWEVER…

My parents are kind of getting to me. They tell me that maybe I am not cut out for engineering and that I am losing passion. And I think it’s taken a toll on me. I cannot get back into the “I can do it!” mindset. It’s making me depressed. On top of that, it’s been an expectation for me to do summer classes and work full time. I did that this summer. But the issue is is that since graduating high school, I feel like it’s nonstop. I have been taking summer classes every semester since starting junior year of high school for dual enrollment and now that expectation has followed me into college.

I don’t think that I am losing passion, I think it’s more of being burnt out rather than losing passion. My other issue is that my father keeps telling me that I am going to end up being a science teacher. Like, numerous times a week. He’s told my entire family about it and they keep telling me about it.

TL;DR: I am having “a little less than a quarter” life crisis and don’t know what to do and my parents are putting it into my head that I am not cut out for engineering and that I need to go into another profession.

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 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?

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 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?

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 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?

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.

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?

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.)

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.

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

For those who have been attending classes for a while, do you find yourself challenging, questioning, or disagreeing with professors? I noticed I found myself disagreeing with my philosophy professor quite a bit. The way conclusions were drawn and general ideological statements. I find myself disagreeing with lower division classes that I am wrapping up. The opinions of my classmates that are non engineering dont make logical sense to me. This is most in regards to contemporary issues.

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.

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.

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?

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

hey guys, new grad mech e here. i applied for a few places here and there but i reckon ill really start looking for a job seriously in like mid october. at that time period i didnt want to sit still doing nothing so i split a monthly udemy subscription with my friend. im watching an "intermediate to expert" solidworks course right now, i might take the CSW classes afterhand to get sertificated, that would be class. also checking out some fluid mechanics courses, i always felt like i had some gaps in my knowledge. other than that, what do you guys think i should learn next?

to give a summary on the path i wanna go on; i always wanted to work on automative industry. have some experience in fea, done some projects in ansys and nastran, and would love to work in that area, so you can recommend something that goes to that expertise. otherwise, manufacturing is ok, so i can go on a save path an learn gd&t, people always recommend that new graduates should go on and learn it. cfd, maybe, looks so fun but i might have to do some reviews on heat transfer and fluids, and switching to cfd while alerady having somewhat of an experience in fea might be weird and make things harder

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 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 :/

I’m in circuits 2 and seemingly forgot everything from circuits 1. Does anyone have any experience with tutors?
I’m able to find great resources online for most things but I’m hoping to find someone who can sit (virtually) with me while I go over problems to help fill in gaps/ jog my memory.

I know there’s a lot of options online but I’d love if anyone could recommend someone you’ve had experience with or even a company/site you’ve used.

Thanks!!

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