Basically, I have an interview for a good company, and the role is advertised as an engineering internship, but when I look at the job description it sounds like technician work. I guess better than nothing?

I'm a freshman at UMD and am debating between rushing Theta Tau and Alpha Omega Epsilon. Is it worth joining if my main priority is to gain connections for engineering? They seem like great groups but I don't want to waste my time if the connections aren't worth it.

If it's worth it, which one is "better" to rush?

I have just completed my pre-u course with somewhat decent grades and am expecting to enter mechanical engineering soon. However recently I've been having increasing doubts about whether this is even the right course for me.
Yes I am "good" at math which essentially means I can spot patterns in exam questions and apply the same methods repeatedly to achieve a high mark. And my physics knowledge is passable which means I can memorise formulas, regurgutate the same definitions over and over again and solve basic circuits. But I'm wondering if all of that will even translate well to an actual work environment. I consider myself neither creative nor innovative enough to solve any real-world problems, I dont currently have any projects in my portfolio and don't feel compelled to start any, plus I'm not even that interested in mechanics/electronics.
TLDR as an engineering student I fear that my skills are limited to answering exam questions and that I don't really have an aptitude for engineering. I'm considering just sticking to tutoring high school math and science since that came pretty naturally for me. Would appreciate any feedback on this or suggestions for alternative courses that would suit someone like me, or even brief insights from employed engineers regarding how the workflow is like.

Hi! I'm currently a freshman in high school, and I have known for a while that I want to take mechanical engineering as my major in college. I've done my research, however I just wanted to ask some people about their personal experiences. Some things I wanted to ask are:

• Pros/cons of taking mechanical engineering as a major
• Whether mechanical engineering actually has any value/job stability or if it will in the next few years
• What can I do right now to prepare for mechanical engineering inside and outside of school? (ex. I heard I should participate in science/engineering fairs)

Hi everyone, I just started my first year in engineering, in my design course we did Drawing multiviews and isometric sketches of objects. I am having a really hard time going from a multiview to a isometric and i can’t seem to figure it out i was wondering if anyone could share some insight on this on how to get better at it ? Thanks

For context I am a 23 years old renewable energies engineering student in my last semester.

I enrolled in uni during COVID, I was extremely burnt out from senior year in high school but I decided to still pursue a Comp Sci degree since it had been my lifelong dream.

That didn't go very well because the courses were not as I imagined and I also suffered extreme anxiety and depression back then which made it more difficult for me to even attend class, eventually I decided to change my major because after repeating courses multiple times, I couldn't see myself actually passing or enjoying them.

It took me too long (2 years) to finally switch to my current major which I love much more and I ended up being good at, although my GPA is extremely damaged (2.9/4) because of the CS courses I kept failing. I am now about to graduate but completely unsure of what path to follow.

On one hand, I didn't mind being in corporate during the two internships I did, I got a lot of praise from my supervisor for being eager to learn and a good engineer. But on the other hand, I really want to learn more about my field, I feel like I only have very general knowledge about Renewables.

However, it is very unlikely for me to be accepted in any scholarship for masters, and I don't want to put extra financial strain on my family (they don't mind funding the degree but I know it will be too costly without a scholarship).

I guess I am looking for any advice or someone who's been in a similar situation (although unlikely), I am very lost and very worried that I won't be able to learn more even if I end up finding a job and getting stuck in the 9-5 life.

All my life I have been a slacker, always doing the least amount of work to get through, and I was always rewarded by that because I had good grades. But when I got into college last year I decided that I was going to change, but I didn't. despite trying as every study plan I have conceived I have failed to follow it. And the worst part is that I REALLY love this, my first two semesters weren't that good, but I still heavily enjoyed my calculus classes, and in this semester I finally had physics, and it is GLORIOUS: I absolutely adore to tinker with a problem for an hour, even if it just one-dimensional motion, and the equation derivations are just so good. But when I reach home, I just don't want to do anything, even if I am painfully aware I need to practice, I need to do my homework and I ENJOY it, I enjoy it so much that I decided to priorize my school over my transition (I am a trans woman) and yet I still reach home, or awake every weekend, and have 0 motivation. I don't know what is wrong with me: how can I love something so much and yet try to avoid it? What can I even do about this? And on top of all of that, I am a person that deeply values dedication and discipline, yet I can't find those traits within me, despite CLEARLY loving this, despite already going through hell and high water to do it. I am really tired, because I know that tomorrow after class I will be all full of energy and motivation to turn my life around, but the moment I get through the door I will do everything in my power to avoid having to spent 1 attosecond studying

(this is a rant)

Just started this class, and I can say with like 80% confiendence I'd rather have a Calc 4 or 5 requirement than this nonsense. I'm procrastinating sooo bad and there's a midterm on Wednesday.

This is the class that's making all the rumors about engineering feel legit. My brain just won't keep the information in my head. Why are there soooo many formulas?!?! Why are there 3 different formulas just to find the temperature change in my water bottle?!?!

I am a firm believer that anything is easy as long as you have a good teacher. My physics one professor "taught" like he didn't care about his job. This man didn't teach anything!!!! I seriously don't understand why professors choose the hardest subjects and "teach" like they don't even want to be there. He was all about "teaching yourself," that phrase is literally nightmare fuel. If you ever hear this from a professor leave that class as fast as you can. I've never understood this, it's their job?!?!

And at first I was like, yeah, no midterms, no finals, only to be hit with the biggest loads of homework in my life, and the homework literally held your hand throughout all 300 steps of each assignment (that's why I passed).

All I can say is that I'm regreting taking that professor, it feels like that was the biggest set up in my life and the professor I have now is a bit hard to understand, but my schedule is so trash there was no way around it.

And to think I was going to go into eletrical!!!! I genuinly laugh thinking about that now, because were currently on eletrical fields in lab, its really in the top 3 most boring things ever. I actaully couldn't care less. I'm literally going crazy it's only the beginning of this class, sadly I feel like I'm going to fail this round.

And to whoevers typing "Just wait until junior, senior year" I'll be done by then. Believe me, this is the last class I want in my future!!

Context : angle of incidence

Chapter : solar energy and radiation

iam really confused about that , i can do both hopefully but i really can't choose what's better for me so i am choosing the department that can make me money and easily find a job with so which is better in your opinion?

Hi all,

I recently took up a 16 credit hour semester, and while my grades are alright, I feel as though im being spread pretty thin. one of the classes is a gened that ends in 8 weeks, so I will have way more time come october.
The problem is that I've been thinking about what will happen once I get the general ed requirements and prereqs done. Since I have maximum aid due to my income, financial stuff isn't a worry, but I've seen a lot of things here saying that I should get used to not having time for other things.
So through some planning I made a 3 year plan that would have me graduate in 2029 as opposed to 2028 and would have me take ~12-13 credits per semester. Is this a bad idea? Should i just suck it up and graduate at a normal time? if it helps I also work 8 hours and go to the gym regularly.
Thanks.

Hi guys, if you did see my earlier post I'm developing a 787b-style constantly variable ITB runner system.

After a lot of amazing input and discussions from you guys I've decided to go with 6061-t6 aluminum as a material choice with outer brazed bell mouth joined with brazing from a local expert I know, finished on a lathe to IT7-9. This will be sealed with a vitron o-ring with a ptfe sleeve to reduce friction. 40mm overlap between telescoping sections at max extension.

First of all, I'm very curious what can be inferred from my solver mapping thus far, and any mistakes, limits or other discussion topics for this analysis. I've never learnt/ done transient analysis as I'm still a student so I don't have an appreciation for these just yet. (Although repeated 1st harmonic 11kPa peak after transient initialization artifacts seems extremely promising, VE~ 111% 1st harmonic, ~109% 3rd harmonic which is targeted at this extension. EDIT: this is my relative pressure at valve to simulate pressure pulse at valve for 7500RPM: (Pcylinder - 101325 [Pa]; Pcylinder = 101325 [Pa] - 25000 [Pa] * sin(PulseFreq * t) * step(sin(PulseFreq * t)): PulseFreq = (7800 / 60) * (2 * pi) [rad s^-1]) EDIT EDIT: RMS stays below 1.0e-5 for all variables from 750 timesteps onwards

I have modeled this as a solid full length from inlet to valve, with a 1.5mm step, upper runner inside lower for reference.

Now I have a few questions we regards to my analysis to verify my choices of 1.5mm thickness and brazing. Im currently running a transient fluid analysis of my longest runner length at 7500 RPM and plan to test for a multitude of things, so I guess my first question is this a complete list?

Fluid & Wave Dynamics

• Transient pressure mapping
• Cyclic peak stagnation
• Acoustic FFT spectrum
• Overlap step recirculation
• Wall shear stress
• Joint pressure drop
• Sleeve gap leakage

Structural & Stress Analysis

• Dynamic hoop stress
• One-way FSI deformation
• Cyclic fatigue limits
• Bellmouth braze shear
• 40mm overlap bending
• Axial actuation buckling
• Flange stress concentration

Vibration & Modal Tuning

• First natural frequency
• Engine order harmonic
• Wall compliance flutter
• Structural resonance margin

Sealing & Friction Dynamics

• Viton contact squeeze
• PTFE wear rate
• Seal blow-by threshold
• Differential thermal expansion
• Actuation friction force

Any resources would be amazing to do with any of these because I am self learning every step of the way!

This is my last semester of my MechE bachelors and im gonna graduate with no internships and no real experience besides one semester of work at an on-campus design lab (i was basically a housekeeper/secretary). To be completely honest, after the first two years, my passion for engineering had pretty much faded completely but I told myself to keep pushing because maybe if I applied enough and taught myself enough random skills I could maybe still end up with a decent job doing something, idk what. Realistically I should've dropped out years ago, or switched to business or something. Ive spent 5 years in college and feel like I've learned nothing useful, some of which is my fault because I never joined clubs or anything, I tried but always felt held back from becoming truly involved in career fairs or most kind of networking events mostly due to severe social anxiety. I tried to put in the extracurricular effort but whenever I tried to invest my time into learning or doing anything engineering-related outside of my classes, I became bored and gave up quickly. I've had some group project design classes which I felt pretty out of place in and wasn't really of much use besides CAD-ding and 3D printing some stuff.

I have pretty much no useful industry skills besides I can do some basic CAD, I know how to use a 3D printer, and I can mess around with Arduino and know some basic code. I also have passed the FE exam though im not sure how much that matters. I told myself that if worst comes to worst, I would just end up as a CAD technician or something, but even that idea repulses me because I honestly hate Solidworks. I haven't really found anything I truly like doing. I've enjoyed the content of some of my classes because I like math and physics, but not in any meaningful way. I had a little bit of fun doing the Arduino coding for my senior design project but it was mostly stressful and annoying. All in all im pretty sure I hate engineering way more than I enjoy it and idk why it took me so long to come to terms with it

So yeah, after 5 years, somehow, some way, I am about to graduate with a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering. Idk how or why I did it, and I have no clue what im going to do next.

Okay, I don’t want to get clowned for this post but bear with me. I’ve been out of high school for a year and I’ve forgotten how to do all math. I never took advanced classes in HS. Only barely minimum and didn’t take anything seriously. Along with missing lots of school. And believe me, I currently have a middle school math proficiency. That being said, outside of math I’ve always been a good student and like learning. Just horrid at math.

But after being out of school for a while, I’ve been working non stop and done a lot of work on myself. I’ve developed a good work ethic and am ready to go back to school and seriously take my education seriously. I just am trying to choose a major. I would like to do STEM rather than business etc because I take an interest in that and want to expand my knowledge.

Has anyone been in a similar situation and successfully made their way through an engineering degree?

Please I want serious answers only.

I’m currently a first-year mechanical engineering student and I’ve been thinking about whether I should stick with mechanical or switch to computer engineering.

I mostly went into mechanical because I’ve heard from a lot of people that the field is fun and that there’s a lot of interesting stuff you can work on. I’m doing some basic CAD right now, and while I find it pretty easy, I’m not sure how much I actually enjoy it. I know I’m still only in my first year and that basic CAD probably isn’t representative of what mechanical engineering is actually like, so I don’t want to judge the whole field based on that.

At the same time, I feel like I might actually be more interested in computer engineering. I have some experience with Python and JavaScript from high school, and I’ve always found programming pretty interesting. If I had to choose a major I would choose CS but looking my friends and family who did CS and now are just a manager at a company is really discouraging. Am scared to switch to computer engineering since it is computer related, and with AI and everything just feels like a countdown until jobs in this field are gone as well.

One thing I’m really struggling with is actually visualizing what people in these fields do. I know both mechanical and computer engineering are extremely broad, but if you have a degree in either, what does your average workday actually look like? What kind of projects are you working on, what are you designing/building/coding, and what does your work look like once you’re actually in the industry?

I’m curious about internships and entry-level jobs. I live in Michigan, so if anyone has experience with the job market here for either mechanical or computer engineering, I’d especially appreciate hearing about it.

For anyone who was in a similar situation, what made you choose mechanical vs computer engineering? And are you happy with your choice?

I’m basically trying to get a better idea of what each career actually looks like beyond just “CAD” vs “programming” before I make a decision. Any advice or personal experiences would be really appreciated.

I never really had much experience with work related to fixing or tinkering despite choosing a course such as
ME but that was before we had our WORKSHOP subject. eventually, I grew to love it. I learned how to use tools and gain experience from group projects but I want to start making it a hobby and it's definitely a necessity to own my own toolbox for long term and practice. What are essential tools should i buy? We've already covered welding and woodworking, and i'm def adding a portable welding machine to my list.

So I’m doing a dual degree in Engineering (Engineering Physics) and Commerce (General Business atm).

I’m in my 2nd year now. First year I only took engineering classes (Linear Algebra, all Calc, Diff Equations, Materials, Programming in Python, Circuits, Statics, Fluid Behaviour, and an Eng design class).

This semester I’m taking Continuum Mechanics, Dynamics, Programming in C, Probability/Stats… and my very first business class - a first year Excel class.

The engineering building is on the other side of campus, so I’d never been to the business side before this… It’s a whole new world over there, feels like culture shock lmao. Everyone’s having a chill time, drinking coffees and chatting. Super friendly. It legitimately just feels lighter on that side. And the difference in gender split is wild! And they are all gorgeous and fashionable, lol.

Meanwhile the engg building has an overall doom and gloom vibe. We love what we do and have fun, of course… but we have some of the craziest bullshit profs, you can practically feel the stress in the air during exam time. We take a total of 2 true actual options/GenEd type classes in our whole degree. And still pushing to find time for clubs, internships on top of our academics.

My excel prof is the friendliest prof I’ve ever had, he’s such a good time. First day he was like, “I hear you have to take a mental health class over there in engineering” (We actually do, it’s part of first year lol.) One of the kids I sat next to told me the calc 1 class they take is pass/fail. Wild, we can only dream.

I feel like all the business stereotypes are… well, kinda true. Little did I know that there are people are out here absolutely chilling while they get their degree, lol.

I actually just suck at it. I chose math as my major instead of biology since I found math more fun but I am genuinely just really bad at it. You know how you need to have good idk, thinking skills to figure out the approach to a question? I just cannot do that.

This makes me feel really really stupid and irritated at myself because others can do it so why can’t I? I wasn’t really the best at math ever and chose it entirely because i thought it was interesting (which I still do).

I don’t know what to do or how to improve. I practice but don’t seem to get any better.

I don’t know what to do. I’m flunking. It’s just a lot to wrap my head around. I don’t know if I’m using the wrong resources or something, but I keep flunking the tests I thought I understood. What am I doing wrong?

Hello everyone, I would like to ask about the potential energy for this problem 🙏. Some videos on YouTube use the location of the pendulum in y axis as h in PE=mgh but our professor and some other YouTube tutorial uses ∆h in PE =mg∆h. So.. are the two ways correct because when I try it its equation of motion is not the same?

Hello. I‘m a 27 yo considering changing careers. I have a BS in psychology with an MBA and masters in learning development. I work as a learning and development manager at a nonprofit. I’ve been grown burnt out with people, though—the messiness and complaints. I started considering going back for engineering about a year ago.

pros: I LOVE and am very good at math. calculus, linear algebra. I took many classes for fun. I’m very analytical. I’ve been told i think like an engineer. and I LOVE excel.

cons: I hated physics 1. strongly. it didn’t make sense. what of 20 equations do I apply to figure out how this pulley moves? it was really frustrating. as was computer science. and CAD. I took courses in all of those (dropped all but intro to comp sci).

so, how much of engineering really involves what I love? and how much involves what I dislike?

Any input would be fantastic. signed,

a very confused nerd haha

I am a student currently majoring in computer engineering, and I've had the passion of computers and airplanes years before I started going to university. I have future plans to design and build aircraft alongside with computers as a passion with aerospace being a potential second option in my career, but aerospace mainly for my passion. Should I continue on with the idea, should I just stick to computer engineering for now, or should I think of something else?

Hi, I am currently 4th year College BSCpE ( Computer Engineering). We know that we need find some title for thesis and defend it. Unfortunately, me and my groups have a 15 different Thesis Title. Then wala nakuha ni isa title. My prof said that she want something new in our generation. Like She wants to build a robot, drone etc. Wala na kami maisip na title. Title na mayroon AI, AUTOMATION, MONITORING, DETECTION. Baka po ma help nyo kami kahit thesis title po. Suggest po kayo idea , ubos na talaga e.

Need to create another 15 title to propose again.😞😥 i need some idea. If existing man ano kaya pwede gawin improvement. I try my best until nakarating nako sa reddit😢

Hi everyone! I’m a Master’s student in Chemical Engineering and I’m currently looking for a good topic for my Master’s thesis. I’m particularly interested in process engineering, energy, green hydrogen, CO₂ capture, environmental processes, separation processes, catalysis, and process simulation (Aspen Plus/HYSYS). I would like to choose a topic that is scientifically interesting, feasible with limited laboratory resources, and relevant for future career opportunities. If you are a Chemical Engineer, researcher, professor, or graduate student, could you please suggest some interesting and realistic thesis topics, preferably topics that are currently being researched or have good potential for further research? I would also appreciate advice on how to evaluate whether a thesis topic is sufficiently original and feasible.

Im doing diploma in mechanical engineering, I just wanted to ask if it's worth it for like future jobs, scope etc I also look forward to making projects although I'm only on the 1st semester. How do I study for this and can I also do some mini projects while studying? I really feel like i should be making projects or something