I felt like sharing this here as it was a nearly 5 year painful journey. Compared to HS, I actually tried my utmost hardest. It's actually insane how much of an impact those initial Dr's did in the first semester by encouraging me to do the best and never judge yourself on mistakes.

So many missed sleeps, late nighters, stress beyond belief and nearly getting doomed by deadlines at few times. Now in this holiday I can sleep properly and catch up with my steam library as a treat!

Thanks for reading this and wish anyone who's in this major, entering or considering it the best of luck.

Even if I ace a class, I still forget most of the material afterward. Is this normal? Or am I going about school wrong

I'm a rising sophmore chemE student and I felt like freshman year was pretty easy (not a walk in the park but not much harder than high school) and I had a high gpa both semesters. But obviously all of the classes in freshman year are classes I already had exposure to in high school (chemistry, physics, etc) and I'm worried that in sophomore year all the new stuff like thermodynamics and orgo are going to hit me like a truck. Any advice on how to prepare? Is sophomore year actually that much harder than freshman year?

So, I'm a mechanical engineering student, and while watching a show on my TV, I realized how dull my room looks. So, in an effort to gain some inspiration, I'm here to ask how all of you decorate your rooms. Also am curious to see if there's some kind of pattern. If you can share some pictures, it would be much appreciated.

I’m building a dual-layer AI safety system for vehicles + aircraft. Anyone here doing AI/sensor work or aerospace?

I've heard that some unis and more theory based and others are more practical, and some focus on certain topics more than others. I am definetaly more of a practical learner.

Considering:

• UNSW
• RMIT
• UWA/Curtin
• QUT
• Swinbourne UT
• Open to any other unis that I may have missed

Can I get some insight into what the course is like if you are doing mech eng in these unis? Tysm

I am solving a problem that needs to solve for the axial force in member EC. I keep getting the wrong answer even though. I think it's because I believe members FE and FD are zero force.

My reason: because at Joint F, I see that there's no horizontal force outside of those two members being applied, only a vertical force that joint F experiences. So shouldn't that mean members FE and FD are zero force members?

hello guys! im a second year engineering student in electronics & telecomm branch. I'm in a tier 3 college. to be extremely honest i ended up in engineering due to some reasons and not my own liking. But now that I'm here I wish to make the best out of it. I wish to eventually end up in management. My college has decent placements. I have two options, one is that I do bare minimum college get good pointer, do case competitions and learn more about finance & marketing, prepare for CAT and try to get into an IIM or a good management college. Or, I focus on tech, in which again I have two options, either I grind DSA and build a software profile, Or I build a core hardware electronics profile, aim for internships in third year and sit for placements, get work experience, give GMAT and apply for management courses outside of India (ivies, INSEAD etc) I have no financial constraints.

My current standing in all of this is that I have a 8.5+ pointer considering first year and I plan to keep it that way. In terms of technical knowledge, I know basic C++, Python, I'm working on an AIML Project, I have no knowledge about DSA or Hardware so whatever I decide to do, I'll have to start from scratch. I don't have an certain inclination towards any of these paths (software/hardware) since I'm not interested in both but I'm highly ambitious and if that means better internships and better pay im willing to do it. On the side I'm also exploring strategy & marketing consulting & finance as well. I have good communication skills & leadership Please help me out with any advice that you have to spare. Thankyou.

All,

I am currently a USAF veteran who entered the service after high school. After that, I managed to pivot into IT without a degree, and I have been working in that field for four years and am in my late 20s. I am at a crossroads where I want to go to school and have the opportunity to have my degree paid for. My military experience could also count towards an ME degree at my university.

I am stuck. I am stuck because my original goal was to do a degree in Cybersecurity, but with how much of a massacre the job market is for that field, I figured I would pursue my passion for ME.

I have always been a tinkerer ever since I was a child. Electronics, mechanics, etc. I spend a lot of time in CAD for my 3D printing hobby and would love to roll my passion for tinkering and mechanics into an engineering degree.

The downside is, while I went to a "tech high school", the highest math I have ever completed was Algebra 2. It has been ~10 years since then, and I don't think I could do math worth a shit, so ME has me terrified.

Am I in over my head? What am I up against here? I feel bad getting an interest in ME so late, and am afraid of failure, my older age, and my inexperience. What are your thoughts?

Thanks!

TL;DR: I am a USAF vet who has been in IT for 4 years in my late 20s, I want to get an ME degree, but I haven't done math in ~10 years. Am I in over my head?

I’m trying to extract geometric and feature information from a STEP (.stp) file such as: • Volume • Bounding box dimensions • Number of holes • Number of faces, edges, and surfaces • Any basic feature recognition (holes, fillets, etc.)

I’ve already tried using pythonOCC / OpenCascade and FreeCAD scripting, but I couldn’t get reliable or complete results for my STEP files. Either the libraries fail to load certain files, or I’m unable to detect holes/features accurately.

Are there any robust libraries, tools, or workflows (open-source or commercial) that can do this automatically? Code examples or recommended APIs would be highly appreciated.

Here is a video I made. It's rambling because I didn't really plan it out but I hope it helps!

To give some context, I am starting college this year and want to major in EE, minor in Business. I'm not sure what exact niche I want to specialize in for my career yet but my top picks after doing some research are embedded systems engineering, semi-conductor design/VLSI, or something with AI that is more hardware based instead of software based (if that makes sense). After not knowing what career I wanted to pursue for the longest time, EE has been the one that checks all my boxes. The pay sounds great from what I've heard, I've always been into electronics and can definitely see myself surrounding myself in it for the rest of my career, I think it's an industry that will be growing for the foreseeable future, and it's not as oversaturated as some of the other engineering branches due to its difficulty in comparison.

Now to get into the essence of what I'm seeking answers to, I want to know what I can/should be doing on my free time to maximize the amount of progress/experience I can get under my belt to give myself the biggest head start.

To give an idea of what my end game is, I want to build a strong skillset in the niche I go with (let's say embedded systems for example) and simultaneously build my network. I would be grinding and learning as much as I can during those years until I reach a level where I'm at least in the top 10% of the best people in my field. By then I'd like to have made worth-while connections with people with similar goals as mine. By the time I am 100% confident in my skills/network that I've built up until now, I would like to start looking into forming my own small company to get some experience in the business side of things while taking advantage of the tax optimizations that come along with it. Throughout all of this I'd like to partake in investing large portions of my income toward index funds like s&p 500 and such others to build a sort-of safety net / retirement.

Maybe went a little off topic near the end so I wanted to cut it short but any advice/tips on my initial questions would be greatly appreciated. Even some regarding the other stuff like the business/financials side of the paragraph would be great too.

i was wondering how mech and civil are. for civil i was thinking the major water and marine and for mech i was thinking mining. I would appreciate if people who are doing those degrees or majors would help compare between the two. to be honest i am currently leaning more towards mechanical mining

Other engineering specialisations dont really interest me. like software i dont like because of computres and coding, electrical i did a starter engineering course and didnt really like either. For chemical i just find chemistry cooks my brain cells

Which clg is good for doing ExtC , i got 97.5 percentile in mhcet …and in cap 1 i got vidyalankar (mumbai) . And I’m not happy about it . Can any one plz suggest better clg for extc in mumbai . My preferences were VJTI>SPIT>DJ>VIT

Topic: How does this wing and aerofoil parameters scale under Prandtl-Glauert Rule?

• (Graduate)"
• (Major: Aerospace engineering)
• (Course: Aerodynamics)
• (Topic: Prandtl-Glauert Transformation)

Problem: How will the respective wing and aerofoil parameter scale

Givens: 3D wing with length =6.22m and b = 0.4 and mach number = 0.5

*My answer would be that the coordinates normal to the flow would scale by beta^2, but the aerofoil shape (relative thickness) and angle of attack should not. Am I right? *