As an apiring mechanical enigneer, your videos are extremely insightful and helpful on my journey! Thank you for taking the time to create these videos!
This video is extremely well executed. No misleading thumbnail or title, cuts to the point, explains things with enough detail to understand the basics but doesn't spend more time than necessary on a topic, and the graphics and imagery show you relevant and useful information. I'm going to be a freshman next fall for ME, and this helped me get a much better idea of what a job might actually look like. I've watched quite literally thousands of hours of youtube videos in the past, and this is legitimately one of the best overall in pretty much every way. You've more than earned a sub and a like, can't wait to see this channel grow.
2:58 this is the reason why anyone who wants to be an engineer should spend a few years doing factory work. You'll quickly learn what is feasible and what's not when it comes to machining.
Mechanical engineering (junior) student here. I almost stopped my freshmen year to pursue machinist training, but our university machine shop director (former toolmaker and machinist) instead recommended I join the competition teams and clubs around campus. Ive since learned how to operate most standard prototyping shop equipment (mill, lathe, cnc, bandsaw, press) and their limits, and I incorporate them into my designs. Ive also learned how to weld and work with composites and molds within university extracurriculars. Ive had fun working on a formula car, sounding rocket, and even built my own CNC equipment. I learned this a bit later into the degree, but you can learn much of what goes into good Design for Manufacturability for other less easily accessible stuff like casting, injection molding, or sheet metal design online by paying $20 for a decent online course. Many skills you can pick up in internships. Theres also many summer volunteer programs to learn DFM from experienced engineers, offered by google, IBM, and organizations like SME. Naturally, the former technicians studying engineering tend to be better engineers, but having worked as a fabricator and assembler for a summer, its very likely you will get shoehorned into a particular set of tasks and not get to cover all the ground you're hoping to. Use your university's resources, for real, the true value you get at college is the extracurriculars, not the classes
Very interesting to learn that you spend 50% time in meetings, I myself spend maximum 2 hours a week in meetings but perhaps that's more characteristic of small companies?
Ya every company is very different in terms of how often each employee is in meetings. 50% is actually good for me haha because at Tesla...it was way more lol
I work as a manufacturing engineer for a smaller company and I can say the meetings are not only non stop but they are are also sometime very pointless… I spend more time talking about what I will do to solve a manufacturing issue than actually solving said issue…
But the irony there, in this case our design engineering, manufacturing engineering, and machine work is mostly done in house or at our Mexico location, is that if Mfg. Eng. isn’t included in a meeting NPI engineers will make decisions on our behalf and will learn very quickly we neither have the resources nor that their part is manufacturable once actual validation or trials builds come up.
As a current design engineer, I whole heartedly agree with this video. In fact, I wish I would have been able to see this while I was in school. You did an incredible job explaining Mechanical Design Engineers.
I recently stumbled upon your RU-vid channel a couple days ago, and I can’t stop binge watching your videos. As a fellow mechanical engineer, I love to see how other people around my age do their work and really just live their lives.
If you want to be an excellent mechanical engineer it really helps to love what you're doing. You want to develop this problem solving mindset and challenge yourself to build things you know would make you or others happy and push you forward and then commit to the challenge until you finish it. Buy material and tools so you have them ready. Draw a lot. Sketch concepts, draw plans and calculate the math as most engineering projects start with a pen and a paper
I would like to know how this works, for example I love to work with CAD, I can can make a project what they gave to me in the paper just to copy. One thing that is it us have to create a project if you want to work in this area, How this works ? Thank you
Nice to see I picked the right major :) Going into my third year as a mechanical engineering student and everything you described in this video is very appealing to me, thanks.
I am a recent mechanic student and kinder lost at the moment. Wow What a timing ! You are like my beacon! Thank you for the guidance! glad to find your tunnel!
fortunately I believe most people who follow this channel are actively pursuing engineering careers in whatever particular craft they find enjoyable. Most engineering oriented minds are generally very well grounded to reality and it's generally understood that engineering is essentially science and creativity combined as one entity. I absolutely love art, and have made electronic music for over 10 years now and when I initially went to college I was incredibly ignorant and had to start at very basic classes, like algebra and NEVER took chemistry or physics. I was pursuing medicine at the time I remember taking my first ever chemistry class and genuinely being so conceptually challenged at the abstractness of imagining these very tiny things. I ended up falling in love with science for some reason and really came to love the unrelenting pursuit of understanding things as they are and completely removing bias and empirically discovering a truth. I ended up switching my bio chemistry degree to engineering and I ABSOLUTELY FREAKING LOVE IT. I was really rusty because I took some years off and immediately jumped into calc2 but it was really enjoyable because in software engineering there's a sense of creativity that I imagine every engineering career has in "designing" a solution. In addition to that the creative solution you may come up with can include really challenging variables that you must consider and resolve your solution around limitations. I like feeling stupid and having to step outside my comfort zone, because when you work at it there is a satisfaction in "cracking the code" so to speak of a problem. This was a great video to really demonstrate that challenge, the process can be slow, sometimes boring, difficult, or easy because it's the real world and you must be able to accommodate any of these issues if you are to enjoy engineering as a career. One awesome thing though is definitely the versatility, the tools you gain in a particular field can be applied to so many subdivisions and specialties, or you can try something new until you find your niche whether you're good at it or it's simply enjoyable for yourself. Keep posting content dood
Great video again... To the point... Each and every points are mentioned properly and step wise step... I'm working as a mechanical design Engineer, i would give you full marks for this... You're doing great Job in this field ,it will be very helpful for those who want to build their career in this field. Keep it up Tamer Shaheen Good luck to your future endeavours
@@TamerShaheen thanks for the reply man... If possible please make a video on growth of a mechanical design Engineer over a period of Time and Also include how vast mechanical engineering field is and how one can explore plethora of opportunities there.
Very inspiring and insightful. Me myself a design engineer at one of the most known company for their vacuum. I would say, there's more things to do rather than just designing a part. Almost 2 years now, still a lot of things I need to learn and get experience. Good stuffs!
Liked your video man. I currently work as a manufacturing engineer but have been wanting to explore the option of transitions into more a design role, I can’t complain I got this job during a COVID layoff, but always wanted to end up design. I like how much of the process I understood from your video just by being part of the process on the manufacturing side. I do a lot of fixture design and while that is actually very neat I feel I may want to move to a more focused role on either product design or automation in the future.
I didn’t know that mechanical design engineer is same as product design engineer, im happy choosing ME because i love the idea and wanna be a product design engineer
Thank you so much for this video! I’m 2 years into my mech engineering degree and I had no idea what i would really be doing in the real world. This really put a light on it, and makes me so much more excited!
I'm a mechanical design engineer for a small tech company in CA. It's just me and boss (who is remote) as the ME's. I find the hardest part of my job is getting the small group of product managers to get me concept info. What do you want the panel design to look like? "Not sure!" So I spend tons of time creating a new design with little guidance on the wanted aesthetics. This means I rework the design MANY times often in totally different versions until they can guide my designs to what they actually want. It is highly frustrating because there is so much wasted effort because of the inability of higher ups who do not know how much effort goes into each design just to get shot down as "We don't really like it". I'm planning a move to a massive tech company where I can have more access to resources, pro level engineers for design questions, and for having a far more defined PRD (aka specs, design look, etc). As a two man team I do concept to production - EVERY part, EVERY drawing, EVERY screw is my design. It's AWESOME. But such a small scale team means I'm lacking for rapid prototyping, lacking in senior engineers for guidance, and lacking in knowing exactly what direction to spend my design time on. It also means any design weaknesses on any part are 100% my fault. I must be hyper vigilant when submitting prototype designs to initial mfg. 3.5yrs out of college, making $110k. The pay is great but a two man product design dept has challenged me professionally and I think I can make better money at a more organized larger company. If you made it this far into my comment I'm guessing you're still in University. For those still in school, FINISH. I almost failed out with 2.04 GPA two years in. Had a life epiphany, and got my S together crushing exams and killing curves. Couldn't save my grade. Graduates with a 2.94 GPA, with a 3.45 major GPA. Did one year of grad work after that. During my interviews was honest about my early school failures and then facing adversity by killing the next few years. You can get your degree, and you will design awesome stuff - keep your head high. Being an engineer is an impressive qualification. It's yours if you put in the effort and the dedication.
Homestly the video is great, my only feedback is that depending on business type, experience and country a mechanical design engineer changes a lot, heck I’ve been the person individually responsible for civil works like a 8 ton grinding stand, entire cooling loops, pump redesigns etc The industry type you go in and your experience changes if you are responsible for a tiny bit of the project or the entirety of the project. I’ve had issues pop up, ive designed, calculated it all, packaged the designs ready for review, been peer reviewed and we are manufacturing it within a day. Some jobs ive been in is 99% drawing and simming your models, other jobs 75% of it was internal meetings, client meetings, training, presentations or helping a different department. Thankfully now im more of the companies excel wizard so i build excel tools to speed up the typical calcs we do.
I just want to say thank you man, I’ve been on the fence on what kind of career I want to pursue looking into a bunch of jobs thinking about how nothing really felt like a good fit. Everything you mentioned is pretty much exactly what I’m looking for in a career and kind of helped me make up my mind. Thanks man
As a product design engineering student I feel that we do a little bit more; effectively we can also take the roles of anyone on the product development line (ie from the initial product designer, all the way to marketing the product to the shelves). Naturally we all have our best areas and so we tend to fall between the p.d and the mechanical engineer. Most of my work stems from the typical product designer roles of creating creative solutions to problems, but then the translator of making it realistic, finally making physical prototypes and drawings for production. Other than that, I absolutely loved your video and it got me excited again to be a p.d.e. Thank you and all the best :)
Thanks for the content. It made me realize I am limiting myself and not being ambitious enough. There are so many opportunities at awesome companies who are hiring mech engineers and design engineers.
Bro you just overlooked process designer. I am a process designer. We get a bunch of part from product designer that can't be manufactured by forging. We tell the product designer that it is not feasible and suggest the NPD to make changes. A product can be mass. Produced majorly in 4 ways, press tool( sheet metal). Forging, casting, moulding
I recently graduated as a mechanical engineer and I find your vid interesting. I am so curious about what kind of job I wanna fit in. I guess it finds me enjoyable to be a designer
As a mechanical engineer, I can say, very nice video thanks! I also worked at Tesla as a remanufacturing engineer in The Netherlands 🤝. Keep up the good work at Serve 👌!
This is quite a good video, but I was kinda surprised by how you've given the list of requirements in the "engineering design process" section, because requirements such as "light weight" or "easy to install" are terrible requirements. They are the equivilant of "the part should have a temperature". They can be used to move goal posts. It's the opposite of what you want from a requirement. A requirement is a specific, dealing with a locally and systematically closed area in which it's effects are measurable. A requirement is measurable - it has a unit or a unitless coefficient that has to be matched. Usually an acceptable range is given, such as 2 - 2.1 mm. A requirement needs to be attainable - anything that's outside the companies expertise or the industries standart procedures is off the table or at least needs really, really good reason to be kept on the requirement sheet - stick with what you are good at. If you do sheet metal parts, don't require carbon fiber support structure. A requirement is relevant - it's relevancy directly reflects on it's position in the requirements hirachy and anything above category 4 usually never makes it into the final product. Requirements above category 4 are discarded as "nice to have" and might make a comeback in a future version or a luxury line. This avoids feature creep. And finally, a requirement has a due date - There needs to be a final deadline by which the requirement needs to be validated or invalidated. Otherwise it will always be pushed into the future, never achieving anything. That's how I learned my requirements engineering and it's a little shocking how little I see of it being used in practise in most places I've looked at so far.
Currently looking for a mechanical design engineer position. This video just reaffirmed I'm looking for the right role. Great vid man! Was very insightful and the explanations were done very well!
This is a really good video🔥, when I'm searching all of youtube and the internet this is the type of engineering content I'm looking for!! but can never find. We definitely need more, please.
👋 I'll be a mechanical engineer graduate in May. It's nice to see someone who is fresh out of college providing perspectives and insights. This is so helpful! 🙏
If you are in the USA make sure to take the FE exam at the earliest opportunity.. I took mine 25 years after I graduated and that was a lot of study while doing a full time job!
@@frankish5314 one question We're students that learnt mechanical engineer in africa will be same the students from USA Like will they have same subjects studying
@@bilalabdi9148 Honestly i don't know if the subjects would be the same. I graduated in the UK then emigrated to the USA. I know that to get my degree accredited in the USA was an arduous and expensive process. Fortunately I had enough experience that I was allowed to sit for the US professional engineering exams without having to go through the accreditation process. This seems a bit silly as you would think they could just look up a list of degrees to find out which ones were equivalent.. But like most things in the US, if there is a way to make money by having a tortuous accreditation process then thats what you get.
This is nice to see. When I went into ME, I started work as a manufacturing engineer, and then became a maintenance engineer. There's a whole lot of uses for a ME degree and opportunity that people don't talk about. A lot of my job (automotive world) is making improvements on already existing equipment. When you get industrial equipment running, especially brand new models, there's a lot of little details that start to come up in terms of better production. Such as types of sensors, pumps, motor monitoring, etc. It can be stressful for sure, but its amazing what you get to work on.
That’s something I think is missing and wish would’ve been pointed out earlier. There’s so many branches and specialization in mechanical engineering that are never mentioned in school
This channel is so good!! I love the industry related stuff you talk about. I'm from a different major but I really think your channel is really educational!!! Thanks a lot!
Great video. I'm a mechanical design engineer at a small design firm for about 9 years now. Luckily I'm not in meetings 50% of the time though haha. Mostly solidworks design or drawings and prototyping. Also wish I was at 125k salary lol. Good work!
I am currently in high school of mechatronics and this video was very interesting and inspiring and it helps a lot when you know approximately what your work will look like... Thanks on this video🧠👍
As a mechanical engineer in college, I am kind of curious about what classes you or anyone else in this field would recommend taking to pursue this field.
depends in what area you want to work in... for example, I'm a mechanical design engineer so in college the courses that I liked the most where the ones related to design and materials but some other classmates preferred classes more electrical orientated or code related
At my uni, there weren't really any classes that were relevant....If you're at a uni in detroit you should have a different experience though lol. My advice would be to get an internship asap
The thumbnail is a little misleading, I have been a Mechanical Design Engineer for almost 5 years and I can tell you the average salary is not 125K, I would break it down as the following: 0-3 years experience: 60-80K 3-8 years experience: 80-100K 10+ years experience: 100K-125K This is a rough estimate and obviously changes based on your region/industry you are in but you will need quite a lot of experience to make 125K! Other than that, great video man!
Product designer is similar to an architect and product/mechanical designer engineer is similar to civil/structural engineer in buildings and similar structures
Hi Tamer, I never really took the time in highschool to put two and two together to realize that my interest in automotive design/ manufacturing processes was engineering so I unfortunately I did not get my prereq sciences. What would you recommend I do ?
do adult school or online school for the classes you need, or self-study the material and take an admissions exam at your college/university to demonstrate your capability
I was in the same situation as you. I went to community college (saves a lot of money) to get my first two years done, then transfered to a 4-year university to get my bachelor's. I graduate in 2 months!
As a mechanical design engineer at a oil and gas sector, my duties to make drawings for production and do solid modeling simulation and after that done stress analysis
Tamer I just want to start off by saying you do a great job at providing straightforward information. That being said, I just want to add that there are a lot of Mechanical Engineering positions out there with misleading titles. For example, I have a few friends with the title "Design Engineer" however they do no design work but rather work on excel spreadsheets, power points, and attend meetings for the most part. My question is, how does one find a position where you do ACTUAL design work like what you do and not just the title?
2:35 CAD with a trackpad 🤮. But in all seriousness, this is a great video. I work as an engineering intern in an automotive manufacturing plant, and it's nice to see what is done on the design side.
Being a Mechanical Design Engineer is very hard, but after the success lunch of your product and seeing it on the market and stores. all the hardwork and overnights and stresses you've experienced will be washed off like there's nothing happen.
