What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming A Mechanical Engineer 

Hello, thanks for the video. I am a mech grad, and want to pursue master's in renewable energy can you please shed some light on career prospects in this sector?

Courses needed to study mechanical engineering

Do you work 100% remotely and if so how is your experience with that?

How ican used computer as mechanical engineer

So can mechanical engineering work well with fighter jets and military equipment? Also if you OWN an areospace business how would that affect the amount of work you do? (Okay long witted story time) I'm getting ready go to John a logan college in Carterville IL...it's a community college and my 2 major picks was criminal justice and engineering, I wanted todo aerospace engineering but they didn't offer it so I went with mechanical engineering...my hope is to own a aerospace business (like Lockheed Martin) in Louisiana and design fighter jets and maybe be a part time cop in the town I'm in. As my advisor said both those are totally different things but the law enforcement trade is dying...people in America HATE law and order...in fact the state I'm currently in (Illinois) made a law called no cash bail which eliminates getting bailed out of jail and bail hearings, well cops can't arrest you if you can't have a bail herring so most cops are moving to different states. But yet we see wars in every country around us, you need fighter jets, missiles, machine guns, tanks and naval ships to be able to defend a country so I thought bout engineering and making these fine machines that keep our countries safe.

Sorry to hear that, sounds terrible! 😳

Like really !

Why are you killing my illusions :( i was so happy to look for a job

Mmmmmm........

Thank you so much!

Thanks a lot! I hope so 😅

Thanks, that's great to hear! Wish you a great start into your first job after graduation :)

Thanks, I appreciate it! Best of luck with your Mechanical Engineering degree! :)

@@theannareich Thank you!!

Thank you :)

Thanks so much Zubair! Means a lot :) And I had a blast filming the b-roll by the way 🤣

Thats how Engineers think 😅

What's B rolls?

Thank you so much Nura :)

Wow that's super interesting! Thanks for sharing your insights :)

@@theannareich thank you for this video. Great information and personality.

Thank you! Cheers!

Thanks you! Glad it was helpful!

Thanks, glad you like it! :)

Thanks Omar, glad to hear the video could help a bit & hope you feel better soon! Great idea! I'll do my best to make a video about this soon :)

Sorry to hear! Online classes are really much harder to stay motivated for. I only had my last year of university online but that was already tough. Hopefully you can get some of that practical experience very soon! Or otherwise maybe you can get an industry internship or start a personal engineering project to gain back some motivation? :)

Thank you! Good luck with you're studies! :)

What are you talking about you can get paid 64,000-160,000 depending on what type of job you acquire. It’s mainly just experience and working in the same company that can earn you more money and net income. With time you will get promotions and new opportunities to increase your income as well. But you can’t just expect to be making 100,000 dollars off rip that’s not realistic. Also I want to add that you have to like math and physics to become an engineer because it’s a very demanding career overall so I would assess if your doing engineering for the money or because you actually like it. I hope your doing better 2 months later have a nice life.

Thanks for watching :) why are you freaking out 😅

Hahaha, I'm contemplating switching industries and I watched your video for some advice. 🤣 I'm freaking out because I'm afraid I'll have an answer before I get to the end of it because I relate to all points discussed. PS: All my friends really are engineers🤣

​@@lindelwampilwenhledlamini6348 Hahaha, I love it - so I'm not the only one! 🤣 Good luck with the decision! Glad if my video could somewhat contribute to that haha

Thank you for watching :)

Thanks, glad to hear!

Great to hear!

Thanks Shathan! Will do :)

Glad to hear you liked it! :) It really depends on the specific position how close you work with machines. For my bachelor studies, I did have to do a factory internship where I learned how to do metal work - and now in my job I travel to our factory a lot and make sure my equipment is installed correctly and works fine, so I do need to know how to operate it to be able to test it and teach others how to use it. But the day-to-day operation of the equipment is done by the "machine operators".

Glad to hear!

Thank you, I appreciate it! What do you need guidance with? :)

@@theannareich thanks ma'am. I'll like to ask the future of Mechanical Engineering even as Mechatronics is coming (as in your take on the two courses), and also basic softwares one should be familiar with irrespective of the later major ,before graduation ma'am.

Ahahaha thankfully I'm not popular enough to have haters (yet) 🤣 Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a long comment, made my day :) And thanks for the video ideas Peter! Tbh I may not be as crafty as you - but I'll see what I can do about that kind of content 😇

@@theannareich That would be awesome! And I believe in you! Imagine you blow up because of that, I'd feel proud😂 but alrighty farewell and Stay smart😎 -Peter

I feel like we are in similar situations haha Having different dreams and passions that feel like they would take up each others' times alot. Although I am probably on the other side of the moral compass, I prefer the criminal justice that is restorative justice and a society where money (and thus status) means very little in the justice system. I'm not that into law but it's crazy that having no cash bail would mean cops can't arrest people. And while I despise wars considering the number of stupid reasons people start them without proper communication or negotiation, I understand your desire to protect your home and the people you love. Meche to me means projects and machinery that helps improve the lives of people in need or impoverished neighborhoods, for example I live in Philly, with gun crime and poverty at an all-time high, it would be great if I could design or engineer products that help the environment for neglected neighborhoods in my city. Some neighborhoods are littered with trash and others are with homeless people. Engineering a better system to manage our waste and trash would certainly help my city and more community centers that deal with mental and emotional health as well as tighter gun control laws that flush out the unfit people. Ngl sometimes I blame capitalism for all the issues in my city. Everyone is so concerned with earning a living and working many of hours every week to support themselves that they neglect themselves or they're so down with hopelessness that they turn to drugs or nicotine to satisfy their misery. It just feels like the city doesn't care about its people and the only ones that actually care are the masses.

Thank you Rupesh, glad to hear the video could help :) Hahaha good catch! 😉

Great idea! I'll sure try to make that happen! If anyone knows anyone... hmu ;)

It depends on the university and the kinds of projects you do. I had an introductory coding course for C and later used it in some projects but haven't had to code at all since I started working

I live in Stockholm 😊

@@theannareich great. Actually am new in Sweden in Gothenburg particularly. nowdays am studying Swedish language am qualified but I don't have industry experience. If u don't mind can you give Ur Instagram so we can talk I really appreciate Ur guidance. Thanks in advance.

Hi Adriano! Thank you for you kind comment :) I certainly put a lot of hours into studying for my math exams, hard to say how many and this really depends on the difficulty of the exam. Make a study plan at the start of the course to study consistently each week and over time you will figure out if you need to put in more hours to learn the material you were supposed to learn that week or if it's enough to understand & remember everything. The most effective way of studying for math I found was to solve as many mock exams and example problems as possible (always practice the same way you will have to recall the material in the exams) Best of luck! :)

​@@theannareich I had trouble with things like area of a cone in HS math until I learned to read the formula sheet...is their a trick to picking up calculus styled math and so forth?

@@brandonh5201 Not really, for me the easiest way to learn Calculus is to just grind the Worksheets and write down the formulas and steps (it's basically a math recipe) for each set of problems. The best thing to know is what the formula does or when you can use it or not (exceptions/assumptions made). The Lectures never really helped me learn anything, but Worksheets and old exams were my way to pass calculus.

I studied mechanical engineering at a German university but the program is probably closest to a civilingenjör

Mechanical engineering is indeed related to aerospace engineering, they are based on the same principles and I think you should be able to do an aerospace master after a mechanical engineering bachelor without problem - but it's always best to check this with the university. Often they will have the entry requirements for their master's programs on their website or you can email them to find out. By physical strength do you mean whether you yourself need to be physically strong? If so, the answer is absolutely not, mechanical engineering has nothing to do with physical labor :)

@@theannareich ok .. got it 👍.. i will be checking in with the uni's too .. thanks a lot for the help and guidance 👍👍

That's impossible to answer definitively without getting a bunch of people mad at me :D But generally the difference between the two fields is that automation is about automating processes that were previously done manually by humans, so it's related to production machines, robots, software programming, controls, etc. Industrial engineering is not really a specific type of engineering but the interface between engineering and business, so you will both learn about different types of engineering (usually with a focus on mechanical engineering) and about business knowledge (e.g. accounting, management, administration, business development, sales etc.). So it depends on whether you want to go deeper into engineering or learn a mix of business & engineering on a medium-deep level. Personally, I feel like it's easier to teach yourself the business knowledge than to teach yourself deeper engineering knowledge if you later realise that you are lacking some knowledge but both degrees should provide good career opportunities and the basic knowledge you need to work as an engineer.

Good luck!

@@theannareich Thank you. Also you are right. Normally when engineers go on to get jobs they will only specialise in only a few of the modules which their job entails. Other modules not really.

Thanks for sharing!

Hahaha bode plots are horrible! But hats off to you for understanding the root locus plot! If you ever happen to make a tutorial explaining the root locus plot, do let me know 😉

@@theannareich ok will do

Glad you had a decent experience with it! :D

Great question, let me make a video about that soon ! :)

Probably by working as a mechanical engineer? :)

Care to explain them? ;)

@@theannareich What's the locus of a point at a fixed distance from a center? That's a circle. A locus of a point is simply the different locations this point can be at when it satisfies a given property. In the above example, the point was at a fixed distance from a center, let this center be O, and let M be our beloved point. The property is simply OM=d for some d fixed, make it one, say OM=1. This means that M lives on a circle of center O and radius 1. It means also that if I try to grab M and move it around, the only places it can reach are seats on that circle. So, again, the locus of a point are the places a point can be at while satisfying a given property. So returning to your enemy, the root locus. Think about the words, "root" "locus", it is all the places a root can be at, or all the roots can be at when they satisfy a given relationship. What is this relationship? It is just some polynomial equaling to zero (which is the denominator of the transfer function). Let this polynomial be P(s), and for the sake of clarity let us throw a one around. Let P(s)=s^2+3+(s+4)*k such that k is variable. We get now our needed relationship, by setting P(s) to zero, s^2+3+(s+4)*k=0. Now, put k=0 and solve for s, you get the first set of roots, plot them. Set k=1, solve for s, plot the new roots. Set k=0.9876, solve for s, plot the new roots. Theoretically, you do this for all k, and then taraaa you get a plot that is the places of all the roots of this polynomial by varying k. In the previous example, it was more of a word problem and the varying parameter was not obvious( the circle example), but you can somehow transfer the problem into some parameterized form, when OM=1, and vary the angle, which is theta, our parameter, to get the circle. This method is more explicit. This was what we have done in the root locus thing. The parameter k was explicit, and we just needed to plug all the values it can take so that we can find all the places the roots can be at.

@@theannareich This is what a root locus is, still haven't talked about how to use it or why it is useful, but at least get to meet it initially, become friends, understand what it is. Usefulness comes later.

@@housamkak646 Thank you very much Housam! What an incredible explanation. Calling us friends might be taking it too far but you certainly managed to remove some animosity. I'll be hanging out with the root locus later to see if we can get a friendship started😉

@@theannareich Maybe not the root locus specifically. Carrying around the idea of varying a parameter and plotting a graph is useful, I don't know how much you might need this, but you're surviving without it so yeah :p

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Hi! I've made a whole video on "do engineers need to be good at math?" where I go into more detail. But to put it shortly, you need quite a bit of math to get through engineering school (calculus, linear algebra, differential equations) but after graduating, you have the option to go into engineering jobs with very high or very low math intensity. Good luck!

@@theannareich wish me good luck with your cute smile , tomorrow will start my first class in singapore polytechnic. Actually it’s just a internal word i goes to tell u long time I have been taken break from study now I am doing a part time mechanical engineering design. This age I have to be complete my master-degree .

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