low and slow

Ok, so here's the deal:

Someone mentioned in a thread about making an engineering help thread, and I thought it was a great idea. I know a lot of us on here are engineering students, whether we be n00bs, somewhere in the middle (such as myself, in ME), or trying to finish and not /yourself. Feel free to use this thread for anything: questions about classes, books you want to get rid of, problems you are having in a class, to bitch about a professor that is a total ass clown and deserves to be punched in the ovaries, whatever. This can go for any engineering major, too, I figure with all of us on here we can help out each other in some way or another, and hopefully make the experience a lot better, not to mention help each other reach our goals of graduating.

Maybe introducing ourselves wouldn't be a bad idea, either? First time posting, put your name, school, and major. That way, if someone is looking for help, or is looking to help, they can narrow it down a lot easier.

ex:

Name: Kyle
School: Florida State
Major: Mechanical Engineering

Problem (including what class):...

Ready, set...discuss.

EDIT: Can someone please change the title to "The Official Engineering Student Help Thread?" Kind of makes a difference, haha. Thanks in advance

yoni_nismo

Name: Yonatan
School: CSUF
Major: EE

where was this last week would of helped in my circuits and microcontroller class finals... lol great idea ill be back 4 sure in tha fall

low and slow

Yeah, something tells me this won't be super busy until the fall, but I made it now just in case there are people taking classes over summer, such as myself.

iwishiwas-all*

Yup that was me, well I was gonna post it in a quick bit but u beat me to it.
Name:Gabe
School: University of Miami
Major:Mechanical Eng. w/ Internal Combustion Concentration

Oh here is my assclown prof. story of the day. Well I look at my grades last week, I had this class called Measurements Lab (im sure most ME's have some variation of this class), Its basically 5 hands on labs, Hysteresis, Load Cell, Flow Bench, Engine Dyno and Blow-down Bench and I was owning this class Im talking like 3-5 of the labs were in the 90's before our alloted revisions were even turned in... I was anticipating an A or A- at the least for all this ownage and thats awesome cause its probably my first A in an MAE class in a while but low and behold I get a B! Im like wtf so I go see the prof. monday to go over all my labs and make sure everything is gravy. well... I get in there and he tells me about 5 mins into our discussion that he curved DOWN the grades 5 points! Curved DOWN! wtf, whats worse is there was no curve even expressed on a syllabus or anytime in the class all semester... Now im close to livid but I am keeping it in check cause i have to have the tool as a teacher for at least more classes. So I ask him "Why did you even consider curving down?". "Well, uh see uh the grades were just too high, I cant have that." I had a 92 in the class prior to assfuck's curve. Now I would be fine with a curve fucking me over if he told us some time durring the class, even once that he would curve. Not afterwards.
So yea the GPA took another turn for the worse lol.

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gmarzan

Name: Ian
School: Rutgers
Majors: EE/Chem

EE was not that bad, there was a couple courses that I struggled, I think it was Solid States or Transform Methods for Engineering (i forgot). Hated the major/degree so I decided to go back and do chem. One of the hardest major in RU. I mean, it was fucking hard. P-Chem (physical chemistry) was probably THE HARDEST class I have ever taken. Quantum mechanics was confusing, Laplace formula, etc. You have to know your calculus like in the back your head doing integration and dot product. Analytical Chemistry was probably the easiest, but yet the most demanding course in chem. 6-7hr Lab with 1hr in class session. Weekly 5-10 page lab reports, and you have to show ALL WORK, from calculation and balancing formulas.

Great thing about hard courses is sometimes they have curves....without curve i dont think i'll be able to pass all my courses.

P.S. for all Rutgers incoming engineers - I hope you guys are ready to take Chemistry II ....this class will either make you or break you.

essforteen

Name: Sirac
School: CSULB
Major: EE

So far not bad could be that i have not taking any major clases but i already hate programming with java but any ways im in for a challenge but will be worth it in the long run

DirtyS14

Name: Amaan
School: University of Colorado
Major: Mechanical Engineering

Going to be a junior next year... My strengths (if any) are calculus 1-3, Solidworks, General statics and problems in equilibrium. My weaknesses.... pretty much everything else in terms of physics, chem, diff eq, programming/computing. Hope this thread is a success! Go engineers!

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Mr. Camshaft

I'm taking advanced fluids and that shit is kickin my ass.

low and slow

Bumping this up.

I'm sure I'm not the only one taking summer classes, and happy they are almost over.

I think I've conquered Calc III, and I'm actually looking forward to fall.

lflkajfj12123

Name: Max
School: Purdue
Major: Mechanical Engineering

anyone a chemical engineer? thoughts?

Tenchuu

Name: Ken
School: Oregon State
Major: Electrical/Computer dual degree

really just getting into it serious this next year, already knocked out a year of the general shit.

lflkajfj12123

i'm thinking of branching into chemical engineering

ANY THOUGHTS?

OKR_240SX

Name: Nik
School: TCC then switch to Oklahoma State. Just cheaper this way since all the classes will switch
Major: Mech. Engineering
Year: Sophomore this year.

Only problem I'm having is finding good teachers and trying to get thru all the bullshit basics. Also I'm way behind in math because I was a lazy ass in highschool. So this year I'll be doing all my algebra, trig, and will end up in calc 1 by summer. So I got a lot of work ahead of me lol

Mr. Camshaft

get ready for pchem to own your life, or so i've heard.

lflkajfj12123

it sounds like fun

i happen to enjoy most of all the engineering and science classes

i'd prob like doing that more than doing autocad and drafting

Bubbles

Huh.

That's odd.

lflkajfj12123

LOL wut......................

Bubbles

No, nothing big
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Is there more than one Purdue?



God, that sounds stupid.

Tenchuu

I liked all my autoCAD classes

lflkajfj12123

there is purdue west lafayette, purdue calumet, and purdue north central

lflkajfj12123

i haven't started any of them

maybe i'm judging too soon

whats gooood

Tenchuu

I jsut really enjoyed them. it is a totally logical you are 100% correct or 100% wrong type of class. and you have to get good at visualizing. i spent like 80 hours on my autoCAD 3D final project, but as i understand it most places don't teach the 3D side of it. but even the 2D side is fun once you spend time at it. it was the closet thing to a break i got out of my classes.

Mr. Camshaft

Solidworks is gangster. AutoCAD was fun to cut stuff with the lasercamm.

Sway500

Name: Randall
School: UNC Charlotte
Concentration: Mechanical Engineering
Year: Senior

I loved engineering when I first came to school. I'm not quite sure how I feel about it now. I like modeling in AutoCAD and Pro E, but the other stuff is for the birds. Truthfully, I'm not sure I want to even be in the engineering field once I graduate.

lflkajfj12123

^ goto graduate school for something else?

gmarzan

To s0apgun - Chemical engineering is almost the same as regular chemistry major. ChemE reguires more math, all the way up to Differential Equations 2, but the core chem courses are the same. I think I read you enjoy engineering/sciences so get ready for Physical Chemistry and Lab. I mean, shit, imagine a professor giving you a simple pressure equation and asked you to derive another formula using wave function. It was the class that I took that actually you get to use all of the maths you learned all through your life, especially calculus. P-Chem lab wasn't easy, it was ALL math, and there are only like 2-3 wet lab experiments, the rest are all dry. Basically, P-Chem is the hard...you get know how those formulas from regular chemistry was derived using Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Etc. and you get to study all of them in one course.

Mr. Camshaft

damn, fuck that. i'd rather do kinematics for the rest of my life.

lflkajfj12123

yeah i think i'm going to stick to ME i've been told switching to ChemE is just going to delay my graduation

i suppose i could do masters in chem or something

OKR_240SX

What kind of projects has everyone had in their engineering classes?? To maybe give some ideas or helpful thoughts to improve someones project.

I'm not far in my degree yet, but have had my first engineering class. And in it we had to build a Diet Coke + Mentos powered vehicle. Me and my team basically built a water rocket. We trapped the pressure given off from the reaction to feed into a 2 liter bottle filled with a little less/around 1/3 full of water. From a dead stop (with no fins or cone to control the bottle in the air - due to deadlines) it went 94 feet on the 2nd try. We had a leak on the 1st and it only went like 40. And we came in 2nd out of around 20 teams. (it was 4 classes competing with 4 to 6 teams each)

low and slow

We built a bridge in Intro to Engineering Lab out of toothpicks and marshmellows, choosing out of 3 different designs, and then gave them a stress test (putting weight on the middle to see how much it could take before breaking).

Which was cool, but seemed childish (the prof was a bitch, and it was a weeder class).

Then, in my ME Tools class, we built a Stirling Engine in the shop, which was pretty cool. Mine ran pretty hard, too (I think it ran close to 1,000rpm's), I was happy.

Then, we had to design it in Pro Engineer (drafting program), along with picking something else to re-create in the program (I ended up doing a mechanical pencil, it came out pretty BA)

Other than that, I haven't gotten too far into my major yet (I'm done with the pre-reqs now, so once fall starts I'll be at the e-school full time), so I'm sure the projects will increase.