/engi/ - engineering general

[Anonymous No.10992800]

Thread for engineering related stuff

[Solivagus No.10992811]

What does Daedalus do?

Also, what is an engineer? At what point in the process are they involved?

>t.Pivot Process Engineer

[Anonymous No.10992879]

>>10992800
Whats that picture?

"Oui" is "yes" in french.
Written /wi/ in phonetic transcription, not /we/ which could sound like "whey"

They mean "we" as in "you and ", but thats a pronoun, not a noun.

omg lol

[Solivagus No.10992882]

>>10992879
Then my only pronoun is, "Yes."

[Anonymous No.10992887]

Engineering was a fucking mistake in my life. I should have just gone done art history, banged art girls, and then taken over my pop's store. Fuck this shit.

[Solivagus No.10992891]

>>10992887
K. What's an engineer and why am I the pivotal process engineer for Kasmah?

[Anonymous No.10992965]

>3 years ago got told stories about how a good portion of graduates in aeropace go on into finance, investment banking, etc.
>goddamn sellouts
>now start looking for jobs
>finance pays about 50% more than engineering graduate positions
Should I sell my soul for shekels? I'm thinking I could save a lot and start my own venture down the line.

[Anonymous No.10993002]

>>10992800
Would anyone be able to explain to me what the asterisk (*) in the line that says g(v) = g(q) - g(p) means?

[Anonymous No.10993109]

>>10992965
land any job you can get and be happy

[Solivagus No.10993483]

>>10993109
Land is my job, dipshits.

[Anonymous No.10993956]

is being a CADmonkey better than being a codemonkey?

[Anonymous No.10993975]

>>10993956
No, it’s worse because your boss knows exactly what you are doing.

[Anonymous No.10994158]

>long hours
>actual work, can't just jerk off to hentai at my desk
>have to meet with braindead animals
>and in the end make only slightly more money than the average codemonkey
I want to go back in time and slap every shill that pushed me into into this field.

[Anonymous No.10995617]

I’m probably going to dropout because I don’t like engineering nor hours of homework enough to force things for much longer. How can I go about repaying ~$6-7k of loans as quickly as possible? I need to be able to put money towards other things (mainly equipment) to progress in a certain other career.

[Anonymous No.10995654]

>>10992800
does software engineering count?

[Anonymous No.10995892]

good at math
decent at physics and chemistry
dont know german at all
23 years old
124 iq real test
How hard would it be for me to get into ETH Zurich?
I have 2 years to learn more

[Anonymous No.10995916]

>>10992965
Is this true? Never heard that for aerospace students here.

[Anonymous No.10996019]

Is a 5 year combined BSc/MSc program for engineering worth it?

[Anonymous No.10997477]

>>10995617
get a $72-84K salary

[Anonymous No.10997498]

>tfw want to do a semester abroad in the US
Redpill me on Berkeley

[Anonymous No.10997565]

>>10995617
I became a machinist. Basic math, almost zero human interaction, good pay, and on demand everywhere.

[Anonymous No.10997749]

>>10995654
No, it's literally worse than computer science

[Anonymous No.10997761]

>>10995892
You need proficient German. Passing the Goethe Institute C2 exam is a musf

[Anonymous No.10997778]

>>10994158
Meh can't be worst than retail. I've already experienced the abyss, at least I'll be doing something engaging with minimal public interaction

[Anonymous No.10997815]

>>10997761
Standard German or schweizditsdfdfdch?

[Anonymous No.10997890]

how much do professors make?

[Anonymous No.10997924]

physics 1. chapter 5. applying newtons forces. best resources to really actually know what i'm doing? thanks in advance.

[Anonymous No.10997937]

>>10997924
Newton published a manifesto on the basis of modern engineering 300 years ago and undergrad, especially freshman physics, is going to cover just the surface level stuff. Youre going to need to be way more specific if you have a question.

[Anonymous No.10998073]

>>10997498
Go to UCSB instead. Trust.

[Anonymous No.10998112]

>>10997924
learn english well enough to know how to properly pose a question you third world nigger.

[Anonymous No.10998998]

I think I'm going to end it lads, can't take it anymore. Memed into engineering and only face constant bullshit after bullshit.

[Anonymous No.10999058]

>work with autocad and solidworks for a while
>start catia
Who the FUCK thought this god damned dumpster fire of an UI/UX design was anywhere near acceptable for a product that cost like millions
Who approved this and why
What the fuck dassault

[Anonymous No.10999154]

>>10999058
I-I like CATIA

[Anonymous No.10999196]

>>10999058
Catia is decent. I can't stand AutoCAD's layout but that is because I never use it.

[Anonymous No.10999590]

I started an mechatronics engineering program this fall, will I be earning 300k / year?

[Anonymous No.10999769]

What's a good (free) CAD program that can also do some CFD? I need some project experience under my belt and I had an idea to experiment with making different motorsport aerodynamic bits and seeing how they affect airflow, pressure and downforce generation.
Anyone know a good program for this? (please Im fucking begging you my projects header is fucking desolate)

[Anonymous No.10999790]

>>10992800
>positive
Most likely getting a full time job offer this week
>Negative
Huge test tomorrow im stressing over (power systems)

[Anonymous No.10999793]

>>10992965
i remember that one of the characters in margin call was a mit phd aerospace guy who started working in finance solely for the money and said "numbers are numbers"

[Anonymous No.10999800]

>>10995617
in theory if you can get help from parents, you could work just full time at Starbucks and pay it all off in 4-6 months if you took every time earned. Spend your free time prepping for you next career

[Anonymous No.10999803]

>>10997498
Top Tier EE/CS school but for everything else there avg

[Anonymous No.11000616]

>>10999590
No, maybe around 70k

[Anonymous No.11000961]

>>10999769
Just pirate Solidworks

[Anonymous No.11000986]

>>11000961
h-how
from where

[Anonymous No.11000997]

>>10999058
just wait until you have to use the dumpster fire that is Creo.

[Anonymous No.11001013]

>>10998073
>>10999803
Process engineering. My options are the UC's, UMichigan and state schools. Can also go to McGill in Canada.

[Anonymous No.11001096]

>>10999793
That’s exactly it. Engineers have great quantitative reasoning skills and are bottom line focused. Finance loves that shit.

[Anonymous No.11001102]

>>11001013
GO TO UCSB. THEY CALL IT UNIVERSITY OF CASUAL SEX AND BOOZE FOR A REASON. YOU WILL HAVE FUN.

[Anonymous No.11001598]

>>10992800
>Be me
>Sophomore at one of the top high schools in USA
>Less than 50 schools ranked higher than mine
>On robotics team
>Like engineering
>In research class
>I need to research something with a mentor until the end of senior year
>Will submit research to Regeneron STS

What are some interesting areas to research/sci? Got any good ideas for a project? Any problems that need to be solved?

[Anonymous No.11001764]

>>10999793
>B.s. in mech engineering
>Land interview with investment firm on Wall St.
>They ask for my credentials
>"Numbers are numbers"
>They hire me on the spot, 300k starting

[Anonymous No.11001876]

>tfw no job 4 months out of school.

had some interviews recently, but I bombed one interview and I feel on the fence about the other. Not great, but not bad either. Probably not getting an offer for either one. Been applying to all types of places recently, might take a field engineering job in a different country if the pay is good.

Anybody take a shitty engineering job and just stayed there for 6 months then applied everywhere else in hopes of a pay bump and just a better position? Feeling a bit desperate atm.

[Anonymous No.11002694]

>>11001102
Thanks, anon!

[Anonymous No.11003069]

>>11001876
>might take a field engineering job in a different country if the pay is good.

Field stuff is fun adventure. I’d do it if I was single.

[Anonymous No.11003207]

Future EE here. My coding skills are dick and I think I should be proficient in at least one language. Which is most helpful for the field? I'm alright with MatLab. Was deciding between Python and C++

[Anonymous No.11004569]

Not the guy above but I wanna ride the wave from his question. How would I, as someone whose only programming experience comes from a one semester MATLAB course, become proficient in other languages? I was thinking of first replicating my homeworks from that course in other languages then finding projects to do in them. Is this a good way to go about it? Where/how do you get your project ideas?

[Anonymous No.11004596]

>>11003207
>>11004569
C++ is only good for embedded development. Other than that, not that many C++ shops left anymore. Python is a good choice. Or C# or java. Project ideas are countless. Do something simple. For example a weather app. Or a shopping app. If you are EE, write a caclulator. Here is what I did in literally a week. Biasing transistors. This is C# windows forms, it is kinda obsolete but it doesn't matter. It is easy to slap a few controls on a form and then implement the logic. This is the first step, just to learn the language. Then you should try some web project since that's real life work. Everything is web development these days. Learn some framework like dotnet core and learn how to write simple full stack RESTful apps.

[Anonymous No.11004600]

>>11004596
i done goofed

[Anonymous No.11004641]

How do I look good at a career fair?
I'm attending a presentation on tips on how to do well i.e. bring a resume, dress appropriately, but what are some things that will stick out specifically to engineering hirers?

[Anonymous No.11004645]

>>11004641
haircut

[Anonymous No.11004646]

>>11004641
Also, what should I say when I meet them? I'm pretty autistic at conversations, so I'm unsure for what direction I should be headed in when I talk to them? Just get straight to the point, maybe ask them about what positions they have available and day to day tasks?

[Anonymous No.11004656]

>>11004645
Already got one last week

[Anonymous No.11004662]

So I’ve learned several languages but nothing really deep, assuming I’m going down the aerospace engineering road, which one should I focus on? I’m leaning towards python but then again the field seems to prefer some really old fashioned shit sometimes

[Anonymous No.11004676]

>>10998073
Just transferred to ucsb for mechanical eng. I start tomorrow. this place is beautiful

[Anonymous No.11004999]

>>10992800
engineers are poopoo

[Anonymous No.11005695]

>>10992965
I saw a post on reddit not long time ago of this dude right now, he took care of himself after being mocked and now has a girlfriend.
Unironically the face incels use is a face that gives cunnilingus than all of them together. KEK pathetic incels

[Anonymous No.11005701]

>>11004999
>wrote from a technology device
>alive because engineers invented hospital machines

[Anonymous No.11005708]

>>11005695
*more cunnilingus

[Anonymous No.11005916]

So what's it like for US CE's?
Thinking about getting into it since my first BS doesn't have a very good pay.

[Anonymous No.11006024]

>>11004641
I went to my school’s career fair this week. Honestly unless you have a shitton of experience and are talking to small companies (that you have done research on prior to going to the career fair - they expect you to know everything about their “values” before introducing yourself) you’re better off just applying online. In fact, most large companies will tell you to apply online no matter how well you talked to them in person.
Career fairs are really only useful if you’re wanting to work for local/semi local startups or small engineering firms. I know many people who work at google, microsoft, ibm, etc., and never once went to our school’s career fairs, which are apparently the largest in the Midwest.

But yeah, haircut, shave, tailored suit, resume holder, and knowledge of the companies you’re talking to will help.

[Anonymous No.11006064]

>>11006024
I should add,
>walk up to them with a handshake
>FIRM handshake
>as you’re still holding the handshake, state your name, major, and business (if you’re on a design team or something)
>immediately after they say their name, hand them your resume and go into “so a little bit about myself...” while outlining your experience on your resume, elaborating on those things
>talk their ear off about yourself, then transition into talking about why you like their company
>tell them why you want to work for them
>SAY THAT ITS ALWAYS WHAT YOU WANTED TO DO - THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP
>if you have to make up some bullshit about your childhood to fit the narrative - do it
>ask them if they have any open positions, though you should already know this because you did your research
>let them give their canned speech
>engage in small talk, joke around with them
>ask if they have any questions for you regarding your resume
>small talk
>end

It might also help if you tailor your resume specific to the companies you’re talking to. For example, if you’re planning on talking to google, write that your objective is to obtain a position with google. Make multiple copies and do that with every booth you go to, just don’t get them mixed up and accidentally hand your google resume to the Microsoft people.

[Anonymous No.11006645]

how the FUCK do I get an internship
I cant go into my junior year without experience bros, I fucking CANT

[Anonymous No.11006682]

>>11006645
Are you making use of all the resources your university offers to help with this or are you asking strangers online before your career advisor?

[Anonymous No.11006683]

I'm gonna be graduating with a math degree soon and don't know what to do with my life.

I'm thinking of doing a program that lets me take catchup undergrad courses and then do a masters in electrical engineering.

I figure that electrical engineering jobs would be more creative/interesting than codemonkeying jobs or data science.

Or is this a shit idea?

[Anonymous No.11006755]

>>11006682
>Are you making use of all the resources your university offers
YES
and I never get contacted about an interview, EVER
I send follow up emails to the point of being a fucking spammer

[Anonymous No.11007001]

>>11006755
Do you have a good resume? Did you seek advice from your seniors and professors? I mean, it's not that hard to get an internship, you must be doing something wrong

[Anonymous No.11007251]

I swear to god Im blowing my brains out if I end up in manufacturing bros.

I just wanna do fluid mechanics

[Anonymous No.11007254]

>>11007001
im going to hang myself

[Anonymous No.11007396]

>>11007251
you can find a job passing fluids

[Anonymous No.11007495]

>>11005916
CivE, ChemE, or CompE?

[Anonymous No.11007599]

>>11007251
get a PhD ya ding dong

[Anonymous No.11007686]

>>11007396
was thinking of focusing on fluids. how is the job market in your opinion?

[Anonymous No.11007694]

>>11007495
Civil

[Anonymous No.11007846]

>>11006645
Get involved with campus organizations so that you have experience on your resume. I literally just list shit I’ve done in my fraternity and organizations that I’m a “general member” of and I get interviews ez.

[Anonymous No.11007896]

Thoughts on getting an "Engineering" job with the US Air Force? What does it mean to get a civilian job with them anyway? Does that mean I wont have to do tours and go on the battle field? Is there potential to move into actual engineering and R&D in the military? like RF and stuff like that?

[Anonymous No.11008030]

>>11007896
Your ass goes to middle of bumbfuckistan with them.

[Anonymous No.11008053]

>>10992800
How the fuck am I supposed to keep up this this workload?
My modules are
Engineering mathematics, engineering structures and dynamics, engineering materials and electrical systems, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, group design, and project and risk management. The fuck am I meant to do.

[Anonymous No.11008071]

>>11007251
I want to work in manufacturing. It's comfy and a lot of people don't want to do it, which means more opportunities for me.

[Anonymous No.11008456]

>>11007846
d-does chess club count

[Anonymous No.11008516]

>>11008053
get a better schedule LOL

[Anonymous No.11008880]

>>11008456
I guess. Does your school not have any professional societies? Just sign up online and learn a couple things about them and put it on your resume. If any employer asks, say you’re new to the organization and that you’re working on getting a position, and talk about their current projects.

It’s borderline lying, yeah, but if employers see that you’re working on bettering yourself and building your resume, they’re gonna like that.

[Anonymous No.11008883]

>>11008053
Not slam jam 18 credits a semester. There is no such thing as graduating “on time”. GPA > all. Slow the fuck down and baby your grades.

[Anonymous No.11008886]

>>11007896
It means a career of having a comfy desk job, likely with your own office, where you get %8 raises every year wether you deserve them or not. Good opportunities to go overseas too. No you won’t go to war or do any of the stupid military stuff.

[Anonymous No.11008889]

>>11008071
Based and factorypilled

[Anonymous No.11009274]

>>11008883
I have no choice, these modules are mandatory.

[Anonymous No.11009279]

>tfw finished first week of mech eng and understood almost nothing, minus the maths stuff (which I have done up to calc 2 previously).
Is this supposed to happen?

[Anonymous No.11009908]

>>11008886
sounds cool, but how will this affect me if I choose to look for jobs outside the air force. It seems that people with engineering degrees that go work for the US air force or a millitary branch work more project management than actual engineering.

[Anonymous No.11009911]

>>11009908
thats everywhere. if you want to do actual engineering go work for a design firm.

[Anonymous No.11009912]

>>11009274
its mandatory you take that many classes? are you in the US?

[Anonymous No.11009928]

>>11009911
I would like to do actual military work, just wonder why you dont get that opportunity straight away in the military rather just project management. I'm gonna call a recruiter or something and ask them about the position.

[Anonymous No.11009978]

>>11009928
I'd imagine most of it is contracted. Defense contractors have their own engineers, field engineers and technicians, probably even paid directly from funds allocated by the contract. If you become an engineer for a contractor, you'd have a chance to work on new designs and maybe projects seeking new contracts. You'll earn more, too.

[Anonymous No.11009981]

>>11009912
I'm from the UK

[Anonymous No.11009997]

>>11009978
I applied to some defense contractors and none gave me a call back just rejection emails.

[Anonymous No.11010017]

What do you guys actually do all day?

[Anonymous No.11010045]

>>11010017
Where? At uni or at work?

[Anonymous No.11010056]

>>11010017
Work sorry should have clarified

[Anonymous No.11010061]

>>11010056
meant for >>11010045

I have no idea how that happened

[Anonymous No.11010077]

>>11009997
Some schools have programs specifically geared towards defense contractors, at my school they are often hired on before graduation if the GPA is good. You might want to rewrite your resume to reflect the attributes they're looking for from a similar program. Talk a lot about hands on experience, troubleshooting, test equipment, and then whatever systems you know they're using for the job, like radio, radar, power supplies, unmanned systems, etc. Focus more on the technology and application since that's the biggest part of a contract, less emphasis on theory and math, at least until you're working on design.