/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.12151689]

Is a PhD in mechanical engineering a good idea?

[Anonymous No.12152006]

Well?

[Anonymous No.12153230]

>>12151689
>>12152006
yeah

[Anonymous No.12153486]

>>12151689
It depends. Why do you think it would be?

[Anonymous No.12153611]

Is Gang Chen known outside of the heat transfer community ? First time i see his face here

[Anonymous No.12153711]

Someone explain why mechanical is so insanely popular, at least in Canadian universities? I was always interested in electrical so I'm glad to have less competition when I declare my specialization next semester.

[Anonymous No.12153726]

>>12153711
it is a lower iq and high job security major for gearhead retards that are mildly autistic. EE is much harder, and more competitive for employment. Both are for brainlets tho

[Anonymous No.12153729]

>>12153726
Well I've never taken an IQ test but I'm probably dumb enough to not pick mechanical then get into higher level electrical courses and fail. Guess I'll find out the hard way.

[Anonymous No.12153733]

>>12153729
iirc the average iq for EE BS holders that took the GRE (score was extrapolated from GRE score) is like 124-126. Comparable to Chemistry and CS.

[Anonymous No.12153745]

>>12153733
yeah I'm never going to confirm I fit that range. I'm interested in circuit design and sensor applications. Now I'm a bit worried how hard it will get. If I can get A in first year calc and statics am I in the clear.

[Anonymous No.12153762]

>>12153745
The harder EE classes from what I've heard are their version of EM that they take Junior and Senior year, their fourier analysis courses, and the diff eq classes. Just doing well in the general degree req classes for freshman is no guarantee of anything. Keep in mind all STEM majors have to take those. A good way to test these things out is to talk with grad students, professors, advisors, and with people working in the industry especially about their undergrad. Use the wiki page, linked in the sticky thread at the top of the front page, go to the engineering page for textbooks. Acquire some of the basic texts and dig into them. If you have trouble ask questions in /sqt/, if you have a specific engineering topic you're curious about, think about it and when you've reached an impasse make a well-organized and thoughtful thread about it and wait for responses. Only time will tell, from what I have gathered working on projects and tinkering are important for programmers and engis, so make sure you actually like doing the thing itself as much as the idea of studying it.

[Anonymous No.12153774]

>>12151689
Yes, you get to suck all the cocks you could ever want.

[Anonymous No.12153779]

>>12153726
Sad cope. Mechanical is the baseline engineering field and has hundreds of subfields (many that have nothing to do with gears or engines). That why people pick it.
>>12153711
It's the oldest and most established of the engineering disciplines. A lot of pathways that you can go down. A lot more industries are accessible.

[Anonymous No.12153784]

>>12153745
forgot to mention that you will have to become a homosexual as >>12153774 pointed out, an integral part of engineering culture is cock mongering and acting on the urges inherent to cock mongering. you will become a world class cock handler at the end of your education.

[Anonymous No.12153789]

>>12153726
>Both are for brainlets tho
>t. Biocuck
Lmao find me a harder career

[Anonymous No.12153793]

>>12153779
as you can see here this anon is already an experience cock veteran, his entire post is latent with the vital energies bestowed only upon the mechanically inclined homosexual. some day you might attain to the level of semen absorption required to seethe and cope as hard as this anon.

[Anonymous No.12153795]

>>12153733
You're one of the many insufferable cunts on /sci/ that thinks he's way smarter than he is.
>muh IQ
>muh gre
Wow, imagine unironically basing your worldview on an extrapolation of an extropolation. You are a sad loser with no achievements. Shut your mouth.

[Anonymous No.12153800]

>>12153793
There's a 100% chance that this guy is an undergraduate mathematics or physics major.

[Anonymous No.12153811]

>>12153795
>>12153789
they don't send their best do they folks?

This is what happens when you look to objective truth, data, statistical analysis for answers. The homosexual engineer lashes out and demands you submit yourself to his lurid fantasies of 24/7 cock milking, cock farming, cock watching. You can't escape the gravity of his homoerotic ideations, they inundate every action when dealing with these types. Mark my words no sect of catamites has more rancor towards outsiders and self-assurance in its supremacy as authorities on cock gobbling than the venerable engineer.

[Anonymous No.12153820]

>>12153811
So many words only to show a gigantic envy towards chadgineers.
Are you leftist by any chance? It would add to a study I've been doing.

[Anonymous No.12153823]

>>12153811
You sound like you want an engineer to fuck you hard in the ass.

[Anonymous No.12153828]

>>12153820
I'm a national socialist, applied math major, believer in universal genocide and ardent defender of the right to call engineers homosexuals online.

[Anonymous No.12153839]

>>12153823
all engineers are bottoms, their fascination with machinery is an externalization of their inherently effeminate nature. after all it was an engineer that built the first fuck machine, and it will be an engineer that creates the first sissification capsule for consumer markets.

[Anonymous No.12153841]

>>12153839
And you will be the first customer, maybe even the beta tester.

[Anonymous No.12153846]

Kind of pointless unless you want to spend your career in academics. A Masters degree and a bachelors in something else like chemcial engineering is better for the business world.

[Anonymous No.12153849]

>>12153828
>national socialist
So that's a yes? Good to see there's a correlation between the so called "statist bootlicking" phenomena and the quantity of useless words in an argument.

[Anonymous No.12153850]

>>12153789
Biology is far harder than both mechanical engineering and electrical engineering.
Biological systems are significantly more complex and superior to mechanical systems or electrical contraptions.

[Anonymous No.12153862]

>>12153850
>he thinks mechanical systems = gears, metals, and engines

[Anonymous No.12153867]

>>12153841
Very in character that your retort involves bringing others to a similar state of depraved satyromaniacal fantasizing as that which you inhabit on a daily basis. I do not hold this against you, an animal can only ever revert to its base instincts when threatened, I would not ask you to go against Nature. Though the Engineer is fundamentally Against Nature, his being For himself must necessarily follow its destructive course, encompassing the fullness of the ideal homosexual as it unfolds over the remainder of human evolution. We can only bear witness to this process. I am just a spectator in the great contest between engineers and their homosexuality, between the desire to turn the entire world into a prolapsed orifice, pulsating and laden with the vital fluids of the celestial phallus. You honor me with your hatred, and your misplaced lust.

[Anonymous No.12153869]

>>12153850
>he really thinks engineering is welding some cables together with tungsten and add a gear like his favorite steampunk waifu did in his favorite anime
Cringe. Go mix some piss and blood, biocuck.

[Anonymous No.12153876]

>>12153867
Are you drunk? You're rambling like a drunk person.

[Anonymous No.12153880]

>>12153869
>tungsten
Meant tin lmao. Greetings from Germany.

[Anonymous No.12153886]

>>12153876
No I only wish to understand. If my attempts unfurl uncontrolled like the excitements of the earliest man when faced with the image of the controlled flame on the savannahs of mother africa, it is because I behold before me something beyond human in you. My brother, my engineer of the sapient cock sleeve.

[Anonymous No.12153899]

>>12153862
That's what it is
>>12153869
That's what it is.
Stop coping. We can't even begin to unravel the complexity of biological systems without a universal quantum computer that will allow us to run electron orbital simulations. Meanwhile we're about to hit the limit in terms of what's possible mechanically.
BTW I don't study biology I study math.

[Anonymous No.12153934]

>>12153899
>fluids are not a mechanical property

[Anonymous No.12153954]

>>12153850
Biological systems may be more complex, doesn't mean you will ever bother "engineering" biological systems. A biologist's job is memorizing bullshit and reading a thousand papers filled with more bullshit. What a boring job.

[Anonymous No.12153963]

>>12153899
>i'm too dumb so i need the help of other technicians to do my job
>btw im a math schizo
You're just running off your mouth like any other delusional schizo. Why are mathfags always like this? At least engineers actually get paid and the people with money seek them to do the work that actually changes lives.

[Anonymous No.12154311]

>>12153811
Ive never seen anyone project this hard. Christ anon just go out and get some dick its 2020.

[Anonymous No.12154417]

>>12151689
>Is a PhD... a good idea?
No.

[Anonymous No.12154994]

>>12153779
>oldest and most established of the engineering disciplines

[Anonymous No.12155102]

everyone on this thread needs a euthanasia, including me

[Anonymous No.12155117]

>>12151689
At least its not undergrad finance/accounting.

[Anonymous No.12155122]

>>12151689
You made a smarter decision than I have. My retarded idea was to get a business degree for CPA units and then a cs post bacc in order to replace irrelevant accountants who need to learn code in order to keep their job.

[Anonymous No.12155127]

>>12153846
Not true. Industry and government hire a lot of engineering PhDs to run projects and conduct research. I work with a dozen or so in different fields, and while the pure scientists are great for theory they tend to be crap at getting to practical, repeatable solutions. That's why we *have* engineers.

[Anonymous No.12155130]

>>12153846
Although it is fair to point out that an engineering PhD is rarely required and rarely pays for itself in terms of increased salary or opportunity in industry.

[Anonymous No.12155131]

>>12153850
Different people have different talents and find different things to be hard. For example, we have a national socialist here who clearly struggles with a great many things, including but not limited to masturbating a micropenis and resisting his attraction to large black men. Biology was always hard for me, but i married a biologist and we find each others' work about equally baffling.

[Anonymous No.12155134]

>>12153886
The really sad thing is that you think this makes you sound smart. It doesn't. It just better illustrates your ignorance, stupidity, and inability to comprehend.

[Anonymous No.12155922]

>>12154994
Cope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mechanical_engineering
>Engineering arose in early civilization as a general discipline for the creation of large scale structures such as irrigation, architecture, and military projects. Advances in food production through irrigation allowed a portion of the population to become specialists in Ancient Babylon.[1]
>All six of the classic simple machines were known in the ancient Near East. The wedge and the inclined plane (ramp) were known since prehistoric times.[2] The wheel, along with the wheel and axle mechanism, was invented in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) during the 5th millennium BC.[3] The lever mechanism first appeared around 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where it was used in a simple balance scale,[4] and to move large objects in ancient Egyptian technology.[5] The lever was also used in the shadoof water-lifting device, the first crane machine, which appeared in Mesopotamia circa 3000 BC,[4] and then in ancient Egyptian technology circa 2000 BC.[6] The earliest evidence of pulleys date back to Mesopotamia in the early 2nd millennium BC,[7] and ancient Egypt during the Twelfth Dynasty (1991-1802 BC).[8] The screw, the last of the simple machines to be invented,[9] first appeared in Mesopotamia during the Neo-Assyrian period (911-609) BC.[7] The Egyptian pyramids were built using three of the six simple machines, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the lever, to create structures like the Great Pyramid of Giza.[10]
Mechanical is the oldest, simple as that.