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All wrong! #1 is being hands on and able to build things yourself. Carpentry, machining, welding, etc. you need to be able to make things yourself before you can design and instruct others how to manufacture something. #2 is practical knowledge. You need to be able to make design decisions that are practical and realistic in the real world. Neither of these skills are taught in university which is why it is so rare to find a well rounded engineer with hands on and technical skills.

@@SuzukiKid400 I agree, part of me going back to college to pursue my ME degree is because I work in the Diesel Industry, typically on Mining, Forestry, and Construction equipment. And you'd be incredibly surprised how rare it is to find an engineer who followed these steps. I'm planning on working at my current full-time job all throughout college, and perhaps even after I graduate.

@@camd4648 similar situation right here! I work in waste water treatment and am about to pursue an ME degree on the company's dime! After I graduate, I will be hired on as a full time, dedicated engineer. Feels like a secure path that many people could take advantage of if they work for larger companies

As a professor I agree that your professor in Germany gave you terrible advice. I tell my students that grades are 'kind of' important but not as much as they likely think they are. Hiring managers don't really care that much if you are a B or a B+ or even an A student. They may not care if you are a C student. But at most your grades will get you an interview. They won't get you a job. I recommend to my students that when they go into an interview have three group engineering projects you were involved in that you can talk about. (No more, no less) Be prepared to talk about what specifically you worked on in the project, what you added to the team, and how were conflicts within the team resolved. Also be prepared to discuss how compromises were made between competing requirements. The interviewer will be looking for several things: 1) How excited are you when you talk about the project? Do you come across as enjoying problem solving and being an engineer? 2) How well did you work as a team? 3) How well do you communicate the requirements and issues that arose for the project to someone who was not directly involved with the project? Do you tailor the level of technical jargon you use appropriately to your audience? The program I teach for is very project oriented. Particularly during the senior year. We try to make sure that even if a student only participates in their required senior capstone project and class projects that they will save projects to discuss in an interview. But I also tell students that if they need to make a choice between being a straight A student, or joining the Engineering Club and being a B- student because of the loss of in class academic focus, join the engineering club.

Yes you live in a bubble if you only listened to your university teachers - but to be fair they didn’t know better because they never really did „real“ work. Everyone after graduation who worked a few years will tell you how naiv he has been and every new student is.

So true….in any part of the world..

@@stevenscalling With a "real job" you are reffering to what is stablished in industry at the moment. Universities were made to transmit and develop knowledge, that may be used for creating your own way of doing things. You don't necessarily need to learn how to use the exact same softwares that industry uses, you can also choose by yourself the tools that you want to learn to develop what you are aiming for.

@@qui.que.10 just s simple question? Are you (still) studying or do you work in engineering?

@@WissamSeif - It is interesting that you chose that example as I covered how to size and select a pump in the Thermal Systems Design class I just finished instructing. This was the first time I instructed the class, which I took over for a professor who left. This class is a senior level design class that capstones student's earlier thermodynamic, fluid mechanic and heat transfer classes. The class covers things like pump sizing, selecting pipe sizes based on economic considerations and economic and environmental considerations in general in thermal fluid system design. But I did not design the course so I can't take credit for pushing for pump and pipe sizing being included in our curriculum. The course is only required for students who have chosen a 'fluid thermal' track which is my area. Students have the option of this track, a robotics and controls track and I believe one other track. If you had chosen an example from mechatronics, for example, that you felt every graduate with a bachelors in ME should know, I couldn't promise that our department includes that topic in our curriculum. Since I don't instruct those classes.

I went right into the industry and used the time during my bachelors to work at different companies. This helped me way more than what university could offer - You know people at companies that can vouch for you which is huge, you know how certain things in the industry work and you get a feeling for what you enjoy! Also you get to experience different working environments and it can be way more competitive than at the university. There's a TON that universities can and do offer and many things have to be discovered and utilised by the students who have to take the initiative but some things can be experienced better in an actual company working environment. I noticed a lot of the students would work at a supermarket or so (which isn't a bad thing in itself) but they never got the idea that they could look for work in their field and sadly no one ever really seems to tell them about the possibility of earning money while earning experience I say that because you too suggested primiarily class projects and the idea of working in the field at a company might be something your students could profit from as well.

What is lacking with Mechanical Engineers today, is the knowledge of how to design mechanisms correctly. Did know that there's a mathematical formula that can be used for all mechanism designs? It's called Gruebler's Count. I found a way to make it practical for all 3D mechanisms. Here's the link if you are interested. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gaxya8p-z96ogJ8.html

They just want a skivvie to do data entry more like.

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Me too

Glad i seen this. I’m in my last semester as an ME. Just stay patient and trust God. It will all come in due time. Don’t force anything!

Hai Amber! I'm also a mece and got my first internship at the end of my junior year. It was a virtual internship and during the interview I fan girled about my engineering club to them. I only worked one day a week but as it was my first internship its ok since I just need to get a job first and then more job opportunities come after. Joining clubs also help build experience and you can do online courses (like coursera etc) to get more skills outside of mece. The first internship is always the hardest to get but once you get it, you're good to go! Try applying for virtual internships from small companies. I applied through my college's job board and that's how I got it. Best of luck to you! I'm also a senior mece now and in my last sem! Praying for us all 🙏

@@ryanpippins8158 thank you for your great msg

Depending on what you want to do, doing a job like working in a machine shop could offer similar benefits as having an internship. You learn a lot of hands on skills and engineers seem to really want that in applicants. Idk if this applies to internships but as a early career ME, I've had a lot of success applying to jobs through Craigslist. It seems as though craigslist jobs have less applicants and you're more likely to get your resume in front of an actual human.

I am also CNC machinist please give some tips how to enhance my skills in CNC machining from India.

Poetic!

@@WissamSeif But it's so necessary! It's key to presenting your personality - everyone has strengths and weaknesses and knowing what your good and not so good at can help you fokus and what you enjoy and actually get that job that fits your profile :) At least that's my take on things

fascinated by your two cents, it did change my perspective on things that i used to worry. Definitely gonna spread ur thoughts to my friends coz we use to overthink a lot in this mechanical field on our potential n capability. If that's okay with you :)

@@muhammadfirdauz2246 Sure! I'm happy if my thoughts are helpfull :)

RWTH Aachen? Haha

@@lmao1096 Munich ;)

@@WissamSeif yeah, I’ve been working full time for a year now and I started my master’s in mech eng this past fall.

that is such a great start. I'm a hs senior and I'll be a ME major next year at The U of Minnesota, twincities. I know Inventor, Python and C++, Excel certified (lol it was so easy). I'm gaining most of my "relative exp" from my Robotics Club at school, but I do have my own engineering/design projects as well. Wissam made such a good point on the human skills. I think my school Robotics CLub is such a good example for feels on the job. You are assigned tasks that may or maynot be in subsequent with one another, therefore skills of communication for ideas, status updates, etc is crucial. Plus there are also design reviews as a team, working with mentors that are in the field and all. I definitely would join the Engineering Club next year because its literally FREE LEGIT EXPERIENCE!

@@ThanhNguyen-fc5cz did you get excel certified online?

@@joshuaramcharan9735 I got it from a 3 month Genesis Work Program at my school. I learned excel, get certified, learn python, almost got a better position but summer ended and I'm doing pseo senior year so I can't do the program anymore.

@@ThanhNguyen-fc5cz did you go to nhcc by any chance?

You are studying bullshit

@@cuddlemuffin.9545 you know what it was kinda funny

After earning 12 entry-level ASE's I found my passion in automotive and transportation. I never truly excelled in high school but I decided to take up the challenge that is obtaining a BS in MechE like you. I came out the gate way behind in prerequisites and plan on knocking them out asap. It's great to hear from someone in a similar situation coming from mechanical knowledge. I agree with you, I don't want to be a mechanic forever. Best of luck with your studies and I hope to work alongside you one day!

I'd say you did it right by figuring out first what you really want to do before attending college. I tried going without knowing and that killed my sense of purpose and direction and led to me dropping out. The better you can see your target, the better you can hit it.

Most of the time you aren't going to be hands on, you'll just be sitting at a computer using CAD

Hi

I have no problem going down to least to higher to the ladder. But I want to know how can I improve if I do not have internship experience ( I am looking for it) ?

@@WissamSeif I’m pursuing Mechanical Engineering. I’m looking to go into the aerospace field especially since I live here in Houston

How does one get such certifications sir??

Salary?

Company

Would you say the industry looks for those who are more Solidworks-fluent?

@@radazeonv8821 It depends on what part of the industry. I've worked in Product Design, Manufacturing Plant Engineering for Pharma, and as an Industrial Automation Engineer with a BSME. For Product Design SolidWorks is the best, especially the simulation portion. For Manufacturing Plant Engineering (which is the on-site engineer that designs and fixes things and coordinates with outside engineer groups for large projects) we used AutoCAD a lot. Anything construction related uses AutoCAD and/or Revit. For Industrial Automation Engineering we use a lot of AutoCAD BUT we have what are called 'drafters' that are not engineers but convert quick hand drawings to AutoCAD drawings so the engineers can focus on more important design tasks. Some of my friends have gone into Aerospace as well and they've mentioned they've used a lot of Catia. Some food for thought as well, especially on AutoCAD: 1. There are different toolsets: Electrical, Plant3D, Architectural, Mechanical, etc.. that make it easier for that trade to complete drawings and each are little different than based AutoCAD 2. I think if you can read drawings and understand what they are saying is much more important than knowing how to use AutoCAD for Manufacturing Plant Engineering and Industrial Automation Engineering or SolidWorks for Product Design. Once it gets to simulation and FEA I've not nearly as much experience.

@@radazeonv8821 I'm tempted to say yes because knowledge of it is a popular requirement for more job listing in the United States.. It combines a lot more than drafting modelling and simulation features in the same software package plus knowledge of it will help you understand other applications should the need arise.

@@francisejieji565 Ahh, so like learning C/C++ that allows easier understand of the other languages.

@@zaqube5056 Thanks for the insight.👍

@@WissamSeif It's been a planned thing for about the last ten years, but I just haven't been able to make it happen. Nearly four years ago I was diagnosed with cancer, and despite being all clear now I still feel the aftereffects of the chemo and radiation pretty severely. It aged me ten years in a matter of months. I knew after this that I needed to get a bit more serious about getting out of the physical aspect of my field, but it wasn't until I ruptured a bicep earlier this year that I actually did something about making that move. I do get a lot of satisfaction from creating a solution to a problem, and being in mechanical engineering will allow me to stay within that general field while not having to work as much with the heavy physical aspect.

@@WissamSeif Your obnoxiously late response is noted.

@@jaredkennedy6576 how has your mechE education been?

This is good advice for any field. Simply Learning a new language expands the job market available to you. I recommend learning Arabic and Russian, they don’t seem to know a lot of English and they will have a lot of engineering jobs

@@WissamSeif For how necessary it is in design, manufacturing, and quality, it's always seemed crazy to me how rarely it's discussed in college. The one mechanical engineering certification that actually holds weight is the ASME GDTP Senior Exam.