Mechanical Engineering Slander - Part 1

What do you mean you didn't have a class on welding, or CAD, or the design process, or file management, or machining, or GD&T, or additive manufacturing, or sheet metal, or Excel, or the fundamentals of programming?

[Jakubkolo]

Watching this after raging after another Solidoworks crash

[henridib]

As mechanical engineering student, the air resistance joke was on point. Great vid

[aether]

Well, as a civil engineering student, not drawing a free body diagram do felt like drunk driving

[marek]

As a welding engineer, I can say that mechanical engieers coming up with impossible designs is very true. Each one of them should spend some time in manufacturing and assembly first

[RegularPandaLoL]

As an aerospace engineering student, that last meme hurt me physically and mentally.
Good video.

[BrokenLifeCycle]

As a mechanical engineering student who also learned CNC manufacturing, I can resonate with machinists and welders on a personal level. I recently was given a BS part that was near impossible to hold down accurately nor set my machine's axis properly relative to the part. When I asked them to make changes to make the part simpler to address these issues, they brushed me off.

I hope when I graduate, I don't design parts that piss off the guys who make them.

[MacElMasMancoDeTodos]

"Let's assume there's no air friction..."

*Planes in the sky:*

[zikomo]

Mechanical engineering was my passion, but I only got admissions in Electronics, hated it, now working in Software. It's been a ride.
Edit: Planning to retire soon and become a carpenter

[mage]

Uh, for everyone who doesn't know this, SOLIDWORKS has an autosave function. The default settings (at least in my school) is that every 10 minutes, a copy of your project will be saved into "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\TempSWBackupDirectory\swxauto", and will remain there until someone or something deletes it. "Something" being a hard reboot. If you can't find the folder labeled "AppData", turn on "show hidden folders", it's there.

[willpestka]

As an ME who got cocky and taught myself to weld, it worked out pretty well. The welders at work "like" me and are helping me to get AWS certified. The machinists are also pushing me to learn how to run the manual lathes. I think they are trying to tell me something...

[airstrike]

Man I remember a professor for a course where you had to design a machine saying that if you gave him an impossible design for something obvious that it meant an automatic fail on your exam no matter how good everything else may be.

[prathameshbanda]

As an aerospace engineer, this shit hurts

[sonofruss]

As a biomedical engineer, the phrase that haunts me from my anatomical static’s course is “Please draw a free body diagram of the glenohumeral joint for an arm raised at 0, 30, 60, 90 degrees straight out. Remember to label and identify each ligament and/or tendon is applicable.”

The horror….

[johnsmith-mokz]

That fucking bolt made me burst out laughing lmfaoo!

And personally as I study mechanical engineering I have also made sure to talk with and learn from machinists and welders to know their limitations and have personally learned enough to fabricate complex parts on several cnc machines. And recently I learned how to weld too.

[ZeCroiSSanT]

A mechanical engineer at work, looked at a spreadsheet for half the day. The other half of the day was PDFs.

[Alex-bmnb]

I remember solidworks crashing a lot. Especially on school computers coz they were shat and solidworks takes so much ram eventually leading to crashes. Was very painful 😣

[helena]

Um, I'm not even a STEM major, but these stem slander videos are really amusing! --from a Creative Writing major

[cheapjohnwick]

As a mechanical engineer, the comparison of FEA and Mathematical results is the most important and difficult task for me

[bro...]

As someone who’s not in engineering, I can say that this is true

[Marelr]

I'm a CADCAM student, and I was in tears by the end of this. The pain is real. Especially with the imperial conversions.