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Mechanical E. brahs - what was your hardest exam ever?
Dynamics was fukking brutal. People told me that Strength of Materials was supposed to be a killer exam, but I thought it was just fine in terms of difficulty. Nothing prepared me for the sleepless nights solving Dynamics problems.
Finite Element Method and Fluid Dynamics are honorable mentions
Wbu? Overall did you struggle in Uni or were you breezing through it? My cousin finished his engineering degree, no sweat, hardly studying. It was torture for me
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Originally Posted By AshWar⏩
you took those your first time around? I had to do retakesSolid Mechanics 2 and Numerical Methods
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Originally Posted By teodorkanev1⏩
how is engineering when you're in the job field? does it get easier or is does it remain brutal like university?Dynamics was fukking brutal. People told me that Strength of Materials was supposed to be a killer exam, but I thought it was just fine in terms of difficulty. Nothing prepared me for the sleepless nights solving Dynamics problems.
Finite Element Method and Fluid Dynamics are honorable mentions
Wbu? Overall did you struggle in Uni or were you breezing through it? My cousin finished his engineering degree, no sweat, hardly studying. It was torture for me
Finite Element Method and Fluid Dynamics are honorable mentions
Wbu? Overall did you struggle in Uni or were you breezing through it? My cousin finished his engineering degree, no sweat, hardly studying. It was torture for me
05-05-2021, 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted By optimisticAir⏩
Not ME but CE but first several years is a pretty big learning curve, but software does all of the calculating for you.how is engineering when you're in the job field? does it get easier or is does it remain brutal like university?
To OP, probably Diff EQ for me. CE but took fluid mechanics, dynamics, and mechanics of solids also.
Probably because my Diff EQ professor couldn't speak English.
05-05-2021, 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted By optimisticAir⏩
Depends - you have a very wide range of job opportunities. Mostly you sit around drawing chit on CAD, so in the most generic scenario I'd say it gets easier. The top tier geniuses who launch space shuttles and do complex chit on matlab it gets way harder, but I doubt these guys found university brutal in the first place.how is engineering when you're in the job field? does it get easier or is does it remain brutal like university?
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05-05-2021, 10:32 AM
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Dynamics made me feel like I was just in school for fun and didn’t learn anything
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Statics was the hardest for me, I had to take it twice. For some reason Dynamics was pretty easy, it just made more sense.
Also Diff. EQ but mainly because the prof was a dik and would put material on the exam that we hadn't covered yet and then he would say chit like "well I would have expected you to figure it out."
Also Diff. EQ but mainly because the prof was a dik and would put material on the exam that we hadn't covered yet and then he would say chit like "well I would have expected you to figure it out."
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Hardest class for me was Dynamics by far. I was ahead a semester so instead of taking it in the Fall, I was taking it in the Spring, so the normal teachers weren't teaching it. Instead the department chair was the teacher and he was the hardest grader and test maker on the planet. All of our "questions" on the test would be individualized questions pulled from the senior design projects. So you could study all of the homework and practice quizzes you wanted, but unless you like fukkin knew every aspect of dynamics, you'd be fukked.
He gave no partial credit at all for any of the questions either. So if you carried a mistake from one part of the equation on, you'd get a zero from that point on. Class averages were like a 45 and there was no curve at all. Ended up getting a B- in the class and was easily the hardest class I've taken. There was 30 people in my class and 23 of them ended up failing, and the 7 of us who passed were kids taking it ahead of schedule and those who failed were the repeats. Diffy Q's, Calc, Statics, Materials, Strengths, Thermo, Fluid, Mechanical Design, Vibrations, etc., were all a fukking cakewalk compared to that class. Had I taken it in the Fall, I would of gotten an A. I looked at my roommates tests and they were questions ripped straight from the textbook.
He gave no partial credit at all for any of the questions either. So if you carried a mistake from one part of the equation on, you'd get a zero from that point on. Class averages were like a 45 and there was no curve at all. Ended up getting a B- in the class and was easily the hardest class I've taken. There was 30 people in my class and 23 of them ended up failing, and the 7 of us who passed were kids taking it ahead of schedule and those who failed were the repeats. Diffy Q's, Calc, Statics, Materials, Strengths, Thermo, Fluid, Mechanical Design, Vibrations, etc., were all a fukking cakewalk compared to that class. Had I taken it in the Fall, I would of gotten an A. I looked at my roommates tests and they were questions ripped straight from the textbook.
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Originally Posted By optimisticAir⏩
90% of engineering jobs is piss easy. Anybody who passed algebra could do your job srshow is engineering when you're in the job field? does it get easier or is does it remain brutal like university?
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Originally Posted By teodorkanev1⏩
Fluid Dynamics was ****ing fun, regular dynamics was AIDS. **** those exams.Dynamics was fukking brutal. People told me that Strength of Materials was supposed to be a killer exam, but I thought it was just fine in terms of difficulty. Nothing prepared me for the sleepless nights solving Dynamics problems.
Finite Element Method and Fluid Dynamics are honorable mentions
Wbu? Overall did you struggle in Uni or were you breezing through it? My cousin finished his engineering degree, no sweat, hardly studying. It was torture for me
Finite Element Method and Fluid Dynamics are honorable mentions
Wbu? Overall did you struggle in Uni or were you breezing through it? My cousin finished his engineering degree, no sweat, hardly studying. It was torture for me
HVAC was also rough for me. I don't know why but that one really ****ed me up.
Senior Design was lame because we had to design a vertical axis wind turbine and I got stuck with the rotors. Had to use the Double Multiple Streamtube Model with Variable Interference Factor since we didn't have a wind tunnel. That **** was ****ing miserable and I probably should've failed the 2nd semester.
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05-05-2021, 11:40 AM
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Def don't listen to this idiot90% of engineering jobs is piss easy. Anybody who passed algebra could do your job srs
I'm involved in CFD and turbulence modelling (mostly OPENFOAM and another in-house platform). Not a single person in my group has less than a Master's degree.
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Originally Posted By AshWar⏩
Aka you make a 3D model (or are given one), punch in a couple numbers from a table, check with a similar project someone else did and press 'calculate'. And even if it was more than that, that wouldn't be representative of 90% of the jobs.Def don't listen to this idiot
I'm involved in CFD and turbulence modelling (OPENFOAM and another in-house platform). Not a single person in my group has less than a Master's degree.
I'm involved in CFD and turbulence modelling (OPENFOAM and another in-house platform). Not a single person in my group has less than a Master's degree.
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Control systems. Laplace everything and as someone doing mech eng I took this degree to get away from stuff like that. Prof was some guy in satellite motion from Kazakhstan and was almost unintelligible.
Flow control was known to be the very hardest which I dodged. Sometimes having these crazy hard courses is silly because lots of people I know would pick softball options like human factors to preserve their average. The end result of this is chitty engineers.
Flow control was known to be the very hardest which I dodged. Sometimes having these crazy hard courses is silly because lots of people I know would pick softball options like human factors to preserve their average. The end result of this is chitty engineers.
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05-05-2021, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted By CoolKnees⏩
If we were using chit like FLUENT and working on an undergrad term project, yeah. But that's really not how it worksAka you make a 3D model (or are given one), punch in a couple numbers from a table, check with a similar project someone else did and press 'calculate'. And even if it was more than that, that wouldn't be representative of 90% of the jobs.
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Originally Posted By JStrez⏩
Fukk, Vibrations was also testicular torture, it was even a step above Dynamics for me I'd say in terms of complexity. But studying for it was less of a learning curve since you had the foundation Dynamics gave you.Hardest class for me was Dynamics by far. I was ahead a semester so instead of taking it in the Fall, I was taking it in the Spring, so the normal teachers weren't teaching it. Instead the department chair was the teacher and he was the hardest grader and test maker on the planet. All of our "questions" on the test would be individualized questions pulled from the senior design projects. So you could study all of the homework and practice quizzes you wanted, but unless you like fukkin knew every aspect of dynamics, you'd be fukked.
He gave no partial credit at all for any of the questions either. So if you carried a mistake from one part of the equation on, you'd get a zero from that point on. Class averages were like a 45 and there was no curve at all. Ended up getting a B- in the class and was easily the hardest class I've taken. There was 30 people in my class and 23 of them ended up failing, and the 7 of us who passed were kids taking it ahead of schedule and those who failed were the repeats. Diffy Q's, Calc, Statics, Materials, Strengths, Thermo, Fluid, Mechanical Design, Vibrations, etc., were all a fukking cakewalk compared to that class. Had I taken it in the Fall, I would of gotten an A. I looked at my roommates tests and they were questions ripped straight from the textbook.
He gave no partial credit at all for any of the questions either. So if you carried a mistake from one part of the equation on, you'd get a zero from that point on. Class averages were like a 45 and there was no curve at all. Ended up getting a B- in the class and was easily the hardest class I've taken. There was 30 people in my class and 23 of them ended up failing, and the 7 of us who passed were kids taking it ahead of schedule and those who failed were the repeats. Diffy Q's, Calc, Statics, Materials, Strengths, Thermo, Fluid, Mechanical Design, Vibrations, etc., were all a fukking cakewalk compared to that class. Had I taken it in the Fall, I would of gotten an A. I looked at my roommates tests and they were questions ripped straight from the textbook.
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Originally Posted By AshWar⏩
Sure buddy.If we were using chit like FLUENT and working on an undergrad term project, yeah. But that's really not how it works
The vast majority of engineering companies don't have time to let their employees dink around, do extensive hand calculations, research etc.. It's done once, standardized and repeated over and over with slight variations. Most of what 'engineering students' think engineering is is actually a small subset that only happens in R&D or PhD university research and the competition for those jobs are fierce.
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Originally Posted By teodorkanev1⏩
I knew a guy in college who was a drunk and pussy chaser. He was also a double major in EE/ME. His grades on exams were so high that he always broke the "curve" for grades. I was told by another person in his classes that one of his professors would basically put a question on an exam basically to outwit him....And it was always him and 30 Asian guys in his classes mostly.Depends - you have a very wide range of job opportunities. Mostly you sit around drawing chit on CAD, so in the most generic scenario I'd say it gets easier. The top tier geniuses who launch space shuttles and do complex chit on matlab it gets way harder, but I doubt these guys found university brutal in the first place.
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05-05-2021, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted By CoolKnees⏩
Don't disagree with you there. I went to a fairly good lab (Check CP) and most of the people I worked with ended up in R&D or academiaThe vast majority of engineering companies don't have time to let their employees dink around, do extensive hand calculations, research etc.. It's done once, standardized and repeated over and over with slight variations.
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Originally Posted By andrepmeet⏩
Brain genetics are often brutal to us normies.I knew a guy in college who was a drunk and pussy chaser. He was also a double major in EE/ME. His grades on exams were so high that he always broke the "curve" for grades. I was told by another person in his classes that one of his professors would basically put a question on an exam basically to outwit him....And it was always him and 30 Asian guys in his classes mostly.
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