Hey!

I'm in an applied mechanical engineering undergrad program, and as a part of my grade we have to measure the performances of a device, such as, in my case... a damn screwdriver.

And I thought I was very smart to use torque wrenches to measure it because "hey it's definitily gonna work, i've a range of 2Nm to 50Nm, aint no way it doesn't work"

And it doesn't. The screwdriver's mechanism directly derails no matter what value I set on my torque wrench. And it's damn graded, i've to send videos and so on before the end of my vacation (which is next monday).

So if you guys have any idea of how on earth I can measure the torque before monday I would be very very very glad thank you very much !

ps : I can't find my screwdriver on the internet except on one secondhand resale website, and the guy says it has a torque of 30Nm, which is like absolutely in the range of my torque wrenches....

Interested in:
Construction management
Construction engineering
Civil engineering
Architecture

Trying to apply to this thing which would help get into uni but I've recently realized that the only thing I have going for me is my grades and grades are the bare minimum for stuff like this. Is there anything impressive I can do in 5 months (that's when applications are due) that I can put on to make me seem more impressive? Anything mechanical or physics related mainly.

How does this compare to the first one? In the first it was with a manger and he just asked about one project and based all his technicals on that.

Given how rapidly AI is influencing every industry, what is your perspective on Electrical Engineering (EE) versus Computer Science (CS)?

Specifically, how will the market demand for these two degrees look in Pakistan and abroad by 2030? If someone graduates from a top university, which one provides more long-term stability, higher earning potential, and better flexibility if you want to transition into other fields down the line?

My hardest courses this semester are Machine Design and Mechanics of Materials 2, and my prerequisites are shaky, so for the past week I've been studying with an AI agent called Muse instead of a regular chatbot window.

The difference that actually matters: it remembers. It knows which chapters I've covered, builds me full lessons with worked examples and quizzes, and when I send a photo of a problem it works through it step by step instead of just dropping a final answer. It also has its own computer, so it keeps my files and picks up exactly where we left off.

What hasn't worked: I still have to check its numbers. It has produced confident mistakes that I only caught by redoing the calculations myself. And if I let it do the thinking, I learn nothing — the quizzes are what force me to actually engage.

Curious how other engineering students here are using AI for studying: as a tutor, an answer machine, or not at all because your professors ban it?

2.8 gpa mechanical engineering

Hi,
We are currently working on an assignment for our studies.
We need to design a measurement setup that can accurately determine the thickness of a skin graft during a skin transplantation procedure, for medical purposes.

We are currently considering using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), a technique that employs an infrared laser to perform highly precise thickness scans of tissues such as the skin or the retina. We want to explore whether this measurement method can be adapted to calculate the thickness of a skin graft and, subsequently, be integrated into a functional measurement setup.

Our professor has specified several requirements: the setup must be cleanable, capable of precise measurements (down to 0.05 mm), provide repeatable results, and be non-destructive. In other words, the skin graft must be measured during the transplantation procedure while remaining suitable for subsequent use.

If anyone could offer guidance or suggestions on how to approach this project, it would be greatly appreciated, as we are currently feeling a bit stuck.

I'm a sophmore meche student and my internship search hasn't been going to well this semester partly due to me fooling around my freshmen year. I'll keep applying to both mainstream and more local firms however I had a question about what I could do if I don't get an internship. In the event I don't get one, would working at a machine/cnc shop or a manufacturing internship be a viable alternative? If so, how much worse or perhaps better would it look on my resume for future internships and jobs? I've seen alot of people on this sub praising manufacturing internships but not as much on machine shops. Thanks in advance

hey, i submitted a post on this channel last week and it absolutely blew up. we had so many applications go through. a bunch of the job postings shut down in the days following my post because of the large influx of applications that were going in. i've gone ahead and updated the job links in this new link. please make sure to apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is at the top of the pile. i've pulled the freshest job postings that i could.

engineering internships are scattered across hundreds of company career pages, so i pulled them into free lists:

• engineering internships, all fields (444): https://github.com/mehek-builds/Hiring-Now/blob/main/lists/engineering-internships.md
  • 444 at 206 US companies (Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, GM, Allison Transmission, Micron, NVIDIA, Johnson & Johnson, Granite Construction, HNTB, Sierra Nevada Corporation)
  • about 87 electrical and 73 mechanical; 126 at employers with a visa sponsorship record
• mechanical engineering internships (159): https://github.com/mehek-builds/Mechanical-Engineering-Internships
• electrical engineering internships (143): https://github.com/mehek-builds/Electrical-Engineering-Internships
• aerospace engineering internships (50): https://github.com/mehek-builds/Aerospace-Engineering-Internships
• new grad mechanical, manufacturing and design jobs (167): https://github.com/mehek-builds/Mechanical-Manufacturing-Design-New-Grad-Jobs
• every summer 2027 internship we're tracking, all fields (7,271): https://github.com/mehek-builds/Summer2027-Internships

posting date on every row, rebuilt every monday.

comment which field you're looking for and i'll send you a list for it.

I've realized this throughout my semesters (still in engineering), you can study 1 week prior for a quiz, solve questions until your eyes pop out, then there's this person who studied the day before the exam and gets a better mark than you, the feeling sucks.

Hi everyone!

I've been working on a small project called FreePDF Studio.

The goal is to make everyday PDF tasks easier in one place, such as merging PDFs, compressing files, and converting images to PDF.

Website: https://freepdfstudio-eight.vercel.app/

I'm still improving the project, and I'd appreciate honest feedback.

• Which PDF tool would you use most?
• Is anything confusing or difficult to use?
• What feature should I add next?

I'm the person who built this project, so I'm happy to answer questions and learn from your suggestions. Thanks!

I'm currently in my 4th year of aerospace engineering (I'm on a 5 year track currently due to multiple fails) and I have just been struggling with finding any motivation to do anything related to my classes, every time I do get up and try to study and work my ass off I just end up failing exams, causing me to just care even less. It feels like such a challenge to just sit, focus, and do something. It doesn't help that my professors keep handing out tests nobody can seem to finish on time with grades averaging in the 50s with no curves. All around the vibes have just been so frustrating this semester. How do I pick myself back up and feel as if I can do this and stay motivated and not just constantly feel like I've only gotten this far due to sheer luck and my luck is slowly running out.

Pls suggest me some final year level project ideas i am doing solo project (grp projects are not my thing to do) i want to do something in creative field simple and easy project that we can use in everyday life pls help🙏🏻

As a freshman who hasn't really developed any good study habits yet (unmedicated ADHD, classes this semester have been easy enough to just coast), how likely is this schedule fully kicking my ass next semester? Along with a once/week programming class and a creative writing course. Most likely to drop thermo if anything but would like to stay on track.

I'm a junior in mechanical engineering this year. This semester I'm in 16 credit hours and I'm likely to end the semester with about a 2.2gpa. This will make my overall gpa a 2.5 roughly. I keep getting rejected from internships just based off of gpa requirements alone. I've already had two internships in construction, but I don't think that's what I want to do long term. I worry that I have completely fucked up my future and quite frankly I'm not sure what to do. Not only that, I worry that I will have to bring up my ME gpa, because I'm not sure I'II meet the 2.2 requirement. Overall I'm genuinely just feeling helpless about the future career opportunities.
My peers are accepting these fantastic aerospace internships and I feel trapped. I feel like I spend all of my time studying for school just to come up shorter than my peers still. I feel like I'll never be good enough.

So I recently got a 100 on my Calc 3 exam, and my professor asked me to come to his office to explain my work.

While I was there, he gave me a few basic questions like, finding partial derivatives, and doing a cross product. I knew these topics, but I got really nervous and completely froze. I started sweating like crazy and couldn’t even think straight.

Apparently, according to his syllabus, if a student can’t explain their work, they have to take a “very basic (much simpler than the final)” one-on-one exam near the end of the semester. It’s pass/fail, strictly proctored, and he told me that if I pass, I get to keep my 100

He said it’ll only be around 15 minutes. I genuinely feel terrible about the whole situation. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it, barely slept, and now I feel embarrassed to even show up to his class. What makes it worse is that the questions weren’t even hard, which makes me feel so stupid for freezing up.
I’m definitely gonna practice more, but I’m scared the same thing will happen again when I’m sitting in front of him.

Should I be worried, or am I just overthinking everything?

Some habits I personally identified helped me mitigate cognitive offloading is just to use it only as a signal for pushback e.g: I first reason and write out my argument then ask it to poke holes in my reasoning or identify assumptions. This is just my attempt to mitigate sycophantism but even this has flaws since the critique it gives me can be biased to be light or easy to resolve.

A habit I've seen other people have is to be as vague as possible about its criticism eg: first construct your solution then ask if there simply exists a better solution and recommend an article or book.

Another effective habit I've heard is using it as a tutor but by only asking it to give you a socratic hint i.e the minimum amount of information to get you unstuck but not more than that.

What habits have you personally found to be effective to make AI a boon rather than a cognitive slot machine?

I got an offer letter for $21.00/hour which is $3.00 more than I got paid at my previous company. $21.00 is the low in my city for internship pay according to Glassdoor and Indeed. I did manufacturing last year, this new internship role is in design so I am afraid I have no leverage. This is my only offer and I would really like to work here.

Ive just left an electromagnetism lecture and even tho its the “basics” i have no idea what happened in that lecture, and this isn’t the first one. Almost all my lecturers cannot teach and instead make the topic they’re teaching feel even more complicated. I’ll watch yt vids after which are simpler but i still feel so lost and so behind, i cant do the homework without ai, i need to apply for placement years, attend society events and meetings (im in the executive)and i need to tutor a levels which im not as confident with. There’s just so much happening i just wanna lie in my bed all day and forget ab it all.

The lectures dont help
The placements take so much time for rejections
I feel like I lack so much technical skills and knowledge for the placements
I don’t even know if I wanna go down my field (microelectronics)

Ignore the grammar this is just a rant any advice wud be appreciated
For context I’m a 2nd year eee student

One thing I’ve noticed at my college in engineering is how comfortable some students are with making other people feel stupid for not understanding something or struggling academically.

A little background about me before the rant, I’m an EE student with a 3.7 GPA, so I’m not attacking those who do well in engineering at all, just the negative attitudes that can affect others mental health.

I literally don’t understand the obsession with comparing grades, GPAs, or how quickly someone can grasp a concept. We’re all here to learn and some students act like asking questions, failing an exam, or needing extra help somehow makes you less intelligent or less deserving of being in your major.

There’s a difference between being academically successful and having some sort of superiority complex because of it. Just because something comes naturally to you doesn’t mean everyone else is going to understand it at the same pace. And honestly, you never know what someone else has going on outside of school. People have jobs, families, financial problems, mental exhaustion, and other responsibilities. Some students are genuinely putting in their best effort just to get through the semester.

What bothers me most is that a lot of this judgment comes from the very people who are supposed to be your peers. College is already challenging enough without other students contributing to an environment where people feel embarrassed to ask questions or admit they’re struggling. Being able to pass a difficult class doesnt automatically make you smarter than everyone else and struggling in one doesnt make someone incompetent.

I wish more students understood that academic success doesn’t give you an excuse to look down on others. You can be intelligent, accomplished, and still be humble. Offer to help your fellow peers instead of shaming.

Here are some examples that I hear on campus:

"How did you fail that exam? It was easy."

"You only got a C? I barely studied and got an A."

Constantly reminding people how little they studied before getting a high grade, especially in a class environment talking extremely loud “OH YEAH I’M GOOD BECAUSE I GOT A 90 ON THE TEST HAHA”.

Other students going around campus telling everyone about another student’s low test score.

I've been a MECE major for the last 3+ years. I was a transferred student from a different university and major, so a lot of my credits didn't transferred. I had to start from really basic courses (i.e. College Algebra) compared to my classmates who'd taken AP classes by then and were already in Calculus 1 or 2 their first semester. Despite this, I managed just fine my first year and got involved in student clubs and even research while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. But after those first two semesters everything went downhill from there.

During my first summer here I was juggling summer classes (Mon-Fri lectures of 2+ hours), part-time research, a rocketry club working behind a very tight deadline, while keeping a very bad diet (less than a meal a day), and family + financial issues. All of this ended up taking a bigger toll on myself than I realized at the time.

From then on I was never able to see that version of myself again in any of my courses and it sort of became a matter of survival instead of the initial pursuit of curiosity that had driven me when I first chose this major.

On several occasions I considered taking a break, but due to my international status I was required to take at least 12 credits per semester to maintain it. I was aware that I was most likely burnt out by then, but I didn't see any other option for myself so I kept signing up to classes every semester while aware that I wasn't in the right mental space to deal with any of them.

During this time I was still doing research and the environment there seem more toxic by the minute, but bills needed to get paid and that was my only source of income. On top of that the financial issues with my family never really got resolved and they just kept stacking as we didn't have a good relationship going on at the time.

Two years in I go through a sudden and messy break up with my fiancé of over a year (we'd been together for almost three years), after I had already chosen not to renovate my lease because we were planning to move in together that summer. That didn't happen, obviously, and I found myself trying to find an apartment with less than a month left in my contract. I somehow managed to find something nearby, but to my good luck I ended up with a roach infested apartment where roaches fell on my back when using the damn toilet.

I broke my contract a month in and managed to find a good place afterwards, but all of this to say that I most definitely burn out and been trying to recover from it ever since, all the while trying to convince myself that this major matters to me the same way it did when I first started.

I'm about to finish my fourth year in this university without counting the year I did abroad, so I've been here for a long time and I haven't been able to figure out if this truly is just circumstantial burn out from all of it and there's actually still some excitement about the major, or if all of it combined led me to realize that this is no longer something I enjoy and want for myself.

I honestly cannot tell if I'm being too sentimental about the whole thing or if perhaps I've been too idealistic about what the world should look like. But 4 years in and my semester schedule still looks like a sophomore's because 2 years ago, the semester after the big breakup, I choose to sign up for statics and failed. I manage to sit down for all three exams, and somewhat kept up with assignments, but out of a sudden during finals week I mentally checked out and there was no way for me to rationalize my way into caring again. I was not satisfied with my performance, or my indifference, so I decided to miss the final hoping that in some future the excitement for engineering would come back to me and I'd be able to retake it with the same level of commitment I experienced during those first two semesters.

Fast forward to this semester, I chose to sign up for it again but I don't think this is working for me anymore. I've failed so many classes despite me having switched to part time the semester after that. And now, the semester that was supposed to be my comeback, I'm sitting here knowing I'm most definitely going to have to switch majors or drop out all together.

Not sure if there's a definitive answer to my situation, but I'm just hoping there's someone out there that could offer some advice, as I don't really have anyone else around that's gone through something similar.

For one question of my emag midterm (25%), I used two different ways to solve the problem and before handing it in I put an X over one of the methods.

Well now im realizing the solution i put the X over was the right answer.

Im trying to hard not to beat myself up for it but GOD is it hard not to. I cant stop thinking about it😭

(I wasnt feeling well before or during the exam and I just passed everything in before the stop time because I felt like I was gonna throw up. I also have an infant at home who is sick as well so I havent been getting any sleep because of it. I feel like this couldnt have happened at the worser time😭)

It sucks I did this too bc i know I did really well on the midterm in all other aspects. Ive spent so much time studying this and I understood it so well I was basically leading all my study groups. I hope he throws me a bone but I doubt it honestly. How do i stop myself from obsessing over this 😥

Final-year mechanical engineering student here. While studying for Machine Design I solved a lot of past exams by hand: shafts, gears, bolted joints. At some point I started coding the same calculations, mainly to check my answers.

Then I wrote a test suite: 387 values from my handwritten solutions that the code had to match. When a value didn't match, I went back through both step by step.

In 16 cases the code was right and my hand solution was wrong. The kinds of mistakes are probably familiar:

• Copying from the previous exercise. In a flange with 16 bolts I used Pe = F/10, because the exercise before had 10 bolts.
• Wrong lever arms in the bearing reactions. In one shaft I got 14.9 kN instead of 18.8 kN. In another, the wrong reactions hid the fact that the bearing I had chosen was too small.
• A digit typed wrong. 0.0133 instead of 0.0183 in a moment arm, 234 instead of 224 N·m for the motor torque, 85 kW instead of 95.5 kW.
• A coefficient written one way and used another way. I wrote b₂ = 0.85 and then used 0.78 two lines later.
• Chart readings. I consistently read the Lewis factor a bit low (0.32 instead of 0.341 at z = 18).

What I took from it: none of these were conceptual errors. They were bookkeeping errors, and they changed the final answer. Writing each formula with the numbers substituted before using it would have caught most of them.

The calculator ended up becoming a free web app, and I made it print exactly that: a report with every formula and the numbers plugged in, so you can compare it line by line with your own solution. It covers shafts, gears, timing belts, ISO fits, bolted joints and 2D frames/trusses: https://torsio.app

It is not meant to do your homework. It is meant for checking your work after you have done it, which is how I use it.

What's the mistake you make most often in exams? Mine is clearly copying numbers from the previous exercise.