Hate intro Mech. Engr. Class??

BigRev14
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:36:35 +0000

yagottabelieve - Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your insight and suggestion of sitting in on other classes. Sounds like a good idea that I hadn’t thought of.

boneh3ad - specific topics that have been covered in the class thus far mostly relate to “manufacturing engineering” in my opinion (could be wrong?). A lot of what we have been discussing has to do with the different kinds of materials used in engineering processes, the different characteristics of them (i.e. - ferrous vs. non-ferrous metals), how they are transformed from a block of steel (etc.) into say an I-beam, and how different methods of producing the desired products affects the company’s bottom line, the quality of the product, etc. Most lately the lecture has been covering material related to “tolerances” and their use and need within the engineering and manufacturing industry.