I'm so lost... Mechanical vs Civil.. help?

boneh3ad
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:49 +0000

FEA is ridiculously useful… and some of the theory behind it is mind-boggling. When I took an FEA course in my undergrad, it started off pretty simple… then it got a little confusing but still made sense… then it got to the point where I completely stopped understanding why these ridiculous methods worked (like some of the obscure parts of Galerkin’s method) and just had to have faith that it really did make sense. I guess you could say that FEA wasn’t really my thing. And yet, it still got me a job between undergrad and grad school doing a lot of stuff with FEA. It is a VERY marketable skill to have, and if you have taken a class on the theory, it even more marketable still.