Recommended reading for possible Mech E kid?

boneh3ad
Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:10:14 +0000

lotsalego:

He is not one of those kids who has been working on engines or building things all his life, but this is a developing interest.



That is a very small subset of what mechanical engineers do. I did just fine having never taken apart or tinkered with an engine, never did any of that in school and never did any of that after getting my degree. It’s not generally the engineer who is doing the actual work on machinery anyway.

I don’t really know of any reading to answer your question, to be honest, but probably the best way to look at what an mechanical engineer studies is just to go to the website for various mechanical engineering programs and look at their degree plan. They generally have a list of required courses and a layout of what a typical four years would look like. Also, as with most other engineering disciplines, in the first year of studies there is typically very little mechanical engineering being studies as you first have to take the basic math and science courses that build up to the engineering courses.