Anyone here an engineer?

[70NYD]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Throw some of your brain my way, in the engine-tech thread. I have MANY questions for smart engineers.


Edit:

Oh and for the rest of you, I'm a machinist. I've had enough experience with careless mechanical engineers that makes me think of this:

yeah man iv been slack
and i STILL owe you a suspension setup for your mk3
that pic is just so fkn wrong, the nuts are cleary too close together to be able to be screwed on :p
seriously tho that picture is making my eyes hurt

[stefan.MA]

Dipl.-Ing. in Maschinenbau (engineering) and a second title as 'Bachelor of Science w/ honors in engineering'

It's similar to 'mechanical engineer'

[fatoni]

Originally Posted by Longhorn248

I wasn't calling you specifically a d-bag, rather people that feel that just because you're on the internet that you have to be an antagonist. But whatevs, we don't all have to get along. :happy0180:

well you convinced me with the juxtaposition of the not getting along and the little guys toasting to stop being a ****. well not really but im sure once the car is on the streets well have some content to discuss instead of all this jazz

[dalli]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Throw some of your brain my way, in the engine-tech thread. I have MANY questions for smart engineers.


Edit:

Oh and for the rest of you, I'm a machinist. I've had enough experience with careless mechanical engineers that makes me think of this:

is it me or this picture is sort of an illusion? if u look at 1 side it looks different( the angles change)

lol....

[Longhorn248]

Originally Posted by fatoni

well you convinced me with the juxtaposition of the not getting along and the little guys toasting to stop being a ****. well not really but im sure once the car is on the streets well have some content to discuss instead of all this jazz

Alright! first person on the ignore list! congrats

[70NYD]

Lol

[Ryephile]

Audio Engineering [essentially an ME with emphasis in acoustics] with a minor in psychology

I was intending to get into the loudspeaker design industry, however I am currently an engineering lab director at a semiconductor manufacturer. I also had a stint co-owning an automotive aftermarket tuning company where I led R&D and product programme. Way back in the day, I drove R/C cars on a mildly successful national level with a couple state championships. Also my father and I occasionally team up and build street rods from the ground up, including a '23 Ford T-bucket and '32 Ford low/high-boy roadster.

Cars & engineering has always been part of my life.

[Longhorn248]

Is your audio engineering degree a bachelors? I actually looked into acoustics engineering at my school when I had first arrived, but it was only offered as a masters program, and I think it was heavily attached to the school of music.

[Ryephile]

Yes. It's a defunct program at University of Miami that was a collaboration between the engineering and music departments. There were other programs that biased the mix more toward sound engineering [studio mastering et al], however mine was essentially a mechanical engineering program. At the time I went to school, IIRC, only Stanford and UM had BSME [Audio]. My program was later converted to BSEE [DSP], which as you can imagine is much more relevant nowadays.

[Want.FR-S]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Oh and for the rest of you, I'm a machinist. I've had enough experience with careless mechanical engineers that makes me think of this:

Originally Posted by switchlanez

I saw this pic on facebook. I and all my classmates thought it was ridiculous at the time but the profs were actually preparing us... compounded problems we've never seen before do pop-up in the real world.

As both pictures are only for illustration only with technical errors: the first picture has the mysterious three plunges that cannot be real and the lower right corner with twisted bars. The bottom picture of seems to be a differential amplifier but with the lower left batter reverse the polarity (cannot power the N-BJT for the current source. and no ground on the circuit?) These are fun, but they could trick you if you do not look carefully.

Myself is a BSCE with some graduate school experience in telecom network stuff. However, I do have keen interests on ME and that was my second choice prior joining the BSCE program in university.

[djdnz]

Mech Eng here from University of Waterloo. Been working full time for almost 2 years now on ATM's at NCR, in addition to my coop work terms at BF Goodrich, Christie Digital and Research in Motion (aka the Blackberry Company :P)

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by Want.FR-S

As both pictures are only for illustration only with technical errors: the first picture has the mysterious three plunges that cannot be real and the lower right corner with twisted bars. The bottom picture of seems to be a differential amplifier but with the lower left batter reverse the polarity (cannot power the N-BJT for the current source. and no ground on the circuit?) These are fun, but they could trick you if you do not look carefully.

Myself is a BSCE with some graduate school experience in telecom network stuff. However, I do have keen interests on ME and that was my second choice prior joining the BSCE program in university.

My point was just because you can draw it, doesn't mean we can make it.

Solidworks has led to some laziness. I've gotten drawings calling for 4" deep tapped holes, where the deepest our taps will go is 1.5", stuff like that.

[Longhorn248]

Originally Posted by Dimman

My point was just because you can draw it, doesn't mean we can make it.

Solidworks has led to some laziness. I've gotten drawings calling for 4" deep tapped holes, where the deepest our taps will go is 1.5", stuff like that.

Hey be nice to Solidworks! I know that I've designed things with CAD that don't necessarily work the way I've intended once they've been popped out of a rapid prototyper. The program doesn't always tell you when something you've built up, can't necessarily be built that way.

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by Longhorn248

Hey be nice to Solidworks! I know that I've designed things with CAD that don't necessarily work the way I've intended once they've been popped out of a rapid prototyper. The program doesn't always tell you when something you've built up, can't necessarily be built that way.

Nothing wrong with Solidworks at all. It's maybe too good, so the rookie engineers do less thinking.

I've got designs that are... optimistic about the capabilities of manufacturing.

Typical it's look at the drawing, facepalm, call the engineer that did it down to the floor and ask them if they can identify the problem. They usually can't, then we show them the machine we have to make the part on, and usually it's a work-holding issue.

"How the hell are we going to clamp this?"

"Oh.." Part then comes back reasonably designed.

Thing with CAD is all the parts are magically suspended in the air when they are designed.

Machinists (in my case) are both a) kinda lazy, and b) under time constraints. We generally don't tell them that we could actually make the part as they designed it the first time, but it usually involves hours of our own engineering to design the jigs and fixtures to hold the fancy parts. If there is absolutely no other way, it can usually be done. Just not quickly.