Mechanical Engineering?...Please Answer This??

Question

Is Mechanical Engineering related to fixing and reparing things or designing?....also, is mechanical engineering mostly for men?....Do you know anybody that is a mechanical enigneer? if so, do they like it? what do you think the average in a year is? Please tell me. Thank you

Answer 1

Fixing and repairing are works of technician. Engineering is design or redesigning complex engineering realities. It is a myth that women can not be a mech. Eng. I am student at University if Moratuwa, Sri Lanaka. There are so many female engineering student in our campus.

Answer 2

mechanical engineering is about both fixing and designing a mechanical engineer can tell whats wrong with the device or the equipement and how 2 fix it the fixation process is done by technisions but designing is all about engineer u have 2 calculate selecting materials making prototybe and testing it tell u reach the full desing its an engineer thing mechanical engineering is a guy thing i agree with that most girls r not good at its principles even if they r book worms and i dont know why plus u must know how 2 manage technisions at work and thats hard 4 most women 2 do plus it requires a free man who is able 2 work any place any time for any time in hard living places in the sea in the deserts in nigeria or arabian gulf area or any place and guys r better 4 this kind of work it gives about 80,000 us $ a year and i'm a mechanical engineer and i enjoy my work.

Answer 3

yeab you are right. I knew many of the ME eng. they liked thier works. I myself dealing a lot with ME and had fun with my jobs. Generally, there are more boys then girls (80 %) studying engineering. In theory, ME can be detailed as
Mechanical engineering is a professional engineering discipline that involves the application of principles of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It requires a solid understanding of key concepts including mechanics, kinematics, thermodynamics and energy. Practitioners of mechanical engineering, known as mechanical engineers, use these principles and others in the design and analysis of automobiles, aircraft, heating & cooling systems, buildings and bridges, industrial equipment and machinery, and more.
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Answer 4

All Engineering specialties are more related to design.

Tradesman fix, repair or build something, but it takes an Engineer to think it up in the first place and then design it.

My father got a Mechanical Engineering degree from college and a job with Boeing. He became a safety engineer, and was responsible for helping to design systems like the escape tower on the Apollo spacecraft. The Astronauts of Apollo 1 died when their spacecraft caught fire on the launch pad. My father helped to design a system to rapidly remove the space capsule from the top of the rocket in case if something went wrong prior to launch. The escape tower used a solid booster rocket with four exhaust flares to keep the exhaust gases off the tower's structure and the space capsule. Unlike normal rockets the escape tower sat on top and it pulled the capsule off the rocket. This was a very original design because until then rockets had only been used to push objects. It was a requirement though because NASA didn’t want to damage the heat shield or put any system in between the Command and Service Module.

When Apollo 13 ran into problems Engineers from Lockheed worked to find a way to mate two different C02 scrubbing systems that had filters that didn't fit. One Engineer said, "When I heard we had duct tape aboard I knew we could fix the problem." This was a problem that had never been considered and it required a fast solution that only used equipment on board the spacecraft. This mechanical engineering success is the great engineering feat that saved Apollo 13.

A Mechanical Engineer can expect to have to create a new solution for a problem; like how to lay out the pipes in an oil refinery or how to design the safety systems in a nuclear reactor. The Mechanical Engineer is responsible for how things connect.

A Petroleum Engineer would know which processes would create which the gases and liquids from the refinery process, but it takes a Mechanical Engineer to design the nuts and bolts that hold it together, the supports for the pipes and the valves used to direct each gas and liquid. A novel or new solution might be required if the site was limited or if the distillates had to be moved uphill. In this case the Mechanical Engineer would have to determine the size of the pump and where they should be located to work the most efficiently.

A Nuclear Engineer can determine how much water is needed to cool the reactor, and how much the rods will have to travel to create a certain power load from the reactor. They may also come up with specifications for a fire suppression system. It would take a Mechanical Engineer to create a mechanical remote activation system to start the fire suppression system. A back up system would be needed as well. This fire suppression system would be critical if there was a power failure in the reactor. The Mechanical Engineer would have to worry about the heat in the reactor, and what kinds of alloys can withstand such a dangerous and corrosive environment. If the Nuclear Engineer wanted it to be electrically operated then they would turn to an electrical engineer to design the computer system that would run the system and they would determine the power requirements and how it should be supplied, with a backup power source.

Mechanical Engineers are the utility engineers that can do almost any job. They can work on anything from the bolts and screws for an airplane to the cables that hold a suspension bridge in place. They can design new tools and new production methods to make them.

A Highway Engineer will know how tight a curve can be, how much elevation is required to build a bank into the road for high speed cornering. When designing a bridge though they will need to talk with a Mechanical Engineer to determine the loads on the structure, the size of the material needed to support the load and the design of the equipment needed to actually build the bridge.

Most Engineers start with Mechanical Engineering and then specialize. Electrical Engineers usually don’t since their field has so little to do with physical structures. But, all the other Engineers start with Mechanical Engineering courses and then go off into their specialization. So Mechanical Engineers have the widest range of fields to go into. They can design planes, trains, and automobiles, a water reclamation system, or the safety rail needed in a factory.

Since an Engineer can build it they can also inspect it. As a Safety Engineer my father occasionally worked with OCHSA making inspections of facilities to insure they compile with state and federal regulations.

Since engineers are responsible for the design they are higher paid, especially members of the Society of Professional Engineers. This accreditation is only given to very skilled engineers. These are the kind of people that you can rely on something that will be responsible for the lives of dozens to even thousands of people each day. Professional Engineers (like my father) will be able to demand a higher salary since their skills are in high demand.

Engineers need to study advanced math, physics, the science of how structures work, chemistry, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, material science, drafting, technical writing and other fields. All engineers need a very good math base and most go beyond calculus. They have to know chemistry and material science so they can know what elements, compounds, alloys, and other materials can be used, and under what conditions. Physics is extremely important because it provides the base for hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, and the science of how structures work, all the way up to calculating the flight paths of rockets and spacecraft. Once an engineer has a design they have to be able to explain it this often calls for drafting skills (which now days frequently means computer drafting) and technical writing so a shop or work crew will know how to bring their designs into reality.

Anyone who has a good grounding in these skills can make a good engineer. It requires a lot of straight line and analytical thinking; which is easier for men to do then women. Most women’s minds are designed for multitasking and thinking in depth and on all the possible consequences of their actions. This kind of thinking doesn’t lend itself to analytical thinking. However, women are just as smart as men and both sexes are capable of doing anything that they want to and are skilled enough to do. Traditionally most engineers have been men. In the past a lot of engineering called for “hands on” work in the field. Engineers had to be willing to get down into the trenches with the common laborers to direct them. Now days Engineers are “white collar” jobs with them spending most of their time the office. Of course if a woman wants to go into the field and get into the mud and muck with the rest of the guys then she can.

Engineering is largely considered to be Right Brain orientated, but the creative Left Brain is needed as well to come up with the original solutions. If there were a standard or simple solution already then an engineer wouldn’t be needed. The major requirement is an excellent background in math and that requires a very good school. Students have to be excellent students in more than just average schools and they compete for slots in the best colleges and universities. This often means that engineers have to be from a well off family, but some underprivileged children have parents capable of enormous sacrifices to get their children into the best schools.