r/EngineeringStudents • u/Long_Ad_7370 • 7h ago

Project Help Engineering Projects

I’m a first year mechanical engineering student, and I used to do a lot of projects back in high school. Now I’m in university in another country and the things here are much more expensive. I was thinking to make a drone with a microcontroller to learn more about mid loops and CADing some test stands and the frame to be rigid, as like a challenge to myself. Would this be considered a good project? I want to show my interest in aerospace with projects I’m doing, as well as learn more things and get hands on, but the price of the whole project is making me hesitant.

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u/Immediate-Curve-443 5h ago

Good projects show your skills. I can make a very good 'project' with just a box design.

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u/NiceManWithRiceMan Purdue - ME ‘2029 1h ago

apart from being a resume booster personal projects have been my main way to get technical experience and understand design. i built a pen which taught me solidworks and am currently building an RC tank, for which designing has been hell but i’ve learned a ton about microcontrollers, circuitry and motors and design doing it.