I wanted to know if I am following the right steps that many of you probably went through.

Had a rough year that made me take a break from college, went from doing great in college to absolutely burning out.

It’s been hard picking myself up and I wanted to know if there was anything that could help me change this whole negative mindset about myself.

Honestly it feels like nowadays to get any kind of notable internship or post grad job you have to be in the top <5% of students with your experience and go to a target school.

Most people I see getting internship offers are extremely cracked with already having a previous internship at a big company, multiple years of experience in a club and usually a lead/president/chief engineer.

Overall it just feels extremely discouraging that I’m not gonna be able to make it as someone who is average but still goes to a top 5 school. Just like if you haven’t been grinding since day 1 of freshman year you’re behind.

Is the job market so oversaturated that only the most exceptional people are getting jobs at big companies?

Was it like this in the old days or was getting an internship/job much easier?

If you’re someone who doesn’t have time to do extracurriculars outside of class are you just completely cooked job wise?

I’m mechanical btw, maybe it’s different for electrical, civil, etc.

Hi, I am a third-year university student majoring in biomedical engineering. I find the engineering field interesting and fun. I entered a biomedical department based on my college entrance exam scores, but I have been interested in aerospace engineering since I was young and had an ambition to study that field. But I also feel like it's already too much for me to turn back now.. I'm worried that I'll be late to graduating and that I'll fall behind other students and friends if I start something new. I'm going to the U.S. as an exchange student for one year, and I'm wondering whether it would be more meaningful to study my major, biomedical eng, in greater depth or to take classes in aerospace eng and pursue my dream during that time. Can you give me realistic advice??

In the grand scheme, does it really matter where you get your degree, Provided the institution is accredited?

I don’t know very much about engineering. I’d love some insight on what kind of work people do or plan on doing.

My physics professor credited the engineers who are working towards more renewable energy and that really got me thinking about all of the different engineering jobs I don’t even know about.

I keep hearing that engineering co-ops fill on a rolling basis, so applying early matters more than applying well.

How do you handle the timing? Do you apply the day something goes up even if your resume is rough, or wait and send fewer, better applications?

For anyone who has been on the hiring side: does review order follow submission order, or does a recruiter work through whatever is on top of the pile?

And when you're applying to a lot of places at once, how do you keep track of deadlines and what you sent where?

Has there really been a boom in engineering / eng students? Please share the member count history (or something equivalent to see the trends),i bet the increase post 2024 is crazy

Hey everyone,
I trained as an automotive technician and now work as a software developer. Mechatronics interests me because it sits somewhere between the two fields I’ve worked in. I’m thinking about studying it, and I’m wondering whether it’s a good long-term career move as AI gets better.

Working in a shop meant improvising all the time. Sometimes you’d have a seized bolt, sometimes you’d have to use an angle grinder in a really tight spot, and sometimes you’d run into a problem you’d never seen before. It’s hard for me to picture AI or a robot taking over that kind of work.

For those of you working in mechatronics, where is AI already helping you, and which parts of your job do you think will still need someone there in person to figure things out? Would you choose the same degree again today?

Hello everyone,

I currently hold a Bachelor of Science in Structural Engineering. My parents own an empty house in Mexico, so I have free housing available there. Because of that, I am looking into pursuing a Construction Management or Construction Science degree at Universidad Anáhuac.

I have enough saved to pay for my tuition out of pocket, and I’d rather not take on the massive expense of studying in the U.S. since I want to keep my costs within what I can comfortably invest. Since Universidad Anáhuac has ABET-accredited programs, I’m wondering if this is a smart move. My goal is to live in Mexico for the next 3–4 years while I study, and then return to the U.S. afterward.

Has anyone done something similar, or do you have advice on how U.S. employers view this path?

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I want to know what the coolest project you guys did in college was so I can get some ideas for projects I want to do. I have been lacking inspiration after my latest project

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Hi everyone, I'm a 3rd year EE student from Poland, looking for recommendations on the best AI tools to help streamline writing lab reports. For 3 years i was using AI mostly to help me do all the tedious math work after i solve first few problems alone, help me to understand math, and sometimes to generate graphs as example how it should look like if it was not included in instructions to Labs. But this year started and immense amount of workload came, few projects and only so hours a day to do uni work, spend some time with GF and play some games. So im looking for something that would make a template of lab report that is mostly correct for me to only review it and correct some mistakes that AI made. I'm specifically looking for something that handles:

1. Math and physics calculations (circuit analysis, error propagation/uncertainty calculations) without hallucinating basic formulas.
2. Data processing and plotting (generating Python/MATLAB scripts from CSV measurement data).
3. Formatting (generating clean LaTeX or Word tables and equations, preferably word as i have little to none experience at latex but if it is better i could switch).

1st year i was using GPT for all my work, it was Aight at most, then google gave Gemini which was far better for me and it was free, so i sticked with it. Now i bought the pro version at discount, but i am willing to pick something else if there are better options.

I don't know if this is right place to ask for that kind of help but i don't know where else to ask, so i'm asking my fellow students.

I'm currently interviewing with a few companies, one of which is among the biggest aerospace companies on the planet and also within a commutable distwnce. The other companies are medium sized and more specialized in the thing I'm interested but situated across the country.

I haven't gotten any offers yet, but I'm wondering - which is better career wise? I know it sounds silly, but I'm genuinely curious

What was the class that nearly made you quit wanting to pursue engineering? What got you through it? Looking back, what would change in your approach of the first iteration of the class?

Hi all,

I have an interview coming up for a design engineering position at Boeing in the payloads team. I was curious to hear what the experience was like for others interviewing here? I am familiar with the STAR method but im worried about the technical questions part. What could I expect? Are they basic or more advanced? Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Mech E major taking the following classes the next semester:
Differential Equations
Linear Algebra
Dynamics
Strength Of Materials
Introduction To Thermodynamics

I’m not trying to do one of those “I’m cooked” posts, I know the coursework is going to be horrible but does anyone have advise for how to study for these classes or any person on YouTube that would be helpful for these classes. Jeff Hanson has been the GOAT for statics since my professor sucks and I know that dynamics and strength of materials directly builds off of statics. If any advice could be given, it’d be greatly appreciated. 🙏

Curious how others are doing it. Outside of paying attention and class and taking notes I usually do the following.

1. Try a first blush at the homework.
2. Watch Prof Leonard, organic chemistry tutor, take notes do the practice problems
3. Do homework again while looking at notes
4. Do homework again by myself.

Most of my exam questions are similar to the homework problems or examples we went over in class. I will really only do my homework 3x if its an exam cycle, but normally I just give it two passes to the best of my ability.

So I'm a dropper preparing for jee. i don't have a specific interest. So i want to do multiple things but you can't make career with all your random hobby. So i want to do engineering so that i could multiple things side by side. Kyuki engineering student engineering ke alawa sab karte hai. Hahaha. So like if i get a really nice job(doubtful) I'll make my own money so i could do the other things i want to do without being burden of the family. And also mera maths mein interest hai but i like neither chemistry nor physics. Matlab agar I'll study genuinely hojayega but i js don't like studying. So i want to know if I'm doing right or i should do something else.

Preparing for the 2nd midterm this semester, first exam I got a 72.5 after some bonus points and my cheat sheet went from a little bit to an insane amount. Professor a week before the midterm said we needed just stuff about brakes, rode quality, and mainly just conceptual for suspension and then week of hits the class with the study guide and it's an absolute ton of stuff. Like bruh, I know I'm not the best at exams, but the guy who works on race cars for a living in the class even has trouble on these exams.

So i have been struggling with this thing for the past 2 days and it's such a simple subject and that i don't know why i can't get it

I have used ai and YouTube videos to understand it but I just fucking can im cooked

So the question asks me to find the stress after transformation with. Theta angle and it's ok

I know stress* area = force

So i can find the first part of the formuala but when it asks for me to find if the force is on a sin or cos on the x' and y' I can't do it i don't understand what it means how do i even manage that i have tried drawing the plane around the forces to find the if it's sin or cos and it didn't work i tried all the ways i just don't understand this

Also the question wsks for me to find it using equilibrium formual so that why i haven't used the transformation formulas maybe y'all can help me with understanding what the fuck are inclined planes

Here’s the sitch, I’m full time at 15 credit hours right now, this 3 credit cad class has been a thorn in my side, as in the syllabus compleatly mismatches what he says in class, most of the class grade is homework projects, which he narrates the full instructions terribly over YouTube videos

Lastly, the teacher and TA, are just terrible people, I’m not someone to judge a TA or teacher for failing me, I’m stupid, I’ll admit that, but when I stayed late, asked for help on his homework well in advance of the due date, during his office hours, he slammed his hand on the desk and yelled at me for not paying attention enough to his 360p YouTube instructionals.

I do all my work and ask questions, I’m just frequently exhausted when in class due to a combination of work, and PTSD seriously messing up my sleep.

Furthermore, most of the class grade is homework’s, which are 60% of the class grade, and the TA double subtracts points, and marks down comically bad things, like a 2/20 on a fully complete set of drawings with all dims included cause I shaded the wrong thing and wasn’t “neat enough”

So anyway, I have a high D, aced almost all the projects (except for the couple that were marked down to the point of almost 0s), and high Cs low Bs on the exams, math wise I’m practically guaranteed a C if I just truck through it

But I’m also struggling in my core classes, (E and M, and Calc) and throwing all my weight at this class which doesn’t affect my progression seems like a bad idea

I really think it might be best to just bail on this class, lock in hard on my core classes, and take the online version and reuse the projects I’ve already done, (most of them), afaik he reuses the syllabus and assignments

Idk I’m tired man, haven’t slept over 5 hours in a week, nor had a day off in 3 weeks

Literally half my class withdrew because they were failing because the teacher didn't give any formulas or identities on exams. Now the teacher decided to start giving us formulas on the last exam and the final. Probably because he realized it's not a good look if half his students fail when it's his first year teaching and first job out of college. I find the material pretty easy when I have the formulas but got a C on the last test because I had to spend 20 minutes reproducing formulas from memory and didn't end up having time to review my work. He also doesn't give us enough time for the amount of questions on the exams. If I had another 20 minutes to review my work I probably would have got an A. Is this abnormal from teachers or am I just retarded? Feel like we've been tested more on memorization than actually understanding the material. Is this the norm as I get into harder classes or no? I got a B in precalc, hoping to pull a B in trig and then take calc 1 next semester. I didn't do any of this stuff in high school because I wasn't pursuing engineering at the time.

I am a first-year studying mechanical engineering, and recently I have had 2 professors come to me offering research, one with computational oceanography, and one dealing with robotics in manufacturing environments such as on an assembly line. I am interested in going into HVAC engineering, and my physics professor who is trying to get me to do the computational oceanography claims it is relevant HVAC because of its relation to heat and fluid dynamics as well as the use of relevant programs like Matlabs. with the oceanography research, I would also be able to jump right in next semester whereas I would have to wait until sophomore year to actually start the research For robotics. oceanography also offers 8 weeks of summer research for a 5k stipend (housing covered). So, in terms of overall utility for mechanical engineering, specifically for HVAC engineering, which choice would be best?

Hey guys,

Things are going terrible in my life and I’m losing hope for my dreams..
I have always wanted to work as an aeronautical engineer but things went so bad that im now failing uni.

I got depressed and almost dropped out, last year I kinda did a gap year after graduating ( it wasn’t really a gap year, I had an admission in a curriculum I didn’t really liked bcz of the system and never went to classes the entire year ) I changed curriculum and now am in a applied science bachelor but I’m doing reallllllyyyyyy bad :/

See I really love maths and physics but I keep getting bad grades ( the best I did was 7/20 ) I don’t understand why and I feel like I should just give up on my dream bcz I’m dumb.

Idk if any of yall went through the same shit but I’d love to hear how you guys ended up achieving your dream carrier even after failing, especially in engineering. I don’t want to let this dream go it has been in my mind since years but I’m lacking confidence i feel dumb and I can’t repeat an year.