Mechanical Engineering Graduate Advice
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- čas přidán 28. 12. 2021
- This video is a compilation of advice I wish I had gotten when I graduated.
I really hope you can find something in this video that helps you out in your early career.
Enjoy, and comment any questions or suggestions you have so others can learn!
If you are new to the channel I have been a mechanical engineer for the last 20 years with the last 5 being as a freelance consultant. I have always been in design engineering and spend pretty much all my time engineering, making, or tinkering. ;) - Věda a technologie
Starting my first Mechanical Engineering job in a couple days.. You put every worry I had in my head at ease, Thank you!
That completely makes my day... I am so glad to be able to help. Good luck, and have fun!
How's the job now? What role did you have?
How did you find it?
In my role for over a year now, Mechanical HVAC & Plumbing design, I love it! Just gotta go with the flow, listen & learn, eventually things start to become second nature! Thanks again for the pep talk! It’s only up from here👷♀️
I'm so glad it's going well! Yep. Just keep listening and learning! 💪👍
I’m currently going into my junior of mechanical engineering. Currently at an internship and I feel so lost. This was definitely a good pick me up. Especially about the grades, I always feel like I’m just squeezing through my classes
That was actually really insightful as a mechanical engineering intern I realized a lot of things that I do and take for granted were actually important stuff and wrote them down so I can look back later and have something to say. 🙏
I needed to hear this, thank you.
Well worded, Chris. Solid contribution to those coming up through the engineering pipeline. My favorite insight on this topic came from a WSJ cartoon; "Actually, I've found that 90% of success isn't showing up, it's shutting up." Stated differently: Never miss a chance to be quiet and listen!
Thanks Steve! Yeah, I always cringe when I see someone going on and on in a meeting when it's clear they are just trying to brag or bring attention to themselves... Hope all is well!
@@thoughtbombdesign I am indeed doing well, Chris. Happy New Year to you and yours
Great advice man thank you
Great video. So true. I’m an ME and this hit home big time. Great advice.
Glad you enjoyed it!
That was really helpful thank you
Thank you! I wish I had taken your classes during my undergrad. This video is everything I need to hear today.
So glad I could help. You've got this!
love this video. Very relevant and sounds exactly like where I am at now. Great content!
So glad it was helpful!
This video was recommended at a time I really needed it, thanks for taking the time to make this
I'm so glad to help.
Re: Sponge... take notes! You're going to encounter hundreds of things that may come up once and 2 years later you have the same or similar problem. Depending on the job and work culture and your level, you may get 50, 100 or more emails a day. Your company may have a great quality system with tickets for issued that came up that detail the problems and fixes, or it may just be you and your good notes keeping track of things to fix/fixes that were implemented/key contacts. Your job may have you working on one complicated thing for 5 years as your team refines it to maximum function vs cost, or you may be cranking out 100s of smaller designs a month and have no recollection of the stuff you did a month ago. Then, when someone has an issue a year later, you have to task switch to it, remember it and troubleshoot. Whether that's paper notes, OneNote or other software.
Oh man, i have never worked somewhere with a detailed quality system. It's always just everyone constantly trying to stay above water 😂.
Using one note or something searchable to log info and projects is a great suggestion. That used to be just emails for me, which worked pretty well, but now I also use one note. It's pretty great..
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
You are very welcome!
Thanks!
thank you!
This really helped man :). I havent graduated yet but Im finishing my masters thesis and I just got full time job, because company i had internship in was not doing great so they did not offered me playce thjer. So Im boarding new job in a month and I feel like I know nothing. Imposter syndrome is awfull. Im super excited, but kinda not sure what is it going to be like because Im kindy shy and insecure, but im sure / I hope its gonna be ok. Sorry for my English
Yeah... That's how it is right out of school. Just try to learn as much as you can and make yourself useful however you can! 👍
thank u
Hay super helpful I'm someone that's getting ready to go back to school and to get a degree and I've seen good engineers that can speak machine operator who have arm sleeve tattoos and an energy drink in Their hand and super chill and I've seen the tie and slack types that only leave their office to give someone shit and as someone that's been there and done that I know that I want to go for a degree and I know what kind of engineer I want to/will be that can say "well this material may yield better longevity, profits as well as ease of manufacture" when speaking to bosses or finance guys and talk with machinists and operatorslike "yeah dude I can see why that would be a pain in the ass ill look at the prints and I'll talk to X about loosening the tolerance or maybe changing something so you and Paul aren't fighting to get everything within tolerance all fucking day."
Yes! That's the guy to be! It blows my mind how many people can't understand that there is more than one way to be in the world...
Was hoping you'd give some advice for getting that first job, our son graduated with ME degree in December and just gets rejection letters. He's put more applications in since graduating than I did in my entire working career.
That's rough, I'm sorry to hear... The best advice it to have an internship while still in school, but now I'd say to make sure his resume doesn't have a bunch of crazy formatting or fonts. That can get you tossed right off the bat.
I would definitely highlight any hands on or problem solving he has done. School projects or working on a car.... Possibly even having a website with pictures to show what he has done! Anything to help stand out.
Most schools have a career support staff person that might have some leads?
He could look up people he went to school with on LinkedIn to see if their companies are hiring?
Good luck!
Can anyone go to school for engineering and pass and graduate.
Or is it harder
It is tough but if you are invested in it then I say go for it. Totally doable, you definitely don't need to be a genius or anything. 👍
@thoughtbombdesign I guess I'm intimidated by everything you know the school setting etc.
I been giving thought
Yeah I get it. But nobody knows everything, some people are just better at looking like it.
I haven’t watched the video yet but I want to get a job in the space industry somewhere. I love rockets and spacecraft. It would be my dream job to work with Blue Origin, SpaceX, or Rocket Lab. The problem is that I have internship experience in HVAC and manager roles. I have done some design and fabrication but it’s not impressive. I do have rocketry experience from a club. I feel like I am experiencing imposter syndrome after being turned down to many applications and after seeing my peers get jobs in NG, L3Harris, Honeywell, and RTX.
On a positive note, I still have time left to do work that is great for personal growth. I’ve asked people that have been successful say that they have been through something similar and have been aware of it. They’ve made adjustments to their goals to achieve on a regular basis whether it’s learning Ansys on spare time, or finding ways to apply theory to 3D-printed structures. I hope this is helpful to someone that is feeling the same way.
Thanks for sharing!
Just a few things to add.
I see people get caught up on needing experience in the specific indestry they want to get into. Of course they will need some people that are die hard life long rocket people but a ton of the work gets done by "regular" ME's. I think having the hobby rocketry stuff is huge. If you can transition to anything with more design and build those skills that would make the difference. I always recommend having a personal website showing any and all semi relevant hobbies. That's where you can put all your side quests like a sys and 3d printing.
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