TB Engineers / Engineering students UNITE!

[blendermassacre]

I'm currently a sophomore at Penn Valley Community College, going to transfer to UMKC to finish my Mechanical Engineering Degree.

I would love to hear about other bass players / engineers.

bring it on.

[bongomania]

I'm slooooooooowly making my way toward an EE. I keep having to take time off from school to work full-time, or to handle family/household responsibilities, or taking only a couple of classes at a time while working part-time, or just taking a quarter off for a mental-health break.

That's where I'm at right now. After two years straight of higher maths, I needed a break. But I still have Differential Equations (Calc 4) and Linear Algebra to hammer through.

In the meantime, I do whatever I can to stay in the game--lately it's taking performance measurements of audio cables, and getting a few IPC certifications for soldering and QC.

[KeithBMI]

I am starting my junior year at Oakland University. I am going for a degree in mechanical engineering. It has not been bad so far, but those calculus classes were murder on my GPA. I am the laziest guy and I'm going for one of the hardest degrees out there.

[blendermassacre]

Since it was 6 years between highschool and college, I had to go back to college algebra. I'm in Pre-Calc right now, but I've got a long road of math ahead of me. Luckily it comes pretty easy for me, and I like it.

[Kwesi]

I was a Mechie for a semester, lol. I'm just not cut out for it and on top of that I just can't imagine me enjoying whatever comes out of me getting a ME degree but that just me. I'm between Math and Financial Economics right now.

[blendermassacre]

Originally Posted by Kwesi

I was a Mechie for a semester, lol. I'm just not cut out for it and on top of that I just can't imagine me enjoying whatever comes out of me getting a ME degree but that just me. I'm between Math and Financial Economics right now.

I guess I see it as the opposite. I could major in Math, but what is it going to get me? At least this way I can do what I want to do: design products used by the public, hopefully musically related products.

[anyonefortennis]

Enginner by title count?

I have a CS degree and a Software Eng title.

[iamlowsound]

I am going into my second last year in environmental engineering. This semester is supposed to be the hardest of the program.

lowsound

[champbassist]

Count me in!

I'm in the sophomore year of my degree in Computer Science & Engineering.

Originally Posted by KeithBMI

It has not been bad so far, but those calculus classes were murder on my GPA.

Same here for my freshman year

[PSPookie]

I have a B.S. ISYE from GT and I design power lines for a living.

If you plan on being an engineer you'll need to get used to 1) acronyms and 2) working in a predominantly male workplace. When I was at Tech the student body was about 75% male. The workplace demographic is more heavily skewed. Then again, the construction crews I work with think this place is flush with women so I guess it's all a matter of perspective.

Really 1) and 2) aren't a big deal; they're just part of the reality of the job. All-in-all I really enjoy what I do. You get the intellectual challenges of design, the organizational challenges of construction and the satisfaction of seeing something you designed brought to life. The pay doesn't suck either

Here's a structure from a 230kV line we recently finished:

[champbassist]

Originally Posted by PSPookie

Really 1) and 2) aren't a big deal; they're just part of the reality of the job. All-in-all I really enjoy what I do.

Indeed: if having lots of girls around me was my aim, I'd be a fashion designer or a fashion photographer

[Chebass88]

I am currently working as a Chemical Engineer, with a BS from University of Delaware. I am pursuing a Masters in ChE from NC State in my spare time. My current work involves fuel cell systems and potable water production.

My best advice for getting through the math is Practice. Practice Practice Practice. If you think you understand a concept, do another problem. Also, knowing how to formulate the math in a problem will go VERY far in helping you solve the problem, primarily because there is a very limited amount of things you can actually solve by hand. Being able to recognize a Bessel Function solution is nice - you save yourself the time required to derive it fully (unless that is the task at hand).

For some excellent math books, I recommend the following:
1. Calculus - Thomas & Finney; I refer to this book ALL the time.
2. Advanced Engineering Mathematics - Michael Greenberg (I had this guy for a professor - two of the greatest classes in math).

ian

[FL Knifemaker]

Originally Posted by Chebass88

For some excellent math books, I recommend the following:
1. Calculus - Thomas & Finney; I refer to this book ALL the time.
2. Advanced Engineering Mathematics - Michael Greenberg (I had this guy for a professor - two of the greatest classes in math).

ian

+1 on the book recommendations

[bigblondeafro87]

I'm starting my junior year of Mech Engineering at Rowan University in NJ. Done all my higher level math classes (thank God!) and this year we start gettin down to the nitty gritty

[aborgman]

Originally Posted by blendermassacre

I'm currently a sophomore at Penn Valley Community College, going to transfer to UMKC to finish my Mechanical Engineering Degree.

I would love to hear about other bass players / engineers.

bring it on.

University of Michigan, B.S. Computer Engineering - 1998

Intel, Design Engineer (Pentium 4), 1998-2004

Precision Devices, Inc., Senior Electrical Engineer, 2004-2010

University of Michigan Aerospace Engineering, Senior Electronic Technician, 2010-present

[Ripper]

ME student from Kettering University here! Now that i'm in Diff Eq my GPA is starting to go back up. Calc 3 hurt me bad last term.

That and the fact I build race cars more hours of the day than I study

[Emerald_gasH]

I have my bachelor's in Chemical Engineering and Management, but am currently working in an unrelated field..I am still looking for an engineering job, though.

[SlavaF]

I'll be entering my last semester of Chemical Engineering at the University of Alberta in January, just a design project and some tech electives left

[TomA1234]

I'm not an engineer or engineering student but I plan to be in the future (after college + uni).
Does that count?

[PaulNYC]

I have
B.S. in Bio-Chemical Engineering from Rutgers
Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland

but I work in finance doing mathematics.