Every single mechanical engineer has to study a subject called mechanics. Some call it MOM, some call it SOM, some call it EM. But whatever you may call it, it's always there and it's always the same. This subject tells us how to decide whether our design will fail or not. And it is a very complex subject. And the bad news is, we only study this until we get familiar with the concept of Simulation. Once you start doing simulations, there is no going back. I had a glimpse of simulation very early in my college life, way before it would have according to my syllabus. And then I got myself involved in another project that made me understand simulation to a very great extend. This was the design and manufacturing of HAWT. Basically, we were trying to make a hybrid wind turbine that can produce electricity safely inside a crowded city. And the very first step included the Fluent based simulations. Actually, the first step was a literature review, but yeah you got the point. So, my s...
Today I'll like to talk about my college life in general. You know being a mechanical engineering student sucks in India. Majorly because of two reasons. First: Our fellow students think we don't know girls and how to talk to them, and that we are desperate as fuck. Second: We and even our professors know that most of us won't be getting any job in our branch-related company. To be very honest please do understand that most of the mechanical engineers are very comfortable talking to girls. We are the same as everyone else. And those who think we are desperate, well we are not. We don't need to be. We have the smartest guys in the whole college/university.
And yes, most of the colleges in India are able to provide placement to only 10% of the mechanical engineers. There are a hundred reasons for this, but yeah, campus placement in our core stream is not easy at all. But, one way or another all of us do find a job and do make a good career. And, we also are the most Jugadoo people (Actually engineers are very Jugadoo in general). What this means is where everyone else will think that there is no solution to this problem, we will solve the problem. I still remember the day our air cooler stopped working. We had two air coolers and both stopped working. We did some testing and came to know that we can exchange some parts and make one of them work. The problem was there were no tools. No screwdriver, no wire stripper, not even a plier. And that's when we (one of us is an IT engineer) used a coin to take out the motor from one cooler, a pump from another and make a new cooler that worked perfectly.
And this was just one of the numerous incidents. The four years of my college has made me a guy who can do just about anything. There was a time I used to think before doing anything. I'll be always sure that I couldn't do this thing even if I tried my best. And here I am today, doing anything I like on the internet. A few days back I opened up my laptop, used a multimeter to find the broken connection of the charging circuit, soldered it myself, and saved myself at least a thousand rupees.
And believe me, if you are going to pursue engineering, you are going to be able to do just about anything. And if you are choosing mechanical engineering, not only you will be able to do anything, but you will actually do nearly everything in your college life. From file-ing your own hand to losing eyesight while welding; From learning to code to bricking your phone; From repairing your own bike to making your own car; From making a youtube channel to becoming a professional videographer. There's nothing we can't do.
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