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08-15-2007, 07:28 PM
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Mechanical Engineer hey everyone first i want to thank everyone on this site, its awsome, i just bought a 2001 camaro with a bunch of mods on it and i absolutely love it, its a little easier to drive around than my old 1973 camaro which is still badass by the way. my new camaro will be going down to san luis obispo in a month where ill be attending cal poly majoring in mechanical engineering. i hope to some day work for some high performance company designing engines, cams heads or something along those lines, and i was wondering if anyone else on here was a mechanical engineer? thanks
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Originally Posted by enos44
hey everyone first i want to thank everyone on this site, its awsome, i just bought a 2001 camaro with a bunch of mods on it and i absolutely love it, its a little easier to drive around than my old 1973 camaro which is still badass by the way. my new camaro will be going down to san luis obispo in a month where ill be attending cal poly majoring in mechanical engineering. i hope to some day work for some high performance company designing engines, cams heads or something along those lines, and i was wondering if anyone else on here was a mechanical engineer? thanks
08-15-2007, 11:34 PM
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thats really cool i figured there were quite a few MEs here but it never really comes up and for those of you who are MEs where do you work and what do you do for a living?
08-16-2007, 12:12 AM
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Originally Posted by enos44
i hope to some day work for some high performance company designing engines, cams heads or something along those lines
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08-16-2007, 12:22 AM
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awesome bro congratz and welcome to the club!!! im an ME at University of North Texas. this will be my third year... all i gotta say is get ready for math! haha. after i get my degree in ME im going down to houston and attending SAM, then ill get the job i want!
08-16-2007, 08:46 AM
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I'm am an ME and I work at GM in product validation. I didn't enjoy classes like heat transfer, thermo or fluids all that much... a good knowledge of these is required to be a powertrain designer. But, it is good to enter school knowing what you would like to do when you are done, a plan is always good.
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08-16-2007, 10:16 AM
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the part about being a powertrain designer is of course my dream job but its always good to have a dream right? haha i would be more that happy working for any company from crane to designing top fuel motors, but thanks for all the feedback and good thing i like math and physics because im going to have like one of each every quarter.
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ME here also. BALL STATE!! I'm currently working for Paragon medical and Depuy Spine(both an ortho company). I just got an offer from Nestle, so I'll be starting there in a month. I mostly deal with problemsolving and designing protos with a Stereolithography machine (thats right same machine that builds carbs for F1). Being a ME is great and if you get your SME, you can go anywhere, but its a very hard test. Wish I was in automotive design, maybe someday. Good Luck!!!
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I was planning on a mechanical degree but decided with Civil instead at clarkson university, seemed like there were more job oppurtunities, and I'm pretty much content with designing anything anyways so it works for me I guess. Not at all crazy about calculus, fluids or thermo, but I liked the structural type of classes. I have one year left and this year just about every class directly focuses on my major, should be a little more interesting. After that its time to get a real job, can't wait!
