The Map of Engineering

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  @ornotgortwormiii8731 · 3 years ago

  Aerospace engineers build missiles. Electrical engineers build guidance systems. Civil engineers build targets.

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  @MedlifeCrisis · 3 years ago

  My natural tendency is to come here to say something sarcastic about engineers but I’ll be serious for a change. My grandfather was a district (civil) engineer in India. I was really close to him but he died when I was young. Years later I went to see a bridge, the construction of which he led (I also broke Indian law by taking a photograph lol). I remember thinking how amazing it was that that bridge outlived him and will outlive me. This monument to him and his team had helped god knows how many thousands of people. Not many jobs let you leave such huge legacies. So much work in this video, amazing stuff.

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  @andy_lamax · 3 years ago

  This video has reminded me of no matter how well versed I am in my Electrical Engineering field, I am an expert of only a small portion of the whole Engineering map

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  @SnigdhaVasireddy · 2 years ago

  My toxic trait is to think  that once I understand math and physics I can conquer everything

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  @InsertNamehere63 · 3 years ago

  I really love what you said at the end about engineers having the "engineering mindset". I have a degree in Mechatronics and are currently getting a degree in Aerospace engineering, and the one true red string through both of them is what was taught to me at the very beginning of my studies: engineers are problem solvers. We try to analyse, structure, divide, test, iterate and solve given problems for the benefit of everyone. In order to do so, there is no "best engineering discipline", every situation requires different sets of skills and knowledge, and also like you said, ingenuity. Interdisciplinary knowledge is a very great asset in that regard. I believe having the engineering mindset just means, that you are not afraid to approach problems in a systematic way and work towards a solution, which very often involves teaching yourself new skills.

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  @KevinWoW98 · 3 years ago (edited)

  The fun thing about being an engineer is that multidisciplinary knowledge is as valuable, or sometimes even more valuable, then specialized knowledge. I, for instance, am a civil engineer specialized in structural engineering. But I work for an oil company as a software engineer, writing software that deals with structures of oil rigs and ships. I don't know about ships as marine engineers do, about oil rigs as petroleum engineers do, about software as software engineers do, but knowing a decent amount about all those areas got me a really good job.

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  @WoundUp · 3 years ago

  For those who didn&apos;t quite understand industrial engineering as it was only touched upon very briefly: <br>Industrial engineering could be simply explained as more of a general engineering field focussed on the optimization of complex systems. How do we optimize flows in a factory? How do we prioritize? How do we create supply chains that are cost-effective, efficient and robust? Industrial engineering is huge and an integral part when it comes to producing and moving things and is basically the discipline that takes into account how we move information, goods, money, and other things through a system, physically and digitally. <br><br>An example is the automotive production line. We&apos;re dealing with vast numbers and varieties of supplier parts coming in to one spot to be assembled. The factory needs to be set up in an optimized way, the internal logistics needs to function well to minimize down-time, and nowadays we are focusing more and more on external systems or entire supply chains and optimizing them. In industrial engineering we say that companies are no longer competing with other companies. Supply chains are competing with other supply chains. This is very complex and requires an engineer that is more of a generalist and has his or her hand in many cookie jars. Everything from economics and negotiations, to production engineering and supply chains.

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  @DomainOfScience · 3 years ago

  I&apos;d like to formally apologise for the number of times I said the word Engineering 🤣

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  @decorator_name · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQgxiQAMTTo&amp;t=687">11:27</a> Oh god, we&apos;re the plastic age

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  @Ivan17689 · 2 years ago

  I was set on pursuing a career in finance for the money…but I realized that I wasn’t going to be satisfied doing something I thought was merely a means to an end. I want to do something that leaves a positive impact on the world, and I think engineering will allow me to do that in some way. Thank you for making this, it really showed me the purpose engineers have and the utility they provide for the world. I know now that I want ti be an engineer, no matter how difficult the road is to getting there

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  @SBLP24 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m an electrical engineer working on nanoelectronics , the field has expanded so much in recent years! Amazing time in the world my friend.... AMAZING TIME!

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  @G-Rat124 · 3 years ago

  one thing i have noticed about engineering is how multidisciplinary the whole field is. My personal interests lie in thermal properties and the movement of energy, so I&apos;m a mechanical engineer and i specifically like refrigeration cycles (AC, HVAC, refrigeration). Within that field, we have mechanical engineers that work in several areas that cross over into other disciplines. we have controls engineers that tune our controlled devices to get the desired thermal properties, we have software engineers designing predictive software to determine system behavior, and we have materials experts that know the properties of refrigerants inside and out. All of these people are Mechanical engineers in this case, but do interdisciplinary work at the crossover between 2 disciplines. its fascinating.<br><br>Also, I&apos;m glad you said mechanical is about energy conversion. throughout my schooling, &nbsp;everyone, &nbsp;including other MEs, would think i was crazy for saying that because they only focused on solid mechanics and couldn&apos;t recognize that that, too, is a energy related process.

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