AmyAye comments on One hell of a hook

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 3 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Like half my ME courses in college were basically the same Thermodynamics stuff repacked in a new way.

(Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, IC Engines, at least 2 others I forget the name of).

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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Theoretical Thermodynamics and Statistic Physics is different from applied thermodynamics. The latter is fiiinnnneeee. The former is mind melting. I don't know how deviously engineers get tortured. The gloves come off for physics students for sure.

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[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 1 point 8 hours ago*

Agree. I took Thermodynamics in my Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering coursework, and it was one of my favorite classes. I took Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics in my Applied Physics Masters, and it was one of the hardest courses I've taken.

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[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 1 point 16 hours ago*

Engineers probably don't get it that hard. Like 90% of the thermodynamics stuff was using those little tables with the crooked rectangles (it's been like 25 years, I don't remember what they are called).

Plus MEs are like a weird "Jack of all trades" for stuff. We did a little Civil Engineer, a little Electrical Engineering, a little Physics, a little Chemistry, but none of it goes super super deep. And I don't think it's as reversed for these individual things. Like, at least at the time, I could do "basic to mid CE and EE stuff, but I don't think CEs and EEs could do anything but CE and EE stuff.

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