What is Mechanical Engineering

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What is Mechanical Engineering?
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Mechanical Engineering Is

• Finding creative solutions to difficult problems!
• Perhaps the broadest of all the engineering
  disciplines.
• Working with motion, energy, forces, and
  materials.
• Concerned with analysis, design, manufacture and
  operation of areas such as
• Energy Defense
• Environment Health Bio
• Manufacturing Transportation

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Why Mechanical Engineering?

• Almost every industry needs mechanical engineers.
• The curriculum is sufficiently broad so students
  can take various career paths upon graduation.
• You might find the subject both exciting and
  challenging.

Scientists discover the world that exists
engineers create the world that never was.
-Theodore Von Karman
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What type of jobs do MEs have?

• Design
• Product Design
• Machine Design
• System Design
• Manufacturing, Process Development Quality
• Maintenance and Operations
• Research and Development
• Project Management
• Testing
• Sales or Technical Sales
• Management

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What can Mechanical Engineers do?

• Design (Product, Machine and System Design)
• Machines that manufacture and package all
  varieties of products
• Rotating equipment - pumps, compressors, blowers,
  turbomachinery
• Internal combustion engines
• Storage tanks, piping systems and pressure
  vessels - reactors, heat exchangers, boilers
• Sports equipment, consumer goods and products
  (everything from golf balls to soda cans to
  roller coasters)
• Material handling equipment - conveyers, robots,
  production lines
• Vehicles - cars, trucks, heavy equipment, buses,
  aircraft, ships
• Electric power generation equipment
• Oil well drilling and extraction equipment
• Energy methods fuel cells, wind power,
  hydroelectric, nuclear, geothermal, wind power,
  biomass, hydrogen, solar
• Analysis
• Equipment failures to improve performance and
  reliability
• Heat transfer, vibration, sound

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What can Mechanical Engineers do?

• Fabrication
• Coordinate fabrication of equipment
• Develop improved fabrication techniques and
  methods
• Testing
• Test quality, performance, safety, and
  reliability of products, equipment, processes
• Research and Development
• Sales
• Work as technical salespersons for companies that
  manufacture various products and equipment
• Work as a general salesperson for companies
• Maintenance and Operations
• Keep various plants and processes operating at
  optimum performance
• Operations supervision and management
• Other
• Medical School, Law School, Business School, etc.
• Management

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Mechanical EngineeringMajor Areas of Research

• Acoustics and Dynamics
• Automation and Mechatronics
• Bioengineering
• Computer Aided Design
• Fluid Mechanics
• Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Heat
  Transfer, Combustion and Energy Systems
• Manufacturing
• Mechanics of Materials
• Tribology
• Nuclear Engineering

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What Industries Hire MEs?

• Automotive OEM Suppliers
• Construction Equipment
• Construction Companies
• Ship Railroad Companies
• Airplane Manufacturing
• Power Generation
• Nuclear
• Alternative Fuel
• Energy
• Utility Companies
• Oil and Gas Companies
• Chemical Companies
• Environmental
• Pharmaceutical Health Care
• Biomedical
• Sports Equipment Mfg.
• Computer-Aided Design

• Automation
• Robotics
• Electronics Industries
• Appliance Manufacturers
• HVAC Refrigeration
• Toy Manufacturing
• Furniture Manufacturing
• Paper Industry
• Food Beverage Industry
• Telecommunications
• Amusement Parks
• National Labs
• Aeronautical (NASA, etc.)
• Government Agencies
• Academia (Teaching)
• Financial Companies
• Consulting Companies

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Our 2007-2008 Graduates Are At

• Business
• Ernst Young LLP, Bank of America, CarMax,
  Deloitte and Touche
• Automation and Robotics
• Innotec Automation, Rockwell Automation, Advanced
  Automation, Factory Automation
• Engineering Services Consulting
• Dean Oliver International, McKenney's Mechanical
  Contractors Engineers, Patterson Dewar,
  Babcock Wilcox, Jordan Skala Engineers Inc,
  O'Brien Gere, Turner Construction, Slingshot
  Product Development
• HVAC
• Trane, Underwood Air Systems, Carrier - Division
  of United Technologies
• Chemicals
• Air Products, Air Liquide, Eastman Chemical
  Company
• Environmental
• Enercon Services Inc

• Automotive
• Ford, General Motors, Toyota, BMW, Honda, Elan
  Motorsports Tech.
• Energy, Oil, Gas
• BP, BP Exploration (Alaska), Citgo, Schlumberger,
  Southern Company, Georgia Power, General
  Electric, Shell, Suez Energy North America
• Commercial Consumer Products
• Cooper Industries, General Mills, Clorox Company,
  International Paper, Procter Gamble, Snap-On,
  National Instruments, Patterson Pumps
• Construction Equipment
• John Deere, Caterpillar, Kubota Tractor
  Corporation
• Aerospace Defense
• NASA, Bell Helicopter, Lockheed Martin,
  Gulfstream Aerospace Corp, Rolls Royce, Northrop
  Grumman, Harris Corp, NAVSEA/Norfolk Naval
  Shipyard, Advanced Armament Corp, NAVAIR
• Military
• Air Force, Navy, Marines, Army

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Alumni Profile

• Shannon
• BSME from GT in December, 2007
• NAVSEA at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in
  Portsmouth, VA

• Job Description
• Works on hydraulics and auxiliary machinery on
  aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships.
• Machinery includes aircraft elevators, weapons
  elevators, catapults, arresting gear, conveyor
  belts, the anchor windlass, and steering
  mechanisms.

• Recent Job Assignments
• Spent 3 weeks on the USS Ronald Reagan installing
  and modifying their hydraulic systems
• Worked with a ship in Guam about se-curing their
  crane while it was in repair
• Worked with a ship had an elevator that came out
  of the tracks and the elevator was stuck a few
  stories up

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Alumni Profile

• Orion, BSME and BSPHYS
• Graduated December, 2007
• College Knowledge Provides Tutoring Services to
  K-12 Students

• Started his own company, College
  Knowledge, while at Georgia
  Tech
• Won GTs Ferst Leadership Entrepreneur
  Scholarship Award
• Activities at Georgia Tech

• Future Plans
• Starting his MSME at Stanford University in Fall
  2008
• Plans to study microscopic properties of
  renewable energy devices like fuel cells and
  solar cells

• Directed 3 movies for Campus Fest
• Astronomy Club Treasurer
• Worked as a tutor for OMED
• Participated in Oxford Study Abroad
• Did ME undergraduate research
• Worked for GTRI
• Involved in ASME
• Had summer internship in Canada designing an
  acoustics tool for a professor at UGA in the EAS
  department
• President of ORGT (Outdoor Recreation at GT)

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Alumni Profile

• Josh
• Graduated Summer 2005
• Bell Helicopter in Texas

• Job Description
• Airframe designer for Armed Reconnaissance
  Helicopter
• Designs the fuselage, tailboom, and landing gear.
  
• Use 3D CAD software (CATIA) to build 3D models of
  helicopter parts.
• Specializes in a variety of parts including
  carbon fiber, fiberglass, sheet metal, castings,
  forgings, and machined.

• Best Parts of Job
• Using creativity to solve engineering problems.
• I have a lot of control on helicopter
  functionality, maintainability, and aesthetics.
• It is very rewarding to see the parts I design
  being installed on the helicopter.

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Alumni Profile

• Alison, BSME Summer 2008
• Currently at Grad School at Stanford

Undergraduate Research at GT I worked in a
tissue engineering research lab on working
towards building an artificial blood vessel that
could be implemented into the human body. The
first part was to understand the tissues that
already exist in the body (in particular,
collagen) and how the tissue grows and remodels
under stress change.

• Activities at Georgia Tech
• Woodruff School Student Advisory Board
  (President)
• Freshman Activities Board
• GT Swimming and Diving
• Search Committee to find new ME School Chair
• ME School Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
• Won a school spirit scholarship in my junior
  year.
• I would like to stress that I got involved in my
  major more than the school (like school-wide
  spirit organizations) and that that worked out
  best for me.

• Future Goals
• MSME _at_ Stanford with a focus in
  Biomechanics.
• I want to invent a medical device and start a
  company.
• However, I plan to work with a medical device
  company first.

• Advice to Students
• You dont have to know what you want to do with
  the rest of your life when you're 17!
• Look into all your options and start out studying
  something as broad as you can (for example, I
  liked science and math and chose ME).
• If you want/need advice on a career choice, don't
  be afraid to ask someone to talk about what they
  do! You'll be surprised to see how nice people
  are if you are kind in return.