Research and Reflection

Blog Research and Reflection

            After writing about twenty blogs which mainly target at mechanical engineering field, I feel like I have found a lot of information that I haven’t noticed before or I didn’t get the time to look for it, this blog project offers me a great opportunity on researching for my field and yet I still think I have a lot of things to know and to share with all mechanical engineers or who wants to get into the field. This blog is the conclusion for all which including research focus and reflection focus as my final blog.

            My blog involves many aspects such as I posts a lot of interesting projects made by college students, interesting videos and even films. However, throughout all my free post blogs, I have found that the biggest aspect I mainly target is the analysis of employment outlook for mechanical engineers. In many blogs, I have introduced the element of mechanical engineering and what can mechanical engineering do? And the answers for these two big questions I apart them into two parts, the first one is mechanical design and another one is working on real machines.

            For mechanical designing, the main job is to design the specific structures and draw pictures for appearance, in my blog, I give a brief introduction for Auto CAD and give the trick on how to do a car appearance by hand-only drawing, and after research I think mechanical designing is the easier and safer job for mechanical engineer, but you make less money than those real workers under lower risk; another one I am going to talk about is the real mechanical workers who actually produce products or repair things by using those big heavy machines, in my blogs, I show some examples of heavy machines even factories, though it is heavy work and risky, you can make more money. I also mention the choices and responsibility for mechanical engineers, so I think my main research is for employment and how can one be a good mechanical engineering.

            Honestly, I first treated this blog project as a simple assignment which worth 200 pts. I am not even sure I am going to take mechanical engineering as my final major since the GPA requirement is ridiculously high and the lessons are difficult as same ridiculous. But, when I got time to research fun stuffs or useful information about mechanical engineering, I started to change my mind, now I think mechanical engineer is not that boring, like we can build robots or models based on our knowledge and besides, we do not need to worry about our future jobs because since the major is hot, mechanical engineers do not need to concern about future jobs and besides it is difficult, so there won’t be many people can graduate. In one word, if I can graduate from mechanical engineer, I will have a great job with high salary and there won’t be many people compete with me.

            I also think that being a mechanical engineer is pretty cool because if you look through my blog, you will find that mechanical engineer is extremely skillful, mechanical engineers not only can draw structures and build cars, ships and airplanes, but also mechanical engineers can build killing weapons and I think this attracts men a lot. Personally, I am a military fan and maybe if there is a chance, I shall turn my major into weapon engineer, just like we change our talents for our video games character. And weapon engineers occurred long time ago around the world. So basically, my reflection is that mechanical engineer is a good career to be and mechanical engineers have a lot of spaces to develop for themselves.

Week 10 Prompt Post: Remix Knowledge

For this week’s prompt post, we are supposed to find a remix project for our fields. I find a very interesting video for engineering remix, the video is all about hand-drawings and it explains what is engineer specifically and they are really fun drawings.

            I am really shocked when I see the extremely fast drawings, the author draw a lot of pictures of an engineer’s daily life first, like an engineer gets up and brushes his teeth, and play angry birds in a bus. Then, the author introduces different kinds of engineers like mechanical engineer, mining engineer and chemical engineer, etc. The author also introduces engineers can make video games and build houses.

            Although the tone for background introduction is non-emotion, it deliveries its humor successfully. Like the author draws the sad face when the character in his drawings. It is very attractive because he draws those pictures well and creative. Anyway, it is a good remix and I suggest you to watch it.

 

Citation

UoN FEBE, . What is Engineering?. 2013. Photograph. Youtube, Newcastle. Web. 31 Mar 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bipTWWHya8A>.

Week 10 Free Post: Mechanical Engineers Should Have Responsibility, Feel Sorry to MH 370

     

      My mood is very heavy when I am writing this blog for this week’s free post. When I wake up today and watched morning news, the airplane MH370 crashed has been confirmed and there is no one survival! I feel so sorry to the tragedy, let’s stand up, take off our hats and offer a moment of silence for the dead.

       I am not going to talk about who is the true one should take responsible for this tragedy because It doesn’t relate to mechanical engineer and I don’t really have mood to talk about this, it is about 239 lives and 154 people are Chinese, they are dead for no reason but an airplane crush. They are innocent people who don’t need to pay their lives for such this tragedy.

Picture made by Luke Villapaz

       Well, as the blog I posted for engineering code of ethics, mechanical engineers should have responsibility because everything we have made and repaired are related to human lives. As we know, before a plane takes off, at least a group of mechanical engineers should check whether there is something going wrong with the plane itself and fuel or not, please always take your responsibility with you because it is all about human lives and their family’s happiness. Like in MH370, I have heard that there is a man who wants to return to home because he made some money and take away pressure of his family; many people just try to reunion with their families and someone just want to take a break, but the plane crash takes away their lives, also it takes away their family’s hope and happiness.  

       Every mechanical engineers, please remember that although professionalism is important to us, we can never lose our responsibility, if we don’t want to see the innocent people die for stupid plane crash; if we don’t want to see the sad faces, take our responsibility with us!

 

Citation

Luke villapaz, . Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Prayers Continue As Search And Rescue Teams Scour The Globe For Missing Airliner [PHOTOS]. 2014. Photograph. ibtimesWeb. 25 Mar 2014. <http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibtimes.com/files/styles/picture_this/public/2014/03/19/malaysia-mh370-artwork-1.jpg>.

 

Week 9 Prompt Post: Recognizing Significance----The Industrial Revolution

          This week’s prompt post is recognizing significance for my field which is mechanical engineering. Well, I can’t think any ideas better than Industrial Revolution, it is the really significance for mechanical engineering, because the Industrial Revolution brings machines instead of manpower.

Paiting For Industrial Revolution

           The Industrial Revolution took place in 18^th century in Britain, when handicraft production cannot meet the demand of the market, British wanted to make a change to manpower mood, here we go it is the reason of why the Industrial Revolution happened. When Watt invented steam machines, British didn’t need to build their factories near to streams or rivers, and it didn’t requires manpower during the process of production, it released workers from heavily hand work and at that time, people in Britain produced things by machines.

            Moreover, the Industrial Revolution divides the class, since the Industrial Revolution spread to America in 19^th century, it separate classes into the bourgeoisie and the working class which we live the same nowadays. So the industrial revolution is not only significance for my field, but also it influences the whole world.

            If I explain how the significance of the work done in my discipline, I would like to say according to the article I found is that before the Industrial Revolution began, people used carriages to transport stuffs and it was slow, when the Industrial Revolution began with steam machines, people started to use vehicles to transport stuffs and after some times, railroad and waterway transport showed up, as after more times, airplane transport showed up. Well, when I graduate from mechanical engineer, I probably going to build cars or designing cars, so the Industrial Revolution does affect my discipline.

 

CITATION

1. appledj5845, . 工业革命时期的背景油画. 2014. Photograph. Baidu ImageWeb. 25 Mar 2014. <http://baike.baidu.com/picview/8751/5044850/0/ae10edde6b94126694ee37eb.html

2. "Industrial Revolution." Follow HIstory. n. page. Web. 25 Mar. 2014. <http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution>.

           

Week 9 Free Post: Mechanical Engineering and Military Weapon

      Mechanical engineer is not only target to design auto and use heavy machines to produce products, but also mechanical engineer closely relates to military weapon. From the old ancient China to nowadays advanced American technical weapon, mechanical engineers make big contribution to military.





Stone Thrower in Video Game

Stone Thorwer in Ancient China.

Apart from the simple ladder, the medieval rewards the most commonly used equipment including stone thrower, cars and big-hit shield. Here I am going to talk about the stone thrower. If you look at the pictures which I post above, you will basically know the appearance of the stone thrower, they always has solid chassis so that they can afford the weight of the above part and big stones, a long arm and a big spoon are also required, so that soldiers can throw the stone further, because according to the Leverage Theory, the longer the arm is, the power used by soldiers the less. The stone throwers was first shown in the end of Han dynasty, when Cao, Sun, Liu three kingdoms want to control the whole China, those talented ancient mechanical engineers create stone throwers to destroy the high wall which is also made in stone.

Back to modern society, the high advanced technical weapon I am going to introduce here is MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems). MEMS is a precision device technology that integrates mechanical elements, sensors, actuators, and electronics on a common silicon substrate through micro fabrication technology. MEMS can help military to find those invisible units which hide themselves by decreasing its area or painting special material outside. In modern war, find your enemy quickly means you can target them easily.

 

 

Citation

1.际超, 李. "机械工程技术与武器装备的发展." 信息系统与管理学院. (2009): n. page. Web. 25 Mar. 2014. http://wenku.baidu.com/link?url=d4-QJkKiVV0ikHCjUQQwVzr_KhjXj-PzvWnDICOuUDyXrn55wkCuMEkqi7AYqLA0K8ZvDCBmog9iDJrIjtvIj_jN5mmff1akHblJhDR6jQ3.

2. "Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)." EngineersGarage. (2010): n. page. Web. 25 Mar. 2014. http://www.engineersgarage.com/articles/mems-technology.  

 



Week 8 Free Post : brief introduction of CAD

          

      I don’t get an interesting topic to talk about for this week’s free post and I don’t find interesting video to share with neither from youtube or Chinese website. So as a mechanical engineer, I plan to introduce you guys an engineering tool to you guys, which is Computer Aided Design, we usually call it CAD.

       CAD was born in the 1960s, is an interactive graphics MIT research projects proposed, and because of the hardware is expensive, only the U.S. General Motors Corporation and American Airlines Boeing using it for self-developed interactive mapping system. When PC becomes common in twentieth, CAD was used in factory and engineering field. CAD may be used to design curves and figures in two-dimensional space; or curves, surfaces, and solids in three-dimensional space, so for those people who really want to be good engineers, they must use CAD as good as they use their pencil, because in my opinion, CAD is the third hand for every engineers.
        Unfortunately, if we want to use CAD well, we must remember the keys in CAD and there are a lot, like Ctrl+B is to control under a special mood and Ctrl+P is to print current image you make and Ctrl+J is to repeat your last action, etc. Those knowledge is useful but also complex. Also, the keys from F1 to F12 has their own functions. Learn it if you are interested in it. Here is the link
 

http://bestcadtips.com/the-power-of-the-function-keys-in-autocad-2/

Week 8 Prompt Post: Prcticing Your Knowledge, hand-on learning

My major is mechanical engineer and there two main jobs relate to my field which are using machines to produce products in factory like a mechanical engineer; another one is to design pictures and structures for like jet engines and appearance of autos. For me, I think I am more prefer to design stuffs in office because I think it is risky to use the machines by my own, because I have seen and heard some mechanical engineers got bad injured during the process of using those heavy machines.

       Because of I am still not get into Mechanical Engineer College yet, so I just ask my friends who have already in the college about the design things. And the answer I get is very similar to what was I think. For example, if I want to design a auto, I need to draw the appearance of the auto and give approximately data first, normally, mechanical engineers use professional software to design, but I don’t know which is the one I supposed to use, so I just do a hand-draw picture here to finish the hand-on learning subject, don’t laugh at me :)

       

There are some techniques to draw a designing picture for an auto. My engineer friend tells me that if you want to draw an auto design, the priority is to begin with two wheels, so you can handle the main position of the auto. Start with wheel and then the windows, so you can know how high the vehicle is. The rest things are pretty simple, but this is the only hand-learning drawing, don’ t take is seriously, if you see the professional software one day, the things will be different to today the bad drawing u see. Once again, hope you enjoy.

        
 

Week 7 Free Post: Choices After You Graduate From ME As a International Student

In the morning of the day, my mother called me and asked about my recent situation on studying and life in East Lansing, and I told her everything is just fine on studying, only calculus is a little bit trouble, besides, I hate the damn weather in East Lansing. I was able to answer all the questions that she was curious about, but when she asked what is my plan after I graduate from Mechanical Engineer, I wasn’t able to answer this one quickly. So I told my mother that I have no plan yet, will think about it seriously and then reply.

       As international students, if you graduate from college, there are two options waiting for you, the first one is postgraduate and the other one is to find a job, or you will be the one who stays the USA illegally.

       For the first choice, I think it is not an easy way to go for most people. According to my experiences, the classes that I am taking it right now belong to the very basic level, however, I think they are already difficult, not extremely, but require you to work hard. I have heard that if you can get into the college, the situation will get worse. Why??? Maybe because we are not learning them in our first language and besides ME is a hard major to nether get in or get out. However, if your GPA is good and you think you have no troubles on studying those stuffs, I think postgraduate is your best choice, you learn more, you earn more.

       Personally, I prefer the second choice, because if you can get a job in USA, you can live in USA of course if you like it. But most important thing is that you can get work experience and I think that is the core to a mechanical engineer. If you want to back to China or your own country, the work experience from USA will make you become valuable. Besides, you can make money for yourself if you get a job, it will release your family’s pressure more or less.

       Hope this blog can help some students in ME when they graduate.

      

Week 7 Prompt Post: Contemplating Controversy

  I must admit that this week’s prompt topic is so hard for me due to the specificity of my major which is mechanical engineering. As we know, mechanical engineer is rigorous work so that this major requires every mechanical engineer has rigorous thinking power because everything that mechanical engineers design or build relate to society’s secure and human’s life, so even though I spend hours on internet and MSU libraries, I can not find single controversy for my field which makes me very sad. I keep searching on bloggers, and finally I find one mechanical engineer blogsport which has completing controversy, I bet that this author must be one of Prof. Sarah Gibbons’ former friends. She or he gives a controversy about nuclear weapon and the topic gives me hope to finish this week’s prompt post, thank god.
  The content below gives both side of nuclear weapon, though it relates to physical and nuclear science, but they are part of mechanical engineering, so I think it is suitable for this week’s prompt post and I DO NOT have my opinion with the controversy. And the controversy is that should a country spend money on developing nuclear weapons during peacetime?
  From the survey of nuclearfiles.org, most voters say that U.S government spend too much on nuclear weapons and strong majority republicans are opposed to spend taxes on developing nuclear weapons. Moreover, Americans are ready to eliminate all nuclear weapons. In America, the attitude that people towards to nuclear weapons is to cancel it at all.
   The controversy is between Chinese and Americans. China’s government concentrates on developing nuclear weapons and our people support it. In China, the priority thing is secure. And the leader of China and fellow people think that only developing nuclear weapons can bring peace, as the nuclear weapons protected new born China after world war, people in China believe in it without doubts.

 

 

CITATION

1. Chris , Bartoluzzi . "Contemplating Controversy ." Displinary literacies Porforlio. Google Blogger, 19 04 2013. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. http://bartomsu.blogspot.com/.

2. "U.S. Public Opinion Poll on Nuclear Weapons." . NuclearFiles, Web. 27 Feb. 2014. http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/opinion-polls/nuclear-weapons/public-opinion-poll-on-nuclear-weapons.html.

3. 秋月, 冷如刀. "核武器震慑带来必然是和平，中国应该大力发展威胁美国本土核弹！." Sina. (2009): n. page. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. http://club.mil.news.sina.com.cn/thread-160101-1-1.html.

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 6 Free Post: Famous Heavy Industry In China

       Last week I purchased a transformer toy for my little brother and I found there is “Made In China” on the box of the product. If we go to Walmart or other stores, we can easily find that lots of clothes and furniture are made in China. So you may think that China is good at light industry, and then you just get half right. The fact is China’s factories not only good at making such light industry as toys and clothes, but also heavy industry in China is powerful. For this week’s free post, I introduce a heavy industry mechanical factory in China.

       The heavy industry mechanical factory in the above video is TieJian heavy industry factory; it is the only factory which has the shield tunneling and mining equipment development at the same time all over the world, which makes me very proud of. The main product of the factory is high-end engineering machinery equipment for tunneling and it is the leader in manufacturing technology and equipment level, it proves that China made is best of the world.

       As I mention above that TieJian is the factory which focus on tunneling, in another word is that it is focusing underground projects. And what I link with this is that as the population is enlarging, people may not satisfy with underground space, human will ask more for space. So when I graduate, I can join or build a company which produce engineering equipment for undersea exploring or for sky bridge or universe maybe? Mechanical engineering has no limits, so right now, I plan to focus the latest news of these big factories, both world and China, and see if I can grab any useful information in order to catch new direction of development, so that when I graduate, I can be one step ahead and achieve my success.

 

 

CITATION

Kortec, . 中國鐵建重工集團有限公司簡介 . 2013. Photograph. YoutubeWeb. 18 Feb 2014. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yBHntExXuk>.

 

 

Week 6 Prompt Post: Evaluating Sources: Mechanical Engineer Should Be Renewable Engineer

        I find an article that makes argument on mechanical engineers should be renewable engineers. The author’s name is Eric Limpaecher form Princeton University and he concentrates on electric, gas and other renewable resources as an engineer, and I think that his thoughts are advanced.

        In the article, he says that the society needs more college students to be engineers and then to be renewable engineers as him. When he graduated from school, he started to focus electrical and electron because he thought and renewable engineering without any wastes and pollutions should be ultimate engineering for society. He also lists some doable renewable engineering in the article, such as power electrics, heat and magnetic. He hopes that all companies and organizations should give more money on renewable engineering and he also wants that all mechanical engineers should not only focus on machines or airplanes, but also they need more trains on renewable engineers.    
        Although my classes level of mechanical engineers are low, but according to what I have learned so far, I would like to say I totally agree with the author’s argument. Just like I wrote a code of dealing water pollution for EGR 102 assignment, people started to realize that only renewable engineering should be developed, electrons, wind and heat, such as those pure energy should be used in all engineering field. However, what I concern about is that if we want to develop renewable engineers, there will be a lot of research fees, some organizations or companies may not want to afford them, they only focus on short benefits, and engineering students like me won’t concentrate on renewable engineers because if we want to find a job, the renewable stuffs will be useless for us. It is cruel but it is reality. Not only mechanical engineers should be renewable engineers, all fields should also find its renewable ways, that’s the way the society develops. Renewable engineers are imperative.

 

CITATION

Eric, Limpaecher. " mechanical engineers should be renewable engineers." Entrepreneurial Energy . (2011): n. page. Web. 13 Mar. 2014. <http://entrepreneurialenergy.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/renewable-engineers/>.

 

Week 5 Prompt Post: Engineering Code Of Ethics

Here is professional engineering code of ethics form eHow: “The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) explains that the work of engineers directly affects the public in ways that impact health, safety and wellness. It is for this reason that engineers must hold themselves to a strict code of ethics that acknowledges this responsibility and encourages attention to detail and quality work.”

1. Wellness
It is the engineers' responsibility to inform their employers, clients and other authorities if any decisions they have made to secure the safety of people and property have been overridden, so that their project's integrity is not compromised. It is imperative that safety and well-being be a priority for an engineer at all times.
2. Trustworthiness
Engineers are responsible for keeping their clients' and employers' private information in confidence unless given permission by the client or by law to reveal it.
3. Competency
Engineering trades are highly specialized and require formal education in specific fields of interest, including structural engineering, chemical engineering and electrical engineering. The NSPE demands that engineers provide services only in the area of the field in which they are an expert.
4. Professionalism
Engineers are entrusted with ensuring the public's safety, health and wellness by presenting plans and specifications that adhere to standard engineering rules and regulations. Extending past occupational duties, the NSPE encourages engineers to promote public well-being by assisting in youth mentoring and community service.
5. Accountability
While industry standards in engineering ethics have been set by the NSPE, only engineers who choose to become members of the society are held accountable for upholding these standards. Members of the public can report a society engineer in the event that they suspect an engineer of not following the Code of Ethics.

These codes of ethics list very clearly and I believe in it with no doubts. Mechanical engineers work with machine and responsible for their products, they are all related to lives and property, as mechanical engineer, we must perform our best in order to take responsibility to people and society.

 

Three ways in which I am doing in college related to ethics

1.     In EGR 100, I had already learned that we should keep our clients and other members’ private information, and never plagiaries other’s work or reports. This is relates to ethics of trustworthiness.

2.     Also in EGR 100, when we built our lego robot project, we needed to use lots of tools to accomplish our project, I always told my members to be careful during work, and I always volunteered to check safety of tools and programs. This is relates to ethics of wellness.

3.     In MSU, I am always concentrate on stuffs on mechanical engineers, I got all 4.0 on the two elementary EGR classes and I continue to study with all my energy, I try to make ethical decisions. This is relates to ethics of competency.

 

CITATION

 Danielle , Langberg. "Professional Engineer Code of Ethics." eHOW. N.p.. Web. 16 Feb 2014. <http://www.ehow.com/about_6132586_professional-engineer-code-ethics.html>.

 

 

Week 5 Free Post: Introduction of Elements of Mechanical Engineering

For this week’s free post, I would like to share a video about elements of mechanical engineering. Mechanical engineer is not only relates to machines, but only it contains heat and material science. Somehow, many students around me always complain about why we need to take physics and chemistry if we are major in mechanical engineer, what a waste of time and energy. I think after watching this video, people who have that thoughts will change their mind. This video is like a PowerPoint slide show during the first part, it gives some common senses like what is mechanical engineer and what can mechanical engineer do for society. The second part of the video is to a carton show. There is a analysis of a trains, it burns carbon to get kinetic energy and the white gas which is carbon dioxide and sulfate dioxide put into outside air through a pipe. It shows that mechanical engineering is also relates to heat and chemistry stuff.

 

Citation

Qpage, , dir. Introduction of Elements of Mechanical Engineering . 2013. Film. 10 Feb 2014. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS4pV3zqGfQ>.

 

 

Week 4 Prompt Post: Observing Community Eta Kappa Nu

The community that I observe in Michigan State University is called Eta Kappa Nu, although it is not a community for mechanical engineering but for electrical and computer science, it is related to using computer to build programs which is also a part of mechanical engineering job, so I think that I can post this observation as my prompt post for this week. 

Eta Kappa Nu is the International Honor Society for Electrical and Computer Engineers as It says on the introduction page. As I observe, it is a club which is full of elites in engineering field. Most of members are junior or senior students, and also some of them are graduate students. The goal of this club is to let these honor students get promote, it provides information and tutoring for people and also they provide helps for undergraduate programs.

As the benefits of joining in the Eta Kappa Nu club, other than getting tutoring and helps on undergraduate programs, I think that if you can be an active member in the club, the other members will not only help you on programs, but also on social services, presentation even job opportunity for the best companies. People you know in the club are all elites, they may help you a lot in the future.

I strongly encourage those who can achieve their requirements and willing to succeed to join the club, it is valuable. 

You can also view the website:http://www.egr.msu.edu/hkn/

 

 

 

 

Week 4 Free Post: Video Games In Mechanical Engineer

Is Mechanical Engineer boring and hard? I think most people will say yes if they are crazy. I d like to say yes as my response as well, however, for this week’s post, I can show you a interesting part of mechanical engineer, which is the thing that everybody likes it, video game.

As the introduction of this video says, students play video games to study mechanical engineer happens in North Illinois University. They drive cars in the program to test their design. As the video shows, there are a lot of situations, like car crash and speed decreases when another vehicle passing by. Anyway, it is a fun program and there is a guy specific introduce what they are testing in the program, go see for you self if you are interested in it.

Although we don’t have such a class for engineering students in Michigan State University, the EGR 100 has lego robot project for engineering students which I think has so much fun. The assignment is to let engineering students build lego robots and have competition on speed, in order to win the competition, students should design the appearance of their robot to make the robot lighter and easy to catch the box, also students need to build their program carefully so that no errors will happen to robots. I think the benefits of this project are to let students enjoy learning engineer and give them freedom to let them design. I think we can open more class like this so students won’t complain about boring and difficulties on engineer.

Citation

Brianno , Coller. Video Game in Mechanical Engineering Education . 2006. Photograph. Youtube, Northern Illinois. Web. 6 Feb 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYGwaI-haOM>.

Week 3 Prompt Post: Interview~

I am not very fortunate enough for completing this week’s blogger project; I do not know any mechanical engineering professors and feel shy to disturb other students for my own business. In order to finish this week’s blogger project, I have to ask help from my old friend Kim who graduated from mechanical engineer in PSU and works in China right now. I don’t know how to interview people like asking some valuable questions, besides it is spring festival in China right now, so here are some simple questions and his responses.

Q: Where do you work?

A: I work at Dalian Shipbuilding Factory.

Q: What do you do in average day?

A: Repair ships and renew ships.

Q: Is this the job you expected with your degree?

A: No, I expected to do something like designing cares or repairing cares not ships lol.

Q: How many hours do you work per day?

A: It depends, normally I work 9 hours per day.

Q: Are you satisfied with your salary?

A: Yep, I can live comfortable in Dalian with my salary.

Q: Is this job related to what you learn in school?

A: The theories are same, but you need work experience in order to do jobs like I do.

Reference

Zhao & Kim personal interview, February 3, 2014.

Week 3 Free Post: The Secret Of Nikola Tesla-movie

I am going to introduce you guys a engineering film as my free post for this week, the film’s name is “The Secret Of Nikola Tesla” First, let me give you a brief introduction of Nikola Tesla himself. Nikola Tesla was born in July 10 1856, Croatia, he is a world-renowned inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. He is considered as an important promoter of commercial electricity, and presided over the design of modern AC power systems are widely used and best known. He spent his whole life on providing free energy to human but never used them in battlefields never for money.

This film is all about life times of Nikola Tesla and after I watched this film, I feel sorry and also angry. When Nikola Tesla worked in Edison’s workshop, Edison squeezed Tesla and never agreed with his invention, eventually, Edison stole Tesla’s invention and only paid him fifty thousand dollars for Tesla’s work, if Edison did not do that, today’s technology may faster than our current technology, which makes me sad and angry. Tesla never asked for money, he never sold his invention to privates but give them to public, his inventions are not for money but contribution to mankind, I admire him. Nikola Tesla, a legend that will never fall.

The movie is also named “Tajna Nikole Tesle” directed by Krsto Papic, the funny part is that I think the actor Petar Bozovic; he is almost as same as Tesla. Although the film was made in 1980, maybe it looks like very old, I suggest you to watch it if you truly interested in Nikola Tesla.

 

 

 

 

Citation

1.acaglumac, , prod. The Secret Of Nikola Tesla-movie. 2011. Film. 28 Jan 2014. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E46Rlw4GuFs

 

 

 

 

Week 2 Prompt Post: Comparing two mechanical engineer blogs

First, I apologize for the late post for my week 2 because I was sick due to this bad weather, I hate the snow lol. By reading the articles “Classes Every Mechanical Engineer Should Take” and “About Engineer” I found that both article use first person to express their opinion and there are no citations for both of them.  Due to some reasons, I think that “Classes Every Mechanical Engineer Should Take” is more formal and the other one is informal.

 

In the article “Classes Every Mechanical Engineer Should Take” posted by Gears, the author did a splendid job on word choice, every words is simple because as a international student; and also, I think the author use list style to list what classes should a mechanical engineer takes and what goal should they achieve is wisely, because the list style can make people see your point clearly, and I think it is more formal.

 

In the article “About Engineer” posted by Ellen Berlinghof, the author told people why he chose mechanical engineer as his major, what classes should a mechanical engineer take, Hopkins and his experiences about engineering. The author also uses simple words to write his article which is good for me. The article is very long and contains a lot of information which I mention above. The author also inserts some hyperlinks in the article; it is more convenient for people to get to the websites which he searched for his article. He uses hyperlinks in stead of citations, so I think it is informal. But it is his blog, so I like the free style.


CITATION


1. GEARS, . "Classes Every Mechanical Engineer Should Take." Engineer Blogs!. N.p., 16 9 2011. Web. 28 Jan. 2014. <http://engineerblogs.org/2011/09/classes-every-mechanical-engineer-should-take/>. 
2.  Ellen, Berlinghof. "ABOUT MECHANICAL ENGINEERING." Mechanical Engineering. N.p., 2010. Web. 28 Jan. 2014. <http://blogs.hopkins-interactive.com/academics/category/mechanical-engineering/>.
 

Week 2 free post: Self-Transforming Mobile Robot

The video I give is about a self-transforming mobile robot. The reason of why I select this video as my free post for this week is that I saw many students brought their Lego robots with them for EGR 100 in MSU, and that’s reminds me the time I was in EGR 100 class, It was a fun time according to my memory, so I post this video to let people who are interested in robot watch a self-transforming mobile robot, It is fantastic.

 

The outlook of this self-transforming mobile robot is like a spider or I think it is like a spider. It has 4 legs all with touch sensors. The robot can do spin, stand and even climb to a slope. Like the Lego robot we did in EGR 100 class, I think the creator made programs to control the robot. There are also 4 wheels on each of the legs so that the robot can move smoothly.

 

The creator is also a student in college of engineering; I wish that someday I can make a robot even better than this. Wish me succeed. Hope whoever visit my blogg enjoy this video, thanks.

 

CITATION

Hasan Shariq , Muhammad, prod. Self-Transforming Mobile Robot. 2010. Film. 23 Jan 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tD3dsDzbeg>.

Week 1 Prompt Post: 10 questions and answers about Mechanical Engineer

1. What jobs are available with Mechanical Engineer?

• Mechanical Engineer will research, innovate, design, and develop Mechanical solutions at the component and platform level.
• Mechanical Engineer will the design and develop complex mechanical assemblies and platform chassis design.
• Make prototypes through hands on fabrication and will be in charge of supplier management.
• Make proposal drawing from sketches, wiring or schematic drawings.
• Conduct first article inspection, mechanical assembly and tolerance analysis.

2. What is the income of Mechanical Engineers?

The average income of a mechanical engineer is $85,000 per year.

3. Is it easy for mechanical engineers to find a job?

Job prospects for mechanical engineers look extremely good. Due to the graduation is difficult, a mechanical engineer is popular.

4. How much free time for a mechanical engineer?

Considering that mechanical engineer is a very busy career, normally, a mechanical engineer works 8 to 9 hours per day, but depends on your company’s schedule.

 

5. Are the mechanical engineer related work dead-end jobs?

Mechanical engineer is sort of dead-end job due to many people work in the factory for their whole life and still not gets promoted; however, mechanical engineers can also have chance to transfer to another career like designing structures.

6. The opportunity for mechanical engineer is better in China or USA?

In my opinion, there are a lot of mechanical engineers in China because students in China’s engineer department are easier to graduate; moreover, the population of China is huge so it is hard to find a good job as a mechanical engineer. To me, I think I can get a better opportunity in USA.

 

 

7. Is it risky for mechanical engineers during work?

The answer is definitely yes. Every job has its risk, mechanical engineers usually work with heavily equipment and machines, accidents may happen, like I have heard a lot people cut their fingers or legs during work, so be careful during work.

 

 

9. Is it easy for students graduate from department of mechanical engineer in MSU?

It is extremely hard. This year, the minimum GPA requirement for mechanical engineer is 3.1, and calculus is all difficult, it is really hard to get in college, so it is the graduation.

 

 

9. Is it important to learn those fundamental skills in mechanical engineer like CAD, Mat Lab and UG?

I can honestly tell you that those skills are the main part for higher level skills, you need CAD to draw your structures and you need Mat Lab to write your data. Yes they are important. And In MSU, you will learn these skills from EGR 100 level courses, work hard!

 

 

10. What I think this field in the soon future?

The number of mechanical engineers has increased recently; it may hard to find a good job in the soon future after you graduate from college. However, do not give up, if you have some work experience, I think those companies which need a lot of engineer like Boeing. I think this field is still good in the soon future.

 

 

CITATION

1. Kristine, Tucker, writ. What Are the Dangers of Being a Mechanical Engineer?. Writ. Media Demand. Film. 20 Jan 2014. http://work.chron.com/dangers-being-mechanical-engineer-26080.html.

2. Occupational Employment Statistics. 2012. Web. 20 Jan 2014. http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes172141.htm.

3. John A, Hoschette, writ. The Engineer's Career Guide. 2010. Web. 20 Jan 2014.