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Originally Posted by knorwj
You need math for physics and you need physics for engineering.
Some courses I'd suggest are Calculus 1-3, differential equations, All basic physics courses, Then try some more specialized physics courses like quantum, electronics and circuits etc. I would also recomend some basic programming classes in case you ever need to make a program to run specific calculations etc for you. It can save alot of time.
Thats about all I can think of off the top of my head I haven't been into that stuff in about 4 years. I was an engineering major but fell 1 semester behind in my math classes. This in turn made my physics classes hell and I wound up dropping engineering. It can be fun depending on the job you get.
My best suggestion is to study hard and do as many homeworks, examples as you can. Just like everything else practice makes perfect, the more you work at it the more easily things will come to you. If you start blowing off homeworks etc you will become lost very fast.
Goodluck with it, I wish I had stuck to it.
~Will
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So much to read, and I PROMISE to read it all in time...
Funny you should say that about computers, 'cause I'm a compsci major right now, and have been taking computers since middle school. Computers are the future right? And the school I'm currently attending doesn't offer mech. anything. As soon as I can catch up in math and get the physics I was going to switch over to engineering. My minor is art because I'm good at design but surprisingly, I'm learning some engineering in 3d design class. For instance, just today we watched a video about an environmental artist, Andy Goldsworthy. While he's very much a 'tree-hugger' because he wants to understand nature, he puts together these:
he can build these within a day and it'll withstand any form of weather. There's no bonding agent used at all. There's no smokes and mirrors, it's held together by gravity and good old fashioned trial and error.
He'll never build it with the same design twice, meaning he'll place the stones in different places or find new stronger stones to use, and that's why he's an environmental artist. When I first saw this video, I was thinking he'd make an excellent engineer, if he wasn't one already. He builds stone walls the same way although he gets help from colleagues and coworkers with those.
no clay, glue, bolts, nothing. He knows how the stones hold eachother together, fascinating huh?
(i'll get to replying to your other posts soon, thanks)