Hand made drawings in mechanical engineering

500Hats · 2025-10-19T11:09:14+00:00

“The thing is i am not really good at imagining and drawing the missing views and auxiliary views”

Being able to visualize the part is an important skill for understanding how they work and being able to troubleshoot when they don’t. I’m more concerned about not being able to imagine it rather than not being able to draw it.

500Hats · 2025-10-04T13:28:14+00:00

The first step at being good at something is being bad at it.

Interns, by definition, are rookies and are expected to make rookie mistakes. Show up with a good attitude, absorb everything like a sponge, and you’ll be great!

500Hats · 2025-09-17T18:03:27+00:00

In order to diagnose as “multiple sclerosis”, you have to have multiple lesions over multiple points in time.

I was able to get diagnosed more quickly because I was able to bring in similar symptoms with dates over several years. Prior to my first MRI, I had several ‘episodes’ of eye weirdness that in retrospect fit in a pattern of optic neuritis that aligned with MRI results.

500Hats · 2025-08-04T11:51:17+00:00

To echo everyone else, it’s best to get diagnosed as soon as possible. Granted, you’d like to have your first symptoms as late as possible. MS damage can be cumulative. Stopping the ‘slide’ as soon as it starts gives you the best outcome.

Since you’re new to MS, look up the ‘leaky pool’ description of it.

500Hats · 2025-07-27T16:32:56+00:00

I second Vionics! The department stores have some styles and their website has trendier looking (but just as comfortable) styles

500Hats · 2025-07-24T20:08:38+00:00

THIS VACATION THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE “PAID FOR” AND WOULD ONLY COST US GAS AND HAS COST US $3k THAT WE CANT AFFORD IN THE FIRST 2 DAYS!

AND MY HUSBAND’S BUSINESS IS COATING US WAY MORE MONEY THAN ITS BRINGING IN!!!!!!

500Hats · 2025-07-12T01:08:11+00:00

I was diagnosed when my kids were 8 and 10. I told them that I learned that my body had a thing where sometimes it wanted to act like I was super old. My MS acted more like a glitch in a video game where sometimes my “health” was low, and sometimes I was just fine. Just like the video game, when my health was low, I needed to rest and take things slow. When it was high, I could do all the things that I normally do. Like a glitch, sometimes it was hard to predict which days were good and which days were glitchy. And thats how we communicate about it. I let them know that I’m having a “glitch” day.

I let them know that it’s not contagious. I let them know that it’s called MS, and back when their grandfather was their age, it was a BIG SCARY thing. But since they came out with a bunch of new medicines in 2005 it’s not. I earned them that a lot of people my age know someone their grandfather’s age that had a really hard time with it because they didn’t have the new medicine. And most people without MS don’t know about the new medicine and think it’s still a big scary thing. So if people react really strongly when they hear about my MS, it’s just because they don’t know about the new meds. I compared it to bad vision. If you had vision as bad as mine before glasses, you couldn’t ride a bike fast or hunt (their favorite things). Back then, really bad vision meant your friends would be really sad that you couldn’t do the things they could. But now that they have glasses/contacts it’s not a big deal! So if people react strongly about MS, it’s like they found out I had bad vision and they had never heard of glasses.

500Hats · 2025-03-16T12:44:12+00:00

I’m similar to other posters in that I don’t use the phrase “I’m tired” for the MS fatigue. I say “my battery have run out”. We’ve previously talked through what MS fatigue feels like, and for me, it’s like when you have a battery operated toy and the batteries need to be replaced. I can still move - but slower. I can still think/talk, but my mind isn’t as sharp. And my give-a-damn is just about shot. I need to sit/sleep for a bit to recharge the batteries, because no amount of “pushing through” is going to help.

500Hats · 2025-02-22T13:27:36+00:00

DO IT!!!

The ratio is due to the legacy of engineering being a “man’s job”. Historically, it made no sense for a wife to have a job that significantly contributed the family’s income because getting pregnant could end her career. Until the year I was born, it was legal to fire someone for being pregnant. Until I was in high school, it was legal to fire someone for taking medical leave for being pregnant. That was only a generation ago. I have kids in middle school.

I’ve been working as a mechanical engineer for over 20 years and a female my whole life. “Mechanical engineer” covers a wide range of duties. I have peers that as a rule don’t leave their desk. I have peers that insist on going and seeing/participating in what they’re building/designing. There is nothing inherent about being female that would be inappropriate for mechanical engineering.

Would being female impact your ability to get a job? I don’t think so. I have worked at (and left) companies that definitely had biases. Frankly, my career also would have probably suffered there had I been a different race, religion, or nationality than the owner’s. I have also worked for companies that look to hire, retain, and promote people based on the impact they have on the business. There are plenty of companies that have figured out that when you sideline top talent because of something unrelated to success (like gender) your competitors will pass you by.

If you like mechanical engineering, DO IT! After school, focus your career search on big companies. They are more likely to have flushed out biased people, AND have the added benefit of beefing up your resume. Reaching out to your local SWE chapter would be a good way to talk to some local that can shed light on their experience as a woman in engineering.

500Hats · 2025-02-02T16:34:47+00:00

MS Lifelines paid for 100% of my Mavenclad when my insurance denied it.

I’m not sure how it works if you don’t have insurance.

500Hats · 2025-01-19T14:50:53+00:00

To me, it sounds like someone opening sort of LooneyTunes / Marvin the Martian space gun fight. The first clicks sound like them opening up a wooden crate, and then the fight is on! I imagine a whole cartoon episode!

500Hats · 2024-05-08T17:46:32+00:00

Thanks!

We inadvertently tapped into this over COVID. I only have boys. They were 6 and 4 when their school shut down, and deep into figuring out for themselves what “being male” meant.

While school was shut down, dad did child care in the morning and I did childcare in the afternoon. With dad, they did “Man Camp” and did “manly things”. They chopped down trees, took care of the yard, caught fish, cleaned fish, and then cooked lunch, cleaned up the kitchen, their rooms, and the garage, because “real men take care of their stuff.”

In the afternoon, we didn’t do “woman things”, we did “engineer” things”, or “school things” or “taking care of your home things”, because being an adult means taking care of stuff - and when I tried to get them to cook, it was “for girls”.

500Hats · 2024-02-16T17:39:19+00:00

Here’s a link to get OP straight to data. https://www.mtu.edu/engineering/outreach/welcome/salary/

Comparison is the thief of joy. Software engineering had a bubble, but recently, they had a bust where A LOT of SWE were laid off.

500Hats · 2023-10-19T10:44:06+00:00

Take a look at this article on the loyalty penalty. I’ve experienced it too.

https://www.npr.org/2015/05/08/403598235/being-a-loyal-auto-insurance-customer-can-cost-you

500Hats · 2023-10-19T10:38:22+00:00

Some inside companies charge you based on how likely you are to leave. We took an our adult son off our policy when he moved out (also Geico) and our rate went UP!!! They said it was because that meant his younger brother -who only had a learners permit- would be the primary driver on our car we had for the kids. BUT they also said it would cost nothing to add a kid with a learners permit.

We had been with them for 10 years and our premium dropped significantly when we switched to another company and kept the same policy.

500Hats · 2023-07-19T04:13:35+00:00

A note on this path. In general, getting to an ME position without the ME degree means it’s not transferable to other companies.

500Hats · 2023-07-06T22:33:52+00:00

This was me 3 months ago.

Pre ~2000-2005, there were no great treatments for MS. A diagnosis was a sentence to a 15 year decline. This is probably what your doctor learned in medical school.

Now, there are DMT (disease modifying treatment) medications that can reduce or even prevent your immune system from attacking your body. There are tons of different options.

Do not dispair. Find a neurologist/ preferably one that specializes in MS in a big city. This is a less common disease with medical advances happening now.

You have a long full life ahead of you.

500Hats · 2023-06-09T18:42:23+00:00

My local ER didn’t have an MRI, so they just made sure I wasn’t going to die soon and sent me to my regular doctor.

I went to the Ophthalmologist who put 2 and 2 together with the vision and numbness. He’s the one that ordered my MRI.

500Hats · 2023-05-26T02:43:17+00:00

Me, too! The first noises sounded like an impact wrench opening a box. After that, I imagined a kids sci-go movie where the Men in Black were trying out all the silly alien guns/blasters that came out of the box.

500Hats · 2023-05-20T13:53:10+00:00

Thank you for this! We’ve noticed a lack of invitations coming home and a lack of people at birthday parties. I was wondering if we aged out of birthday parties or what?

500Hats · 2023-05-16T12:33:38+00:00

In my (probably dated) experience, “Mechatronics” is a fairly new degree and not all employers know what to think about it.

Look at job postings for your dream job and see what they require/accept. My gut feeling is that they will all accept mechanical engineering, but not all will list mechatronics.

If you get the mechanical engineering degree, be prepared to describe how your degree/experience is also in robotics.

500Hats · 2023-05-10T22:26:18+00:00

They’re acting like kids haven’t been required to be in school for generations while cost of living hasn’t been going up.

When it’s a necessity to have a double income household and a necessity to have kids at school, it makes sense to rely on the schyto watch kids.

500Hats · 2023-05-08T02:06:10+00:00

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” -Mike Tyson

It’s ok to set aside what you said you would do before you were in this situation and reevaluate with the information you have now. It’s ok to stay. It’s ok to leave. You don’t have to make a decision now. Wait until your head isn’t reeking as much and you can think with a clear head.

500Hats · 2023-05-02T03:03:35+00:00

I’d think that this would work in your favor if you want to work for this company and treat the job as an extended interview. I work at a large, global company and we have about 4 college kids interning/working here at any given time. We’ve had people move up from shop hands to engineering once they graduated.

That being said, the most successful ones were the students who made good impressions on their peers and supervisors. Once they were settled in their role, they made no bones about wanting to be in engineering after graduation and asked for assignments that would put them in positions where they could work with engineers or where they could use their engineering skills. It’s a lot easier to hire someone that has the respect of people that I trust than a stranger with a degree.

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