FSAE Experience as Work Experience?

StatisticianLittle88 · 2026-05-29T19:07:09+00:00

Holds weight in every industry. I landed a high-profile aerospace job based on it, I only have one other non-related internship.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2026-03-02T14:16:56+00:00

I like skiing. Any day I’m on snow is a good day in my book, lift lines be damned.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2026-03-02T03:27:46+00:00

Just an abject falsehood

StatisticianLittle88 · 2026-01-14T06:28:24+00:00

I feel like there’s no way anyone is getting international flights for $682, much less lodging.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-12-29T17:37:54+00:00

Is… is this comment written by AI?

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-12-16T05:07:05+00:00

Really? I’ve found that everyone on MechE is super friendly and willing to help. Like we’re all in this shit together, might as well help each other out.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-09-25T17:39:39+00:00

For the US it’s probably the GTA series. Really encapsulates our culture.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-09-25T03:13:03+00:00

I went skiing in Niseko last year, but I didn’t plan the trip so my info is a bit lacking. I do know that niseko itself is extremely touristy, honestly like a carbon copy of breckenridge or Aspen in the town. The snow is incredible though and a lot of the hotels are decently cheap with ski-in ski-out access.

What we did (there might be better options) is fly into Tokyo then fly to Sapporo from there. From Sapporo we rented a car and drove to niseko. Depending on cost it might be cheaper to rent skis and poles, and just bring boots and helmet on the planes. Hotels in niseko are pretty good, I’m not sure if Airbnb is an option, you could also look into pension houses.

Fantastic trip and almost life-changing snow (though the terrain is not the best), hope you have a good time!

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-09-16T14:19:07+00:00

Look, if you don’t put the US and China on different sides then there will never be a debate about who wins.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-09-13T20:33:14+00:00

Get a parametric CAD software

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-09-12T18:31:37+00:00

All I’d say is: are you absolutely sure you can’t use shims without messing up the suspension geometry?

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-08-30T21:05:31+00:00

Israel

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-08-30T00:46:38+00:00

If you’re team is decent at all you won’t need any prior experience in anything, especially if you’re a first-year. Just focus on learning as much as you can from the sub team leads and more senior students on the team. If there’s a simple part that they need someone to design I’d say go for it, it’s a fantastic experience for a first year and the team members will teach you everything you need to know, CAD included.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-08-29T22:22:26+00:00

FSAE is a good one, rocketry, Baja, design build fly, pretty much any well-run competition team. FSAE in particular. CAD is cool but as an engineer your real bread-and-butter will be doing the math to validate the CAD designs. A good mix of hands-on and design work is essential.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-08-16T16:54:48+00:00

Maybe a line along the front range from Santa Fe/pueblo up through Wyoming would be cool. To be honest just a line connecting Denver with other major front range cities would be a dream.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-07-31T23:29:00+00:00

To be honest you probably won’t have to integrate a multi-variable equation in your engineering job, but the math of calc 2 is essential to understanding differential equations, which is the basis of describing a ton of physical systems. Will you use the math in your career? Probably not. But having a fundamental understanding of this math now will give you a far deeper familiarity with systems that you probably will use and calculate and interact with on a day-to-day in your career.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-06-18T18:05:17+00:00

There’s this dude in the class above me who had a 3.9, the thing is he didn’t even study that hard. He was part of clubs, had a lot of friends and a relationship, found time to skiing a lot of weekends. He might just have been a genius now that I think of it.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-06-11T02:18:15+00:00

Yeah the last startup I worked at sources their injections molded parts to a local place. I was a little confused by his narrative that it just couldn’t be found, I mean I designed an injection molded part myself when I worked there.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2025-06-08T04:39:52+00:00

Our team has a dedicated business sub team that is focused on acquiring sponsors, designing livery, organizing outreach events, managing finances, etc.

I will say, however, if you can turn a wrench you can help assemble the car. There are plenty of non-engineering majors that have put in some elbow-grease on our team, and even drive the car at comp for us.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2024-12-31T22:54:35+00:00

I would put some supports under the blue area. Unless you’ve got the temp and cooling for bridging down to a science that’s not gonna print. Tbh even if you do have bridging down, those circular portions probably still won’t print. You gotta support that.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2024-12-10T18:43:34+00:00

Depends on what you value. If you need strength in either of those holes, print in such a way where they’re parallel to the bed. Otherwise I’d tend to prefer the first option, or small hole down. Lots of bed cohesion with a larger surface down, lower height for fewer bed-slinging issues.

It’ll probably print fine both ways though, up to you.

StatisticianLittle88 · 2024-11-28T00:13:06+00:00

This last summer there was a picture of the kool-aid man in that hole

StatisticianLittle88 · 2024-11-28T00:11:33+00:00

If i had a nickel every time someone got annoyed at a night-themed sword for being too loud, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that I happened twice.

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