Do you have other examples to learn physics nu animations?Documentaries or anything like that?
I remember I watched one time a physics documentary from UK but that was the only one I could find.
That’s not a field, that’s a job.
The only useful site was greatcoursesplus where I could gain knowledge and experience in physics or chemistry by practical applications but not by animations.In that case I used a torrent software to download all torrents and to be honest It took me a lot of time.Besides that,the videos were sometimes boring and filled with mathematical formulas.The practical applications helped me understand certain aspects but that happened in a few videos and not all of them.
I’m back and I want to understand how an engineer job works in the real world. Does he uses animations and videos from greatcourses to become an engineer? Is that how you become an engineer or do you really have to try experiments over and over again? You all gave me a lot of advices but I just don’t understand how engineers need experiments and they can’t learn all that from videos and animations.
My family has a low income and I don’t have a lot of chances to buy electrical parts or electronic components.
Becoming an engineer is a lot like being a doctor, lawyer, or hairdresser. It’s not something you can just do on your own. Regulation and licensure in engineering - Wikipedia
IMO here are the minimum qualifications for becoming an engineer:
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Graduate from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree in an engineering field.
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The ability to solve difficult technical problems using science-based analytical techniques.
If you meet qualification #1 but not qualification #2, you cannot call yourself an engineer, IMO. (I know many people who fall into this category. I do not refer to them as “engineers.” Instead I say, “So-and-so has a degree in engineering.”)
If you meet qualification #2 but not qualification #1, you probably shouldn’t call yourself an engineer. On the other hand, I have met people without a bachelor’s degree who were far better at engineering than your average engineer.
Wolly,
At the beginning of this thread, when someone asked you WHY you were interested in becoming an engineer in the first place, your answer was because you wanted to be a Ship’s Captain and see the world. It has been made quite clear that being a Ship’s Captain and being an engineer have nothing to do with each other. Also, given your aversion to math and physics, I’m not sure what you’re on about at this point?
I just wanted to know if I have a chance in engineering,if not I will join as a crew member. I no longer despise physics as I learned them from GreatCourses.
If we said yes, then how (and what) will you join?
I had a cousin (decades ago) who was on a cargo ship and I get the impression that it’s not a great way to “see the world”, unless you’re interested in vast expanses of ocean. Some people become airline flight attendants for the same reason, although it doesn’t pay a whole lot.
• Do you have a deep curiosity about how things work?
• Do you like tinkering with cars and bikes?
• Building gadgets?
• Taking things apart and putting them together again?
• Fixing broken appliances?
• Building a computer? Understanding the electronics?
• Getting into the fine details of any technology?
If the answer is no…
…then forget about being an engineer.
Become a locomotive engineer?
If you can get yourself on a long-haul cross-country route, you can at least see the United States. (Or maybe Canada.)
An “engineer” is one who deals with and, perhaps, designs and creates “engines”, in the older sense of the word meaning “devices” or “contraptions”. The more modern understanding of “engine” as short for “internal combustion engine” obscures that.
Now, there are senses of the word describing one who deals with engines, that are used for example in large aircraft crews comprising a pilot, copilot, navigator and engineer, in which example the engineer handles the functioning of the airplane, or for example in railroading in which case the engineer manages the engine or locomotive, or for example in large ships.
And then there’s the sense most broadly understood these days meaning one who typically designs “engines” or devices, that could include machines, electrical or electronic systems, or even a chemical plant or a bridge (which are after all devices).
Wolly, which of these are you getting at?
This is a strange thread. It kind of reminds me of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation books and the local woman who approached Speaker of the 2nd Foundation wanting to become a “Scowler”. But she had no idea what a Scowler did other than read books all day.
What people use to train themselves to become engineers tends more to be books. The basis for starting to take courses in specific branches of engineering is math, including algebra and trigonometry, differential calculus, integral calculus, and differential equations. So far it doesn’t much matter what branch of engineering we’re talking bout. All of this is typically done by studying books. A typical progression is to have studied algebra and trigonometry and possibly differential calculus in high school, and then studying the rest in college, as a matriculated student attending classes and doing homework. Since all of this math has been stable for decades, there are plenty of used books available for little cost, and probably public domain books online too.
Then there’d be engineering courses that are in specific branches of engineering. In mechanical engineering there’d be courses in mechanics (meaning the study of how objects move under force), fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and more. In electrical engineering there might be analog circuit design, digital circuit design, microprocessors, and perhaps more math for dealing with complex numbers (which have a real and imaginary part, the imaginary part involving i which is the square root of -1).
It’s been a while since I studied mechanical engineering briefly and then switched to a physics degree, but I work with engineers every day, especially in heat transfer and in fluid mechanics. I don’t recall any of them saying they had used videos to learn from. We’re talking roughly several thousand hours of working with equations at the university level.
I guess you would see more tropical/Mediterranean islands by signing on as yacht crew rather than onto a cargo ship. There are similar qualifications involved (chef, first mate, captain, etc.), but few or none of them necessarily involve engineering.
If you are resourceful, bold, and adventurous, people have hiked around the world, walked or bicycled across continents, and not all of them were idle rich. You would have to take a serious sabbatical from your engineering work to find the time, unless it were 100% telecommuting.