Mechanical Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #3

[@dasoyee]

And if it doesn’t move, congrats you’re a civil engineer!

[@RyanStar10023]

The SHADE XD

[@RyanStar10023]

And if it's alive you're a biological engineer!

[@yamenarhim9336]

And if it's programmable, You're a computer scientist!

[@ganaraminukshuk0]

So, what happens if it moves?

[@oldcowbb]

If it flies?

[@tahasilat7394]

For a person who never had any interest in engineering, I must say that I find these videos quite and good and informational. I plan to watch every single one and learn more about engineering by doing so

[@yamenarhim9336]

same here

[@bioengboi137]

I'm just an 8th grader and am interested in engineering even though it is a college course. So having this year-long engineering playlist is really helpful for me.

[@guitarguy3378]

Taha Silat Rip rocket fan, hopefully they're as hot next season

[@yamenarhim9336]

i encourage you to search for courses on basic engineering , for example: take a course on building basic electronic circuits or some programming if you are interested in this type of things,you don't have to wait until college to learn you can start simple now and build more advanced stuff later. if you start from such an age you i think you can accomplish great things in your life. Hope you all the best!.

[@BirdRaiserE]

Taha Silat Well, if you ever want to be one, look very carefully at each Engineering discipline. Know what it entails, what you can do with it and, if you're really dedicated, which parts you like and hate. You don't want to end up as an electrical engineer if you hate circuits, or a Biomed if you faint at the sight of blood, etc. I'm a mechanical. It's a well-rounded major that allows you to do many things with a lot of cool design stuff, but this means you have a higher chance of running into something you really don't like. For example: fluid dynamics and control systems ae perhaps the most difficult, boring, mathematically intense classes you will find in any major and are mandatory for Mechs like me. Don't even THINK of Aerospace if fluid dynamics makes you hate life.

[@Voicefish]

Mechanical engineering students represent!

[@llumar100]

denny0489 mechatronics

[@santiagocristella8113]

First year of Mechanical engineering!!!!

[@BirdRaiserE]

denny0489 UC Davis Senior here!

[@emanuelalrocks]

About to finish my freshman year.

[@danielguerrero8582]

Im taking Thermo right now. ME or bust

[@Beamer1969]

I think it is funny that a horse is capable of a maximum of around 14.9 horsepower.

[@kylebrown4978]

No, thats impossible.

[@ivanmanko]

Maybe for some seconds a horse could do that, but never continuously

[@vinnielan8331]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@ENGRingSuccess]

AS a mechanical engineer, I find these videos so helpful! Thank you Crash Course for generating such wonderful content!

[@AA-yz6tn]

I was having a difficult time to get interested in ME. I took ME because my family thinks it's needed for our business. I don't have any idea on what to take back in highschool so I'm here studying with disgust. Then one day during this quarantine, I thought why I am not interested in my own course. It all lies with me not allotting time to "play" and get interested with mechanical engineering. This video inspired me to up my game. Thank you to the creators!

[@someone-vk6gk]

Yeah, an insight and the impact is really what makes me keep pushing forward too, it's motivates me

[@jacquelinecayon4643]

Nice! Without the original Crash Course videos 6 years ago I probably wouldn't have become a mechanical engineer. Things have come full circle.

[@jajalarue]

Interesting fact: Bill Nye's only degree is a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University.

[@transplant8406]

You could study advanced knitting as a Cornell undergrad and still have good chance at a Nobel prize.

[@burry218]

There is a NEW field of engineering: Mechatronic Engineering. Please can you look into it? It'd be awesome to see a video on that. It's mainly robotics, etc, I believe

[@tcs36]

It's not really a new field. It's just a combined program of mechanical and electrical engineering with some computer science thrown in.

[@jcdelrio100]

Basically another way to say robotics. You basically learn how to create electromechanical systems like a robotic arm who’s linkages are moved by a servo motor.

[@guitarguy3378]

Burry21 Hmm I don't think that it's all that new

[@Joccaren]

While not new, its more new in how its specialising away from pure Mechanical. Mechanical engineers tend to learn the basics of robots, if that, these days, and from the courses I've seen they don't even touch electrical - a core component of robotics. Mechatronics is starting to be taught as an independent field with a higher focus on the electrical side of engineering, and more detail into how to program both at a base assembly level, and in higher level languages. Similar to how Aerospace these days isn't just mechanical engineering, mechatronics is becoming a more distinct field in itself. They all fall under the broader purviews of the more basic engineering types, but they are more recently becoming distinct entities. I think it would be, on the whole, more informative when we get to the more detailed episodes on each of the broader areas, to start talking about the sub-areas that spring off them, especially as those sub areas start to be taught as independent subjects that many of the viewers of the video may one day wish to study. I think it'd be a bad outcome if someone went to study mechanical engineering at University because of this video, but then realised they actually wanted to be studying aerospace, mechatronics, or biomechanical courses offered at the university instead. Of course, any engineer worth their salt should have developed the skills to jump to a related field without too much trouble, but it would be far more helpful to point them in the direction they're interested in from the start. That said, I don't think things like Mechatronics, Aerospace, or Biomechanical need their own big overview episodes like the big 4. They're going to be doing more detailed videos on certain parts of each field in the future from what I understand, and that'd probably be the appropriate time to introduce the more detailed labels and differences from the core of each category.

[@1awegamr468]

Well I have read these comments and honestly, I have to say Mechatronic Engineering might have a future. It is like Robotics Engineering but a better focus on the materials and the power sources as well as the the uses it might have. Unfortateunly this type of engineering is just Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Engineering and Electrical Engineering. For it to stand out someone will have to create something ENTIRELY new. If something like this does happen, Mechatronic still won't be a main branch of Engineering as it consists of other types of Engineering, but it will change the ENTIRE world.

[@joemacdougall9205]

At the end of the day we live in a mechanical world. This field will pretty much always be around.

[@BirdRaiserE]

The only thing I dislike about this video is it's basically the same video as what "Crash Course: History of Transportation" would be. Where's the HVAC and heat transfer? Where's manufacturing and material science? You can't be a Mechanical Engineer without those!

[@SurajGrewal]

Sure mechanical engineers are taught basics of it but they don't specialize in it. It's the job of thermodynamics engineer and material scientist.

[@CFrags95]

I've been waiting for this video for a long time! So excited to be pursuing this career path! Very inspiring! Love the series and love this channel! Thank you!

[@jonathanromero5289]

This is awesome! I’ve always said I want to be an engineer but I never really knew what that meant, and this series is giving me a really clear picture of what engineering is and it’s various fields of use. Crash course seriously is such a help to me as a high school student, It saved my World History AP grade 😩😂, Thank you!

[@paulauchon5455]

Go do it! I can tell you it's the best decision I've ever done, it might be hard, but after the hard work you can become anything you want!

[@prpiyer8325]

THIS sums up why I am studying to be a mechanical engineer!

[@LawatheMEid]

Mechanical engineer (designing & production, master student in materials science) and proud

[@m_t_a_h_a]

Thanks alot for making these videos, they are really helping me choosing my future profession.

[@Tykozuro]

Mechanical Engineer, Best engineer 💪

[@tylergaither6619]

HA! False! MechE every day

[@funkysagancat3295]

Computer Engineer > Eletric Engineer > all others engineers

[@1awegamr468]

Funky Sagan Cat MY MAN!

[@InfinityLRDL]

Chemical engineering > mechanical engineering

[@InfinityLRDL]

Funky Sagan Cat disagreed. Chemical engineering is the best engineering

[@zhubajie6940]

Finally the best engineers :D

[@nm9864]

Not necessarily ...

[@theoriesicantexplain2433]

@Rick Ross All engineers are awesome.

[@abcde8293]

So basically mechanical engineers nail anything that moves?

[@djnach96]

There is a mistake in the part she talks about turboreactors. Even though it is true that the turborreactor was pattented by Sir Frank Whitle, the first turborreactor engine to fly was developed by the German engineer Han von Ohain. It took to the skies in 1939. I cannot provide a link to sources RN, but I will try later. Thanks for the work bringing to every body such a fascinating profession as engineering!!!

[@annabarbaraserejo6712]

You SHOULD have mentioned Santos Dummont as a pioneer of creating an airplane too!!

[@vettaimannan2082]

Proud to be a mechanical engineer

[@NorthProGamer]

I wish these got more views. Please don’t stop creating these!!

[@michelottens6083]

Just this same morning I read an article (in dutch, and paywalled, sadly), on all the recent research showing how better transportation just leads us to do mostly the same stuff, in the same amount of time, over longer distances. This is shown to dangerously loses us our interest and capacity for surviving as a community on smaller scales. Granted, there are problems that demand efficient long distance travel, but it also seems that a lot of engineering solutions get applied dangerously broadly, to the way everyone travels anywhere in this case. A lot of car users could well have lived perfectly comparable lives using only bikes to get places. Overbroad applications of initially specialized engineering may be an interesting topic for a future video?

[@imperfectxennial3008]

Can you do a video on Engineering Technology vs Traditional Engineering? Not many know the difference. I am a student in Mechanical Engineering Technology myself (just about done with my Associate's degree). Even TE's (Traditional Engineers) and business leaders have a poor understanding of an ET (Engineering Technician/Technologist). Thanks.

[@gladbandanna]

Holy smokes, your show is awesome

[@thelonecabbage7834]

I feel like engineering needs its own Drake meme : -Creating products for the betterment of society- Creating products for war that have the side effect of bettering society.

[@AshishGupta-ql9lq]

i like how she uses metric units

[@Crilic3]

Just recently figured out that I may have missed my calling as an engineer 10 years ago when I was "encouraged" to go into graphic design. I'm relieved that I was eventually forced to stop studying and get a job, so I could discover what I didn't like doing, and discover stuff like this instead.

[@bengal329]

THANK YOU SO MUCH CRASH COURSE! All that you're doing is very educational to youngsters these days. You have no idea how grateful I am to be able to gain so much knowledge from your channel! I aspire to be a doctor or engineer in the future. Thank you! ❤️

[@aybi7231]

Anything that moves! I've been saying that for years :)

[@mlfitness67]

She is the total package. Beautiful, articulate, educated and humorous. Man where did I go wrong

[@Weavilepichu]

Can't wait for chemical engineering!

[@xspager]

It might be me but I think this episode is flowing much better than the first two.

[@kailashraj4592]

This is what we do,we changed the world, to do,work faster,easier and we are the Mechanical engineers😎

[@solidsteal]

I could listen to you talk on anything for all the days

[@quinius173]

Great video! Can't wait for the EE video!

[@celica9098]

This video just talks about the History of Mechanical Engineering, I was hoping to learn about some basic concepts of Mechanical Engineering.

[@Reeseington]

So this is what it’s like to arrive early to a party

[@Lit-E]

You know you love this series when you cant get its jingle out of your head badubum!

[@aprendeconwilson8326]

I am studying mechanical engeniering and I an mechanical industrial Technician , mechanical is wonderfull.

[@zach4604]

this video makes me want to do my statics & dynamics homework

[@matheuscardoso1]

How DARE u say that the Wright brothers were the first? SantosDummont >>>

[@thomasjohnson2038]

Thought DaVinci built the first flying contraption

[@annamattos8627]

@@thomasjohnson2038 Da Vinci sketched aircrafts, but never built them.

[@jeremiasrobinson]

I can't help it. I have to say it. Wow... she is amazing.

[@xWenza]

I studied ME for 4 semesters, it was hell.

[@alexs.3383]

Vaclav Kuchar what did you study after or before that?

[@xWenza]

I joined business school right now :)

[@alexs.3383]

Vaclav Kuchar hopefully business courses are NOT hell! I am switching my major to engineering or at least testing out some of the courses next semester.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

I've been studying YOU, too! *rimshot*

[@xWenza]

what.

[@lucasbudega]

Yeah the Wright brothers definitely weren't the first ones. Santos Dummont really did it.

[@Jamdog95]

I just want to say ¡I Can’t Wait Till The Chemical Engineering Ep! Bring on the trumpets

[@limingxu8648]

Such an important sub-discipline of engineering, if only it's as easy for mechanical engineers to get a job as programmers...

[@tetragon2137]

"Science owes more to the Steam Engine than the Steam Engine owes to Science." -Attributed to Lawrence Joseph Henderson.

[@TheResidentPsycho]

I became so elated when the first notification from youtube today was this episode. I've been thinking about it all day! Love it!

[@shawnlow5709]

Can mechanical engineers be civil engineers?

[@somniato7759]

Not gonna lie, this should be crash course history

[@tvpedroso]

Santos Dummond

[@AlvaroCamilloNeto]

I loved this show! But... what about Santos Dumonnt?

[@Tony-yv8gz]

I'm really enjoying this series so far! Very good presenter!

[@tristanlopez1777]

These videos are hilarious. Simple and easy to follow. Good work. :)

[@justinfiore8686]

What about an episode on prosthetics or biomechanical engineering

[@nicovinas]

What about all about fluid mechanics, heat transfer and energy, and materials engineering. Come on, Mechanical Engineering covers all these fields and more.

[@grwmtobreakintotech]

Chemical engineering next 🙋‍♀️

[@thomaslecky5301]

Perfect timing. In September I’m starting applied science at UBCO.

[@rohinhans7819]

How do you find it so far? I’m also thinking of doing mechanical engineering there

[@VAM_Physics_and_Engineering]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I might be biased being a mechanical. Keep up the good work and DFTBA

[@mahletbekele8727]

I'm pretty sure the highest honor is getting a prize named after you like: Nobel Prize Turing Award I don't know any others

[@benjaminoblak528]

Fields medal

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

I hate to say this, but this was kind of disappointing. This was a history of technology with very little engineering. Not even a photo of an airfoil. I don't really see the point of such shallow coverage of an interesting but challenging topic. This is a CrashCourse I may have to sit out.

[@lukasdon0007]

It wasn't even a proper history of technology; it was just a chronological list of machines being invented. Nothing about their context, the engineering challenges they had, the development of materials, tools or theoretical knowledge which were necessary for these inventions to happen, etc. Overall a really disappointing episode.

[@byronstorm4383]

Yea i agree. However i'm just going to give it some time as we're only 3 episodes in.

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

I've never given up on a CrashCourse before, but I think I am going to this time. An "engineering" CC that doesn't really get down to the engineering is like really bad -- teasing -- porn. I was looking at a moment frame yesterday and thought maybe CC would give a detailed explanation of the various forms, how they work, and what "moment" means in this instance. But then I realized this series was not going to go deep enough to talk about tension and sheer and moment and the rest. Perhaps this series is intended for a primary school audience?

[@MsGeorgiom]

MakeMeThinkAgain Yes! Thank you for saying this. I thought I was the only one.

[@byronstorm4383]

Really hoping it gets better

[@BrunoPontoTxT]

Kinda disappointed that 14-BIS weren`t even mentioned

[@BrunoPontoTxT]

There`s that, but the point is that they both were pioners on flight but only one was mentioned

[@funkysagancat3295]

The Creator of alternate realities é por isso q a gente precisa de uma definição de "voar" se não fica difícil mesmo

[@funkysagancat3295]

The Creator of alternate realities você realmente acha que não haviam pipas e planadores antes de 1903?

[@funkysagancat3295]

sonza68 even if they needed the right wind conditions and a "catapult" with a counterweight of 700kg?

[@funkysagancat3295]

The Creator of alternate realities um planador mantém-se sim no ar quando há o auxílio de correntes de ar favoráveis coisa que o desqualifica como um avião dado que é uma força externa, assim como os dispositivos de lançamento dos irmãos wright

[@ThainaYu]

Sadly I wish this chapter could date back from water wheel to mechanical clock

[@fhernands]

The lack of santos dumond bothers me

[@Buddhabebop]

where might i find more in depth videos on engineering? im considering an engineering degree and i need something deeper

[@rohinhans7819]

Did you end up finding anything? I’m thinking about also doing mechanical engineering

[@someone5383]

Hmm. I expected da Vinci to be mentioned and some of your ancient engineers. The “pioneers.”

[@metamorphs96]

Machines are structures which move. Non-machine structures are mechanisms which are locked. Thus civil and mechanical engineering overlap at structures.

[@aurimasb1732]

Awesome video, can't wait for next episode

[@daviodanger4284]

Make a crash course mathematics please

[@justinfiore8686]

You must do one about bci, because that is the very gammid between biology and robotics, so, yep, decintely

[@victorkibukila7761]

wow cool

[@hypervermin5272]

Thomas Newcomen is a modern day red stone engineer

[@mentalforge2664]

I love this new series

[@lazyeggu6923]

Please do one on Mechatronic Engineering! (this is my second petition)

[@joaovictordossantoseverino5248]

Forgot the inventor of the airplane, Santos Dumont

[@shivamanish2280]

Which phase of engineering is best to learn about robotics electrical engineering or machinecal engineering or any other engineering please clarify my dought in the next vidio

[@paulauchon5455]

If you want to learn about robotics, you can do Mechanics! you will need to understand the motion of the robot and the materials you need to build it, so you need Mechanical Eng. and you need a the chip to process information, so computer Eng. Mechatronics is the combination of the two!

[@anmaixuan4064]

Hay quá

[@nikolasdoubouridis9244]

Will you do architecture?

[@monsouranda2822]

Are they gonna make a Computer Engineering Video?

[@yarendemir3310]

You should really talk about Nano and microsystems engineering too! It would be ps helpfull

[@YATATAmean]

Am I the only one that is interested in the shelf in all of these videos?

[@jamkert3788]

Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems, not problems like "What is beauty?" Because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems, for instance: how am I going to stop some mean mother Hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous be-hind? The answer, use a gun, and if that don't work... Use more gun. Take for instance this heavy caliber tripod mounted lil' old number designed by me, built by me, and you best hope... Not pointed at you.

[@Beamer1969]

A philosopher is a person who thinks about what questions should be asked. A scientist is a person who looks at philosophy and decides to answer one of those questions. An engineer is someone who looks at the answers science provides and uses it to make the world a better place.

[@alexv5581]

@@Beamer1969 Excellent description and I agree. This is coming from a physics major.

[@firegrill7918]

I LOVE YOU

[@JimmyJthe4th]

I think that this video is great for getting people interested in mechanical engineering but i don't know if it does a good job a really flushing out how it's separate from something like ocean engineering or aerospace engineering. A mechanical will be involved in all these things and can often fill these rolls with time and experience but their lack of specialty means that they might not fill the roles you would think of. For example you would think that a mechanical engineer would design ships and planes and while that is partially true it might not always mean what you think. For example the body of say an aircraft carrier is designed by a naval architect because a mechanical won't have gone through the necessary course work to understand load lines or sea states or calculating ship drag and wake ( though these are all skills you can pick up and a role you can move into as a mech E). Instead a mechanical engineers job building a ship would involve the HVAC ,water piping systems, engine systems on a carrier (these are the 3 places mechanical engineers find themselves in the most) or maybe doing vibration and resonance frequencies testing or hull shock survivality. A mechanical will usually be designing and working on the components of a bigger broader systems rather than the specialized design jobs.

[@sanaa3151]

biomedical engineering please!!!

[@aliqazilbash5231]

On my usual “self-laudation” spree, never mind, thanks

[@PreciseVids]

Is it a good major?

[@ZPositive]

LegendofVII it's not an easy major, but it's maybe the most versatile degree in existence. You'll have to give up a lot of partying in college so you can stay home and do homework / study.

[@jeffreyk8950]

i like how you introduce mechanical engineering !

[@strage88]

Roughly one more year and I'll officially be a mechanical engineer. Man I love this stuff!

[@robertschmidt9708]

how was it? Did it rellay satisfy you, i mean based on your wishes?

[@strage88]

The video or my education? I mean as far as the video goes, I would like to see some more stuff on statics or even properties of materials but being realistic, you can't expect that much information out of one KZbin video. Now as regarding my education, I absolutely love mechanical engineering because I feel it's one of very few fields that allows you to float freely between different schools of thought. For example, you can work with civil engineers who are working on the construction of a new bridge, or you can work with aerospace engineers while they work for the design of a new plane, and there are even some various tasks that the electrical engineers could benefit from a mechanical engineer. Overall, I'd say I'm very happy.

[@BdDaBOMB]

Steve What made you fall in love with Engineering if you recall? What's your perspective on Engineering? And any papers, books, people or wiki pages you would recommend I look in to. (I don't mind reading a long paragraph)

[@Engji]

awesome!

[@yolandabugarin3308]

What was James watt doing when he got the idea of making a steam engine better?

[@erkutziyasivrikaya]

I think invention of boat is much more important than wheel. Since most of the transportation is made on water than land.

[@erkutziyasivrikaya]

that would be great :D

[@kerbonaut120]

The wright brothers were not the first to fly just the first to be photographed doing it.

[@deiji7507]

I have a diploma in mechanical engineering and thinking if i should further my degree but the thing is i dont think this path is for me. Idk i see a lot of cons on this path i feel like i'm not happy bcs this is not what i want. My dream is to be an astrophysicist, but again this dream of mine needs a lot of sacrifice. I'm in dilemma T.T

[@eliasgallegos3058]

Yes! The engineering branch i'm planning to study!!! :)

[@aliqazilbash5231]

... all I have are good thoughts 👌

[@kevinromero3534]

Please do electrical engineering

[@Quetzalcoatl0]

i can't wait for the software engineering video.

[@playc.holder6432]

Kind of disappointed 14-BIS wasn’t even mentioned