Mechanical Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #3

Today we continue our tour through the major fields of engineering with a look at mechanical engineering, beginning with the steam engine. We’ll discuss aircraft, the development of aerospace engineering, and take a look into the future of robotics and biomechanics.
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[@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]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@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

[@ENGRingSuccess]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@prpiyer8325]

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

[@m_t_a_h_a]

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

[@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!

[@LawatheMEid]

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

[@AshishGupta-ql9lq]

i like how she uses metric units

[@annabarbaraserejo6712]

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

[@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?

[@aybi7231]

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

[@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!!!

[@gladbandanna]

Holy smokes, your show is awesome

[@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.

[@vettaimannan2082]

Proud to be a mechanical engineer

[@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

[@quinius173]

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

[@zhubajie6940]

Finally the best engineers :D

[@nm9864]

Not necessarily ...

[@theoriesicantexplain2433]

@Rick Ross All engineers are 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.

[@Engji]

awesome!

[@MOBROOKS]

Awesome

[@NorthProGamer]

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

[@jeremiasrobinson]

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

[@celica9098]

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

[@tvpedroso]

Santos Dummond

[@AlvaroCamilloNeto]

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

[@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.

[@Lit-E]

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

[@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! ❤️

[@xspager]

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

[@tristanlopez1777]

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

[@oloyedekayode4542]

Great

[@Weavilepichu]

Can't wait for chemical engineering!

[@Reeseington]

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

[@Dominictorres3256]

thanks

[@aprendeconwilson8326]

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

[@yarendemir3310]

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

[@Tony-yv8gz]

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

[@lucasbudega]

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

[@anmaixuan4064]

Hay quá

[@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!

[@zach4604]

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

[@kailashraj4592]

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

[@tetragon2137]

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

[@Jamdog95]

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

[@someone5383]

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

[@nicovinas]

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

[@limingxu8648]

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

[@aliqazilbash5231]

... all I have are good thoughts 👌

[@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.

[@justinfiore8686]

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

[@aurimasb1732]

Awesome video, can't wait for next episode

[@justinfiore8686]

What about an episode on prosthetics or biomechanical engineering

[@sanaa3151]

biomedical engineering please!!!

[@grwmtobreakintotech]

Chemical engineering next 🙋‍♀️

[@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

[@joaovictordossantoseverino5248]

Forgot the inventor of the airplane, Santos Dumont

[@solidsteal]

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

[@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.

[@somniato7759]

Not gonna lie, this should be crash course history

[@krpcannon123]

i like the little john hancock building

[@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.

[@daviodanger4284]

Make a crash course mathematics please

[@ThainaYu]

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

[@kevinromero3534]

Please do electrical engineering

[@fhernands]

The lack of santos dumond bothers me

[@nikolasdoubouridis9244]

Will you do architecture?

[@hypervermin5272]

Thomas Newcomen is a modern day red stone engineer

[@VAM_Physics_and_Engineering]

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

[@raidingsieg6206]

just a biologist comment passing by

[@andreiberechet7447]

When are used the tap A and B?

[@mentalforge2664]

I love this new series

[@Roihan54]

can you do geological engineer

[@nikanmahdavitabatabaei5586]

I cant find the other videos (shuch as electricasl engineering). would anyone help me finding them?

[@adibzadeh]

There are many "next Tony Stark's" in here :))

[@Theseekermanshow]

Do biomedical engineering!

[@divyashafira7404]

any chance to mention engineering physics???

[@eliasgallegos3058]

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

[@chris_ayyye]

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

[@ranavasim8649]

👏👏👏👏

[@metamorphs96]

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

[@monsouranda2822]

Are they gonna make a Computer Engineering Video?

[@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

[@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

[@jeffreyk8950]

i like how you introduce mechanical engineering !

[@mayvillamin3273]

Can you do the marine plsss because im gonna be a marine one day but i dont have any idea on the course marine

[@moopara7991]

ME rulezzz!! And that's what I have to say about that.

[@victorkibukila7761]

wow cool

[@tarungmusic]

I hope there is detailed coverage of the engineering design process in future episodes!

[@Danilego]

Actually the Wright Brothers just made a guided glider