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bucksmanuk
516 posts
40 months
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hairykrishna said: I wonder what percentage of the worlds engineers and physicists taught themselves maths from Stroud? A fairly high percentage, I would have thought! - I have to put myself into this category as well...
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dr_gn
7,010 posts
54 months
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W00DY said: I shall be of,f back to University in September to study Mechanical Engineering and as someone who loves reading and is fascinated by engineering, I thought I would try to combine the two. So, anything goes really, from textbooks which helped you out to brilliant engineering tales. What inflamed your imagination/helped your understanding? If you want something other than text books, then the following are really good books which combine excellent explanations of fundamental concepts with real world examples of engineering and design. The first three in the list are particularly good: Materials 1) The New Science of Strong Materials, by J. E. Gordon, ISBN 0-14-013597-9 2) Metals in The Service of Man, by Arthur Street & William Alexander, ISBN 0-14-025776-4 Engineering Design 1) Structures or Why Things Don't Fall Down, by, J. E. Gordon, ISBN 0-14-013628-2 2) Invention by Design, by Henry Petroski, ISBN 0-674-46368-4 3) The Evolution of Useful Things, by Henry Petroski, ISBN 0-679-74039-2 4) Cats' Paws and Catapults, by Steven Vogel, 0-393-04641-9 5) To Engineer is Human, by Henry Petrosky, ISBN 0-679-73416-3 6) Remaking the World, by Henry Petrosky, ISBN 0-375-70024-2
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snuffy
2,634 posts
154 months
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dickymint
11,430 posts
128 months
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RegMolehusband
2,424 posts
127 months
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What is the syllabus like today in a Mechanical Engineering degree course?
When I were a student in the seventies complete with long hair, side-burns and exceedingly wide trousers we did
Mechanical Engineering (strangely enough)
Thermodynamics
Electronic engineering
Computer programming (Fortran!)
Maths
Nuclear engineering
Materials
and probably subjects I've forgotten about!
9-5 every day except for Wednesday afternoons to allow us to catch up with course work.
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MercuryRises
369 posts
33 months
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Frik
11,979 posts
113 months
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RegMolehusband said: What is the syllabus like today in a Mechanical Engineering degree course?
When I were a student in the seventies complete with long hair, side-burns and exceedingly wide trousers we did
Mechanical Engineering (strangely enough)
Thermodynamics
Electronic engineering
Computer programming (Fortran!)
Maths
Nuclear engineering
Materials
and probably subjects I've forgotten about!
9-5 every day except for Wednesday afternoons to allow us to catch up with course work. Pretty much the same, even the programming. Though the trousers tend to be narrower these days. Mind you, it's been 7 years since I finished my degree(!).
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mph999
1,766 posts
90 months
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Frik said: RegMolehusband said: What is the syllabus like today in a Mechanical Engineering degree course?
When I were a student in the seventies complete with long hair, side-burns and exceedingly wide trousers we did
Mechanical Engineering (strangely enough)
Thermodynamics
Electronic engineering
Computer programming (Fortran!)
Maths
Nuclear engineering
Materials
and probably subjects I've forgotten about!
9-5 every day except for Wednesday afternoons to allow us to catch up with course work. Pretty much the same, even the programming. Though the trousers tend to be narrower these days. Mind you, it's been 7 years since I finished my degree(!). I'd go with that I think .. probably through in ... Mechanics of solids (stress/ strain etc ...) Dynamics (vibrations and stuff) Electrical Engineering Fluid Dynamics Manufacturing Engineering Final year will probably involve options ... eg. Aeronautical Engineering Lasers Martin
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MrMagoo
1,748 posts
32 months
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So what makes Stroud so good then?
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hairykrishna
8,996 posts
73 months
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It has clear explanations and an enormous amount of useful sample problems. No matter how ropey your maths background, or teacher, a copy of Stroud will teach you the basics of the maths you need for engineering or for physical sciences. Provided you're willing to slog through it, of course.
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BonzoG
1,320 posts
84 months
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Saw this buried at the bottom of the forum and was about to jump in with "Stroud!1!!" - opened the thread and was not disappointed.  Applied Thermodynamics for Engineering Technologists (Eastop/McConkey), Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics (Munson/Young/Okiishi), Fundamentals of Aerodynamics (John D. Anderson) and of course (Advanced) Engineering Mathematics (Stroud) made a pretty good dummies guide to First/Second Year of Aero Engineering, I reckon.
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clarkey328is
2,109 posts
44 months
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I'm spending my christmas ploughing through Stroud. I fell behind a bit with Maths at the start of this year. I got really engrossed in the design side of things and let my maths slip. Exam isn't until the 18th of January so I should be alright. I understand how to use most of the techniques (Taylor series etc) but often have problems identifying which technique to use for a certain problem.
However, I am loving the design stuff. We have just had to design a crank press from scratch on Siemens NX8.
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Barbarossa
121 posts
88 months
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More general reading - Skunkworks by Ben Rich and More Than My Share Of it All by Kelly Johnson. Great books by (extra)ordinary engineers.
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Meths
565 posts
6 months
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clarkey328is said: I'm spending my christmas ploughing through Stroud. I fell behind a bit with Maths at the start of this year. I got really engrossed in the design side of things and let my maths slip. Exam isn't until the 18th of January so I should be alright. I understand how to use most of the techniques (Taylor series etc) but often have problems identifying which technique to use for a certain problem.
However, I am loving the design stuff. We have just had to design a crank press from scratch on Siemens NX8. You'll be fine  One of my lecturers teaches maths at my university. It's only recently that I've noticed that he wrote most of the books I used to study higher maths. Have you done any autocad, pro-engineer or solidworks modeling?
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clarkey328is
2,109 posts
44 months
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Meths said: You'll be fine One of my lecturers teaches maths at my university. It's only recently that I've noticed that he wrote most of the books I used to study higher maths. Have you done any autocad, pro-engineer or solidworks modeling? Yeah I did a load of Solidworks last year. Must say I prefer SOlidworks modelling to NX8 modelling, but I'm assured that NX8 is great for manufacturing.
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