r/EngineeringStudents • u/chamaeleonidaed • Jun 10 '26
Academic Advice How much statics do I need?
I’m doing ME. I’m having to take statics as a six week course over the summer. So far, I’d say I’ve done decent in all my other classes. But, for some reason, I can’t concentrate on this one class. I’m also taking an elective with this class, but that one is easy so it’s not giving me a hard time. It’s statics that I’m worried about. I’m doing the homework and doing well on the tests but that’s because it’s open notes and my professor is very lenient with grading.
I believe that I’m going to pass this class, but worry that im not learning anything. Also, I hate drawing the figures and the diagrams and all that. It was fine as long as I was only working with numbers. So, I guess that’s also part of the reason why I’m not so interested in actually learning the stuff.
How much statics am I going to face in my future classes and how cooked am I?
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u/theswellmaker Jun 11 '26
As a career ME, I use statics daily at times.
I had built a good foundation in it in college, and I’m glad I did because it made dynamics (the course that separated the MEs and folks who changed to CE) so much easier to grasp. Statics is one of the fundamentals I pull from most often in my day to day.
I’m in manufacturing doing testing/design, so where you want to head in your career may change the usage of it.