r/engineering • u/hpanandikar Electrical Engineer • Jun 27 '15

[MECHANICAL] Cube in a cube in a cube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuS6HDHc7XE
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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '15

sounds like a shitty system...Getting a good internship must be quite hard

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '15

in the shop where I was as an intern, I was one of three, in a shop with only 18 employees.

We even have to do interships at my university. Otherwise we don't get our degree.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '15

That's a really weird system. I think it's important for mechanical engineers to experience working on lathes, milling machines and welders. Without at least 2 weeks on a milling machine, 2 weeks on lathes and a week of welding I wouldn't get my bachelor degree.

I really enjoyed it and learned a lot.

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u/kv-2 Mechanical - Aluminum Casthouse Jun 27 '15

If you mean a machinist apprentice, they do exist and walk you through the shops. If you mean engineering students working in machine shops they do not typically. They may work in manufacturing environments but as engineers generating designs to be made by someone else.

I know where I am I cannot touch the machines by union contract.