Feel like most engineering schools in India and faculty just prepare you to be *informed* project managers. Not inventors. Not researchers.
Like just competent enough to understand the way existing machines, tech works so you can monitor it's production, manufacturing processes
Like just competent enough to understand the way existing machines, tech works so you can monitor it's production, manufacturing processes
Just competent enough to check the specs/bom on making a CNC mill but not skilled and imaginative enough to design a new kind of mill from scratch.
Competent enough to operate, debug, use, monitor, manage but not INVENT, DISCOVER, CREATE.
Competent enough to operate, debug, use, monitor, manage but not INVENT, DISCOVER, CREATE.
They don't teach how to make the tools....that help you make the tools, the machines that help make the machines.
Been trying to google making a DIY CNC machine since yesterday and checking out mechanical engineering curricula, checked gatech's curriculum and hardly anything on that.
Comprehensive yes but everything is just "these are all the concepts of all the stuff ever created and how it works"
There's nothing that specifically focuses on making/inventing something by yourself.
There's nothing that specifically focuses on making/inventing something by yourself.
The hobbyist, maker community is doing lots of DIY stuff. That kind of ethos is missing in formal engineering programs
Engineering is fun but the way it's taught via sophoroic lecturing, cut and dry assignments, decontextualized tests, exams is so damn draining
We need some kind of program to train engineering profs, faculty on how to teach
We need some kind of program to train engineering profs, faculty on how to teach
Posting examples of folks making machines that make machines apart from the DIY cnc stuff above in the thread
the one good thing about reading up on history of engineering is reading about how individuals made complex complicated things without heavy machinery
For DIYing at small scale
Now that is also sometimes taught in schools...but again in the most dull manner. They have rusty old versions of that old tech and ask you everyone to do the same experiments on them, record observations and then just grade you for that. That's it.
Everything that's fascinating about that machine, everything that's fascinating about the chain of thoughts that led to it's invention and discovery reduced to doing boring decontextualized experiment. What an insult to the inventor in a way.
Absolutely no lessons on how you could recreate or make something similar or how you could design it bit differently tracing the chain of concepts that lead to it. Nope.
"Here's are the list of experiments you'll perform for these practicals and here's how you'll be graded"
"Here's are the list of experiments you'll perform for these practicals and here's how you'll be graded"
Pre-engineering there's mugging
During engineering there's just notes transcription and periodic test taking
and post engineering just specs checking and monitoring
We are just churning bureaucrats/compliance managers, not inventors.
*sophomoric
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