If you like it you should give it a try . Plus, if you forget a - you usually end up with something completely illogical and verify your work (also, engineers work in teams so someone will notice eventually ).
@@kevintanaka4549 That's why you do a sanity check and recheck some problems. At least try to reason whether, say, something ends up in the right quadrant.
We used an RTOS often used in the automotive industry. It had a timer based feature that did not work correctly, so the developers set the time to the maximum 32 bit integer. It crashed every 2.5 days because the RTOS assumed you turn your car on for only a few hours a day and that the timer would be reset each time. Apparently 4,294,967,295 is not the same as infinity. To this day I love the incident description, "Randomly resets exactly every 60 hours."
It sounds harsh for me to say that I learned to fall in love with math as an engineer. So here's a better way of putting it; the beauty of mathematics eventually revealed itself, to a point where I fell in love with it. All the necessities for math are always present.
This makes me want to major in engineering more. Im currently working full time but Im thinking about majoring in engineering next fall. Up until then, Ill study math in order to be prepared
I am freshman studying engineering and we had a class where it was all about unit conversion and MATLAB. My professor also gave us the same example that you said about wrong units and project failure.
Once upon a time, when I was a student, a fellow student came to me saying the textbook of numerical calculus was terribly wrong. He argued: x = cos(x) has not the solution written on the book. I found interesting because I had done that calculus and it matched "perfectly". He showed me his calculator and as soon as I saw the unit I asked him: Why are you trying to use degrees on this problem? That day we both realized how "units" are important even in math.
I find this lack of true perspective to often be the case among mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and technicians who all tend to think of each other in a lesser sense but do not realize that their arrogance blinds them to reality and in fact it is when we combine our skills and abilities that we can do amazing things like put men on the moon and more!
Dnt forget the plus C 🙄 or that you maybe great at integrating and taking a derivative but forgetting that a minus minus is equal to a Plus will result in failure! Calc 1 sure is fun tho lol 😂
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I love that letter holy moly it actually accounts for all of these incredibly important variables and shows how they actually had experts go through all of that optimization work.
@@user-mi5xq8zj7u procédés, I don t know if I used the appropriate English word . It s like chemical engineering but focuses more on chemical treatment (distillation, separation , phases, absorption...) rather than the chemical reactions.
The vignette about rounding/truncation error reminded me of an occurrence long ago while I was doing a dissertation on polymer thermodynamics using Monte Carlo methods. I would generate polyethylenes several hundred units long with arbitrary torsion angles, select a random bond to rotate the part of the molecular beyond the bond, and use Metropolis sampling based on the calculated energy to decide whether to keep or reject the new conformation. (Repetition constitutes a Markoffian random walk in the conformation space of the molecule; averages over many repetitions estimate thermodynamic properties). I soon discovered that the molecule shrunk drastically after a few hundred rotations, which I traced to roundoff error in the spatial matrix transformations, despite that fact that the computer was a CDC 6600 (an original Cray supercomputer) with 60-bit registers. After some deep dives into Anthony Ralston’s books on numerical analysis for computers I was able to put together a set of equations that added something like 10% to running time but preserved the correct atomic coordinates.
I’m 3 years late but I just did some grade calculations and thought of this video after realizing that our grading system for our school (skyward) rounds the grades early in the calculation and my A- should actually be an A which at our school is a different GPA… rounding errors causing probably hundreds to thousands of students GPA to drop
One of the mismatches, between mathematics and engineering, happens with *Euler angles.* CAD packages and Engineers define the angles… • alpha; • beta; and • gamma …as rotations around… • the x-axis; • the y-axis; and • the z-axis …respectively. HOWEVER, in pure math developments, you’ll have a coordinate vector, sticking out of the xyz origin (i.e. (0,0,0)), and the Euler angles… • alpha; • beta; and • gamma …are then the 3 smallest angles between… • the x-axis and the vector; • the y-axis and the vector; and • the z-axis and the vector …respectively. *note:* the CAD package and Engineer definition of Euler angles works well with *partial derivatives* and *Jacobian matrices.*
The professions that handles the 'cat food can' problem is either System Engineering or Operations Research . Mathematicians, Physicists and Engineers look down on us. But we get really interesting problems.
There is a book titled "when math goes wrong" That is filled with these examples. Also I am pretty sure rounding error is why my clock in my truck is off by a few mins each year.
Yeah, and I can't believe how many aces including universities just get lazy and leave off that the denom ≠ 0 when showing solutions. If you have a complicated equation and it has say a polynomial in a denominator and one of those factors just happens to be (x-2) for example, even if the solution is 0 < x < 50, you must remember to exclude 2. [0,2)U(2,50] or [0,50);x≠2
Ah that's why I am over here studying representation theory of Lie groups instead of doing engineering. Real world is not my cup of tea. Hats off to all the engineers.
It is, in a practical sense. An extremely simplistic way of seeing this is: Given integer A and constant B where B > A. Smaller value of A will yield smaller set of mod(B, A). This hold true when B is replaced by set S that represents multiple possible value of B. In this case: A = diameter of a can B = rectangular area of packaging size S = all possible packaging size considered. mod(B,A) = wasted space for another unit/ can Note that it assume uniform square tiling of finite rectangular area. Some product use triangular or hexagonal tiling to increase density. In which case smaller diameter will generally use space more efficiently, but this is not always desirable. While from a pure mathematical perspective it made no sense, we have to understand that the boundary conditions is not intrinsic to the property of the can or the space itself. Rather, they're mostly external factors. Just to name a few: - Delivery company often maximize revenue by charging based on either volume or weight of the package, whichever is greater. Therefore there's a subset (a.k.a sweet spot) of package-to-can ratio that will minimize delivery cost. - On that note, they also generally pack in cubes with predefined variant. - External force is not distributed uniformly to each can inside the package, which limit possible arrangement of n-can in a layer and n-layer in a package to prevent defect cascading. For bigger package this is compounded with cost-to-benefit ratio of container material. - Lastly, consumer who buy in bulk usually prefer a "good" number of can for each package (10, 12, etc). In a way, the realm change from purely a packing problem to combinatorial optimization since the (intermediary) goal is shifted from maximizing occupied space to minimizing wasted space while also take another consideration such as cost, safety, and marketability.
I Always learned in elementary and high school to never leave an improper fraction, always use decimal and covert say 4/3 to 1-1/4. Now in trig and calc, it's much better and more accurate to do the opposite.
Remembering me of a project at my former work. A new piece of the simulation didn't behave as expected and the reason was a wrong material due to a twisted number in the material identification number took ous hours and multiple runs of the simulation to get the mistake
I believe it is. You define a model, which in this case is a function that takes many variables as input but outputs only one, which is cost. For example: f(r, h) = pi*r^2*h*d*c1 + 2*r*h*c2 subject to a list of points (h,r) associated to how many you can fit in a truck. In this example d is density, c1 is a measurement of the fuel cost per weight and c2 is the cost of the material to make the can. So I didn't consider thermal processing. This simple example is not linear on the variables (r, h) and in fact not even continuous (the list of how much you can fit in your truck).
Alan Bejarano I just finished high school last year and will start my industrial engineering degree this year so idk about operations research but in terms of linear algebra, it is an optimisation question involving maximum volume through derivatives if I’m not mistaken although I wouldn’t know how to optimise the can in terms of cost
People often say that you shouldn’t go into engineering for the money. I want to go into engineering not for money but just because of my love for math but I still want to be able to have wealth. Is engineering the best major for someone who only loves math but still wants money to some degree?
Maybe. You might consider pure math with minor in finance. If you do a masters in something math related, you can become a quant and make a ton of money.
Go in to Electrical Engineering, and minor in Computer Science, that way, you'll technically be prepared to work for any Company, and your value as a potential Employee will be significantly higher for those companies, because you know both Engineering and Software. The modern world runs entirely on Software, and so many Engineers i know hate programming, because they sometimes can't wrap their head around it, but trust me, the struggle is worth it.
3: 34 That's the same video my professor put in our physic class for an 'what not to do example'. I'm not good at math but I'm in material engineering, is that something bad?
You must be more specific with the term "I'm not good at math", You're "not good" as in you do not excel in maths or "not good" as in finding so much difficulty in solving mathematic problems (even simple ones)? If you are "okay" in maths it wouldn't be much of a problem since materials science and engineering isn't a heavily mathematics major like many other engineering majors like EEE, computer engineering, ME, or aerospace engineering but nevertheless it is an "engineering" major so you do need to at least get the hang of it. But don't worry, it isn't that bad at all, especially when you get to enjoy it.
I think I'm okay at math. Although I find it difficult, I always pass the exams. But I am LAAAAAAAAZY. I would like to study something like Biochemistry but it's difficult to get in those careers that are related to biology in Spain.
I'm very sorry for not replying early. I have been very busy for the past few weeks and I completely forgot about you. Anyway since you're at least okay with math, majoring in MSE wouldn't be a big problem for you. But still you still need to do at least some practice in math, not much, only some especially in calculus. It won't be very difficult and I'm sure that you'll get the hang of it. The other thing is that even though engineering in general doesn't require you to study 24/7 in order to be good, but at the same time you shouldn't be too "LAAAAAAAAZY" as you described. MSE is a very interesting major it's definitely not boring if you've got an interest in the major, at least 1 or 2 hours of studying a day in normal days should be fine, especially in the first 3 or 4 semesters. I wish you good journey
Some of their reasons explained why an increased diameter costs more. This dude was suggesting a taller can, which would nullify most of the points the marketing department posed.
MajorPrep, can you make a video dedicate to job opportunity for every type of Stem major and their growth in the next 10 years or so? and How to improve the chances to get a job (i.e. experience or intern). This will also be very helpful for those who are undecided about their major because of these. I myself love Aerospace Engineer, more on the astronautic side, but when I search for job I can't find any for entry level or mid level, mostly for senior and such. So I then decided to go for Computer Science and research on those, which do have lots of job opportunity but the work kinda bored me in term of sitting in an office (who know, maybe my liking will change)... So idk what to be major in because I have heard many unemployed people from stuff like this (no dishing, but like art major is fun, but where's the jobs?)
This is really important video as engineers we tend to forget about the sigfigs , this vid shows the importance in the modern world, really enlightening video 🙏🏾
Well yes, it's not that math fails, it's more that the conceptualization used, the model, dismissed non-negligeable parameters of the problem. Direct interaction with the problem is crucial, so is the math, the highest value comes from those with strong mathematical foundations and understanding but also a will to apply and practical experience, at least that's the thesis I would defend.
Most efficient cylindrical container solution can be solved without algebra, just by fact that sphere or ball figure l has minimal surface property's and this law apply to constant volume cylinder, answer the same with different path solutions.
But I met people in all different kinds of majors in college and sat down with a lot of them to write the scripts for all the previous videos on different majors
I don’t get it, Lockheed Martin didn’t use Si Units for that particular Mars Project? That just sounds absurd unless someone can explain to me in full please.
Oh, you have the design docs for every component including legacy designs? How did you get those? Sometimes in design docs, figures are represented as metric but equate to a round number in inches. Guess what, those designs are actually non-SI and likely "legacy" where something is based on a recycled and improved older design. Govt and aerospace does this a lot as programs can run for decades using legacy plans for 50+years.
This is why Engineering is the most difficult of discipline. People's lives literally depend on Engineers, from the tiniest of machines like the transistors, to large structures like the Burj Khalifa, or Air-planes, Vehicles, bridges, and roads, and everything that surrounds us, has to be analyzed, designed, tested, and built, by Engineers. Tiniest of mistakes may end up causing lives, or huge loss of hundreds of millions of dollars. Engineers literally save more lives than Doctors, no offense to the Doctors, but Engineers have to take in so many factors into consideration when building something. It's amazing how the world is so well Engineered to our Human needs, and it works perfectly, as designed.
Sunny shah There may be a lot for engineers to take into account when they need to build something, but it’s not like they are ever doing it alone. Knowledge passed down from their predecessors and shared by their colleagues make the responsibility of engineers less daunting. It may be a tough discipline, but it is by no means alone in how complex it is.
Now that you mention it, I do kind of agree with you here. I'm not sure about the doctors part just because I don't know anything about doctors except from the fact that they have to learn a lot and human lives depend on them. But, about how much is at stake for engineers I totally agree with, even though it's a group of people working on each part of a project, there's still a big chance that they won't take something into consideration and therefore it will GREATLY impact the economy of a company AND it could easily cost human lives. I remember in video where he talked about a math professor saying how a cat food company could save more money by changing the size/dimensions of their cans and a company's manufacturer replied with explaining all the other facts that affect how much money the company would save for carrying on doing it the same way they are doing now because of a lot of factors that aren't only math problems which the professor didn't take into account whatsovever. So yeah, I just find it funny when people say that engineering is easy.
"Engineering is the most difficult of discipline." It's not. For protection, there are tons of specs and criteria to look for and satisfy. If something does not pass that, it is just not released or designed until it does. But in science, such as physics for instance, you actually sacrifice your blood, sweat and tears for trying to discover and understand something new, something people have never seen and perceived. But bridges, cars, computers, medical devices, etc.? That's not new in any way. You just tweak it a bit to satisfy up-to-date market demands, just making sure you satisfy lawful regulations and standards, and people think that it's something new. But fundamentally it's mostly all the same. If choosing the easiest STEM major, I'd choose engineering, not science such as physics, mathematics, etc.
Detective: "Cause of death?"
Coroner: "Rounding."
And there you have it! Estimation causes death! Hence, engineers should not estimate so much. QED.
GRBTutorials that’s why there’s safety factors, uncertainty in real world means that ultra precision in engineering maths is pointless
chris smith It was a joke...
GRBTutorials sorry engineers don’t believe in jokes
This is why I'm not going into engineering. I'll forget to put a - sign and blow up a multi million dollar project.
If you like it you should give it a try . Plus, if you forget a - you usually end up with something completely illogical and verify your work (also, engineers work in teams so someone will notice eventually ).
no you wouldn't, now it's all done by computers
@@everlastingideas8625 Haha it was more of a joke. I'm a physics major but I love engineering since its basically applied physics.
@@TheZod00 Nicely said
One can consider engineering to be applied physics since engineering is just the stream where you actually apply physics
@@TheZod00 engineering is not only applied physics but mixture of (applied mathematics, physics, chemistry and art).
"Degree mode"
thats hilarious and terrifying at the same time
We just had Calc finals. After the exam, my friend realized he was in degree mode.
Kevin Tanaka That sucks. I always pretty paranoid about that so it’s never happened to me.
@@kevintanaka4549 That's why you do a sanity check and recheck some problems. At least try to reason whether, say, something ends up in the right quadrant.
lmao
didn't memorize the whole unit circle smh...
"g=10"
Don't do this plss
Once we were doing katers pendulum experiment and got g =1200 in cgs
@@nazishahmad1337 I hope you aren't suggesting that g is actually that value 😂😂
@Brindan Domineck the g value variation is really really small. It never even comes close to 10. I mean the highest g is 9.8337. Cheers.
@@itsnotyasir your hope is actually correct
Actually the pendulum was having alot of error
"When Mathematics Meets Engineering"
>> When Flammy boi says hi to Zach
Funny .🤣🤣
Me, a first year engineering student: wondering where the engineering will meet engineering 😂
HAHAHAHA SAME
Machine Design, Manufacturing processes
How are you now? i'm about to enter my second year.
Who else should be studying but instead is watching this
You have Final Exams this week?
@@joeyGalileoHotto Yeah
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@@harshitjha2626 lol coming back to my comment I hadn't realized it got this many likes 2 years later...wow
We used an RTOS often used in the automotive industry. It had a timer based feature that did not work correctly, so the developers set the time to the maximum 32 bit integer. It crashed every 2.5 days because the RTOS assumed you turn your car on for only a few hours a day and that the timer would be reset each time. Apparently 4,294,967,295 is not the same as infinity. To this day I love the incident description, "Randomly resets exactly every 60 hours."
It sounds harsh for me to say that I learned to fall in love with math as an engineer.
So here's a better way of putting it; the beauty of mathematics eventually revealed itself, to a point where I fell in love with it.
All the necessities for math are always present.
Couldn’t agree more
This makes me want to major in engineering more. Im currently working full time but Im thinking about majoring in engineering next fall. Up until then, Ill study math in order to be prepared
You got a lot of work and dedication in front of you but I believe in you
Did you ever do it?
Please update us if you don't mind
Great video, great topic, and well put together. I love that someone at that cat food company took the time to educate instead of blowing it off.
Because its fun to prove someone is wrong.
I am freshman studying engineering and we had a class where it was all about unit conversion and MATLAB. My professor also gave us the same example that you said about wrong units and project failure.
Once upon a time, when I was a student, a fellow student came to me saying the textbook of numerical calculus was terribly wrong.
He argued:
x = cos(x) has not the solution written on the book.
I found interesting because I had done that calculus and it matched "perfectly".
He showed me his calculator and as soon as I saw the unit I asked him:
Why are you trying to use degrees on this problem?
That day we both realized how "units" are important even in math.
In fact, the scientific measure of angle is arc length vs. radius ratio, which is amazingly consistent with the concept of calculus.
I find this lack of true perspective to often be the case among mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and technicians who all tend to think of each other in a lesser sense but do not realize that their arrogance blinds them to reality and in fact it is when we combine our skills and abilities that we can do amazing things like put men on the moon and more!
Dnt forget the plus C 🙄 or that you maybe great at integrating and taking a derivative but forgetting that a minus minus is equal to a Plus will result in failure!
Calc 1 sure is fun tho lol 😂
As an engineering student. I think the biggest challenge in engineering Math is how to represent disturbances and errors in the world in an equation
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Love your videos man, so informative and helpful. Thank you!
I love that letter holy moly it actually accounts for all of these incredibly important variables and shows how they actually had experts go through all of that optimization work.
Any engenieer or student here? ☝
First year ECE student here. This was interesting. I just worked the can optimization problem this semester, too.
Yup
Telecommunications engineering
Very math heavy courses
Here math student (master) , used to do process engineering
@@user-mi5xq8zj7u procédés, I don t know if I used the appropriate English word . It s like chemical engineering but focuses more on chemical treatment (distillation, separation , phases, absorption...) rather than the chemical reactions.
That’s like most people dude
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The vignette about rounding/truncation error reminded me of an occurrence long ago while I was doing a dissertation on polymer thermodynamics using Monte Carlo methods. I would generate polyethylenes several hundred units long with arbitrary torsion angles, select a random bond to rotate the part of the molecular beyond the bond, and use Metropolis sampling based on the calculated energy to decide whether to keep or reject the new conformation. (Repetition constitutes a Markoffian random walk in the conformation space of the molecule; averages over many repetitions estimate thermodynamic properties). I soon discovered that the molecule shrunk drastically after a few hundred rotations, which I traced to roundoff error in the spatial matrix transformations, despite that fact that the computer was a CDC 6600 (an original Cray supercomputer) with 60-bit registers. After some deep dives into Anthony Ralston’s books on numerical analysis for computers I was able to put together a set of equations that added something like 10% to running time but preserved the correct atomic coordinates.
Great content! You definitely deserve more love
That degree instead of radians joke... Was waiting for that :D
"degree mode" LMAO😂
I felt that joke.
This is a fun video to watch right before fall midterms
I check TH-cam on a daily basis for major prep 😍😍
love this channel
Dude, insightful video. Thank you
Keep up the great work!!!😄👍
I’m 3 years late but I just did some grade calculations and thought of this video after realizing that our grading system for our school (skyward) rounds the grades early in the calculation and my A- should actually be an A which at our school is a different GPA… rounding errors causing probably hundreds to thousands of students GPA to drop
1 buffer overflow = 1 multi billion dollars
One of the mismatches, between mathematics and engineering, happens with *Euler angles.* CAD packages and Engineers define the angles…
• alpha;
• beta; and
• gamma
…as rotations around…
• the x-axis;
• the y-axis; and
• the z-axis
…respectively. HOWEVER, in pure math developments, you’ll have a coordinate vector, sticking out of the xyz origin (i.e. (0,0,0)), and the Euler angles…
• alpha;
• beta; and
• gamma
…are then the 3 smallest angles between…
• the x-axis and the vector;
• the y-axis and the vector; and
• the z-axis and the vector
…respectively.
*note:* the CAD package and Engineer definition of Euler angles works well with *partial derivatives* and *Jacobian matrices.*
The professions that handles the 'cat food can' problem is either System Engineering or Operations Research . Mathematicians, Physicists and Engineers look down on us. But we get really interesting problems.
The first thought that came to my mind when I saw the bridge was "They must have taken pi=3=e".
This is why all engineering calculations need to a checked repeatedly by other competent engineers, and also why testing is so important.
Well the error belongs to American stubbornness with the use of an inferior measurement system...
This is such good content I wonder why its so under rated nice work mate keep up the good job
There is a book titled "when math goes wrong" That is filled with these examples. Also I am pretty sure rounding error is why my clock in my truck is off by a few mins each year.
Love this guy😄
I liked the humour in this video very good stuff
I was always told sig figs make or break bridges and it stuck with me. I keep that in mind when I do my design calculations.
Yeah, and I can't believe how many aces including universities just get lazy and leave off that the denom ≠ 0 when showing solutions. If you have a complicated equation and it has say a polynomial in a denominator and one of those factors just happens to be (x-2) for example, even if the solution is 0 < x < 50, you must remember to exclude 2. [0,2)U(2,50] or [0,50);x≠2
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😂 That was perfect
Ah that's why I am over here studying representation theory of Lie groups instead of doing engineering. Real world is not my cup of tea. Hats off to all the engineers.
Please make some videos related to biology based engineerings! Please!
By the way great video!
4:38 All non-SI units should be illegal!
I guess this is why my professor marked all my Exams with and F instead of an A.
It was just a small error.
Funny fact Aeroelastic Flutter is the reason, why marching soldiers are ordered to stop marching before stepping on any bridge
This video will make you realize more how dangerous a less than 0 error/discrepancy in any calculations could be IRL.
That was more like when computer science meets engineering
Excellent video.
Was recently wondering why tuna cans have retained that configuration.
I don’t know why I’m even watching this. I’m a biology major, this doesn’t apply to me at all. I guess it’s just fascinating
Awesome video.
you should convert that image to text, man it destroyed my eyes
Hello, I am a student of electrical engineering and I am about to finish my first semester and in my experience it was very easy.
2:36 reason #5 is not true. A smaller diameter can does not use space more efficiently.
It is, in a practical sense. An extremely simplistic way of seeing this is:
Given integer A and constant B where B > A. Smaller value of A will yield smaller set of mod(B, A). This hold true when B is replaced by set S that represents multiple possible value of B.
In this case:
A = diameter of a can
B = rectangular area of packaging size
S = all possible packaging size considered.
mod(B,A) = wasted space for another unit/ can
Note that it assume uniform square tiling of finite rectangular area. Some product use triangular or hexagonal tiling to increase density. In which case smaller diameter will generally use space more efficiently, but this is not always desirable.
While from a pure mathematical perspective it made no sense, we have to understand that the boundary conditions is not intrinsic to the property of the can or the space itself. Rather, they're mostly external factors. Just to name a few:
- Delivery company often maximize revenue by charging based on either volume or weight of the package, whichever is greater. Therefore there's a subset (a.k.a sweet spot) of package-to-can ratio that will minimize delivery cost.
- On that note, they also generally pack in cubes with predefined variant.
- External force is not distributed uniformly to each can inside the package, which limit possible arrangement of n-can in a layer and n-layer in a package to prevent defect cascading. For bigger package this is compounded with cost-to-benefit ratio of container material.
- Lastly, consumer who buy in bulk usually prefer a "good" number of can for each package (10, 12, etc).
In a way, the realm change from purely a packing problem to combinatorial optimization since the (intermediary) goal is shifted from maximizing occupied space to minimizing wasted space while also take another consideration such as cost, safety, and marketability.
That optimisation problem was at my maths exam in high school
I've read and heard about the missile incident before, but I recall it as having been Marine barracks. Maybe I'm wrong idk.
My only issue is that you reference the sides and top/bottom costs to be in per cm^3. It should be cm^2.
0:34 does he mean square centimeters instead of cubic?
Now I know why my professors mark me wrong on the exams when my rounding error is 0.0000001 off.
I Always learned in elementary and high school to never leave an improper fraction, always use decimal and covert say 4/3 to 1-1/4. Now in trig and calc, it's much better and more accurate to do the opposite.
Remembering me of a project at my former work.
A new piece of the simulation didn't behave as expected and the reason was a wrong material due to a twisted number in the material identification number
took ous hours and multiple runs of the simulation to get the mistake
I find this really interesting.
Good work..
Is that “can” problem an example of industrial engineering and how you account for all factors to optimise the cost of making the can?
It sounds it can be solved by linear álgebra (Operations Research) isnt it?
I believe it is. You define a model, which in this case is a function that takes many variables as input but outputs only one, which is cost. For example:
f(r, h) = pi*r^2*h*d*c1 + 2*r*h*c2
subject to a list of points (h,r) associated to how many you can fit in a truck. In this example d is density, c1 is a measurement of the fuel cost per weight and c2 is the cost of the material to make the can. So I didn't consider thermal processing. This simple example is not linear on the variables (r, h) and in fact not even continuous (the list of how much you can fit in your truck).
Alan Bejarano I just finished high school last year and will start my industrial engineering degree this year so idk about operations research but in terms of linear algebra, it is an optimisation question involving maximum volume through derivatives if I’m not mistaken although I wouldn’t know how to optimise the can in terms of cost
Alan Bejarano just trying to further understand my degree😂
Mario Bros ngl, completely went over my head but is interesting, I’ll come back to this in 4 years when I get my degree😂 thx for this though
People often say that you shouldn’t go into engineering for the money. I want to go into engineering not for money but just because of my love for math but I still want to be able to have wealth. Is engineering the best major for someone who only loves math but still wants money to some degree?
Maybe. You might consider pure math with minor in finance. If you do a masters in something math related, you can become a quant and make a ton of money.
Go in to Electrical Engineering, and minor in Computer Science,
that way, you'll technically be prepared to work for any Company, and your value as a potential Employee will be significantly higher for those companies, because you know both Engineering and Software.
The modern world runs entirely on Software,
and so many Engineers i know hate programming, because they sometimes can't wrap their head around it,
but trust me, the struggle is worth it.
I did the question about the cylinder and know I don’t know if I’m right.
great video
wow brilliant sir. thanks
Thank you for such an informative content...these videos would help all the budding thinkers who are searching for ideas to fuel their imagination..
Expected answer from an engineer to a mathematician
3: 34 That's the same video my professor put in our physic class for an 'what not to do example'.
I'm not good at math but I'm in material engineering, is that something bad?
You must be more specific with the term "I'm not good at math", You're "not good" as in you do not excel in maths or "not good" as in finding so much difficulty in solving mathematic problems (even simple ones)? If you are "okay" in maths it wouldn't be much of a problem since materials science and engineering isn't a heavily mathematics major like many other engineering majors like EEE, computer engineering, ME, or aerospace engineering but nevertheless it is an "engineering" major so you do need to at least get the hang of it. But don't worry, it isn't that bad at all, especially when you get to enjoy it.
I think I'm okay at math. Although I find it difficult, I always pass the exams.
But I am LAAAAAAAAZY. I would like to study something like Biochemistry but it's difficult to get in those careers that are related to biology in Spain.
I'm very sorry for not replying early. I have been very busy for the past few weeks and I completely forgot about you. Anyway since you're at least okay with math, majoring in MSE wouldn't be a big problem for you. But still you still need to do at least some practice in math, not much, only some especially in calculus. It won't be very difficult and I'm sure that you'll get the hang of it. The other thing is that even though engineering in general doesn't require you to study 24/7 in order to be good, but at the same time you shouldn't be too "LAAAAAAAAZY" as you described. MSE is a very interesting major it's definitely not boring if you've got an interest in the major, at least 1 or 2 hours of studying a day in normal days should be fine, especially in the first 3 or 4 semesters.
I wish you good journey
Minute 4:40~
This happened to me in a exam. Lmao
that's an insanely capable marketing department that cat food company's got
Very nice Video
Damn the engineer really let math professor have it.
That's cool, we just learned about optimization last week
Some of their reasons explained why an increased diameter costs more. This dude was suggesting a taller can, which would nullify most of the points the marketing department posed.
Great! THank you.
Genius talk right here, some common sense they dont include in school.
MajorPrep, can you make a video dedicate to job opportunity for every type of Stem major and their growth in the next 10 years or so? and How to improve the chances to get a job (i.e. experience or intern). This will also be very helpful for those who are undecided about their major because of these. I myself love Aerospace Engineer, more on the astronautic side, but when I search for job I can't find any for entry level or mid level, mostly for senior and such. So I then decided to go for Computer Science and research on those, which do have lots of job opportunity but the work kinda bored me in term of sitting in an office (who know, maybe my liking will change)... So idk what to be major in because I have heard many unemployed people from stuff like this (no dishing, but like art major is fun, but where's the jobs?)
This is really important video as engineers we tend to forget about the sigfigs , this vid shows the importance in the modern world, really enlightening video 🙏🏾
hey man! can u make a vid on materials engineering?
4:42 this has happened to me .
Now I know why they are still calculating pi. I was like BRUUUH just seconds before.
What do you think about engineering firms?
Great video. That's why I prefer pure mathematics over applied maths.
4:20 that costs 300 million dollars??
It looks like a trash bag over a box
Ik you're kidding but you're underestimating the size of it.
It's a carefully engineered mylar bag over a titanium and aluminum box.
Well yes, it's not that math fails, it's more that the conceptualization used, the model, dismissed non-negligeable parameters of the problem.
Direct interaction with the problem is crucial, so is the math, the highest value comes from those with strong mathematical foundations and understanding but also a will to apply and practical experience, at least that's the thesis I would defend.
They met a long time ago mate!
i now have severe anxiety for my future as an aspiring aeronautics engineer
Most efficient cylindrical container solution can be solved without algebra, just by fact that sphere or ball figure l has minimal surface property's and this law apply to constant volume cylinder, answer the same with different path solutions.
He said my birthday in the beginning. That was weird
The joke about degree mode earned my like
Isn't the flutter thingy just resonance?
What was your major? Because You have so much knowledge on all these different majors
my major was electrical engineering
But I met people in all different kinds of majors in college and sat down with a lot of them to write the scripts for all the previous videos on different majors
I don’t get it, Lockheed Martin didn’t use Si Units for that particular Mars Project? That just sounds absurd unless someone can explain to me in full please.
Oh, you have the design docs for every component including legacy designs? How did you get those? Sometimes in design docs, figures are represented as metric but equate to a round number in inches. Guess what, those designs are actually non-SI and likely "legacy" where something is based on a recycled and improved older design. Govt and aerospace does this a lot as programs can run for decades using legacy plans for 50+years.
4:36 if only everything were SI units 😩😩😩
This is why Engineering is the most difficult of discipline.
People's lives literally depend on Engineers, from the tiniest of machines like the transistors, to large structures like the Burj Khalifa, or Air-planes, Vehicles, bridges, and roads, and everything that surrounds us, has to be analyzed, designed, tested, and built, by Engineers.
Tiniest of mistakes may end up causing lives, or huge loss of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Engineers literally save more lives than Doctors, no offense to the Doctors, but Engineers have to take in so many factors into consideration when building something.
It's amazing how the world is so well Engineered to our Human needs, and it works perfectly, as designed.
Sunny shah There may be a lot for engineers to take into account when they need to build something, but it’s not like they are ever doing it alone. Knowledge passed down from their predecessors and shared by their colleagues make the responsibility of engineers less daunting. It may be a tough discipline, but it is by no means alone in how complex it is.
Now that you mention it, I do kind of agree with you here. I'm not sure about the doctors part just because I don't know anything about doctors except from the fact that they have to learn a lot and human lives depend on them. But, about how much is at stake for engineers I totally agree with, even though it's a group of people working on each part of a project, there's still a big chance that they won't take something into consideration and therefore it will GREATLY impact the economy of a company AND it could easily cost human lives. I remember in video where he talked about a math professor saying how a cat food company could save more money by changing the size/dimensions of their cans and a company's manufacturer replied with explaining all the other facts that affect how much money the company would save for carrying on doing it the same way they are doing now because of a lot of factors that aren't only math problems which the professor didn't take into account whatsovever. So yeah, I just find it funny when people say that engineering is easy.
"Engineering is the most difficult of discipline." It's not. For protection, there are tons of specs and criteria to look for and satisfy. If something does not pass that, it is just not released or designed until it does. But in science, such as physics for instance, you actually sacrifice your blood, sweat and tears for trying to discover and understand something new, something people have never seen and perceived. But bridges, cars, computers, medical devices, etc.? That's not new in any way. You just tweak it a bit to satisfy up-to-date market demands, just making sure you satisfy lawful regulations and standards, and people think that it's something new. But fundamentally it's mostly all the same. If choosing the easiest STEM major, I'd choose engineering, not science such as physics, mathematics, etc.
I can’t wait to be an engineer. Yes it’s hard but you get to learn, devise, and improve things in your society.