What do I do as a Mechanical Design Engineer?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- This is a video on what mechanical design engineers do on a day-to-day. If you plan on becoming one, I’m sure you’ll find this video helpful. If not, I’m sure you use products that design engineers worked on, so this would be an insight into what goes on in our minds. Timestamps are as follows:
00:00 Intro
00:40 What do I do as a Mechanical Design Engineer?
03:31 Product Designer vs Product Design Engineer
04:19 The Job Responsibilities
05:45 Engineering Design Process
07:54 Engineering Validation Process
09:28 How Would you Break Down your Work?
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My name is Tamer Shaheen and I am a recent mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo, currently working as a Mechanical Design Engineer. I like to make videos about university/college, engineering, and personal development. Thank you so much for watching!!
As a current design engineer, I whole heartedly agree with this video. In fact, I wish I would have been able to see this while I was in school. You did an incredible job explaining Mechanical Design Engineers.
As an apiring mechanical enigneer, your videos are extremely insightful and helpful on my journey! Thank you for taking the time to create these videos!
I recently stumbled upon your TH-cam channel a couple days ago, and I can’t stop binge watching your videos. As a fellow mechanical engineer, I love to see how other people around my age do their work and really just live their lives.
I am a recent mechanic student and kinder lost at the moment. Wow What a timing ! You are like my beacon! Thank you for the guidance! glad to find your tunnel!
Very interesting to learn that you spend 50% time in meetings, I myself spend maximum 2 hours a week in meetings but perhaps that's more characteristic of small companies?
Ya every company is very different in terms of how often each employee is in meetings. 50% is actually good for me haha because at Tesla...it was way more lol
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@@TamerShaheen waiitttt what??? Elon Musk hates meeting and you spent more time in meetings than work???
I work as a manufacturing engineer for a smaller company and I can say the meetings are not only non stop but they are are also sometime very pointless… I spend more time talking about what I will do to solve a manufacturing issue than actually solving said issue…
But the irony there, in this case our design engineering, manufacturing engineering, and machine work is mostly done in house or at our Mexico location, is that if Mfg. Eng. isn’t included in a meeting NPI engineers will make decisions on our behalf and will learn very quickly we neither have the resources nor that their part is manufacturable once actual validation or trials builds come up.
Nice to see I picked the right major :) Going into my third year as a mechanical engineering student and everything you described in this video is very appealing to me, thanks.
This was really clarifying, and I appreciate the on the ground simplicity this guys brings. Thanks.
Your videos are awesome man. Thanks for shedding some light on all of us up and coming engineers!
This video is extremely well executed. No misleading thumbnail or title, cuts to the point, explains things with enough detail to understand the basics but doesn't spend more time than necessary on a topic, and the graphics and imagery show you relevant and useful information. I'm going to be a freshman next fall for ME, and this helped me get a much better idea of what a job might actually look like. I've watched quite literally thousands of hours of youtube videos in the past, and this is legitimately one of the best overall in pretty much every way. You've more than earned a sub and a like, can't wait to see this channel grow.
lol, it is misleading. That is no where near the average salary. Maybe in California.
get out there a bit more and stop watching so much youtube
Very inspiring and insightful. Me myself a design engineer at one of the most known company for their vacuum. I would say, there's more things to do rather than just designing a part. Almost 2 years now, still a lot of things I need to learn and get experience. Good stuffs!
I just want to say thank you man, I’ve been on the fence on what kind of career I want to pursue looking into a bunch of jobs thinking about how nothing really felt like a good fit. Everything you mentioned is pretty much exactly what I’m looking for in a career and kind of helped me make up my mind. Thanks man
Clearly explained. No unnecessary filler info. Well done. 👍
This is actually pretty accurate to what I do as a design engineer. Great video and insight for those interested in the field.
Thank you so much for this video! I’m 2 years into my mech engineering degree and I had no idea what i would really be doing in the real world. This really put a light on it, and makes me so much more excited!
Liked your video man. I currently work as a manufacturing engineer but have been wanting to explore the option of transitions into more a design role, I can’t complain I got this job during a COVID layoff, but always wanted to end up design. I like how much of the process I understood from your video just by being part of the process on the manufacturing side. I do a lot of fixture design and while that is actually very neat I feel I may want to move to a more focused role on either product design or automation in the future.
This is a really good video🔥, when I'm searching all of youtube and the internet this is the type of engineering content I'm looking for!! but can never find. We definitely need more, please.
I’m a first year aerospace engineering student and want to get into the design build testing
Field. This was amazing to watch thanks from UK
Very informative. This is the most concise and in depth video on youtube.
Currently looking for a mechanical design engineer position. This video just reaffirmed I'm looking for the right role. Great vid man! Was very insightful and the explanations were done very well!
This channel is so good!! I love the industry related stuff you talk about. I'm from a different major but I really think your channel is really educational!!! Thanks a lot!
Thanks for the content. It made me realize I am limiting myself and not being ambitious enough. There are so many opportunities at awesome companies who are hiring mech engineers and design engineers.
Man...I just graduated two years ago, and this guy described my dream job workflow better than any teacher I had.
I love this major.
This video is extremely accurate in my experience. Excellent job and anyone who thinks they want to be a design engineer should consider the things said here.
2:58 this is the reason why anyone who wants to be an engineer should spend a few years doing factory work. You'll quickly learn what is feasible and what's not when it comes to machining.
I strongly agree. I recommend to everyone who can’t get an engineering internship for the summer to look for a factory job for the summer instead.
Mechanical engineering (junior) student here. I almost stopped my freshmen year to pursue machinist training, but our university machine shop director (former toolmaker and machinist) instead recommended I join the competition teams and clubs around campus. Ive since learned how to operate most standard prototyping shop equipment (mill, lathe, cnc, bandsaw, press) and their limits, and I incorporate them into my designs. Ive also learned how to weld and work with composites and molds within university extracurriculars. Ive had fun working on a formula car, sounding rocket, and even built my own CNC equipment.
I learned this a bit later into the degree, but you can learn much of what goes into good Design for Manufacturability for other less easily accessible stuff like casting, injection molding, or sheet metal design online by paying $20 for a decent online course. Many skills you can pick up in internships. Theres also many summer volunteer programs to learn DFM from experienced engineers, offered by google, IBM, and organizations like SME.
Naturally, the former technicians studying engineering tend to be better engineers, but having worked as a fabricator and assembler for a summer, its very likely you will get shoehorned into a particular set of tasks and not get to cover all the ground you're hoping to. Use your university's resources, for real, the true value you get at college is the extracurriculars, not the classes
@@samo6401 in whixh year are you in now?
@@dremr2038 early junior year
This is an excellent video and I commend you for both how well you have organized and presented the subject matter, and also how you will frequently include graphics to show us visually what you are talking about. The combination of graphics accompanied by smart, concise talking points makes this an extremely informative effort.
Very good questions, thank you for the extra analysis put into this video
Perfect. Just, plain, perfect! Keep it up sir!
Thank you for providing such an informative video, Tamer. It was perfect!
Thanks a lot man!! Was searching for a video on design engineer, and this helped a lot!!
your videos are gold! worth watching thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge.
Cool insight! I’m a mechanical design engineer from Singapore and i totally relate to your intro! Anyway Thanks for putting up this great video!
Thanks for posting this valuable video, I'm currently on co-op hunt and this helped to put a perspective in the roles!
Another great content from this channel :) Good job with your explanation.
Been waiting years for a video like this, thanks ! this makes it so much clear !! i barely subscribe or like videos but yours totally disserves a like !
Good overview of the design to production readiness process. Clear distinction between roles and responsibilities.
Awesome video! THank you! Very useful for me as a graduating ME student. Thanks so much.
👋 I'll be a mechanical engineer graduate in May. It's nice to see someone who is fresh out of college providing perspectives and insights. This is so helpful! 🙏
If you are in the USA make sure to take the FE exam at the earliest opportunity.. I took mine 25 years after I graduated and that was a lot of study while doing a full time job!
@@frankish5314 one question
We're students that learnt mechanical engineer in africa will be same the students from USA
Like will they have same subjects studying
@@bilalabdi9148 Honestly i don't know if the subjects would be the same. I graduated in the UK then emigrated to the USA. I know that to get my degree accredited in the USA was an arduous and expensive process. Fortunately I had enough experience that I was allowed to sit for the US professional engineering exams without having to go through the accreditation process. This seems a bit silly as you would think they could just look up a list of degrees to find out which ones were equivalent.. But like most things in the US, if there is a way to make money by having a tortuous accreditation process then thats what you get.
@@frankish5314 but in here we do learn in language we don't speak ...so it will be hard to get master degree abroad
@@frankish5314 I totally agree with this, I can’t stress enough on how important it is to take your FE / EIT
finally I was waiting for this video
thanks so much
this was exactly all the information i was looking for so thorough thank you! subscribed :)
Excellent video! Really informative and useful!
Very valuable video! Thank you so much Tamer!
This is actually super helpful. Thank you
you are just awesome in explaining things, just an inspiration
As a product design engineering student I feel that we do a little bit more; effectively we can also take the roles of anyone on the product development line (ie from the initial product designer, all the way to marketing the product to the shelves). Naturally we all have our best areas and so we tend to fall between the p.d and the mechanical engineer. Most of my work stems from the typical product designer roles of creating creative solutions to problems, but then the translator of making it realistic, finally making physical prototypes and drawings for production. Other than that, I absolutely loved your video and it got me excited again to be a p.d.e. Thank you and all the best :)
Make more of these kinds of videos, it's really helpful 👏
I love this!! Thanks for telling the world! Represent
Well done! Very thorough and informative.
Really insightful. Design analysis and production drawings before material selection is smart. I always do fea on a material I haven't specified to make sure things are good to go
Great video man. Everything was clear
Good content, quality content. This is really good and useful information
Yes,it takes more time to do design 🙏
I am a mechanical engineering student 🙏
You inspired me a lot thanks 👍
Literally the perfect video I needed!🤝
Thanks a lot for the vid. Surely gonna help me. Greetings from france!
I am studying mechanical engg.and am so amazed and inspire by your knowledge n ability to create such content at same time
Great video man. You should do a video on aircraft maintenance engineering or power engineering. It’s engineering but more of a trade style. Could help a lot of people who like to work with there hands
This video is informative and helpful in understanding my skills in design. Thank you very much.
As a mechanical engineer, I can say, very nice video thanks! I also worked at Tesla as a remanufacturing engineer in The Netherlands 🤝. Keep up the good work at Serve 👌!
Very nice put together video!
I recently graduated as a mechanical engineer and I find your vid interesting. I am so curious about what kind of job I wanna fit in. I guess it finds me enjoyable to be a designer
Found my dream job, thanks for the motivation!
really informative...thanka tamer
Love to see you mentioned about designers and design engineers.. because most of the people don't know about that
My heart is broken 😢
Thank you for the video and good luck with your job search
fortunately I believe most people who follow this channel are actively pursuing engineering careers in whatever particular craft they find enjoyable. Most engineering oriented minds are generally very well grounded to reality and it's generally understood that engineering is essentially science and creativity combined as one entity. I absolutely love art, and have made electronic music for over 10 years now and when I initially went to college I was incredibly ignorant and had to start at very basic classes, like algebra and NEVER took chemistry or physics. I was pursuing medicine at the time I remember taking my first ever chemistry class and genuinely being so conceptually challenged at the abstractness of imagining these very tiny things. I ended up falling in love with science for some reason and really came to love the unrelenting pursuit of understanding things as they are and completely removing bias and empirically discovering a truth. I ended up switching my bio chemistry degree to engineering and I ABSOLUTELY FREAKING LOVE IT. I was really rusty because I took some years off and immediately jumped into calc2 but it was really enjoyable because in software engineering there's a sense of creativity that I imagine every engineering career has in "designing" a solution. In addition to that the creative solution you may come up with can include really challenging variables that you must consider and resolve your solution around limitations. I like feeling stupid and having to step outside my comfort zone, because when you work at it there is a satisfaction in "cracking the code" so to speak of a problem. This was a great video to really demonstrate that challenge, the process can be slow, sometimes boring, difficult, or easy because it's the real world and you must be able to accommodate any of these issues if you are to enjoy engineering as a career. One awesome thing though is definitely the versatility, the tools you gain in a particular field can be applied to so many subdivisions and specialties, or you can try something new until you find your niche whether you're good at it or it's simply enjoyable for yourself. Keep posting content dood
Thanks for such excellent explanation!
Thanks for the video. Well executed
A very informative video... Hatsoff!!!!
Thank you for this video man
Great video👏🏿... You're smart Bro!!!
Where was this channel!😍 seriously awesome content here!!thnkuu u answer a lot of questions I had as a mechanical engineering student
Thank you very much my dear friend. I have a masters in machine design and I could not agree more with you. This is wonderful
Great Vid! You know your stuff!!!
I am currently in high school of mechatronics and this video was very interesting and inspiring and it helps a lot when you know approximately what your work will look like... Thanks on this video🧠👍
Homestly the video is great, my only feedback is that depending on business type, experience and country a mechanical design engineer changes a lot, heck I’ve been the person individually responsible for civil works like a 8 ton grinding stand, entire cooling loops, pump redesigns etc
The industry type you go in and your experience changes if you are responsible for a tiny bit of the project or the entirety of the project.
I’ve had issues pop up, ive designed, calculated it all, packaged the designs ready for review, been peer reviewed and we are manufacturing it within a day.
Some jobs ive been in is 99% drawing and simming your models, other jobs 75% of it was internal meetings, client meetings, training, presentations or helping a different department.
Thankfully now im more of the companies excel wizard so i build excel tools to speed up the typical calcs we do.
Good summary Tamer.
I want to add some remarks as well. There are some additional important steps before & after project start actually. Before investment decision by top managements, design engineers help program & project leaders to make some cost calculations, feasibility studies etc. After investment decision and team building for the project, we just start with bench-marking of similar products & vehicles in the market. there will be a lot documentation, comparison and brainstorming activities at this point. If the project is first attempt to design & production of the product in the company, design team and management generally does not want to take risk therefore they choose a sample product in the market and tries to improve it without violation of possible patented ideas on reviewed products. At this point patent research comes into play. After design team became familiar with product, they start to work on defining design zone. This design zone might be 2D or 3D. Design engineering team provide this design zone to Industrial design department. They turn back to structural design team with industrial design data (aesthetic definition of the product). remaining is just like you explained generally.
One more remark, due to wide range of industry uses mechanical design engineer as job position title, this naming became ambiguous. In europe we are called most of time as "design engineer", Product design engineer or "product development engineer" and some time as "product engineer". Sometimes there might be slight differences between this positions but mostly their daily activities are similar.
Keep up the good work, you are appreciated👍
You are so brilliant bro, very cool 😮
As a McMaster mech eng student, glad to see mac-carr in the video, thanks for the great explanation!
Nice video,thanks :)
You did well . Thanks a lot for all this great informations
Thank you great explanation, so informative
Great and well prepared video
Thanks so much! It brings so much value. I'm going to suggest your channel to a friend who is a ME. :)
Soon graduating highschool with an associates and going into mechanical engineering in the fall, very helpful video!
Great video again...
To the point... Each and every points are mentioned properly and step wise step...
I'm working as a mechanical design Engineer, i would give you full marks for this...
You're doing great Job in this field ,it will be very helpful for those who want to build their career in this field.
Keep it up Tamer Shaheen
Good luck to your future endeavours
Appreciate it :)
@@TamerShaheen thanks for the reply man...
If possible please make a video on growth of a mechanical design Engineer over a period of Time and Also include how vast mechanical engineering field is and how one can explore plethora of opportunities there.
NEEDED THIS VIDEO I couldn't pick between product design and mechanical design engineering for UNIVERSITY now I've decided ✅
This video nails the job of a mechanical design engineer spot on!
Thanks for your great efforts.
Thanks for a such awesome videos
I've been a mechanical design engineer for about 2 years and could never put into words to my family what I do 😂 This was a nice video to sum it up
Am actually a civil engineering student but Tamer inspires me alot ..
☮️ PEACE ✌️✌️
Man, I wish your channel was around when I first started school.
Perfectly put 👍
clearly explained great video.
This is such a solid video.
really you the plug!
Thank you. Very Informative. ❤️🙏
Congrats for 50k
this a great video thanks :)
If you want to be an excellent mechanical engineer it really helps to love what you're doing. You want to develop this problem solving mindset and challenge yourself to build things you know would make you or others happy and push you forward and then commit to the challenge until you finish it. Buy material and tools so you have them ready. Draw a lot. Sketch concepts, draw plans and calculate the math as most engineering projects start with a pen and a paper
I would like to know how this works, for example I love to work with CAD, I can can make a project what they gave to me in the paper just to copy. One thing that is it us have to create a project if you want to work in this area, How this works ? Thank you
@@aditr1841 I believe in you
such an informative video