Mechanical Engineering:

- Fields:
o Product design engineering
 Design, build quality, material selection
o Manufacturing
 High quality products while keeping costs low
o Automotive Engineering
 Engine design, Aerodynamics
o HVAC (Heating ventilation air conditioning)
- Areas of Studies:
o Statics
o Dynamics
o Fluid Mechanics
o Thermodynamics
o Mechanical Design
 Types of manufacturing processes
- Jobs:
o Product design engineer
o Hardware engineer
o Manufacturing engineer
o Mechanical engineer
o Product manager

Note taking process:

1. Initial notetaking
2. Knowing what you don’t know
3. Filling in the gaps
4. Compiling into one notebook
5. Practice and active recall
a. Go through the questions that were written earlier
b. Go through the concepts and explain it to myself for theory-based topics
c. Practice for math/physics questions

Engineering tips:
1. Have a portfolio of all your work
a. Do Solidworks tutorials
2. Find engineering study groups
a. Sirach + Je Sean
3. Never buy textbooks brand new
4. Cheat sheet
5. Save notes
6. Grades don’t matter
7. Travel
8. Take videos and photos for the MMRs
9. Ignore the anxiety
10. Everyone is similar to me than I think
11. Don’t be competitive and toxic
 12. Can skip lectures if u need
13. Fall behind
14. Use linkedin
a. Msg them to get to know them, what they look for, what their job is like
15. Invest money
a. Invest in stocks
16. Learn everything online
a. MDE:

How to study for exams:

1. Planning:
a. Plan out all the deadlines and exams into calendar as well as quizzes
b. Plan out all the other days such as commitments
c. Plan out the social days
2. Study days:
a. 2 weeks before the exam, brief through notes, 1 week before exam again
b. 2-3 consecutive days before the exam do active recall via practice
3. How to study:
a. Review self-made notes, come up with questions for parts I do not
understand
b. Practice problem sets in the notes
c. Practice tutorials
d. Practice exam papers
e. Textbook questions

Time management as an engineering student:

1. Come up with a list of priorities

Sleep:
1. Never sleep less than 6 hours for more than 2 days in a row
2. Sleep either 6, 7.5 or 9 hours

How to get engineering internships:

1. Learn CAD
2. Understand manufacturing and assembly design
3. Apply on Company’s website
a. Go search section on linkedin and find alumni of NUS
b. Hi x, im engineering student from NUS. I noticed that you are also an alumnus
of NUS working at x. Would love to learn from your experience in the field if
you would have a couple of minutes for a call
c. Ace the interview

Study effectively as an engineering student:

Burnout:
1. Excessive drive and ambition
2. Pushing yourself o work harder
 3. Displacement of conflict
4. Depersonalization
5. Depression and anxiety

- Have input focused goals (change goals that you can control)
- Diversify your schedule (hang out, sports, socialize, read books) to avoid repetition
and create something to look forward to at the end of the day
- Work with others (talk to people)
- Have a waste of time activity like youtube/ Netflix etc
- Do some form of physical activities

Mechanical Design Engineer:

- Design and build hardware that is function such as sheet metal fasters gears
- Product lifecycle
o Design development review testing deployment maintenance
o Design to production drawing (CAD)
o Material selection to production (CAM)