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bigmike94
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Summary: Which are the best engineering topics to really focus on during my spare time to prepare for the real world.
Im on a physics and engineering degree, but will hopefully be doing a masters in engineering, my engineering modules are all the standard broad ones that most engineering routes have like statics and dynamics etc etc with a focus on mechanical engineering. I want my masters to be in civil engineering or aerospace/aeronautical engineering. Most likely civil.
I understand that once you graduate a lot of the maths and physics are solved via computers and I’ve got all the maths and physics covered anyway within my degree modules and self study stuff.
I am quite a practical person and I do normally need logical reasons to do things, I do enjoy maths and physics though even if some of the problems just aren’t based on anything you’ll see in the real world.
So my question is what topics will be better to really master in my spare time to become a good engineer in the real world? It’s hard to give an example because I don’t know but let’s say material science, soil mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, structural analysis etc etc.
Which topics can’t be solved using a computer and that I’ll need to have good knowledge on? (Please don’t be tempted to say everything as like I said I already have it all covered in my degree including differential equations, multivariable calculus, linear algebra, physics etc)
Thanks in advance.![Grinning face with big eyes :smiley: 😃](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f603.png)
Im on a physics and engineering degree, but will hopefully be doing a masters in engineering, my engineering modules are all the standard broad ones that most engineering routes have like statics and dynamics etc etc with a focus on mechanical engineering. I want my masters to be in civil engineering or aerospace/aeronautical engineering. Most likely civil.
I understand that once you graduate a lot of the maths and physics are solved via computers and I’ve got all the maths and physics covered anyway within my degree modules and self study stuff.
I am quite a practical person and I do normally need logical reasons to do things, I do enjoy maths and physics though even if some of the problems just aren’t based on anything you’ll see in the real world.
So my question is what topics will be better to really master in my spare time to become a good engineer in the real world? It’s hard to give an example because I don’t know but let’s say material science, soil mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, structural analysis etc etc.
Which topics can’t be solved using a computer and that I’ll need to have good knowledge on? (Please don’t be tempted to say everything as like I said I already have it all covered in my degree including differential equations, multivariable calculus, linear algebra, physics etc)
Thanks in advance.
![Grinning face with big eyes :smiley: 😃](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f603.png)