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My name is Jacob Brown and I am studying Mechanical Engineering.
I actually started off wanting to be an architect,
and then I learned that it had extra years of school
and I found out engineering wasn't something that just trained drivers did,
and went from there.
I'd say it's largely just being able to
solve problems.
You know, you don't
have to know how to drive huge equations and be
excellent at math. It does help, but you just
need to know how to figure things out for yourself. That is the basics of engineering is
knowing how to
figure something out for yourself. Most of the time a tech school would teach you
more practical things. You know, how to run the machines, how to
wire a house, or a trailer, or how to
do some plumbing,
you know controls, things like that.
Where
engineering is more
this is how you
design it on paper, this is the
theory behind it.
You take into account
not just the machine, but the forces and
temperatures and
speeds and things like that in the machine. So
it a lot more in depth.
There's a greater understanding of what's going on
not just how to do it.
Tech school is kind of like
a mile wide and an inch deep
and the when you get focused in your engineering studies it's kind of like an inch wide and a
mile deep.