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"Engineering degrees tend to do really well with a mechanical engineering degree you're going to start off making $67,000 a year in early career and then in mid-career pay you'll be making around $111,000."
"The crank is described by modern engineers as the most important single mechanical device after the wheel."
"The inventors of the East had become masters in the art of mechanical engineering."
"These mighty machines have thousands of moving parts, operating 24/7, and need an army of mega mechanics to maintain them."
"The dial is absolutely stunning it's beautiful and then the movement on the flip side the beveling of those bridges is mindbending."
"To me, a GT3 is impersonally my all-time favorite cars... mechanical engineering."
"It's about building machines that create memories together."
"A Scotch Yoke engine has the potential to change the game and it is very exciting technology."
"Just sitting here separated between the block assembly and the top end assemblies, I think you got 14, 15,000."
"It felt amazing to finally have it moving under its own steam."
"The more differential pinion gears you have, the stronger this differential is."
"All things being equal, more compression means more power."
"At the moment, it looks like all the pulleys are aligned quite well."
"Reduced mechanical erosion during the break-in cycle."
"Perfect, so while Mickey is working on our fuel filler neck, I'm actually going to start assembling the surge tank."
"Can anyone do this with a rear-wheel-drive car? Theoretically, yeah, with enough power and the rear-wheel drive, you can just use the thrust, and it will turn the car for you."
"With 700 best-in-class pound breakaway torque, it features a variable throttle that allows for precise control in those hard to reach places."
"All of this is going through again the ZF 8-speed automatic gearbox and the power split normally under like basically regular load is 40 60 so 40 of the power is always going to the front sixty percent of the total power is going to the rear."
"So mounting pressure has some of the highest potential to influence performance it's also the most difficult to screw up if you know what you're doing."
"This engine to essentially be self-sustaining, as it's spinning and creating that horsepower."
"Mickey was just as fascinated by the mechanical tinkering side as the actual racing."
"Compression adds a tremendous amount of power to the combustion of the fuel-air mixture, and that's why it's so important to an engine."
"This naturally aspirated engine sounds so good."
"The valve spring is the only thing responsible for pushing the valve back down onto the base circle of the camshaft."
"Damping slows down the movement of the suspension."
"Old model airbag controllers used mechanical inertial switches."
"Each click on the dial is a 17 step... there's no overlap like a traditional drivetrain."
"There must be four motors. Getting them is your concern."
"Start with the wheels up. If you don't get the wheels right then everything that you've tried to accomplish thereafter might not mesh."
"Hopefully this car will have a ton of mechanical grip with this new suspension."
"The suspension's primary job is to keep the tire in contact with the ground. If you run out of travel, then what happens is that you're gonna lose traction."
"I'm just trying to do something, you know what I'm saying? Something that's not on my resume, I'm a mechanical engineer, that's my background."
"You can go from classic to tactical, the engine is still the same."
"He was interested in what can be done by mechanical means."
"Baffles ensure no starvation of fuel from the pickup."
"Electricity is really good at rotating things."
"That was unreal. It just cruised up that rear diff lock. Low range, actually pretty surprised by how well that performed."
"You can actually speed up these machines using some interesting mechanics courtesy of cogwheels."
"Keeping the stators cooler and the rotors cool is an important thing."
"For rear wheel drive cars, the drive wheels are gaining more mechanical grip as they accelerate."
"A cylinder-head is very much like a work of art... a work of art here that's probably going to last a customer for a long long time."
"Welcome to Mechanical Mastery, where your objective is to automate every mechanical crystal through the quest book."
"This is why engines are so special because they play in ways that we would never think of."
"Andrew J. Beard made the rotary engine, using circular motion to make mechanical power."
"Even the smallest mechanical wonders can have a significant impact."
"Diaphragm valves provide a seal that prevents leakage into other working parts."
"The Antikythera mechanism: it was a computer. The device contains 37 gears used to trace the motion of the moon, planets, and stars through the zodiac."
"Every good engine build starts with careful measurement of clearances."
"This will make a good camshaft in about 15 minutes. You gotta really care about what you're doing." - Kenny, 46 years at Comp Cams.
"I'm okay with making some space to fit this monster motor."
"No mechanical bike failure in 1,340 miles – pretty remarkable."
"Achieving the kind of one-way valve operation that gives this cooler such high static pressure it takes a lot more than just a vibrating tongue depressor."
"I wanted to provide you guys with something maybe a little different look at the mechanical side how things are built and just how they put it together underneath the truck I think for me that's just more interesting"
"I always like taking engines apart because when we freshen engines up, they always get better."
"One more thing about the plastigage deal that I didn't tell you and if I don't say it somebody's gonna comment about it so you plastigage all seven main journals and all six rod journals."
"We don't need a spring any stiffer than about 300 to 330 pounds for a flat tapping hydraulic cam and we don't really need anything stiffer than between 320 and 350 for a hydraulic roller."
"Automatic mechanical watches are a relic of the past and a testament to the Ingenuity and the mechanical engineering abilities."
"I love the mechanicalness of that. It's kind of fun, a nice little touch there."
"Linotype operators were at the heart of the printing revolution, operating complex machines that were marvels of mechanical engineering."
"The bigger picture here is you're overworking the ignition coil."
"There's only two guarantees with anything mechanical: one, if it runs long enough, it's gonna wear out, and two, it's going to break. Those are the only guarantees."
"Truthfully, you should be turning the engine over every time you've installed a piston just to make sure all the clearances are correct."
"He was incredibly intelligent, due to graduate from Rice University with a 4.0 in mechanical engineering."
"Get a 3.5-inch steel shaft with 1350 solid u-joints."
"What they do on the computer can vary, but in general, there are three essential types of software that every mechanical engineer will use day to day."
"Being a mechanical engineer in the 21st century where everything is technology-driven AI-driven and automated programming is for sure a nice skill to have."
"I want to say he did a fantastic job setting up valve geometry."
"Is it better to concentrate in a specific area of mechanical engineering or become an expert in as many areas as humanly possible? Well, the short answer is it's definitely beneficial to focus on becoming an expert in one specialized area."
"...the last thing I'd like to point out about this gear box is these are the axle shafts, so you can see that it has unequal axle shafts."
"...as you can see, there's not that much of a difference between a sequential gear box and a normal five or six-speed gear box found in a car."
"The oil pump gear is always rotating and pumping oil around the engine."
"Now it's time to get the rings, and we're just one step closer to installing the crank and the Pistons."
"If you found things like kinematics, dynamics, energy, and momentum more enjoyable, then mechanical engineering may be the better choice for you."
"In many cases, large deflection effects can have a significant effect on the final solution."
"The mechanical fuel injection system means everything is fully mechanical, which means basically every single part of it can be tweaked, modified, and upgraded."
"The only thing that's left S10 is obviously Body and Frame and engine."
"I love mechanical engineering excellence, I love them when people figure things out."
"A mechanical engineer would be mostly responsible for the body."
"We're gonna actually see the cutaway valve in action."
"The dozens of spokes that are on this wheel take turns sharing the load that the bike exerts on it."
"Let's do it boys, got some energy here, we're ready to rock and roll, let's build ourselves a badass trans."
"Let's face it, locomotives are a great talking point and crowd puller."
"You need to push it and make it embrace that inward curve; you need to torque it as you're pushing it."
"Each engine I build, that's still very exciting when I first hear the engine fire."
"For every rotation of the engine, that's one rotation. What happens inside the transmission is the multiplication of that torque."
"Mechanical engineering has been in existence since... at least for 150 years, 200 years... during this process it has matured a lot."
"Mechanical engineering involves a lot of... contribution in a lot of interdisciplinary areas, for example in biomedical engineering... similarly in areas like soft robotics... mechanical engineers have a tremendous role to play."
"It's taken a long time and even more effort, but I've learned so much rebuilding this engine."
"The mechanical diversity in sports car racing is just so exciting."
"In this particular video, we're going to talk about doing shear and moment analysis on a cantilever wingspar."
"You want to be careful about that, that's where the nitrogen pressure on top of the oil is compressing the oil to make sure that it can't foam or cavitate."
"A gasket is a mechanical seal which fills the space between mating surfaces while under compression."
"Mechanical seals are a major factor in rotating equipment reliability."
"We have here a simple planetary gear set which is comprised of a sun gear, a carrier which has the corresponding planetary pinions."
"From a mechanical engineering point of view, the iron carbon diagram is very important."
"The lift actually moves at 9 feet a minute, and it's 50 feet and 4 inches between the Trent and Mersey canal and the River Weaver below."
"Shaft whirling behavior really is fundamentally different from vibrations we've talked about before."
"We have a whole 300 level series for mechanical and a whole 200 level series of courses 10 hours each for electrical."
"Gears also use the moment turning effect and they work together to alter the speed between a driving mechanism and a driving part."
"A motor is the device that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy."
"Mechanical engineering is one of the oldest and a very broad branch of engineering."
"As a mechanical engineer, you will use your knowledge of physics, map design, and programming."
"The nice thing about having achievable efficiencies in the 30-40% range is that there's always going to be work for mechanical engineers."
"There's not a country in the world where mechanical engineers do not know the name Stephen Timoshenko."
"Mechanical engineering... students often take an uninformed decision, meaning they choose mechanical without really understanding the various aspects."
"Fluid mechanics, heat transfer, thermodynamics... these are the three pillars of this division."
"If you're the kind of student who is actually very good in maths, then you should really think about taking up mechanical engineering."
"One of the best engines I've ever made."
"Your skill puts them together, mechanical precision brings them to life."
"Mechanical engineering is the basis of all engineering. It provides the background for understanding and designing everything from tiny micromechanical devices to large systems such as spacecraft." - Adam Steltzner
"The understanding of this material behavior or materials will be very helpful for a mechanical engineer."
"The planetary gear set is just so special in this extruder because it gives a very large gear reduction in a very small and lightweight package."
"Mechanical engineering is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with material science to design, analyze, manufacture, and maintain mechanical systems."
"The Tourbillon Pour le Mérite is the world's first wristwatch to offer a fusée and chain."
"The mechanical advantage for any system is equal to our output force over our input force."
"Lofting is a very popular process in modeling and CAD design, especially in mechanical engineering."
"The hoop stress sigma theta equals internal pressure times the radius of the cylinder over the wall thickness."
"It is not at all wrong to say that a 4-cylinder engine is the world's most versatile engine."
"Since middle school, I knew I wanted to major in mechanical engineering."
"Essentially, the manipulations you are able to achieve is the interaction of part of your structure with an object in the world."
"Retaining four years of memory in its mechanical databanks makes a perpetual calendar a pretty impressive thing."
"Elastic deformation means if we apply a load to a piece of material and it stretches, if we take away the load, that piece of steel will go back to its original shape."
"I wanted to do mechanical engineering because I want to go into the automobile industry."
"What we have done here is converted n degree of freedom systems into n single degree of freedom systems."
"Mechanical engineering is very flexible; there's a lot of different career paths you can go into."
"We're averaging shifts between 0.2 to 0.3 of a second, everything including actuating the clutch, shifting, and releasing the clutch."
"We call this type of plane a principal plane, and similarly, the normal stress that is acting on a principal plane is what we call a principal stress."
"The cast iron flywheel that comes with the predator engine is perfectly fine if the RPMs are kept within the design limits."
"One of my main goals back when I used to restore vintage motorcycles was to, upon completion, have them start like on the first or second kick, idle about right, and run great."
"If you can solve all the member forces by satisfying the equations of equilibrium, that is known as internally determinate truss."
"The reciprocating pump, where the fluid pressure is increased, the energy is manifested in terms of rise in static pressure, is made by the principle of positive displacement."