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I have never met a biomedical engineer, but i know where they work in my city, mostly they do research on biomechanics and prosthetics in that place, i have not seen them around medical devices. In the field most people i have seen working on medical devices are electrical or electronic...

Well i am not exactly in the field but i want to, i have done some projects in the area. Most of the guys i know that work in the field as MechE are in the part of doing maintenance on the equipment, as you might know some of those have really tight checking frequency. But lot of mechanical...

Now that i think of it, he probably meant there is no bending on the welds and not for the beam. Anyway since teachers sometimes can be little confusing i always try to check the books, i have scans from the time i was studying machine design from the books which i can send if you like, but...

To answer the question fast, yes there is bending, the beam is supported at one end and applied one force at the other, there will be stresses due to bending. In fact if you want to be real specific you can even say there is a bit of tension since the angle of the beam will be tilted a little...

When you move the Force to the centroid of the weld group its a force down and a moment generated by the distance between the point of application of the force and this centroid. This moment is felt as a torsional moment in the weld group. Its useful to see the weld group as a cross-section of...

Well if i don't remember wrong all you need to do is move the Force to the centroid of the weld group and then treat it as if it was the transverse section of a beam. For this case this should be a weld group in torsion and shear. As "I like Serena" said, there is bending if the weld holds but...

I have also noticed that, but as you go along in your studies you will notice that significant figures are only needed under some circumstances. It would help to know what's your branch of engineering but for example, when you calculate the Diameter of a shaft you will need to round it up to...

First of all i think comparing average people by their fields is not really getting anywhere basically because they are different, engineering has many ways to be done and I am not talking about the branches its about what job you get to have or you want to have. Some people they just want to...

In the end the big machines are designed by teams, sure you can't get knowledge of many areas at same time in the design but you will always become experienced in very little of them so i would suggest you that, you will be appreciated by what you are a specialist at and not that you know some...

Well for starters i assume you are very confident in your abilities in fluid mechanics and got your tensor calculus learned (we didnt get it in ME undergrad). I did some work on blood flow through capillaries kinda still on it and the first books i got recommended were: "Applied biofluid...

Well all i can say is that your career is what you make of it, if you didnt like your undergad or you think it should be harder then just study the harder stuff by yourself or attending to other lectures or copying lecture notes from your physics/math friends w/e point is just change it to where...

Well i understood Coreluccio's argument in another way, it sounded like most classes were made so that their purpose was to give the material so you wouldn't have to look it up in the book aka for lazy people, it doesn't imply that you are lazy if you go its just the way its done. Im not saying...

Well for example in my university i can say its almost a waste of time to go to class, the professors they just mind their work, some don't even bother to answer your questions because they just come to university when they give class, they don't really teach you something that isn't in the book...

For pdfs and djvu i would recommend the pocketbook 902 or the 903 its pretty good handling them and the screen size is the same as the kindle dx 9.7"

I found between my family's books (cousins mostly) 4 books for fluid mechanics, and since next semester i ll be taking it it d be cool if i could just chose between them. Oh btw its for mechanical engineering i currently have: Fluid Mechanics. Robert A. Granger...