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Shaun_W
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I'm curious as to roughly how many mechanical engineering graduates have found jobs where they utilise the knowledge they gained in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and heat transfer as part of their university degrees.
Reason I'm curious is because, from my class, I'm not actively aware of anyone having being involved with the above in their jobs after graduation. As topics, they were a substantial part of our degrees, and I quite enjoyed them too. However, my observation is involvement with the fluids and thermodynamics side of things seems to be limited to chemical engineering graduates...
Perhaps it's just the industry we're in (we virtually all went into the oil & gas industry), hence why I'm asking Physics Forums in order to get a much broader view.
Reason I'm curious is because, from my class, I'm not actively aware of anyone having being involved with the above in their jobs after graduation. As topics, they were a substantial part of our degrees, and I quite enjoyed them too. However, my observation is involvement with the fluids and thermodynamics side of things seems to be limited to chemical engineering graduates...
Perhaps it's just the industry we're in (we virtually all went into the oil & gas industry), hence why I'm asking Physics Forums in order to get a much broader view.