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High School Courses for the Mecanical Field?

What are some helpful high school courses for people looking at a career field in mechanics, that most school would offer.

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Nick’s Answer

Of course, you should study math and science but don't overlook or avoid shop classes where you will work with tools and materials and follow processes and instructions. Learning to collaborate with colleagues is essential. Becoming comfortable with success and failure, overcoming discomfort of learning new skills is essential. Understand and enjoy the satisfaction of seeing a tactile result of a project which you would experience as an engineer. Familiarity and comfort with practical knowledge that comes from hands on work is essential to being a successful engineer.

Don't over look the "humanities". Engineers must be excellent communicators in order to explain their ideas, earn trust and collaborate with colleagues.
Thank you comment icon That's a great answer Nick, I agree 100% Brian Swain
Thank you comment icon How important are hands on courses? Nick
Thank you comment icon Engineers need to be continuously curious and learning people. You will not learn everything you need to know in school. You need to train yourself to be comfortable learning things you don't know about as opposed to staying in your comfort zone of what you know. If hands on projects are not in your comfort zone then that's where you need to work. The results may not come out great, like a woodworking project that might not be the best in the class, crude, but the experience is what you need. Nick D
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Calvin’s Answer

Hi Nick,

If you are asking about field of mechanical engineering, I recommend taking advance Physics and Math courses.
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David’s Answer

Many high schools here in California have an engineering course that includes use of a CAD (Computer Aided Design) program like Solidworks, Onshape, Fusion 360, and others.
And yes, math, physics, Excel, and Powerpoint come in handy.
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Brian’s Answer

Hi Nick,

As others have already stated, math and physics play a key role in mechanical engineering ( or at least they are required classes in college so take AP classes in high school if you have the chance). Hands of classes (ie woodshop, metalshop, auto repair, AG mechanics, etc) are also very useful as they can help you develop a basic understanding of how things are made and how physical things interact with each other.
Computer literacy is very critical, and anything to do with microsoft excel will come in handy.

Hope this helps.
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