Career questions tagged engineeringchallenges
What is the future of Liquid Rocket Engine Plumbing?
Currently, turbomachinery is the most commonly used system to hydraulically power the plumbing in LREs. As a future college student who will be studying these, I've always wanted to know what others think about the alternatives to the turbine and pump methods. The decreased lifetime of LREs due to these "extra" moving parts provides a challenge to decreasing the costs and increasing the reusability of modern rockets. I figure this is something important to consider before we go further into increasingly complex designs, especially considering the current most advanced systems are using full-flow staged combustion designs, which use two preburners to power the oxide and fuel pumps. There are a few alternatives; however, they all have their own issues, and overall, I am most curious about what innovations would best solve the issues for these other designs that would allow them to be superior.
what is the most boring part of being a robotic engineer?
I want to have a fun job and i want to know the most boring part of this job
How do I escape the world of learning about engineering and actually become an engineer?
I feel trapped in a loop of just learning and learning, never reaching the point of actually engineering anything, and I'm trying to change that and do something real.
What is the most challenging part about becoming an engineer? What strategies do you suggest to overcome this difficulty?
#engineering #study tips #Fall2025
Do I switch my major?????
I am currently a Mechanical engineering student, but I am dreading the rest of my classes. I love the design and problem solving, but hate the math/physics/theory side of things. Do I just push through the rest of my classes, or is mechanical engineering not for me?