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More convinced than ever that engineering 101 should really just be shopping 101 Every class would just be a teardown of some random junked thing, build up a bill-of-materials, spreadsheet of parts and what they do, links and prices. Then you’d shrink or cost-down the design.
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No textbooks. Just McMaster Carr, Digikey, Adafruit websites. Field trips to Home Depot. Some special sessions for speciality supplies sites/catalogs. Sessions on eBay and Alibaba. Homework: converting designs from metric to imperial. YouTube if you have to learn concepts.
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I didn’t go tech-shopping until grad school. Even the practical lab classes of undergrad were basically applied theory. We learned to control the one stepper motor already set up in the lab, not how to pick one out of a catalog.
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Vast numbers of things you have to learn names and part specs for, in multiple competing standards. Electrical connectors alone would fill a history book.
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