Thanks all for the advice, the book looks very insightful. Im putting in an order for it now. I have decided for the time being to keep on the job search in both areas and continue looking into school. Whichever one happens first gets the hook.
I've gotten pretty far by making a bad...
I found this INCREDIBLY helpful getting ready for my FE:
YouTube: Marty Lobdell - Study Less Study Smart
Its a little long but the advice is logical, effective and comfortable.
Kenat-
The BOM and route setup does give me a few ideas to restructure my qualifications. Thanks!
Panther-
The lean manufacturing and six-sigm are HUGE buzzwords in all mfg job descriptions and that is what I would focus studies on should I go back to school. My curriculum never touched on it...
JN-
No, but thats not how I was approaching it. My thinking was to use the attendence to "start over" instead of looking like I just didn't do anything for 5 years, use the resources to find local employers looking for new graduates. When I was in college they were crawling around the place...
Ok, I graduated in 2011 with an ME degree and found an oilfield company looking for a Mechanical Engineer. There was no job description on their site but I filled out the app, got the interview and hired.
I was shown to my office and... well that was about it. No boss (I did later find out...
I don't know why they would put a value of 0 in but using 0.29 will give you good results. For poissan's to equal 0 the material would shrink to nothing when stretched.
In SW2010 there are2 values for poisson's:
4130 annealed @ 865 => 0.285
4130 normalized @ 870 => 0.285
4130 annealed => 0.285
4130 normalized => 0.320
I have found that for many materials in Solidworks they are to some degree incomplete.
-Richard