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  1. gman89

    Really unhappy at current job - when to leave?

    oldestguy, I would just like to reiterate that the lack of hours was not originally part of my reasons for wanting to leave. In light of other reasons I was just pitching the idea that this may be better timing. I'm not disagreeing with your point, but I'm wondering where your threshold for...
  2. gman89

    Really unhappy at current job - when to leave?

    I don't receive any benefits while remaining employed. Me staying at home is essentially the same as being unemployed. And yes, I am using my spare time to look for new jobs. With regards to the stigma of having an unemployment gap in my resume, I have enrolled in some computer programming...
  3. gman89

    Really unhappy at current job - when to leave?

    A lot of interesting responses, my opinion was pin-balling as I read each one. I think at long last I will chime in here as another consideration has come up recently. One thing that I did not mention when I started this thread (and was not one of my original reasons for wanting to leave) was...
  4. gman89

    Really unhappy at current job - when to leave?

    I won't get into the details, but needless to say that I'm quite unhappy at my current job and have been for several months. During that time I've been applying for a handful of other jobs but I've just about lost patience with my current position to the extent that I've been considering leaving...
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    Is over-thinking a bad attribute?

    I've been working professionally as a mechanical engineer for about a year now and am fairly introspective by nature. One thing I never thought would be an issue in my career would be my tendency to think too much about things. During university the only negative feedback I could attribute to it...
  6. gman89

    Most mathematical field in Engineering?

    Throughout my brief professional career so far as a mechanical engineer I've noticed that a lot of what gets done seems to be based purely on experience and the notion of "I know this is the best answer because it just is". I then find myself doing the same thing with tasks suitable to my small...
  7. gman89

    PhD through a company?

    Thanks for the replies everyone, I probably shouldn't of expected anyone to say that it would be easy. By a 'couple of years' I meant more around the 3-5 year mark though. I'm not completely discouraged yet though.
  8. gman89

    PhD through a company?

    Sorry for not replying for so long, was in the middle of nowhere for work for a week. I'm kind of hoping that I could maybe do it in the automotive industry. I think researching which universities have collaborations with company's as mentioned by MintJulep is a good idea. But apart from that...
  9. gman89

    PhD through a company?

    Hi everyone, I'm just wondering if anyone ever had an opportunity to do an engineering PhD through a company? To be more specific, something along the lines of working with the company in some area of research and development in combination with an academic side. I'm asking just to gain some...
  10. gman89

    Vibration and acoustics?

    Sorry, I guess I was hoping someone would end up writing an essay about their fantastic (or terrible) career in V&A, my bad. It seems most likely that I will end up getting getting a job at a vibration and acoustics firm that has clients in construction. The first year will be pretty mundane...
  11. gman89

    Vibration and acoustics?

    Hey everyone, A bit of background about me. I recently finished my degree in mechanical engineering and am searching for my first job. I did a mechanical vibration based thesis as well as several elective courses on various aspects in the field. Long story short I realized that I like the...
  12. gman89

    Theoretical Modeling of Cylindrical Shell with Added Mass

    I'm not as familiar with this as other people so bare with me with this question: Is a thick walled tube the same as a thick walled shell? My interpretation was that a THIN walled shell shell neglects rotary inertia and shear deformation whilst a thick walled shell does not. Or am I completely...
  13. gman89

    Theoretical Modeling of Cylindrical Shell with Added Mass

    Hi guys, For FEM validation I need to be able to come up with a theoretical solution for the vibration of a combination structure consisting of a cylindrical shell which runs into a block of comparable dimensions. I am familiar with the theory behind the vibration of cylindrical shells, but...
  14. gman89

    Modal Analysis: parameterizing certain mode shapes

    Thanks for the help. I have a few follow up questions to that, but for now where do I even write a code in ansys? Do I create a commands section in the solution part of the setup to perform what you described?
  15. gman89

    Modal Analysis: parameterizing certain mode shapes

    Well I was trying to think of a way (say for m is 1 which is one half sine wave) that I could do a code that counts the number of peaks, but how do I even go about doing that, and making it a variable etc?
  16. gman89

    Modal Analysis: parameterizing certain mode shapes

    Hi, I'm trying to verify mechanical models of shells with certain textbook data so I can then use the same parameters to make conclusions. To simplify the question, I basically want to be able to to parameterize a specific mode shape (say n=1, m=1) in the modal analysis so I can get a response...

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