For a person who never had any interest in engineering, I must say that I find these videos quite and good and informational. I plan to watch every single one and learn more about engineering by doing so
I'm just an 8th grader and am interested in engineering even though it is a college course. So having this year-long engineering playlist is really helpful for me.
i encourage you to search for courses on basic engineering , for example: take a course on building basic electronic circuits or some programming if you are interested in this type of things,you don't have to wait until college to learn you can start simple now and build more advanced stuff later. if you start from such an age you i think you can accomplish great things in your life. Hope you all the best!.
Taha Silat Well, if you ever want to be one, look very carefully at each Engineering discipline. Know what it entails, what you can do with it and, if you're really dedicated, which parts you like and hate. You don't want to end up as an electrical engineer if you hate circuits, or a Biomed if you faint at the sight of blood, etc. I'm a mechanical. It's a well-rounded major that allows you to do many things with a lot of cool design stuff, but this means you have a higher chance of running into something you really don't like. For example: fluid dynamics and control systems ae perhaps the most difficult, boring, mathematically intense classes you will find in any major and are mandatory for Mechs like me. Don't even THINK of Aerospace if fluid dynamics makes you hate life.
I was having a difficult time to get interested in ME. I took ME because my family thinks it's needed for our business. I don't have any idea on what to take back in highschool so I'm here studying with disgust. Then one day during this quarantine, I thought why I am not interested in my own course. It all lies with me not allotting time to "play" and get interested with mechanical engineering. This video inspired me to up my game. Thank you to the creators!
There is a NEW field of engineering: Mechatronic Engineering. Please can you look into it? It'd be awesome to see a video on that. It's mainly robotics, etc, I believe
Basically another way to say robotics. You basically learn how to create electromechanical systems like a robotic arm who’s linkages are moved by a servo motor.
While not new, its more new in how its specialising away from pure Mechanical. Mechanical engineers tend to learn the basics of robots, if that, these days, and from the courses I've seen they don't even touch electrical - a core component of robotics. Mechatronics is starting to be taught as an independent field with a higher focus on the electrical side of engineering, and more detail into how to program both at a base assembly level, and in higher level languages. Similar to how Aerospace these days isn't just mechanical engineering, mechatronics is becoming a more distinct field in itself. They all fall under the broader purviews of the more basic engineering types, but they are more recently becoming distinct entities. I think it would be, on the whole, more informative when we get to the more detailed episodes on each of the broader areas, to start talking about the sub-areas that spring off them, especially as those sub areas start to be taught as independent subjects that many of the viewers of the video may one day wish to study. I think it'd be a bad outcome if someone went to study mechanical engineering at University because of this video, but then realised they actually wanted to be studying aerospace, mechatronics, or biomechanical courses offered at the university instead. Of course, any engineer worth their salt should have developed the skills to jump to a related field without too much trouble, but it would be far more helpful to point them in the direction they're interested in from the start. That said, I don't think things like Mechatronics, Aerospace, or Biomechanical need their own big overview episodes like the big 4. They're going to be doing more detailed videos on certain parts of each field in the future from what I understand, and that'd probably be the appropriate time to introduce the more detailed labels and differences from the core of each category.
Well I have read these comments and honestly, I have to say Mechatronic Engineering might have a future. It is like Robotics Engineering but a better focus on the materials and the power sources as well as the the uses it might have. Unfortateunly this type of engineering is just Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Engineering and Electrical Engineering. For it to stand out someone will have to create something ENTIRELY new. If something like this does happen, Mechatronic still won't be a main branch of Engineering as it consists of other types of Engineering, but it will change the ENTIRE world.
This is awesome! I’ve always said I want to be an engineer but I never really knew what that meant, and this series is giving me a really clear picture of what engineering is and it’s various fields of use. Crash course seriously is such a help to me as a high school student, It saved my World History AP grade 😩😂, Thank you!
The only thing I dislike about this video is it's basically the same video as what "Crash Course: History of Transportation" would be. Where's the HVAC and heat transfer? Where's manufacturing and material science? You can't be a Mechanical Engineer without those!
I've been waiting for this video for a long time! So excited to be pursuing this career path! Very inspiring! Love the series and love this channel! Thank you!
Just this same morning I read an article (in dutch, and paywalled, sadly), on all the recent research showing how better transportation just leads us to do mostly the same stuff, in the same amount of time, over longer distances. This is shown to dangerously loses us our interest and capacity for surviving as a community on smaller scales. Granted, there are problems that demand efficient long distance travel, but it also seems that a lot of engineering solutions get applied dangerously broadly, to the way everyone travels anywhere in this case. A lot of car users could well have lived perfectly comparable lives using only bikes to get places. Overbroad applications of initially specialized engineering may be an interesting topic for a future video?
Can you do a video on Engineering Technology vs Traditional Engineering? Not many know the difference. I am a student in Mechanical Engineering Technology myself (just about done with my Associate's degree). Even TE's (Traditional Engineers) and business leaders have a poor understanding of an ET (Engineering Technician/Technologist). Thanks.
There is a mistake in the part she talks about turboreactors. Even though it is true that the turborreactor was pattented by Sir Frank Whitle, the first turborreactor engine to fly was developed by the German engineer Han von Ohain. It took to the skies in 1939. I cannot provide a link to sources RN, but I will try later. Thanks for the work bringing to every body such a fascinating profession as engineering!!!
Just recently figured out that I may have missed my calling as an engineer 10 years ago when I was "encouraged" to go into graphic design. I'm relieved that I was eventually forced to stop studying and get a job, so I could discover what I didn't like doing, and discover stuff like this instead.
I feel like engineering needs its own Drake meme : -Creating products for the betterment of society- Creating products for war that have the side effect of bettering society.
THANK YOU SO MUCH CRASH COURSE! All that you're doing is very educational to youngsters these days. You have no idea how grateful I am to be able to gain so much knowledge from your channel! I aspire to be a doctor or engineer in the future. Thank you! ❤️
Vaclav Kuchar hopefully business courses are NOT hell! I am switching my major to engineering or at least testing out some of the courses next semester.
What about all about fluid mechanics, heat transfer and energy, and materials engineering. Come on, Mechanical Engineering covers all these fields and more.
The Creator of alternate realities um planador mantém-se sim no ar quando há o auxílio de correntes de ar favoráveis coisa que o desqualifica como um avião dado que é uma força externa, assim como os dispositivos de lançamento dos irmãos wright
I hate to say this, but this was kind of disappointing. This was a history of technology with very little engineering. Not even a photo of an airfoil. I don't really see the point of such shallow coverage of an interesting but challenging topic. This is a CrashCourse I may have to sit out.
It wasn't even a proper history of technology; it was just a chronological list of machines being invented. Nothing about their context, the engineering challenges they had, the development of materials, tools or theoretical knowledge which were necessary for these inventions to happen, etc. Overall a really disappointing episode.
I've never given up on a CrashCourse before, but I think I am going to this time. An "engineering" CC that doesn't really get down to the engineering is like really bad -- teasing -- porn. I was looking at a moment frame yesterday and thought maybe CC would give a detailed explanation of the various forms, how they work, and what "moment" means in this instance. But then I realized this series was not going to go deep enough to talk about tension and sheer and moment and the rest. Perhaps this series is intended for a primary school audience?
LegendofVII it's not an easy major, but it's maybe the most versatile degree in existence. You'll have to give up a lot of partying in college so you can stay home and do homework / study.
Machines are structures which move. Non-machine structures are mechanisms which are locked. Thus civil and mechanical engineering overlap at structures.
Which phase of engineering is best to learn about robotics electrical engineering or machinecal engineering or any other engineering please clarify my dought in the next vidio
If you want to learn about robotics, you can do Mechanics! you will need to understand the motion of the robot and the materials you need to build it, so you need Mechanical Eng. and you need a the chip to process information, so computer Eng. Mechatronics is the combination of the two!
Yes indeed! Is really the same thing, generating energy needs a machine that will transform one form of energy into another. A steam engine will transform chemical energy in the coal, into heat, than movement. And for generating energy as electricity you use the movement of the steam to action a turbine, or use the heavy flow of rivers for hydroelectric. But in all cases, you need a machine to move energy, that's where the mechanical engineering comes in!
And if it doesn’t move, congrats you’re a civil engineer!
The SHADE XD
And if it's alive you're a biological engineer!
And if it's programmable, You're a computer scientist!
So, what happens if it moves?
If it flies?
For a person who never had any interest in engineering, I must say that I find these videos quite and good and informational. I plan to watch every single one and learn more about engineering by doing so
same here
I'm just an 8th grader and am interested in engineering even though it is a college course. So having this year-long engineering playlist is really helpful for me.
Taha Silat Rip rocket fan, hopefully they're as hot next season
i encourage you to search for courses on basic engineering ,
for example:
take a course on building basic electronic circuits or some programming if you are interested in this type of things,you don't have to wait until college to learn you can start simple now and build more advanced stuff later.
if you start from such an age you i think you can accomplish great things in your life.
Hope you all the best!.
Taha Silat
Well, if you ever want to be one, look very carefully at each Engineering discipline. Know what it entails, what you can do with it and, if you're really dedicated, which parts you like and hate. You don't want to end up as an electrical engineer if you hate circuits, or a Biomed if you faint at the sight of blood, etc.
I'm a mechanical. It's a well-rounded major that allows you to do many things with a lot of cool design stuff, but this means you have a higher chance of running into something you really don't like. For example: fluid dynamics and control systems ae perhaps the most difficult, boring, mathematically intense classes you will find in any major and are mandatory for Mechs like me. Don't even THINK of Aerospace if fluid dynamics makes you hate life.
Mechanical engineering students represent!
denny0489 mechatronics
First year of Mechanical engineering!!!!
denny0489
UC Davis Senior here!
About to finish my freshman year.
Im taking Thermo right now. ME or bust
I was having a difficult time to get interested in ME. I took ME because my family thinks it's needed for our business. I don't have any idea on what to take back in highschool so I'm here studying with disgust. Then one day during this quarantine, I thought why I am not interested in my own course. It all lies with me not allotting time to "play" and get interested with mechanical engineering. This video inspired me to up my game. Thank you to the creators!
Yeah, an insight and the impact is really what makes me keep pushing forward too, it's motivates me
I think it is funny that a horse is capable of a maximum of around 14.9 horsepower.
No, thats impossible.
Maybe for some seconds a horse could do that, but never continuously
😂😂😂😂😂
AS a mechanical engineer, I find these videos so helpful! Thank you Crash Course for generating such wonderful content!
Interesting fact: Bill Nye's only degree is a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University.
You could study advanced knitting as a Cornell undergrad and still have good chance at a Nobel prize.
Nice! Without the original Crash Course videos 6 years ago I probably wouldn't have become a mechanical engineer. Things have come full circle.
There is a NEW field of engineering: Mechatronic Engineering. Please can you look into it? It'd be awesome to see a video on that. It's mainly robotics, etc, I believe
It's not really a new field. It's just a combined program of mechanical and electrical engineering with some computer science thrown in.
Basically another way to say robotics. You basically learn how to create electromechanical systems like a robotic arm who’s linkages are moved by a servo motor.
Burry21 Hmm I don't think that it's all that new
While not new, its more new in how its specialising away from pure Mechanical. Mechanical engineers tend to learn the basics of robots, if that, these days, and from the courses I've seen they don't even touch electrical - a core component of robotics.
Mechatronics is starting to be taught as an independent field with a higher focus on the electrical side of engineering, and more detail into how to program both at a base assembly level, and in higher level languages.
Similar to how Aerospace these days isn't just mechanical engineering, mechatronics is becoming a more distinct field in itself. They all fall under the broader purviews of the more basic engineering types, but they are more recently becoming distinct entities. I think it would be, on the whole, more informative when we get to the more detailed episodes on each of the broader areas, to start talking about the sub-areas that spring off them, especially as those sub areas start to be taught as independent subjects that many of the viewers of the video may one day wish to study. I think it'd be a bad outcome if someone went to study mechanical engineering at University because of this video, but then realised they actually wanted to be studying aerospace, mechatronics, or biomechanical courses offered at the university instead. Of course, any engineer worth their salt should have developed the skills to jump to a related field without too much trouble, but it would be far more helpful to point them in the direction they're interested in from the start.
That said, I don't think things like Mechatronics, Aerospace, or Biomechanical need their own big overview episodes like the big 4. They're going to be doing more detailed videos on certain parts of each field in the future from what I understand, and that'd probably be the appropriate time to introduce the more detailed labels and differences from the core of each category.
Well I have read these comments and honestly, I have to say Mechatronic Engineering might have a future. It is like Robotics Engineering but a better focus on the materials and the power sources as well as the the uses it might have.
Unfortateunly this type of engineering is just Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Engineering and Electrical Engineering. For it to stand out someone will have to create something ENTIRELY new.
If something like this does happen, Mechatronic still won't be a main branch of Engineering as it consists of other types of Engineering, but it will change the ENTIRE world.
At the end of the day we live in a mechanical world. This field will pretty much always be around.
This is awesome! I’ve always said I want to be an engineer but I never really knew what that meant, and this series is giving me a really clear picture of what engineering is and it’s various fields of use. Crash course seriously is such a help to me as a high school student, It saved my World History AP grade 😩😂, Thank you!
Go do it! I can tell you it's the best decision I've ever done, it might be hard, but after the hard work you can become anything you want!
The only thing I dislike about this video is it's basically the same video as what "Crash Course: History of Transportation" would be. Where's the HVAC and heat transfer? Where's manufacturing and material science? You can't be a Mechanical Engineer without those!
Sure mechanical engineers are taught basics of it but they don't specialize in it.
It's the job of thermodynamics engineer and material scientist.
I've been waiting for this video for a long time! So excited to be pursuing this career path! Very inspiring! Love the series and love this channel! Thank you!
THIS sums up why I am studying to be a mechanical engineer!
Thanks alot for making these videos, they are really helping me choosing my future profession.
Mechanical engineer (designing & production, master student in materials science) and proud
Finally the best engineers :D
Not necessarily ...
@Rick Ross All engineers are awesome.
Mechanical Engineer, Best engineer 💪
HA! False! MechE every day
Computer Engineer > Eletric Engineer > all others engineers
Funky Sagan Cat MY MAN!
Chemical engineering > mechanical engineering
Funky Sagan Cat disagreed. Chemical engineering is the best engineering
Proud to be a mechanical engineer
You SHOULD have mentioned Santos Dummont as a pioneer of creating an airplane too!!
Just this same morning I read an article (in dutch, and paywalled, sadly), on all the recent research showing how better transportation just leads us to do mostly the same stuff, in the same amount of time, over longer distances. This is shown to dangerously loses us our interest and capacity for surviving as a community on smaller scales. Granted, there are problems that demand efficient long distance travel, but it also seems that a lot of engineering solutions get applied dangerously broadly, to the way everyone travels anywhere in this case. A lot of car users could well have lived perfectly comparable lives using only bikes to get places.
Overbroad applications of initially specialized engineering may be an interesting topic for a future video?
Can you do a video on Engineering Technology vs Traditional Engineering? Not many know the difference. I am a student in Mechanical Engineering Technology myself (just about done with my Associate's degree). Even TE's (Traditional Engineers) and business leaders have a poor understanding of an ET (Engineering Technician/Technologist). Thanks.
So basically mechanical engineers nail anything that moves?
There is a mistake in the part she talks about turboreactors. Even though it is true that the turborreactor was pattented by Sir Frank Whitle, the first turborreactor engine to fly was developed by the German engineer Han von Ohain. It took to the skies in 1939. I cannot provide a link to sources RN, but I will try later.
Thanks for the work bringing to every body such a fascinating profession as engineering!!!
Holy smokes, your show is awesome
i like how she uses metric units
Anything that moves! I've been saying that for years :)
Just recently figured out that I may have missed my calling as an engineer 10 years ago when I was "encouraged" to go into graphic design.
I'm relieved that I was eventually forced to stop studying and get a job, so I could discover what I didn't like doing, and discover stuff like this instead.
Can't wait for chemical engineering!
I feel like engineering needs its own Drake meme :
-Creating products for the betterment of society-
Creating products for war that have the side effect of bettering society.
So this is what it’s like to arrive early to a party
I wish these got more views. Please don’t stop creating these!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH CRASH COURSE! All that you're doing is very educational to youngsters these days. You have no idea how grateful I am to be able to gain so much knowledge from your channel! I aspire to be a doctor or engineer in the future. Thank you! ❤️
I loved this show! But... what about Santos Dumonnt?
I can't help it. I have to say it. Wow... she is amazing.
It might be me but I think this episode is flowing much better than the first two.
wow cool
This is what we do,we changed the world, to do,work faster,easier and we are the Mechanical engineers😎
This video just talks about the History of Mechanical Engineering, I was hoping to learn about some basic concepts of Mechanical Engineering.
You know you love this series when you cant get its jingle out of your head badubum!
Great video! Can't wait for the EE video!
How DARE u say that the Wright brothers were the first?
SantosDummont >>>
Thought DaVinci built the first flying contraption
@@thomasjohnson2038 Da Vinci sketched aircrafts, but never built them.
I am studying mechanical engeniering and I an mechanical industrial Technician , mechanical is wonderfull.
Yeah the Wright brothers definitely weren't the first ones. Santos Dummont really did it.
where might i find more in depth videos on engineering? im considering an engineering degree and i need something deeper
Did you end up finding anything? I’m thinking about also doing mechanical engineering
this video makes me want to do my statics & dynamics homework
I just want to say ¡I Can’t Wait Till The Chemical Engineering Ep! Bring on the trumpets
I could listen to you talk on anything for all the days
Hay quá
"Science owes more to the Steam Engine than the Steam Engine owes to Science."
-Attributed to Lawrence Joseph Henderson.
What about an episode on prosthetics or biomechanical engineering
I studied ME for 4 semesters, it was hell.
Vaclav Kuchar what did you study after or before that?
I joined business school right now :)
Vaclav Kuchar hopefully business courses are NOT hell! I am switching my major to engineering or at least testing out some of the courses next semester.
I've been studying YOU, too!
*rimshot*
what.
awesome!
She is the total package. Beautiful, articulate, educated and humorous. Man where did I go wrong
Can mechanical engineers be civil engineers?
Such an important sub-discipline of engineering, if only it's as easy for mechanical engineers to get a job as programmers...
I became so elated when the first notification from youtube today was this episode. I've been thinking about it all day! Love it!
biomedical engineering please!!!
Make a crash course mathematics please
Santos Dummond
Not gonna lie, this should be crash course history
You should really talk about Nano and microsystems engineering too! It would be ps helpfull
You must do one about bci, because that is the very gammid between biology and robotics, so, yep, decintely
The lack of santos dumond bothers me
👏👏👏👏
Hmm. I expected da Vinci to be mentioned and some of your ancient engineers. The “pioneers.”
Will you do architecture?
Chemical engineering next 🙋♀️
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I might be biased being a mechanical. Keep up the good work and DFTBA
👍👍👍👍
Are they gonna make a Computer Engineering Video?
thanks
What about all about fluid mechanics, heat transfer and energy, and materials engineering. Come on, Mechanical Engineering covers all these fields and more.
What was James watt doing when he got the idea of making a steam engine better?
Please do electrical engineering
Forgot the inventor of the airplane, Santos Dumont
i like the little john hancock building
any chance to mention engineering physics???
These videos are hilarious. Simple and easy to follow. Good work. :)
Thomas Newcomen is a modern day red stone engineer
Kinda disappointed that 14-BIS weren`t even mentioned
There`s that, but the point is that they both were pioners on flight but only one was mentioned
The Creator of alternate realities é por isso q a gente precisa de uma definição de "voar" se não fica difícil mesmo
The Creator of alternate realities você realmente acha que não haviam pipas e planadores antes de 1903?
sonza68 even if they needed the right wind conditions and a "catapult" with a counterweight of 700kg?
The Creator of alternate realities um planador mantém-se sim no ar quando há o auxílio de correntes de ar favoráveis coisa que o desqualifica como um avião dado que é uma força externa, assim como os dispositivos de lançamento dos irmãos wright
... all I have are good thoughts 👌
Sadly I wish this chapter could date back from water wheel to mechanical clock
I hate to say this, but this was kind of disappointing. This was a history of technology with very little engineering. Not even a photo of an airfoil. I don't really see the point of such shallow coverage of an interesting but challenging topic. This is a CrashCourse I may have to sit out.
It wasn't even a proper history of technology; it was just a chronological list of machines being invented. Nothing about their context, the engineering challenges they had, the development of materials, tools or theoretical knowledge which were necessary for these inventions to happen, etc.
Overall a really disappointing episode.
Yea i agree. However i'm just going to give it some time as we're only 3 episodes in.
I've never given up on a CrashCourse before, but I think I am going to this time. An "engineering" CC that doesn't really get down to the engineering is like really bad -- teasing -- porn.
I was looking at a moment frame yesterday and thought maybe CC would give a detailed explanation of the various forms, how they work, and what "moment" means in this instance. But then I realized this series was not going to go deep enough to talk about tension and sheer and moment and the rest. Perhaps this series is intended for a primary school audience?
MakeMeThinkAgain Yes! Thank you for saying this. I thought I was the only one.
Really hoping it gets better
Perfect timing. In September I’m starting applied science at UBCO.
How do you find it so far? I’m also thinking of doing mechanical engineering there
First they replace the horses next they replace the humans
Do biomedical engineering!
can you do geological engineer
I'm pretty sure the highest honor is getting a prize named after you like:
Nobel Prize
Turing Award
I don't know any others
Fields medal
Do you have an app
I'm really enjoying this series so far! Very good presenter!
Awesome
Is it a good major?
LegendofVII it's not an easy major, but it's maybe the most versatile degree in existence. You'll have to give up a lot of partying in college so you can stay home and do homework / study.
Machines are structures which move. Non-machine structures are mechanisms which are locked. Thus civil and mechanical engineering overlap at structures.
When are used the tap A and B?
There are many "next Tony Stark's" in here :))
Which phase of engineering is best to learn about robotics electrical engineering or machinecal engineering or any other engineering please clarify my dought in the next vidio
If you want to learn about robotics, you can do Mechanics! you will need to understand the motion of the robot and the materials you need to build it, so you need Mechanical Eng. and you need a the chip to process information, so computer Eng. Mechatronics is the combination of the two!
is there any connection between mechanical engineering and generating energy?
Yes indeed! Is really the same thing, generating energy needs a machine that will transform one form of energy into another. A steam engine will transform chemical energy in the coal, into heat, than movement. And for generating energy as electricity you use the movement of the steam to action a turbine, or use the heavy flow of rivers for hydroelectric. But in all cases, you need a machine to move energy, that's where the mechanical engineering comes in!
The wright brothers were not the first to fly just the first to be photographed doing it.
i like how you introduce mechanical engineering !