Nissan VVEL Explained

markesc

Just posted on youtube...



Not sure why the imbeded part won't work, but it's Engineering Explained, good channel, reputable guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3QxsJRNigs

JTM88

I like all his videos, it's also the only way Road and track gets any content.

Ventruck

As someone who has a mechanical engineering degree, I lean on this guy a whole lot. I'm pretty sure I've learned more through him than I did in college, although he concentrates on automotive subjects. He'd be a hell of a teacher.

JTM88

Have you seen his video where he compares being a mechanic to being an engineer? At one point he talks about how his education was just a bunch of formulas for 3 years and then all of a sudden having to design something with them the last year.

Memphis370Z

2011 Nismo#91

http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/DOCU...0713VVEL-e.pdf

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Ventruck

yeah, and he was dead-on in saying that.

At least in the US, in non-private institutions, it seems like the standard curriculum in universities really don't do much of anything apart from try to set you up conceptually. And being conceptual, you're not going to remember everything because at some point it sounds trivial until because you really don't know what direction you plan to go with it. The project itself would be a concentrated discipline, and unless you were given enough time, you're not actually applying a good share of what you learned the years before. In fact I mainly applied on-the-fly Solidworks + ProE knowledge because I couldn't take an FEA class until senior year as an elective. Virtually no thermo/electrical/higher levels of Math in our curriculum/fluid dynamics/materials was relevant or applied.

I had a classmate who was an exchange student from Europe. He was totally struck by how we're glued to a book when he was working hands-on with go-carts the year before in his country. Technically, we do have Formula SAE in the US, but that's a supplementary club vs integrated into curriculum, and depending where you are there's going to be some snobbery that dictates/reduces your role in the project.

tl;dr, if you're an engineering student you'll likely have to go the extra mile and land some internships for any proper experience before going into the professional world. It was a PITA for me to land a job and I'm not even doing anything close to what I hope I would.