Mechanical Engineers of TSR

any tips on how to pass a numerical reasoning test

Practice, practice, and practice. Each one seems to have a different format, and I've found if you get used to the format, you'll breeze through the test. The greatest challenge in most of them is the time pressure you face. The questions should be problem solving questions that don't assess your technical knowledge so there's not much 'revision' you can do for them. If you familiarise yourself with the format and question style, you'll spend less time trying to get used to the format and reading questions meaning you'll put yourself under less time pressure.

Would you recommend using different sites to practice, right now l'm using shl I'm used to their format i average 75% in their tests.

And thank you

Does anyone think it'd be helpful to have some more info on TSR regarding actual engineering? Just thinking of what info might be useful... quick sector guides, for instance?

I agree!

Maybe if people could write like a quick overview of how their sectors are actually like that would be good...only problem with this though is i don't think a lot of people will be bothered to enter the info lol

I had started typing up a quick sector guide for upstream O&G. What do you think I should include?

Hopefully we can get other people to contribute some info about their sectors too. I'm sure we must have people who have some experience and can contribute something.

Hi guys,

Mech Eng student here on a placement currently, having completed two years of my BEng course.

At the moment, I'm not looking to do a MEng, but more and more people are telling me otherwise.

So question is, would you recommend a MEng in today's engineering world?

I had started typing up a quick sector guide for upstream O&G. What do you think I should include?

Hopefully we can get other people to contribute some info about their sectors too. I'm sure we must have people who have some experience and can contribute something.

What me and a lot of my friends are concerned about is whether you use what you've learnt at University for your job, and what the future is like for specific industries. I know a few people who are interested in the future of sustainable energy and where it falls in the spectrum or radar of operations of O&G companies, as there doesn't seem to be much about it on the internet.

I'd be happy to talk nd type up a few bits about the Aerospace sector. Despite it seeming like something for Aerospace engineers, a lot of Mechanical Engineers are recruited by the obvious aerospace firms such as RR and Airbus.

I can't get my head around Linear algebra, could anyone suggest a book, video, pdf or anything that might be helpful.

Hello. How's 2nd year treating you? It's been a while...
Try Engineering Mathematics or Higher Engineering Mathematics by John Bird.

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Many an engineering student ponders whether what they're currently being taught at university will be used in their working lives - especially around exam time!

Ultimately it depends on what type of job you go into, but that's a bit of a cop-out so I'll elaborate a bit.

Some people are going to get jobs as project engineers. They're not really going to be using much of what they learnt at university, as their jobs won't revolve around designing things, performing the calculations or analysis, etc.

If you go into design then I'd say you're quite likely to use a fair bit of what you learnt at university. I'm in design at the moment and I would say I use quite a bit of the material I covered during university - especially the earlier material. I do also use a fair bit of what I covered during the later years too, but I'd imagine that'd be primarily because my course was designed to be relevant to my job.

I wouldn't say real world engineering is as mathematically complicated as university, though. I don't use calculus, for example. Although it definitely is handy to know.

Looking back, I would say that a problem with university degrees isn't that they are too theoretical, but rather they're lacking in context. You'll certainly cover a lot of material during your degree, but it's mainly taught in the context of passing exams. Ultimately, it's very difficult to examine proper engineering within the confines of a closed book exam.

Sustainable energy is largely tied to the price of oil, I'm afraid, and with the current low price of oil, it's not as hot as many people thought it would be, or would like it to be, unfortunately. A wave energy firm recently went into administration, and another one slashed its staffing levels, for example.

Hey, I was wondering if you could give me some advice to pass onto a mate who is doing integrated electrical and mechanical. He's decided he hates maths and is thinking of leaving and doing something else. Do you have any idea how he could get to like maths (as he is good at it) so that he could be encouraged to keep going or, is there another degree you can think of which he could transfer to along the same lines as engineering (which would still be a worthwhile degree just less maths). Cheers!!!!

You can't make someone like something, I'm afraid, and if he wants to leave, he'll leave. If he's not liking it then he's perhaps better off leaving anyway.