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Mechanical Engineering Technical Interview Questions Mechanical Engineering featured Top Mechanical Engineering Interview Questions There’s a wide range of topics that are covered during interviews, but you’ll most often find these fundamental questions covered the most: Mechanics of Materials (Beam Th…	1	26922	February 3, 2024
About the Mechanical Engineering category Mechanical Engineering	0	1424	July 27, 2020
Interview prep for nuclear companies Mechanical Engineering nuclear , energy	0	64	November 13, 2024
Your friend is coming over soon and you made them coffee. You want this coffee to be as hot as possible by the time they get to you. You can use creamer to affect the coffee, what should you do to make the coffee as hot as possible when they arrive? Heat Transfer synapse , heat-transfer	4	2634	October 30, 2024
You have two objects that mate together, you want to decrease the total linear tolerance stack up. What can you do to decrease the total tolerance stackup? Manufacturing & Consumer Product Design	2	1566	October 30, 2024
Name all the ways to to lighten a cantilevered I beam with a point load on the end, while minimizing weight and deflection Cantilever Beams	2	1456	October 30, 2024
What are some important characteristics for material selection? Materials Science materials , apple	2	1968	October 27, 2024
You are designing a steel beam to minimize deflection for a given force and avoid permanent deformation. Which material property should be maximized? Cantilever Beams tesla	3	2153	October 26, 2024
GD&T: Home Button Placement Problem (Apple) Manufacturing & Consumer Product Design apple	3	6179	October 16, 2024
You have a stool with four legs, two are Aluminum, two are steel. All legs are identical in geometry (area/length). If you continiously heat up this stool, how will the load share change over as time goes on? Cantilever Beams spacex	1	2615	September 15, 2024
How would you design an experiment to measure the thermal conductivity of corrugated cardboard? Heat Transfer heat-transfer , gradient	1	1153	September 12, 2024
How would you design a satellite that orbits the earth and passively maintains a temperature of 300K +/- 10K? Heat Transfer heat-transfer , gradient	2	1196	September 12, 2024
Glued/Non-glued cantilever beam Cantilever Beams	1	447	September 9, 2024
A steel cantilevered I-beam is welded to a wall has some load applied at the end. Where would it fail? Cantilever Beams stoke	0	485	August 30, 2024
CNC vs other techniques Manufacturing & Consumer Product Design manufacturing	3	339	July 31, 2024
You are machining two plates with identical hole patterns that will bolted together. How do you ensure that they perfectly line up? Manufacturing & Consumer Product Design	1	1564	July 24, 2024
What are critical dimensions necessary in the tolerance stack-up/loop to minimize the part gap? Mechanical Design square	1	1388	July 10, 2024
A machine includes a bronze cart sliding horizontally on steel rails. The design is changed to add a 15° angle to the rails and cart without changing any other features. How does the sliding friction of the two designs compare? Free Body Diagrams carbon	1	714	July 5, 2024
If two vehicles are identical, except for one weighing twice as much as the other vehicle, and they roll down a hill, which car reaches the bottom first? Free Body Diagrams physics , tesla Neglect air resistance. Assume the extra mass is in the body of the vehicle Hint: What governing physics law is used to characterize this system?	9	13775	June 24, 2024
Walk me through the different materials used on the visible exterior of your phone, why those specific materials might be used, and how they are manufactured Mechanical Design apple , manufacturing , general , htc	2	2238	June 19, 2024
In the context of injection molding, can you explain the difference between a slide and a lifter? Specifically, how do they operate, and in what situations would you use each mechanism? Manufacturing & Consumer Product Design apple , manufacturing , plastics	1	690	June 17, 2024
What are considerations for designing an injection molded part, like on the back-paneling of a consumer product? Manufacturing & Consumer Product Design square	1	852	June 14, 2024
A beam is made from two cylinders, where the inner cylinder is steel and the outer cylinder is aluminum. Which cylinder will yield first if beam is a simply supported cantilever beam? Cantilever Beams general	1	1337	April 2, 2024
You have a concentrated load at the center of a beam with two point supports on either end. Describe the shear force and bending moment diagram Cantilever Beams general , zoox	2	2171	March 3, 2024
On which side of a wall-mounted cantilever beam induced with a point load will it fail? Cantilever Beams cisco , spacex	5	15010	February 27, 2024
You have a cantilever beam, to minimize deflection, you add a support elbow. Would you add this to the top or bottom? Why? Cantilever Beams general	1	6137	April 24, 2022
You have two identical bolts and nuts torqued to the same spec clamping two faces together. One bolt is lubricated while the other is not. What is the clamp load of each bolt? Mechanical Design general , tesla	2	2120	February 14, 2024
Two concentric tubes, where the inner tube is made of aluminum and outer tube is steel, are assembled vertically with a mass on top. Which tube will see more deflection? Cantilever Beams	4	2007	February 4, 2024
You have 5kg of Aluminum and 5kg of Steel. You can make whatever cross section beam you want with these materials. If you have to make a cantilever beam 1m long with a load at the end and you want to minimize the deflection. What material would you use? Cantilever Beams general , apple	8	6729	February 2, 2024
If you had to pressurize a pressure vessel in testing, would you rather pressurize with liquid or gas and why? Mechanical Design spacex , firefly	1	1980	January 21, 2024

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Top Mechanical Engineering Interview Questions There’s a wide range of topics that are covered during interviews, but you’ll most often find these fundamental questions covered the most: Mechanics of Materials (Beam Th…