Latest Mechanical Engineering topics

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How would you measure air pressure of an airplane? General ME Questions synapse	0	821	October 3, 2020
Brainstorm 15-20 ways to remove balloons from a room General ME Questions apple	0	1498	October 26, 2022
How would you tolerance a touch screen assembly to the mounting chassis of a smart phone? Mechanical Design apple	0	1140	January 17, 2023
Describe the failure theories for brittle and ductile materials Materials Science	0	875	August 10, 2021
How would you design an automated sticker peeler? Mechanical Design	0	735	August 10, 2021
Draw a commuter bike-label every single part on it. Explain what it’s job is and why it is designed that way Mechanical Design general , spinlaunch	0	832	August 6, 2020
iPhone Home Button: How would you design the mechanism of the home button? Mechanical Design apple	0	1396	April 17, 2022
If you were asked to design an electric toothbrush, a mining truck, and a satellite to be launched in to space, what considerations would you have for each? Mechanical Design	0	560	January 24, 2023
How would you design an experiment to measure the thermal conductivity of corrugated cardboard? Heat Transfer heat-transfer , gradient	0	706	February 24, 2023
How would you design a satellite that orbits the earth and passively maintains a temperature of 300K +/- 10K? Heat Transfer heat-transfer , gradient	0	758	February 24, 2023
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	0	1091	May 21, 2021
How would you use calibrated dowels in the design/machining/inspection process? Manufacturing & Consumer Product Design	0	659	May 21, 2021
What type of tests would you conduct on a solid state drive? Mechanical Design zoox , mechanical-testing	0	750	January 4, 2021
If you only use you hot tub during the weekend, is it more efficient to leave it on all the time or turn it on only for the weekend? Heat Transfer synapse , heat-transfer	0	872	October 3, 2020
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	0	1831	September 28, 2020
What techniques are used to mitigate rotational vibration on a hard disk? Mechanical Design facebook	0	1284	August 8, 2020
Your device has a stylus. How do you store it? How do you charge it? What kind of things can you use it for? Mechanical Design microsoft	0	609	August 8, 2020
What are critical dimensions necessary in the tolerance stack-up/loop to minimize the part gap? Mechanical Design square	0	522	August 2, 2023
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	0	321	August 2, 2023
Explain the types of tests you would conduct on an Oculus Rift Mechanical Design facebook , square	0	832	September 2, 2020
You have a mass of 1 kg that you want to drive to the end of a 1 m long horizontal rail in 10 seconds. Determine the minimum power requirement for a linear actuator Free Body Diagrams carbon	0	355	August 2, 2023
For a screwed connection, what condition will the bolt experience no shear load? Manufacturing & Consumer Product Design carbon	0	463	August 2, 2023
What are the following GD&T symbols, and what tolerance & surface does it control? Manufacturing & Consumer Product Design flexiv	0	620	August 2, 2023
Describe how you would design a mounting for a resistor? Mechanical Design	0	532	January 24, 2023
There is a car with a spring attached to it and a wall. Spring is extended and then released. What does the time-varying response look like? Free Body Diagrams	0	603	August 7, 2020
What are considerations for designing an injection molded part, like on the back-paneling of a consumer product? Manufacturing & Consumer Product Design square	0	319	September 12, 2023
How do you test for waterproofing on consumer electronic products (smart phone, tablet, etc)? Mechanical Design apple	3	1659	August 28, 2023
A car on a hill of constant slope accelerates from rest under gravity to a point on the hill. If you want to maximize the velocity of the car at this point, where along the length of the car (e.g. downhill or uphill) would you fix an additional mass? Free Body Diagrams apple	2	4877	July 24, 2023
Rank the strength of the following materials from strongest to weakest: carbon fiber, plastic, steel, aluminum Materials Science apple , materials	4	8651	June 25, 2023
Given a wall-mounted cantilever beam and a point load at the free end, describe the shear force diagram and bending moment diagram Cantilever Beams htc , zoox , apple	2	9344	June 20, 2023