What do Mechanical Engineers actually do?

What can Mechanical Engineers design?

• I'm looking forward a course in mechanical engineering, my aim is to design, but I am wondering, what can mechanical engineers design?

• Answer:

  I am a Mechanical Engineer. Mechanical Engineering is the study of design, manufacture and maintenance of machines. As for design, I list a few things. Cars, aeroplanes, ships, manufacturer's production lines, steam and gas turbines, pumps of all sizes; form the petrol pumb to the nodding donkeys. Tools such as lathes, milling machines, shapers, piller drills, horizonal and vertical borers. The list is endless. Basically, if it is make of metal and it moves then Mechanical Engineers have designed and built it. Good luck with you studies. In the main you will need to wrap your head around Newton's theories of movement, trigonometry and transposition of formulii. You will also need to get yourself an Engineer's data book and a scientific calculator.