Question:
My bestfriend and I want to be engineers? Advice?
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2013-01-02 14:53:23 UTC
Yes, I am young. We are both only 13. We are super interested in engineering. We have made a really long document on colleges. We would like some advice on high school courses and college courses as well as intriguing subjects that will be fairly challenging, but understandable for right now. When I get back from the winter break, we will start a textbook and manual for some simple engineering things. We want to focus on either astronomy like NASA, petroleum, or chemical. Our favorite is in order. I haven't talked about this to my parents yet because they don't think I'm smart enough to do those stuff. My bestfriend's parents support her. We really want to achieve this goal and we know it takes a lot of work. I am trying to get a ton of AP and engineering classes when I get to highschool. Any advice would be helpful. I would love websites. Thanks so much!!!! Please don't say we shouldn't do it just because we are too young or something because I really want to do this. We have invested so much time in researching for the right school. I am taking the SAT soon so I am preparing and I know I am missing a lot, but I am trying my best to get an 1,800 right now and a 2,300-2,400 in highschool. I might not get it, but it's worth a shot.

It means a lot to us!
Three answers:
beerlover
2013-01-03 13:43:48 UTC
It sounds obvious, but take a lot of science and math classes in high school, at the highest levels you can. All engineering programs require some physics classes, usually before you can start taking your real engineering classes, at the college level - and those physics classes use/require calculus. So if you can have some experience with calculus before starting college, that's a nice advantage (if not, don't worry - lots of engineers have to take calculus in college anyhow). Same with physics/chemistry.



Also think about taking some programming classes. Even though you're not looking at computer science, some programming knowledge can be helpful or even necessary for any type of engineering. This is something you can start learning on your own, too. Lots of tutorial websites and books exist for most programming languages. A pretty nice and easy one is Python.



Focusing on the SAT is fine for getting in to colleges, but that's about all it's good for - really knowing the SAT isn't going to make you succeed in your college classes or be a good engineer. Keep that in mind when studying for it.



Another piece of advice - spend some time doing hands-on experiments. You can get an intuitive grasp of how things work that will help a lot in college. As an example, maybe try some of these: http://missionscience.nasa.gov/scientist/experiments.html Going off of the rocket project there, here's an example of an engineering project.



Build the rocket they have on that page (or another, doesn't have to be NASA) and set some goals. As an example, you might say that you want the rocket to travel at least 50 feet in the air, open a parachute, and land safely. In order to meet the goals, you'll need to learn some other things first - how to tell how high a rocket is from the ground, what makes a rocket have a nice stable flight so it's spending its energy on flying up instead of to the side, that sort of thing. Once you've learned those, you'll have to make decisions about what you can make - if you could use carbon fiber it might go 100 feet up and it's strong so it can handle a rough landing, but it's much more expensive than cardboard, but cardboard might not be as stable so it won't go as high or it might not survive without a good parachute, and so on. You'll have to make decisions about things like that - can you meet your goal using cheap cardboard, or do you have to use something more expensive like PVC pipe? Then build it and test it. If it doesn't meet what you wanted it to do, figure out why and try to improve on it. THAT is what engineering is.
Lloyd J
2013-01-02 18:03:35 UTC
In high school, just be sure to take all the high level math classes you can and take biology, chemistry and physics for science. I took Algebra 1 as a freshman, Geometry as a Sophomore, Algebra 2 as a Junior and Trigonometry/Intro to Calculus as a Senior. Be sure to study hard and get good grades. At home and in the summer you can study fun projects related to engineering.
geddesjr
2016-08-04 13:09:13 UTC
You've 2 picks here. You wanna let him know earlier than he finds anybody else, or that you would be able to simply treat him as a pal and believe uncomfortable the entire way.You realize you love him so why no longer give the guy a danger? He is been sending these indicators that he might definitely such as you too, so you'd higher transfer quick earlier than he likes any one else


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