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Hello, First of all, I am going to admit that I have no idea how to program in VBA. In fact, I don’t even think I entirely understand what Access does. My programming experience has been mostly MATLAB (nothing more than simple loops and conditionals and whatnot, plus the Control System Toolbox...

I'd like to thank everyone for their effort in answering my question. It's been very encouraging to read your responses, and I'll continue to apply for jobs despite all adversity. As for your question, JBan, I believe you should definitely apply in Alberta. I was invited to interview for a...

Thanks for the response everyone. I'm primarily having trouble finding entry-level jobs the O/G, HVAC, or even manufacturing industries, and the online job board at my university is next to useless for that purpose. I understand that the Albertan economy is fairly strong now, and there is a lot...

I feel a little desperate now, because all the online job postings are looking for 2012 new grads already, and I have no idea if they'll even consider me, a 2011 grad. Do I stand a chance at all there?

I live in the Alberta province of Canada, and I graduated just recently from the local university this spring with a BSc in mechanical engineering. I have around a year of experience as a research assistant at the university, but nothing else beside that. I missed the September hiring season...

Thanks for the help everyone. After reading your replies, I've decided to take the HVAC manufacturing job. Hopefully I'll enjoy working in that industry :D Only downside is that I have to move to a city where rent is over a quarter of my monthly wages. It's my first real engineering job though...

Thanks for the replies. I guess I should clarify...I obviously can't become an actual consultant immediately, just as an engineer-in-training with a consulting company. What would be the easiest way for someone in HVAC equipment manufacturing to move to HVAC consulting (or other industries)...

I'm at a bit of a crossroads at the moment. Having just finished my mechanical engineering degree this spring, I've been offered a position with an HVAC equipment manufacturing company (for pretty decent pay, no less). I like the company environment, and the work they do does seem very...

For anyone still interested, I've semi-solved the problem! 0. Use the GUI to manually make a path first, just as an example. SAVE THE LOG FILE. 1. Select the line on which the nodes sit. 2. Use NSLL to select the nodes on said line. 3. Use the GUI to list the nodes you selected according to...

Hi everyone, I'm trying to define a path along a curved line in a 2D model in ANSYS. This would normally be easy with the GUI, except I have hundreds of nodes on the curved line that are randomly numbered. I checked the commands log that's produced by GUI operations, and the program used a...

Hi all, I'm trying to construct a beam made of 2 sections joined together, one part is steel while the other part is epoxy. I'm using axisymmetric PLANE83 to model the beams in 2D. Initially, I defined each material property set first, using MP,1,... and MP,2,.... Then, I used MAT to move the...

Hi all, I used a roughly meshed volume in ANSYS for the purpose of load application, but I would like to hide it for postprocessing. Is this possible? Any help would be appreciated.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks everyone!

Hi, I'm trying to mesh a hollow cylinder in ANSYS using mapped meshing, but ANSYS doesn't seem to be able to do this. According to the documentation, it appears that this is because ANSYS requires 3 sets of 2 opposite faces on the model, like a cube. So I guess my question is, how exactly may...

Turns out I'm getting submersible pumps anyway. Thanks everyone for your help!

Hi guys, I'm designing a pumping system to pump out water from a well, and the water level is around 50 ft below grade. Since 50 ft. is more than the atmospheric pressure in feet of water (around 32 ft of water), I get negative NPSHa, which means the pumps suffer from cavitation. How would I go...

I'm modeling a connecting rod in an engine with a line and 2 circles, which are for connecting to the piston pin and the crankshaft. I want to model the piston and crankshaft loads as distributed loads, but using PRES applies a load that's perpendicular to the line everywhere. So my question...

Gotcha, thanks.

First of all, I'd like to admit that I've only really used ANSYS (seriously anyway) for a few weeks in a FEA course, and I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. Basically, I want to mesh a very basic solid model that's in the shape of a rectangular block with a couple of holes on it. The...

I'd like to know how I can find the uncertainty in "m" and "b", the two constants you get when you make a linear curve fit "y=mx+b". I know there's a similar topic just below here http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=261269&page=1 But it seems to be that the mean and standard deviation...