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Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain
You missed my point entirely! ... but does that mean that all mechanical engineer knows a car like the back of his or her hand NO of course not.
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That's not what you said. You said that "a mechanical engineer has knowledge that would far surpass my own yet that doesn't mean they are better at say building a car" to which I replied (and maintain) that most likely they ARE better at building a car.
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You could get your mechanical engineering degree without ever having touched a robot.
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You're misunderstanding the purpose of an engineering education. An engineering education is primarily about 2 things: learning a foundation of fundamental concepts (equations, theory, etc) and learning how to learn (because on any engineering job, you WILL need to learn additional skills beyond what you were taught in school). Learning to be a mechanical engineer does not teach you how specifically to build a robot, just like it does not teach you specifically how to build a car, or design a manufacturing machine, or a product housing, etc.
An engineering education is about the concepts and skills that apply to any engineering project. Your argument is that a mechanical engineering education (and, by extension, any other engineering education) is not relevant to building robots because they don't teach you how to build a robot in school. The point that you're missing is that nearly ALL of the concepts that are learned while pursuing an engineering education are applicable and relevant when building FIRST robots.