Doing in Gee's "Discourse"

   The next aspect of Gee's "Discourse" is doing. The mechanical engineering discourse has a wide variety of practices that range from simple research to more complex mathematics.

   Mechanical engineers do a lot of math as one may expect and they also do a great deal of research in order to better understand things so that they can make them better for the rest of the world.

   One misconceived perception that many have about mechanical engineers is that they are all really nerdy and have no lives outside of their workplace and this is very false. As i will explain later Gordon Murray is an exceptional mechanical engineer and he neither looks nerdy or lacks a full life. Some things that mechanical engineers like to do on their spare time is build things, play sports, and the list goes on forever because unlike what many think they are not machines they are just ordinary people with extraordinary abilities that they use to make life better through technology.

   As a mechanical engineering student myself I have had to do some pretty neat stuff in my last two semesters as a mechanical engineer and if you are planning on joining this field in the near future you might expect to have projects like the following: my first semester as an engineering student we had to create a "Mars Rover" as they called it that was strictly mechanical and we could not use anything electrical nor any other type of motor. It was a pretty tough task as you may imagine but as a group we persevered and did very well on the project. The image to the left is what we ended up with. Then this past semester we had to create a naval craft that we had to place in our Reflect Pond at the UCF campus and get from one side of the pond to the other without using a remote control and our final product is the image to the bottom right.