fuckfrankieoliver t1_ir15u62 wrote on October 4, 2022 at 4:10 PM

Reply to comment by frogontrombone in Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? by Magister_Xehanort

I have a bachelors in ME and did not learn any of this, now I’m sad :(

frogontrombone t1_ir2c9zw wrote on October 4, 2022 at 8:35 PM

lol, sorry to hear that. On the bright side, lifetime of learning, right? :D

I cover it so students feel some sense of their professional "heritage" and to motivate why we care about planar mechanisms at all in the age of mechatronics. And my class is very demanding, so it's a "sit back and enjoy it" lecture to give them a breather.