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What do you think about Mechanical Engineering in the future?

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Q. Dear everybody; Nowadays, I have worked on the paper about the future of Mechanical Engineering. I need your opinions.

A. -It is my opinion there will always be a need for ME's but to be a ME who is in high demand and gets paid well you will have to have something to do with software, electronics, or things that make programming or electronics easier/better. -My opinion is that engineering is being automated. Design and art remain creative processes for humans to do. Engineering is the application of theory, and this can be and is done now with software, increasingly so in the future. A global virtual digital universe can account real objects and systems in "engineering" terms. Objects in that environment will interact using behaviors. Humans can interact with the system by expressing preferences or stating desire outcomes for systems and processes. The work done today as engineering will be programmed into the objects, environment, etc, A designer (professional, or consumer) will manipulate an interface using human terms. The technical stuff will happen behind the scenes. -Your thoughts on this are interesting. The concept goes back to the process of trial and error, as was done a few hundred years ago. In your hypothesis, the errors would be made on the computer, allowing relatively ignorant people to "experiment with reality". Real experience is another matter, however, I see where you're going with this idea.

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