Mechanical Engineer Must Have

1. Books: Making Things Move, Shigley’s Mechanical Design, Machinery’s Handbook 2. Project Planning 3. Parkinson’s Law 4. Document Everything 5. Design is an Iterative Process 6. Don’t hesitate to ask question, cause lives of people depend on you 7. Designing for disassemble is just as important as design for assembly. 8. Don’t design a better mousetrap THEN expect someone to want it. 9. Better is the enemy of good enough. 10.Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion. 11.Short conversations on how to make a part more easily machinable/moldable/etc. can save thousands of dollars and make you both look good. You may even learn something. 12.Everything is a spring.