What?! Apples and Oranges Might Actually Be Similar???? (Click-bait, Sorry!)

Brian Mach
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

If you haven’t read the full title, than I will have to tell you right now that this post is not actually about apples and oranges. Although, the basic concept can be applied here! I am just passed my first week of Engineering Economics and Mechanics of Fluids and they seem vastly different at first. But then I realized (after some hard thinking) that they actually help each other out. Engineering Economics talks about how money works in the engineering world. How materials cost different amounts or how much money will you spend on this project are some of the things that we consider and discuss in this class. On the other hand, Mechanics of Fluids explains how liquids and gasses (and maybe some other form of stuffs) interact with the world. Like I said, vastly different stuff but they play with each other. Without knowing that water going down pipes wears them down over time, we would be spending a ton of money on patching up broken pipes without knowing where the leak is coming from. Same goes for the other way around: we can buy the best pipes manufactured, but it’ll be too costly if we could design a better pipe system that reduces these leaks in the first place. Everything has a place and everything works together to make things easier for people to understand. We just have to look a little deeper and think a bit harder!

Brian Mach

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