Open Mechanical Engineering: mechanical engineering curriculum, free & open source
Explore this repository to learn mechanical engineering. During 2025 I'll upload a full, unmodified, uncut mechanical engineering degree with exams, homeworks, projects, and ABET accreditation.
Why? I have never yet found a full mechanical engineering degree online, complete & worked out by a human being, with all mistakes etc. It just seems it ought to exist. Hope this can be made useful.
The more I learn about engineers in society, it seems their strongest hesitations to make improvements relate to the fear of messing up. But I messed up a lot. So, perhaps this repository can stand as encouragement. I earned summa cum laude but at the time it did not seem like I was good enough. It came as a surprise with the final GPA and it almost felt like some professors had maybe bumped up my grades due to effort. I might never know. But effort is important.
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The image below represents all of the files as of 2025.05, on my hard drive. I am about halfway done with consolidating the work. Each colored element is one file sized by file size including scanned works, pdf slides from courses, sections of textbooks distributed as reference data, or presentations made in powerpoint for class presentations. Once it is done being consolidated there should be only 2 to 4 pdf documents per course. You can produce an image like this one using WinDirStat, a light application for windows directory statistics.
Lenonardo Davinci was a mechanical engineer among other things. This webpage has several reasons to exist, but one is to spread the power of a great mind. You can indisbutably learn enough using only this webpage, to understand the full body of inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci and this understanding is a source of untold power. Over time I discovered it to be more and more rare for an engineer, with or without a degree, to have this understanding. Attached below is a nicely compressed copy of Davinci's works at only 30MB.
Here is a snapshot of a mechanical engineering 4-year degree, with the list of courses taken. These courses may vary by institution, but around the world the ME degree is fairly standard and this snapshot is a decent representation.
Find more open source designs & educational content in the table below 🙂
| Name | Link | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAir | openairproject | take control of air, pressure, & flow with open elements |
| OpenArm | openarmproject | revolutionize robotic arms, a 10-year goal |
| OpenBox | openboxproject | array of open designs beginning with a steel box |
| OpenGrow | opengrowproject | open designs for hydroponics & aquaponics systems |
| OpenJar | openjarproject | array of designs for standard jars, threads, & seals |
| OpenLab | openlabproject | build a laboratory to design & fabricate anything. |
| OpenME | openmeproject | full mechanical engineering degree, online for free |
| OpenSpin | openspinproject | array of designs based on parametric bearings |
| SCUTTLE_Nigeria | scuttleafrica | university-level robotics lab in Lagos, Nigeria |