Engineering Calculations Assistant

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  An image of the interface being run in the terminal

Inspiration

As s first-year engineering student, I found some of the calculations that we had to do on a regular basis to be tedious. So, I thought why not create a program that can do them for me?

What it does

The program includes functions that would not be available on any standard calculator. It can calculate the moment of area of a beam cross-section, analyze the forces on a bridge and recommends the correct steel beams to use, and calculate the net result of as many forces as you please in 2 dimensions - to name a few.

How we built it

The program has 3 python files of script: one for the main block, one that contains the computational function, and one that contains the user interface functions. Each task has one or more computational functions that it requires, but rather than making the user enter parameters manually and figure out what each one means, the functions in the user interface file walk the user through entering each parameter separately and even explain each input value using diagrams.

What's next for Engineering Calculations Assistant

The obvious improvement to a project like this is to add more tasks: there is just about no end to calculations engineers must perform, and a good number of them would be, in my opinion, good tasks to automate.

Built With

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• pil
• pyhon