Meccanica applicata alle macchine

English translation: applied mechanics in mechanical engineering

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Italian term or phrase:Meccanica applicata alle macchine
English translation:applied mechanics in mechanical engineering
Entered by: Giada Daveri

13:42 Jun 23, 2013
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Education / Pedagogy
Italian term or phrase: Meccanica applicata alle macchine
Si tratta di un corso universitario
Giada Daveri
Local time: 21:10
applied mechanics in mechanical engineering
Explanation:
Of just mechanical engineering, but not just applied mechanics which can cover things other than machines.

https://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q="appl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_engineering

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Note added at 8 hrs (2013-06-23 21:50:42 GMT)
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@Phil In practice I tend to make these decisions on a final (third) read through of the document so it fits with the style and purpose. Here I just tend to give posters all options, just as I do for myself on a first draft.
I tend to use literal translations when I feel people might want to trace it back, which is the case here. A native English prof on the telephone to an Italian secretary (or lecturer for that matter) with a little English asking "Do you have a course called 'Mechanics applied to machines'?" would probably get further than one asking about a course in "Mechanical Engineering". Said that, IMHO the literal translation would hardly impress a prospective native English employer. On a final read, I'd probably strip it right down to mechanical engineering, that way he might actually get to the stage where they check his references.
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James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Local time: 00:10
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Grazie!
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4 +2applied mechanics in mechanical engineering
James (Jim) Davis
5applied mecanics to automotive engineering
Patricia Urrutia


  

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applied mechanics in mechanical engineering


Explanation:
Of just mechanical engineering, but not just applied mechanics which can cover things other than machines.

https://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q="appl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_engineering

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Note added at 8 hrs (2013-06-23 21:50:42 GMT)
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@Phil In practice I tend to make these decisions on a final (third) read through of the document so it fits with the style and purpose. Here I just tend to give posters all options, just as I do for myself on a first draft.
I tend to use literal translations when I feel people might want to trace it back, which is the case here. A native English prof on the telephone to an Italian secretary (or lecturer for that matter) with a little English asking "Do you have a course called 'Mechanics applied to machines'?" would probably get further than one asking about a course in "Mechanical Engineering". Said that, IMHO the literal translation would hardly impress a prospective native English employer. On a final read, I'd probably strip it right down to mechanical engineering, that way he might actually get to the stage where they check his references.

James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Local time: 00:10
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 149
Grading comment
Grazie!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: I think a literal translation would work too. They may have said "macchine" to avoid the repetition of "meccanica applicata all'ingegneria meccanica".
7 hrs

agree  Luciana Pandolfi: ...and the discipline seems to be evolving http://mcise.uri.edu/redirect.shtml
1 day 19 hrs
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applied mecanics to automotive engineering


Explanation:
macchine = cars; not just machines! It is the plural of machina which means car in English.

Patricia Urrutia
Colombia
Local time: 15:10
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 3
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