Letters of Recommendation from Tech professors? Options

[Dogmeat]

Ok I'm wondering how to go about doing this.

There isn't a single mechanical engineering professor in the tech ME department that would even have a clue who I was if I emailed them asking for a letter of recommendation, and the grad school I'm applying to requires three of them.

What do I do?

Do they just hand these things out to anyone or do you actually have to prove to them you deserve it?

I think I _MIGHT_ be able to get Dr. Oler to give me one, and MAYBE Dr. Muga ....

I mean should I just email the instructors I know I got good grades from and be like "Hi! Recommend me!"......?

[Testm0nkey]

from all the recruiters for jobs and graduate schools ive talked to they say experience and good letters of recommendation is the best advantage.
"uh heh im kind of scared about my GRE score"
"oh haha will you have letters of recommendations?"
"yes"
"youll be fine!"

that was today. from a dude in the applications department at one of the top universities in my field

of course having a GOOD letter of recommendation is better than one full of bullshit. thats obvious

if you can get one from someone that will actually write one for you thats great. if you dont have those connections then do the next best thing and if you worked in the field with someone that got to know you and you did a good job try to find them.
can you possibly get in without them? sure. but they definitely help and many schools (all the ones i looked at) 3 is a requirement