As a 5th year EE student I would highly recommend anyone that is interested to pursue this degree it may be difficult but if it was easy than everyone would do it !
I took a few electrical and electronics courses and found it very difficult to comprehend. Probably because you can't see electricity. It's interesting though so I try to keep refreshing the info so I don't forget but it's not easy.
From a 10 year professional, this has to be one of the best summaries out there. The guy explained every aspect in a way that would appeal to high school students and motivate them to take BEE as an education path
While in college my buddy/roommate got his EE degree. Watched that kid do 2-6 hours of homework every single night. He graduated in 4 years due to immense determination and hard work. Quite a sight to see really.
@@Sal3600 the fact that you did it before is enough. you can always do it again. you wont remember the whole text book, the formulas, or even the definitions of what things are. BUT, when you need to do it, you can find that old dusty book or google it and know what the heck they are talking about. thats all u need :D. i worked for a large company and everyone learned as they went. nobody i knew just knew how to do it all.
This has me hyped! I’m a bit anxious because I’m starting school a little late (27 because I joined the military first). However, I’m also excited since I’m super passionate about this kind of stuff. I appreciate you taking the time to make this video!!
your previous experience will definitely be helpful in all areas of life, so definitely do not be anxious!! When I went through these classes I was younger so I did not have much of an appreciation for them, I feel like you definitely would appreciate them more now that you are entering at a more mature state. Best of luck!!!
This is inspirational for me since I’m 23 barely going transfer by next spring and feel like I’m way too behind. You got this bro! I’m finishing up my final calculus class and differential equations and physics. If I can do it, you can tho man with ease! Goodluck!
im right there with you im a crayon eater and never gave math the attention it deserved so ive been trying to hammer down on the fundamentals before i start college
As a EE grad, this is such a great explanation of the degree and what all the courses teach you. I can see some comments worried about being able to make it through. I took 6 years to get my degree, but I kept pushing, made it, and it was so worth it.
One question I have is about internships. Because I’m planning to go back to school while working but i don’t think I’ll have the time for internships so are they really that important? Where they for you?
@@Maitreya-7777not everyone can be a full time student. I'm 40 and in my junior year of EE. I had a full time job, wife, kid, bills, etc. I started at 37 to get my bachelor's in EE after getting a degree earlier in life that wasn't nearly as difficult. But, putting food on the table is far more important than taking one extra class. The world can wait.
This is memory lane for me. I graduated in 1969 where there was still much about electron tubes. We used FORTRAN which was welcomed after having to use machine language. It's good to see the statistics course.
1969 I was not even bone yet. I used Fortran about 10 years ago in my Final Year Chemical Engineering project to solve a system of partial differential and algebraic equations for an air separation unit. Was quite a learning curve. I used got exposed to machine language through a science expo project I did in high school.
Wow. Sir. Great to hear from a senior. FORTRAN is interesting language. But they did not have a mouse back then. Keyboard was only option. I want to learn FORTRAN.
That was a fantastic synopsis. Thank you. I studied EE in the 70’s and I am surprise how little has changed. Of course we didn’t have MatLab and we spent more time on the drafting board. We also had to take cross fertilization courses like ME for EE’s, Statics, Dynamics, and Thermodynamics.
Clarification: At 7:12, in the Ampere-Maxwell law (4th Maxwell equation), J current density which is caused by the flow of charges. At 9:08 an OR gate is shown since any non-zero inputs from each side result in 1.
Can you please make a list of all these courses' textbooks maybe, or recommend some? As a non native English speaking country student who is going to persue a phd in America, I really want to review all my ee courses in English version, but I don't know about your mainstream textbooks😢
Calc I usually does limits, differentiation, and integration, while Calc II usually covers more advanced methods of integration along with sequences/series convergence/divergence and Taylor series to approximate functions.
@Joel Willis Whatever means that when you learn the limit definition of a derivative, calculus students should realize that all of its content comprises of limits. This is in reference to your precious reply.
@@jtris01 Sure but most fail to realize that series and sequences are studied as well in the context of limits. Same for integrals. Learning some point-set topology builds intuition to deal with a lot of the nuisances and allows one to form a mental framework of the material. Instead most just learn a bunch of techniques without really grasping what is going on underneath it all.
im pursuing EE in community college rn and im so HYPED up watching this video. The thought of having to take Calculus and physics classes intrigues me so much and learning about how electricity processes through devices
God no I had to struggle through two years of calculus during sixth form and it was some of the most challenging things I’ve surpassed academically. Fun when you get the right answers tho 🤣
Thank you for sharing. As someone with almost 5 years experience in the Mining Industry stumbling upon this has really helped me recalled what I studied back in uni. Its always good to go back to the fundamentals and formulas. These will give a clear understanding of real world application of your discipline. Thanks again. Greetings from PNG!
I am a physics graduate, I can confidently say I covered every course you mentioned. I derived endless equations without knowing their application. Today, I still want a career in electrical engineering. I quit trying to learn from my first Year, and all I wanted to do was just graduate.
hey man just wanted to drop some support on your channel you've inspired me alot you can't even imagine. Finally an engineer on youtube who actually likes what he's doing *gasp* most other youtubers give awful advice , focused on money and how hard it is and now one actually talks about it with enthusiasm thanks for sharing your experience! what other RUclipsrs do you know that don't suck lol
Man that makes me so happy, thats why I make those videos! I appreciate the comment -- I will continue to make content that you will hopefully find useful!
@@alithedazzling I guess a long overdue video is on "time management" The concept itself is completely ridiculous and frustrating because all the other gurus talk about it in a hyperfocused manner, it doesn't even consider A. your hobbies and interests B. opportunities C. Exploration and creativity I'm very curious to hear your thoughts about the topic I doubt you're a person who goes on a hyper strict boring schedule so how do you blanace between school work and opportunities? do you even use a planner? for me it's not that I don't know what to do it's that im literally interested in everything lol. Wonder if you have a method to your madness
@@blitzer658 I will absolutely make a video about this! This is actually one of my favorite topics to talk about since I really hate the gurus approach, and I think it's much simpler. You are right in that I have tons of time for hobbies and hanging out with friends/family/my cat, as well as just time relaxing/recharging. There is a method! Stay tuned
Got my degree in EE a year ago and watched this video to relive it all in half an hour. This guy did a great job explaining everything! And if you're thinking about doing this major: it's honestly not that hard if you're interested in the material. It's a very interesting field with great job prospects
@alithedazzling I went back to school for an MBA and now I do electric utility consulting! Essentially applying the power classes I took to help clients add new generation plants to the grid
not hard at all if u r experienced and interested not about the material had ee in highschool, didnt know most of the thing, but got interested in actually making stuff, u can really show ur creativity in ur circuit and all that experience makes the degree a breeze because it is basically same stuff a high school with a little more topics, but this time i understood without even trying, in highschool i basically mastered digital circuits including micros, i would say im even better at programming micros than most engineers out there, since i learnt that from programming a video game, one example i can give is that my teacher used arrays for led arrays, while i used the coordinates system and translated the output, much more flexible solution. i also did some basic analog stuff, and blew up a lot of transistors and power transistors. but man in degree, i didnt even need to try, i mastered analog circuits including actual amplifiers without video tutorials or textbooks, i used what i actually learned and knew, didnt blow up, it was like i blew up all the transistors i needed to in highschool, felt like edison, like i always had it in the back of my mind and it just clicked after going through it 2 times, that is experience, and that really just moved me into the next level which was rf circuits. in highschool, i know what a simple circuit would do, but man had i no idea any circuits that was complex, put some more transistors and connect them in strange ways and i would have no idea what it even is, in degree, i could tell u wat each small part was doing and wat that whole thing was for, that was experience, small knowledge and design knowledge adding up together over the years u know whats funny, my interest in engineering is only as a hobby, aint goin into shit that can get me killed for a job, but highschool showed me that it was interesting as i could literally create watever i want and imagine without being limited to buying available things with fixed features im aiming for game development to get that bread but, u aint need a certificate for that, but getting a certificate for a field about things that can literally explode and kill u is very reasonable, just like a doctor cant be a doctor without going through the official study and training, or it be illegal, cant be a doctor by online learnin, same cant be said for a lot of other paths. i dont need a paper to show that i can draw or make music, but a paper about engineering is very flexible and versatile for a job and i think thats good, innovation comes from cross disciplines......
This gave me motivation to solve my Problem set in Physics (I'm still a freshman) that has a lot of integrals since I realized from this video that these integrals are still probably basic stuff if compared to the future Maths I'll be taking later on lol. Thanks! I also became really excited about Electrical Engineering because of this video.
When ever I struggle with maths, I remind myself that the universe is maths, science is maths, everything is maths. If we wish to understand the universe, we have to learn maths. This gives me new energy. How are you doing now one year later?
Interesting. I studied Electrical Engineering The Netherlands at Delft University of Technology between 1993 and 1998, graduated cum laude and then followed with a PhD in electromagnetics finished 2002. The MSc degree had a lot of similarity with your classes. I think I had some more specialist classes in the 4th and 5th year, like antenna theory, radar, multiple electromagnetics classes with Finite-elements, reciprocity, transmission lines, Green's functions, inverse scattering problems etc.
I am finishing high school and I have been interested in Electrical Engineering since long ago. I am also graduated with some technician degree before finishing my highschool, and I just realised that I have done most of the courses for the career, lol. Of course in a lower level (we did not have the mathematical knowledge to properly go fully in-depth), but we were working a lot with amplifiers and more! I did some research in active filters. I am pretty excited to finally do all of this in the proper level. Thanks for doing this video :)
Honestly I seem intrested in EE but I don’t know if it matters but I took an auto shop class my junior and currently taking it my senior year where I have been welding and working on cars . But I’ve never been good at math you think I can be able to take this challenge?
@@unknownrocha9795 you surely can! Yet, mathematics is crucial, but I've known plenty of engineers who are not that good in math, but you have to learn the essentials. Nevertheless, it is overall doable with a weak mathematical background, you will just need to grind more, but you got this!
Thats because you didn't enjoy it Uni is a choice the discipline you choose to study is a choice School isn't a choice if you didn't enjoy uni you wouldn't be there thats' why he remembers Notice he spent time talking about the one's he liked and skipped over the one's that were average
Not majoring in electrial engineering (majoring in computer science), but as a HS senior who took AP Physics 1 last year, and currently taking AP Calculus AB and AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism, it's cool to see all of this stuff actually makes sense! Just subbed too!
Studying electrical engineering is quite exhausting😢😢😢😢 every semester feels like a challenge, and unfortunately, many teachers worsen the difficulty. Currently..in 4th year of my btech in EE Edit:thanks for making this video...... 🎉🎉🎉🎉..i shared this with all my EE friends
I work in Telecom as an Outside Fiber Plant Engineer (Non-Certified). I worked my way up from fixing copper twisted pair circuits and dial tone for the phone companies. I absolutely love what I do now. I have always wanted to be an actual engineer since probably middle school. What we do is more of a combination of Civil and Electrical (Coordinating and designing with other utilities). The class load looks crazy and overwhelming, thanks for posting though!
Just graduated in EE and it’s interesting to see the similarities across programs. I also enjoy communications and RF and I think it’s interesting how your communications class was apart of your curriculum well as mine was an elective class. Also my calc 2 and 3 were combined and same with physics 2 and 3 which is also interesting
This is so cool, I’m doing electrical engineering technology. Finished first year and we didn’t do any calculus but did circuits and digital principles, signals, engineering computation, RL RC and RLC, power triangle, and trigs relationship with reactive current, true current and real. It’s just mind boggling to me now that I can understand what’s being talked about. Like this is the coolest thing ever and I’m kind of geeking out
Calculus is really important because it allows you to understand Fourier and Laplace. These are essential for time series analysis which is critical for comms engineering and especially digital signal processing. I think people who haven’t studied EE don’t appreciate what a complex and rich branch of engineering it is.
The MAIN thing is, you need to be truly interested in science and at least somewhat interested in applied math to do well in electrical engineering. I say this because I saw so many students who weren't interested in science and had no curiosity about how and why the universe works like it does. These students mainly learned by rote - they never understood the big picture and mostly got by via memorization in order to pass exams. Then I saw some of these people after getting jobs and working in engineering for a few years. Most of them either quit and went to work in something completely unrelated or they ended up becoming program managers, or getting into middle management. LOL! And none of them were very happy with their jobs and often felt insecure because they felt they were a dime a dozen - and they are! So follow your passion and don't get into engineering unless science and engineering truly are your passions.
For anyone that reads this comment and is about 2 or 5 years out of college & is a manager of some sort then you are doing well. "Got by via memorization" yeah no duh that's how you learn. I hear the music in multiple aspects of life (engineering being one of them), but I never put down my peers. Anyone who does so has no confidence in themselves. It takes a true leader to be a manager in the engineering world. "Dime a dozen" HA. Go find a P.E. who can also manage projects profitably and efficiently. The world is never just one thing, its a mix and balance of a lot of things. So go be artistic and logic, not robotic and bland.
@@17rkochrote memorization isnt the way to learn. Thats like saying the best way to do math is to memorize answers to every problem i stead of knowing how to solve wach problem and know hiw it works
@@pizzapizzza4607 You learn math by muscle "memory." Going through the properties over and over again. Every time you fail hard, you'll remember what you did wrong so you don't repeat the mistake twice. There will always be fundamentals when doing engineering problems, after the fundamentals and getting into more complexity, that's when you apply what you are stating (which should be all the time i.e. critical thinking). I see where you did not understand me and I am sorry for not explaining my point more throughly. Maybe im the bigot in my first reply by not understanding what the guy meant by "full memorization." If I did that at my job, id lose my license XD.
@@alltheworldsastage4785 Thank you for agreeing with a tid bit of what I said. I see where you disagree with what I said and I apologize for not getting my point across in a more clear way. Its important to memorize the fundamentals. Its also important to use the fundamentals and critically think what the answer is to a engineering problem (i.e. engineering design). Each project is different and require critical thinking. Never forget your fundamentals though!
During EE undergrad we were presented with "space is empty" and "space is curved" in physics, which 'raised eyebrows' in class. We work at artificial gravity devices, despite the idolatry of General Relativity 'requiring' immense mass/energy. This was our first device - it relies on E x B Lorentz force: 1) horizontally-oriented lamination of thin aluminum sheets each separated by an insulator layer with a circular layout 2) RF radial/horizontal currents induced in the lamination 3) axial (centered) and vertically-oriented magnetic field up through the center of the lamination The induced, horizontal and radial RF currents (induced by eddy current coils adjacent to, but not touching the metal layers), and the vertical magnetic field leads to the Lorentz force acting on the charged particles in the metal layers (right hand rule, recall; E x B). The charged particles in the metal layers are *coherently* accelerated (oscillated) co-planar (in the same plane of) the metals lamination by the Lorentz force. We modified this first design by: 1) experimenting with the size of the foils lamination; 2) experimenting with different RF frequencies partly with a goal to create resonance/standing waves in the metal layers. Since you are on a phd track, you probably recognize that coherent Lorentz force waves of charged particles are acoustic waves in the metal (note for the uninitiated: 'acoustic' is a TYPE of wave, ie. "acoustic" and "audible" are not the same thing; all audible waves are acoustic, but very high frequency acoustic waves in matter are inaudible). Our work required a supposition regarding the constituents of free space that allow propagation of EM waves, gravity, and electric and magnetic fields. Our profs taught us "EM (electromagnetic) waves *_do not need a medium to propagate_* I suspect this is still being taught, unfortunately. William Sturgeon invented 'artificial magnetism' 200 years ago (the electromagnet). There is no reason to avoid pursuit of artificial gravity, despite the idolatry of General Relativity and other theories that have led to "learned helplessness" in most of the experimental physics community. .
2:20 Chemistry is extremely important and relevant to Electrical Engineers. The Semiconductor Industry comes to mind right away as something that benefits from having an intimate understanding of Chemistry. I spent a summer working an internship as a maintenance technician in a semiconductor fab and the sheer amount of deadly gasses and liquids you work with and around is insane. The second point of relevance and benefit that sprung to my mind as to why chemistry is important to an electrical engineer is when you're looking at the physical properties of batteries, the materials their made out of, their form factors, as well as natural batteries such as various salts and minerals found in the natural world and how they can create a current when exposed to water, etc. Excellent video all together and I appreciate the summary, but that first bit about Chemistry triggered me a little bit I'll admit!
i have never even touched chemistry not even in highschool the most i learnt was general science in junior had to equalize the equation of chemical turning into other stuff or something, and something about metal base water and acid if u know wat i mean that was the extent of my chemistry but still ee degree very specific field and role u talkin about
Not gonna lie that seems like a chill start. Started my first semester in software engineering two weeks earlier, and my head is dying sometimes. We started out with atoms electric fields on how damn MOSFETs work in one subject. In math we basically have mathematical proofs which is horrible and fun but mostly a pain. My programming class started with a simple algorithm that simply translates for translating numbers in different number systems and how to implement this in C. Edit: In addition to that we also had to understand how and why semiconductors work at the example of a diode what happens internally, and I still don't fully understand that yet.
Dude I didn't have any interest or knowledge of any kind in regards to electrical engineering a week ago and then I stumbled upon your channel. This stuff is insanely cool and magical and I'm seriously considering going to college for it just because it looks so interesting!
Hey Ali, I appreciate these videos you made. They have helped me quite a lot in deciding which direction to go in as I’m a 17 year old that just graduated from highschool and will be enrolling this fall for engineering. I also just finished reading your book and it gave me so much insight and advice which I’ve never seen before. Thank you for taking the time to create such a masterpiece of work. Based on your videos, electrical engineering seems so fascinating but I’m just afraid of hearing how difficult and complex it gets and if I’ll be even able to understand the concepts or make cool projects. I’ve taken all the math (Calc 1) and Physics (junior and senior) in highschool but I’ve never actually coded before or worked with circuits before. Im not sure if that means I would be at a huge disadvantage compared to some other students who may have done this. Thank you again for all your videos, I feel like I’ve learned a lot about what to expect in Engineering and I plan on watching a lot more :)
Thanks for sharing. I did my Electrical and Electronics Engineering back in 1997-2001 at Brunel University in the UK, and I could reminisce on most of the topics you shared here. My favourite topics were Digital Logic Systems, Digital Signal Processing and programming. BTW, that was an OR gate shown at 8:57
For the practical segment as a mechanical engineering student, for the electric education part they threw us a breadboard and asked us to make a circuit, then started giving us zeroes because we didn't even know how these things function... Let alone parallel circuit or on series, gotta love the Tunisian education...
@@Прогулкивокругсвета-ф2ю those are the best teachers, throughout my life if you ask me who's your best and favourite teacher it was the ones that were passionate about teaching, we had a teacher like that, I wish him the best!!!
I remember going through this curriculum at UB. Some of these courses need an overhaul due to the instructors. I'd be pointing at EE 324, EE 336, EE 202 and a few others. The instructors were either harsh in their grading, couldn't teach after x number of years, or were there for research. The good EE classes I found to be were a few power/circuit classes and digital (Chris and Michael).
I just graduated this year and now that I've seen 4 years of elec engg from your perspective, I feel like I didnt even do a degree in elec engg (these where the exact concepts and subjects I had in my syllabus). This is what I should've gained but instead all I was taught was here's this theory and solve it with this formula. Really needed this guidance back then because all I was ever stuck in was that this is not for me and how do I find something in this that works for me because I hated the fact that I had to solve stuff without actually understanding why or how. The way you're imparting wisdom is exceptional and much needed, I don't understand how your accounts so underrated. Will surely be recommending it to my network!
Bro really appreciated the simplified examples and then attaching the advanced comparisons shortly after each one. Current 2nd year electrical apprentice with an electrical technology AA under my belt. Electrical engineer was my initial goal [my mindset after associates was to do the apprenticeship to get in field experience (while making money, obtaining 5 years of more education, and work to pay for further education) and obtain a more well rounded knowledge of what it was I was going to be creating before actually diving in] and I was beginning to lose sight of it because I actually enjoy the hands on work I do. This video reignited something in me and I’m happy it came across my TL. Props for creating this masterpiece.
Would you say Physics 2 (Electricity and magnetism) was more interesting than Physics 1(Mechanics)? I’m starting physics 2 in a week and people say it’s a nightmare, but I’m ready.
@The Goat honestly physics 2 is WAY cooler than physics 1. Don't listen to those saying its a nightmare, these people are either conditioned to complain/fear monger or lack imagination
@@alithedazzling Thanks for the advice. I realized a lot of people do complain a lot and over exaggerate the difficulty of most engineering coursework. Before taking Calc 2 and differential equations people said it was super hard, but the concepts were actually easy. Mechanics was more difficult, but very doable also.
"This class traumatized me in a really good way" - this statement alone speaks so much to the engineering undergrad experience. Its hard, it'll kick your ass. Your friends and family will ask why you put yourself through it. It makes you change the way you think about the world; it is a profound experience from which there is no going back.
Gald to saw this and it explicitely interpreted the courses settings correlated each other. And it Intuitively showed the core of course like probability and signals&system. Loooking back on what I have in school, I am regretted I can't go as far away as his age.
Those are things that I like to study just for fun. You can pretty much say that I’m a geek when it comes to anything electronics, electrical or mathematical.
@@OSAS726 Same, but I don't stop there. Magnets are cool too. They're always fun to play with. And so are optics and acoustics. Then again I did play the trumpet for over 10 years...
I took my Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree at Loughborough University from 1977 to 1981. It was a 4-year "thick sandwich" honours degree. This meant the first two academic years were followed by a whole year in industry (the filling in the sandwich!) before the final academic year. First year was all about bringing everyone up to speed on "the basics". The second year, things got very deep very fast, it was intense. The final year involved chosing a range of subjects to go with compulsory Engineering Mathematics and Financial Management. Depending on what you wanted to specialise in, you would do extra modules in those areas of interest and perhaps only one in the others. For the first year, the subjects studied were: Engineering Mathematics Accounting Engineering Drawing Atomic Physics Electric Circuit Theory I Transformers and motors Mechanical Engineering Electromagnetism Microelectronics In the second year, the subjects were: Engineering Mathematics Economics Thermodynamics Fluid Dynamics Electromagnetic of Field Theory Microelectronics Electrical Circuit Theory II Control Theory Signalling and Communications Theory Computing Microwaves RF Electronics Electrical Machines and Power In the final year, the option modules were as follows: Computers Controls Communications Digital Data Transmission Power Electronics RF Electronics Microelectronics Power Systems Each of these had units I and II (Unit II being the more advanced), and you could mix however you liked up to a maximum number of 8 units. The compulsory subjects were Engineering Mathematics, Finance Management and the final year project and dissertation.
I’m a bit nervous to start school. Just got out of the Navy as an AT. But after you reviewed this I realize how much my A school went over a lot of these topics. Feeling more confident.
How old are you now that you're starring college. I'm 20 right now and gonna do 5 years in the navy and might pursue EE post service. But I feel quite old at 25 or 26 tbh
It is interesting that you did not have control systems. I have two mandatory control engineering courses on the same degree in Denmark in the second year. I think they are even harder than signals and systems, with laplace, fourier, root locus plots and a lot of matrix algebra, but I got the impression that that topic is the essence of engineering.
In India too, Control systems is essential. Electrical guys study that for 2 semesters (I studied all in 1 semester because I'm Electronics and Telecommunication grad). There's indeed a lot of stuff in controls (Systems analysis, Root locus, Polar-Nyquist plots, Bode plot, State space analysis, etc.), but it's limited to LTI systems. I still find Signals and Systems harder, first classification, identification, Fourier series, transform, DTFT, DFT-FFT, Laplace transform, Z transform (although later it gets limited to LTI systems too), digital filters, signal processing & Digital Signal Processors etc.
In my university in Venezuela, we are required to take two classes in the field of Control Engineering: "Control Systems I" and "Automation and Process Control". Additionally, we have the option to choose elective courses within the same field, such as "Control Systems II" "Digital Control", "Industrial Control", and more.
Finishing up my second year EE courses next week. Funnily enough it would appear that we go to the same university so it was weird seeing the flowsheet as it was years ago. It's changed a bit since then but still very similar. Gotta say, your explanations were rather accurate to what I have experienced so far: Calculus - rates, and other miscellaneous tools used to solve equations Physics 108 - The EE highlight reel Circuit analysis - Reasonably challenging, but vastly useful class (get good with complex numbers and polar form though, this was the first class I had taken up to this point that regularly used them) Digital Principles - Hehe digital logic make light turn on according to this truth table Signals and systems - You absolutely were not lying, this class is and has been kicking my ass all semester. The concepts are fairly easy to grasp with some effort in my experience, but like you said; that math is pretty much a foreign language at first and still gives me massive headaches (Convolution nearly ended me at first). And you were correct as far as I know about EAS140 being the turbine project, it's since changed to EAS199 and has been structured to use the first half of the course to teach the general engineering process, and uses the second half of the class to allow you to apply that process and create a wind turbine with the highest power output using that engineering process.
I am 68 years old and a retired engineering technician. I never had the self discipline to get through engineering, but I still am intensely interested in anything electronic. Love seeing this over view it inspires me to continue study on my own.
Thank you man ! Very happy to see someone doing this and sharing with us ! BIG THANK YOU ! I am learning on my own but definitely this video helped me, as you mentioned at the start, there is a specific order to learning, which I overlooked when learning myself, still, happy to see someone else passionate about electronics ! All the best ! R
nicely summerised , now I am doing my masters specialising in automation and control engineering . EE has two sides firstly the course is vast and hard but the good part is there are lots of areas for doing masters in so I never regret it .
Man i have recently been watching a lot of your videos they are extremely helpful to me. As I watch this video I'm like wait, that looks like my exact flowsheet! I'm currently a sophomore undergrad EE at UB! It's cool to see what the flowsheet looked like from nearly 10 years ago. They did add a c/c++ class (that I'm currently taking) to take before eas 230 (MATLAB). It's probably my favorite course right now. However in signals we have been using MATLAB to look at convolutions and what not, definitely a powerful tool. It's also funny seeing this video after watching the video where you ranked the difficulty of each class, now knowing you took those classes at UB. I'm in signals, calc 3, and phy 3 rn and my least favorite is calc 3 by far!
Woah that's super cool! You're like the first UB student I get a comment from haha. I love UB man, I learned everything there. See if the UB Nanosat Lab is still a thing and go work on some projects there!
@@alithedazzling That's awesome I am enjoying UB so far. I will look into Nanosat as I think I have heard of them still being around. As for this summer, i have no internship but I would like to learn python on my own. That would mean I learn C/C++ now, python over the summer, and MATLAB next semester. I am not too sure about what I am into specifically yet but I'm going to dive a little bit deeper into programming for now.
@@trenji sounds like a good plan, if you have no summer internship you can stay around at something like nanosat or another project and get experience that way. Feel free to connect w/ me on linkedin btw Ali Alqaraghuli
@mohamedm3618 It's hard but doable. The first semester transition was the hardest for me. As long as you don't under-estimate the modules and put in the time, you garanteed a pass at the very least.
Those would be a bit more difficult since they could vary entirely and and essentially are 100% electives. Unless you mean my MS and PhD courses specifically
@@alithedazzling Yes, I would like to know more about your journey through MS and PhD. Courses you took and other stuff as well. I'm starting MS next year so I'd like to know your perspective. It'll be interesting and beneficial for other as well, probably.
@@nickputkaradze1181 OK, I also think those would make good videos. I will likely record them once I move to Boston (in about 10 days or so) I'll likely talk more about my MS/PhD a lot in September, stay tuned
Thanks for the video. I really enjoyed hearing you give a summary of all the courses. it brought back a lot of good memories. I graduated from an EE program a little over 30 years ago. Even back then, I had the same core technical courses (except Physics 3; for us it was an optional science elective called Optics). Of course micro-controller technology has come a long way, so the equivalent course to Embedded systems & Application was much more limited. We had to hand compile assembler code and type it in manually in our "Motorola 6800 trainer", so it took a long time to get it to do anything interesting. Modern micro-controllers are much more rewarding to work with. For anyone considering EE, if you find these things fun/interesting, and you're OK with doing quite a bit of math, you'll probably be successful in an EE course like this.
I am in my last year of EE degree and I already have a BS in Molecular Biology. EE is 1000 times harder than Molecular Biology. Hands down the hardest class I ever took was junior year, Static Electromagnetic Engineering which you called applied Electromagnetics. I found Signals and Systems to be a total piece of cake as I tutored Calculus for 15 years before doing my EE degree and I also was a cryptologist for 9 years in the Navy.
Your course is so direct and resourceful. Here in Kenya we do almost 14 Units total per year. We honestly do not get time to comprehend things we have learned.
At this moment I've just finished my first year in Electronic&ICT engineering in Belgium (University of Antwerp). It is interesting to see that your subjects that you take in your second and third year we already take in our first year. and the subjects you take in your first year, we take in our final year
I'm a EE retired out of Bell labs and my own company. I think you need the degree and about 10 years experience before you are worth anything unless you are very exceptional. EE's peak at about 50 to 60 year old. The network theory is easy, it's the materials , parts knowledge and real world constraints that get young engineers in trouble. I went to university at 17 and finished the EE in 3 years but I was doing electronics and ham radio since i was 13
Regarding internships, theory teaches you how everything works... when it all works RIGHT... practice teaches you all the different ways that things can GO WRONG... and you need BOTH bodies of knowledge to be really effective.I think best mix of time is 50/50 theory / practice. Nobody can predict exactly what topics you will need to know when you graduate, so some topics they teach might seem useless..... but don't forget... this is all "just theory"... until suddenly you run into a situation where it GETS REAL...only then do you understand why they forced you to learn this stuff, because years later, the people signing your paycheck will expect you to understand it. Hang on to your textbooks, I still have books I used 50 years ago to learn this stuff, and they are still handy.
It took me many many years since i dropped out of college in 2012 to finally realize i'm actually interested in electronics. But i guess it's kinda late for me to go back to college. But that wont stop me from learning as much as i can online.
As for all those suggesting going the junior college route and becoming a technician first hoping to transfer course work, my school didn't allow much if any tranfer credit. There's a good reason why that you'll only understand after you finish the program. Engineering has a notorious drop out rate, at my scool maybe only 1 out of three graduate. Unlike medical school where it's difficult to get in, but easy to stay in, engineering school is easy to get in but difficult to stay in. Unlike medical schools, engineering schools make no attempt to sort out who would be a good future engineer. Instead they let the individual determine it. They do this by piling on work,, enough to easy take up 70/80 hours a week and much of the concepts your expected to asimulate are intellectually more demanding than medical school - no medical grad will come close to your level of mathematical sophication. The first two years act as the sorting function not seen in junior college. They know you have brains to get this far, but can you work like a dog, too? The program I graduated in was scheduled as 150 semester hours over four years, whereas the standard BS or BA was 120 hours. Enough said...
This is an excellent review of electrical engineering and the classes you have to take. Definitely do internships as they helped me out in learning about real electrical engineering, what is like to work as an electrical technician and what future work would be like. When I was hiring engineers or programmers I always want to hear about their internships as it gave me a good idea what they were interested in.
EE is the ultimate scientific gateway drug. Afterwards you can go into power grids/electronics, embedded design, HF, audio, video, OOP, data science, applied physics, field-theory, mathematics, hardware description languages and on and on. It just doesn't end
As an EE grad, I wish I had paid more attention to content like this - knowing the important parts about a course as well as why they are (or may not be) stepping stones in one's education I'd say is imperative to getting a good education as well as applying it in the future! Many thanks for the overview Definitely get those internships while you're still in school - beat that Catch 22 experience before the job scenario
Actually Electronics deal with non linear elements (none linear = none additive and none homogeneous systems). Electric circuits don't deal with electronics in the literal since. In fact, Electrical Engineer in its core is about providing Electrical power to load (Generators, Transformers, cables, capacitor banks, voltage drop, etc.) where you don't deal with electronic components. Therefore some academics distinguish it from Electronic engineering where you deal mostly with non linear components like diodes and transistors. Still I would club it all under the banner of Electrical Engineer, but knowing the context behind these terminologies is also useful. Matlab is not a programming language. How come they don't teach Electric machines (e.g. Induction Motors, Synchronous machines, transformers, etc.) as a fundamental course !!!
Not necessarily....linear or non-linear, passive or active, if a system has phenomenon of electricity in it it's all under 'Electrical engineering'....the application of such systems can be in any of the field like Energy, Power, Control, Instrumentation, Computing, Telecommunications, Medicine with varying specifications. You're literally missing that electronic components are special type of electrical components which are made of semiconductors where 'electron' behave in a special way. That's why they are called 'electronic'. That doesn't mean they are any less 'electric''😂 A diode is an electronic component, it's also electric; there's no doubt about that.
Interesting. I don't have the degree, but self taught as a technician to repair the equipment. To repair the equipment, I have to be proficient in all of those subjects. In working on semiconductor manufacturing equipment, the required knowledge base exceeds most of these subjects as the college classes listed are introductory classes that the actual job uses as a baseline, and progresses much further. I don't have the degree, but have the position as if I had the degree. Was a Technician, then became an Engineering Technician, then became an Engineer. It took about 20 years. Try to learn something new everyday. Having years of solving real world problems is valuable to employers looking to have problems fixed and designs improved. It is a fascinating and rewarding field, and yes it can be challenging. Typical day work includes: Temperature control for optical components within 0.01 degrees C. This is required as temperature changes the physical dimensions of the optics. When imaging semiconductor patterns in lithography to nano-meter dimensions, changes in optics, due to temperature fluctuation, will impact focus and device registration. Yes, a PID funciton is used in the temperature control along with fuzzy logic to control the heating and cooling portions. Motion control with mechanical robotics alone is not accurate or fast enough for high volume manufacturing to position, focus, and image the wafers. In addition to robotics with a PID loop, laser inferometry and voice coil servo is required to complete the fine alignments. This uses another PID servo loop on top of the motion control on the robotics stage. In order to image features that small, diffraction at visible wavelengths is impossible to focus that fine, so imaging for modern chips has to use shorter wavelengths of ligh, so the optics and electromagnetic wave theory is most definitely used. On the optical side, the LASER light has to be detected and measured. This includes using photo diodes reverse biases, to produce photo currents. For linearity, the bias is at a constant voltage. The resulting current when fed into an op amp circuit, converts the current to voltage in a transconductance function. Being active in the field will often expose me to cutting edge technology that has not yet been included in college classes, so even after you graduate, you are entry level in many fields and will have to continue to self study to remain relevant. Example, The electronics I learned in the service after high school, was before the IBM PC was invented. A 16 bit ADC, was a rack, mount device, not a chip in your gaming headset. To stay current, self study is required. Digital motion control has replaced most analog with Digitial PID loops, but analog servo systems are part of the loop for the feedback and power sections of motion control. This is a huge change from the fully analog servo loops with loop filters that performed the PID function in all analog filters. The combination of low pass and high pass filters with gain, frequency cutoffs, etc formed the predecessor of the modern PID based motion control. Before the PC, there were not DSP chips to use as a building block for signal processing. Acronyms: PID Proportional, Integral, Differential DSP Digital Signal Processor ADC Analog to Digital Converter
so basicaly dont start a electronics program unless your seriusly intrested and can retain and apply what you learn every 3 or so months without forgetting
I'm electrical engineering student at my last semester in Egypt and this video is kinda nostalgic for me 😅😅 In my university we had to decide what field would we continue with from the beginning of second year... So I decided to go with electrical power and machines... but then realized that I like electronics more than large electrical systems stuff but I found myself with power electronics where you need anything you learned 😂😂😂 I studied all subjects you mentioned And yes (signals and systems) (here was DSP - introduction to digital signal processing) really kicked my ass into power electronics 😂😂😂
Signal & Systems is a freshman’s course in my university (first semester). I agree that this is a very important and also interesting course but at that time it just made me want to quit. Great video even the curriculum of my university was a bit different it still stands as a solid introduction and oversight on what to expect. 👍🏻
At 53, I went back to school to get my Associates degree in Electronics. We don't have a four-year college on Kaua'i. 7am to 7pm, while living in a tent, for three years, with my wife. It's never too late. Get a support group (students in your class that you can connect with).
Hey i am from germany and currently studying sustainable systems engineering in germany in 4th Semester. For me its interesting to see how different the speed of american universities is. What you did in the fourth semester was part of our second und partly first. greetings 🎉
So I took my fall semester off and did an internship at NASA KSC, this counted as a technical elective for me. Perhaps I can make a video about my MS level classes which were kinda like electives
As an EE at the University of Minnesota (class of 2024), here's what students would generally take here: Freshman: Calc 1 & 2 Physics 1 & 2 Chem 1 EE1301 - Intro to Computing Systems: Introduction to C/C++, the lab component involves IoT experiments with a microcontroller. Includes and open ended final project Sophomore: Calc 3 & Linear Algebra and Differential Equations Physics 3 OR Chem 2 EE 2015 - Circuits, Signals, Electronics: Circuit analysis (KVL, KCL, basic OpAmp circuits, Phasors, RL LC RLC filters). Includes a lab that deals with amplifier circuits involving OpAmps EE 2115 - Digital and Analog Electronics: Builds on top of EE 2015, but adds basic MOSFET and Diode circuits, small signal analysis, etc. Lab deals with more amplifiers, but includes transistors and diodes. EE 2301 - Intro to Digital System Design: Boolean Algebra, Combinational and Sequential logic, State Machines, etc. Lab involves building circuits with 74 series logic gate IC's, some FPGA programming EE 2361 - Intro to Microcontrollers: Pure C/Assembly programming, create libraries from scratch. Heavily lab/homework based. The textbook is are the datasheets for the PIC24 microcontroller and whatever devices we interface with. Open ended group project at the end of the semester. Junior: EE 3015 - Signals & Systems: LTI systems, continuous and discrete, fourier analysis, laplace transform, z-transform. Heavy use of MATLAB. EE 3115 - Analog Electronics: Diodes, MOSFETS, amplifiers, rectifiers, IC building blocks (gain cell, current mirrors/sinks, a basic opamp), feedback/stability, high-frequency small signal analysis EE 3161 - Semiconductor Devices: Basics of semiconductor physics, how diodes work, how mosfets/BJTs work, and other devices EE 3601 - Transmission Lines Fields and Waves: Transmission lines, electrostatics, magnetostatics, wave propogation, basically a lot of vectors and equations EE 3025 - Statistical Methods for ECE: Set theory, discrete and continuous distributions, estimation, random variables EE 3101 - Signals & Circuits Lab: Simulation of various types of filters in MATLAB & Simulink EE 3951W - Junior design lab: Project based course -- in my case our goal was to increase the accuracy of the 10-bit ADC on a PIC24 microcontroller to 14-bits with noise and oversampling/averaging Senior: EE 4951W - Senior Design Project A bunch of electives
Here's my curriculum, currently in year 2 with 3 years remaining: Freshman (1st): 1. Introduction to Engineering (basically a quick 6 week course that is highschool on steroids. Basics of linear algebra are introduced, a bit of chemistry, a mixture of everything) - fall semester. 2. Intro to computer science (C++ course, end project was making code that generates a maze) - fall semester. 3. General chemistry (basically rates of reactions, tons of thermodynamics, electrochemistry, organic, ended with a seminar on carbon chirality.....) - 30% in fall, 70% in Spring semester. 4. Analysis I & II (everything from defining limits to stokes, green, Ostrogradsky to solving ODEs with polynomials and power series and all that plus cool stuff like banach fix point thingy + a tiny intro to measure theory) - 50% Fall, 50% spring semester. 5. Linear Algebra I & II (ok cutest class, everything from defining fields to eigens to conics and quadrics to intro to group theory) - 50% fall, 50% spring semester. 6. Geometry (cool class, modelling stuff like curves and surfaces and all that) - spring semester. 7. Mechanics I (called "Mécanique rationnelle" from simple stuff like moments to things like virtual work and inertia) - 20% fall, 80% spring semester. 8. General Physics I & II (Optics, mechanics again, electricity from static fields to circuits to maxwell equations) - notoriously hard - spring semester. 9. First year project (we did an aArduinothing which uses sensors and a radar thingy to classify small tree pieces the size of half a coffee cup given a container of 20 of three size categories and two colour categories). Sophomore (2nd): 1. Physical chemistry, intro to materials engineering, manufacturing methods (big course, everything from advanced phase diagrams to alloys to semiconductors) - 70% fall, 30% spring semester. 2. Mechanics II (cool stuff, things like Lagrange and Hamiltonians and other methods for modelling moving solid systems) - fall semester. 3. Electricity (actual electricity, circuit theory containing how to solve circuits and field theory containing maxwell applied to various scenarios) - fall semester. 4. Computer science II (advanced algorithmics, OOP, a bit of how computers work in deep, Kotlin for creating android apps- spring semester. 5. Solid mechanics and materials resistance - spring semester. 6. Analysis III (analysis on steroids and very huge course, stuff like Fourier and boundary value problems in DEs and intro to PDEs) - 50% fall, 50% spring semester. 7. Numerical methods (basically how to actually use a computer for science) - spring semester. 8. Probability and statistics (basic stuff in those two, course ends with a few chapters on introduction to operations research) - fall semester. 9. Quantum physics and statistical physics (from Schrodinger to Bose-Einstein condensates.....) - spring semester. 10. Second year project (we did pose estimation using AI, people who did electrical stuff did some sort of music note analyzer). I know folks who take stuff like discrete maths on top of this. Junior (3rd) - not yet here: 1. Applied electricity (don't know what it is yet) - fall semester. 2. Signals and systems (I heard it is just maths disguised with a cool name) - fall semester. 3. Fluid mechanics - fall semester. 4. ethics...... - spring semester. 5. Applied electronics - fall semester. 6. logic and digital circuits - fall semester. 7. Analog electronics - spring semester. 8. Physics of telecommunications - spring semester. 9. Signals and telecom systems - fall semester. 10. Control theory - spring semester. 11. Quantum mechanics I (basically a revision of Quantum physics seen in second year with more speed and more maths and more fun) - spring semester. Extras: statistics II - fall semester; Probability II (Martingales, Markov chains, Markov processes,.....) - spring semester; Advanced algorithmics - fall semester; Advanced topics in algebra and geometry - both semesters, Advanced numerical methods. I'm dying to take Control theory (professor spoken highly of and he's one of those admirable passionates who don't retire) and Probability II. Cutest class I had was algebra in freshman, electricity and quantum physics also come close. Also the materials class in chemistry in sophomore was cute especially the end that speaks of electrical properties (much of the course is alloys and their phase diagrams and such).
To add on one thing: Don’t take EE/CEG if you don’t like it to begin with. I’ve just finished my 4 years and hated it. Trust me, 4 years of doing something you dont like is hell on earth
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As a 5th year EE student I would highly recommend anyone that is interested to pursue this degree it may be difficult but if it was easy than everyone would do it !
I took a few electrical and electronics courses and found it very difficult to comprehend. Probably because you can't see electricity. It's interesting though so I try to keep refreshing the info so I don't forget but it's not easy.
I mean its not neccessarly hard, but the new concepts are tought to get along with
@@Shannon_Robbie put some leds and you can
You contradicted yourself by saying "everyone" then denying it in your last sentence
@@_Cfocus touché
From a 10 year professional, this has to be one of the best summaries out there. The guy explained every aspect in a way that would appeal to high school students and motivate them to take BEE as an education path
BEE? dont tell me the B stands for basic? how many years until you get to advanced
@@Winsky82 Bachelor's
@@Winsky82 Bachelors. 2 more for Masters. And then how many more for a Doctorate.
While in college my buddy/roommate got his EE degree. Watched that kid do 2-6 hours of homework every single night. He graduated in 4 years due to immense determination and hard work. Quite a sight to see really.
That’s inspiring I hope you all are doing well in life
That’s it?
I graduated and i fkn suck bro. It's not hard to pass. It's hard to retain the knowledge.
@@Sal3600 the fact that you did it before is enough. you can always do it again. you wont remember the whole text book, the formulas, or even the definitions of what things are. BUT, when you need to do it, you can find that old dusty book or google it and know what the heck they are talking about. thats all u need :D. i worked for a large company and everyone learned as they went. nobody i knew just knew how to do it all.
@@Raindown15 thanks for the inspiring words
This has me hyped! I’m a bit anxious because I’m starting school a little late (27 because I joined the military first). However, I’m also excited since I’m super passionate about this kind of stuff. I appreciate you taking the time to make this video!!
your previous experience will definitely be helpful in all areas of life, so definitely do not be anxious!! When I went through these classes I was younger so I did not have much of an appreciation for them, I feel like you definitely would appreciate them more now that you are entering at a more mature state. Best of luck!!!
This is inspirational for me since I’m 23 barely going transfer by next spring and feel like I’m way too behind. You got this bro! I’m finishing up my final calculus class and differential equations and physics. If I can do it, you can tho man with ease! Goodluck!
Hey you got this! I'm 27 aswell I'm in second year
@@alithedazzling lol i wonder how old somebody needs to be to enjoy calc 3 XD
im right there with you im a crayon eater and never gave math the attention it deserved so ive been trying to hammer down on the fundamentals before i start college
As a EE grad, this is such a great explanation of the degree and what all the courses teach you. I can see some comments worried about being able to make it through. I took 6 years to get my degree, but I kept pushing, made it, and it was so worth it.
People need to hear this -- thank you for commenting
One question I have is about internships. Because I’m planning to go back to school while working but i don’t think I’ll have the time for internships so are they really that important? Where they for you?
I am in second year of EE and i suffered in electromagnetics quite a lot and probably might even fail, your story gives me hope
Why did you took 6 years to complete your degree?
@@Maitreya-7777not everyone can be a full time student. I'm 40 and in my junior year of EE. I had a full time job, wife, kid, bills, etc. I started at 37 to get my bachelor's in EE after getting a degree earlier in life that wasn't nearly as difficult. But, putting food on the table is far more important than taking one extra class. The world can wait.
This is memory lane for me. I graduated in 1969 where there was still much about electron tubes. We used FORTRAN which was welcomed after having to use machine language. It's good to see the statistics course.
1969 I was not even bone yet.
I used Fortran about 10 years ago in my Final Year Chemical Engineering project to solve a system of partial differential and algebraic equations for an air separation unit. Was quite a learning curve. I used got exposed to machine language through a science expo project I did in high school.
Wow. Sir. Great to hear from a senior.
FORTRAN is interesting language. But they did not have a mouse back then. Keyboard was only option. I want to learn FORTRAN.
That was a fantastic synopsis. Thank you. I studied EE in the 70’s and I am surprise how little has changed. Of course we didn’t have MatLab and we spent more time on the drafting board. We also had to take cross fertilization courses like ME for EE’s, Statics, Dynamics, and Thermodynamics.
It’s because what it leads to has been suppressed for 70ish years
Clarification:
At 7:12, in the Ampere-Maxwell law (4th Maxwell equation), J current density which is caused by the flow of charges.
At 9:08 an OR gate is shown since any non-zero inputs from each side result in 1.
do you link of the table you've provided.
@@francislydz4234 engineering.buffalo.edu/home/academics/undergrad/advisement/flowsheets.html?plan=EE-2023
Can you please make a list of all these courses' textbooks maybe, or recommend some? As a non native English speaking country student who is going to persue a phd in America, I really want to review all my ee courses in English version, but I don't know about your mainstream textbooks😢
HAHHAAH he was struggling
Make sure you pin this so people see it first
Calc I usually does limits, differentiation, and integration, while Calc II usually covers more advanced methods of integration along with sequences/series convergence/divergence and Taylor series to approximate functions.
Once you take real analysis you realize it is all just limits.
@@joelwillis2043 Dont they like define the derivative with a limit in calc I? You should figure it out right then.
@@whatever7338 "You should figure it out right then" means what?
@Joel Willis Whatever means that when you learn the limit definition of a derivative, calculus students should realize that all of its content comprises of limits. This is in reference to your precious reply.
@@jtris01 Sure but most fail to realize that series and sequences are studied as well in the context of limits. Same for integrals. Learning some point-set topology builds intuition to deal with a lot of the nuisances and allows one to form a mental framework of the material. Instead most just learn a bunch of techniques without really grasping what is going on underneath it all.
im pursuing EE in community college rn and im so HYPED up watching this video. The thought of having to take Calculus and physics classes intrigues me so much and learning about how electricity processes through devices
glad you liked it! EE is tons of fun haha
Nerd
@@hehericky said by a dropout
You not going to learn anything but the personalities of instructors who think it's a good idea to teach theory math courses for engineering
God no I had to struggle through two years of calculus during sixth form and it was some of the most challenging things I’ve surpassed academically. Fun when you get the right answers tho 🤣
Thank you for sharing. As someone with almost 5 years experience in the Mining Industry stumbling upon this has really helped me recalled what I studied back in uni. Its always good to go back to the fundamentals and formulas. These will give a clear understanding of real world application of your discipline. Thanks again. Greetings from PNG!
Even if you don't end up as an engineer, just graduating with an EE degree pretty much opens many doors of opportunities.
I am a physics graduate, I can confidently say I covered every course you mentioned. I derived endless equations without knowing their application. Today, I still want a career in electrical engineering. I quit trying to learn from my first Year, and all I wanted to do was just graduate.
hey man just wanted to drop some support on your channel
you've inspired me alot you can't even imagine. Finally an engineer on youtube who actually likes what he's doing *gasp* most other youtubers give awful advice , focused on money and how hard it is and now one actually talks about it with enthusiasm thanks for sharing your experience!
what other RUclipsrs do you know that don't suck lol
Man that makes me so happy, thats why I make those videos! I appreciate the comment -- I will continue to make content that you will hopefully find useful!
@@alithedazzling I guess a long overdue video is on "time management"
The concept itself is completely ridiculous and frustrating because all the other gurus talk about it in a hyperfocused manner, it doesn't even consider
A. your hobbies and interests
B. opportunities
C. Exploration and creativity
I'm very curious to hear your thoughts about the topic
I doubt you're a person who goes on a hyper strict boring schedule so how do you blanace between school work and opportunities? do you even use a planner? for me it's not that I don't know what to do it's that im literally interested in everything lol. Wonder if you have a method to your madness
@@blitzer658 I will absolutely make a video about this! This is actually one of my favorite topics to talk about since I really hate the gurus approach, and I think it's much simpler.
You are right in that I have tons of time for hobbies and hanging out with friends/family/my cat, as well as just time relaxing/recharging. There is a method! Stay tuned
Exactly! 💯
@@alithedazzling would love to see your approach on time management as well👍🏻
Got my degree in EE a year ago and watched this video to relive it all in half an hour. This guy did a great job explaining everything! And if you're thinking about doing this major: it's honestly not that hard if you're interested in the material. It's a very interesting field with great job prospects
Very cool! What do you do now?
@alithedazzling I went back to school for an MBA and now I do electric utility consulting! Essentially applying the power classes I took to help clients add new generation plants to the grid
@@danielfonseca3609 very cool, sounds like a good job for mixing engineering + people!
not hard at all if u r experienced and interested
not about the material
had ee in highschool, didnt know most of the thing, but got interested in actually making stuff, u can really show ur creativity in ur circuit
and all that experience makes the degree a breeze because it is basically same stuff a high school with a little more topics, but this time i understood without even trying, in highschool i basically mastered digital circuits including micros, i would say im even better at programming micros than most engineers out there, since i learnt that from programming a video game, one example i can give is that my teacher used arrays for led arrays, while i used the coordinates system and translated the output, much more flexible solution. i also did some basic analog stuff, and blew up a lot of transistors and power transistors. but man in degree, i didnt even need to try, i mastered analog circuits including actual amplifiers without video tutorials or textbooks, i used what i actually learned and knew, didnt blow up, it was like i blew up all the transistors i needed to in highschool, felt like edison, like i always had it in the back of my mind and it just clicked after going through it 2 times, that is experience, and that really just moved me into the next level which was rf circuits. in highschool, i know what a simple circuit would do, but man had i no idea any circuits that was complex, put some more transistors and connect them in strange ways and i would have no idea what it even is, in degree, i could tell u wat each small part was doing and wat that whole thing was for, that was experience, small knowledge and design knowledge adding up together over the years
u know whats funny, my interest in engineering is only as a hobby, aint goin into shit that can get me killed for a job, but highschool showed me that it was interesting as i could literally create watever i want and imagine without being limited to buying available things with fixed features
im aiming for game development to get that bread
but, u aint need a certificate for that, but getting a certificate for a field about things that can literally explode and kill u is very reasonable, just like a doctor cant be a doctor without going through the official study and training, or it be illegal, cant be a doctor by online learnin, same cant be said for a lot of other paths. i dont need a paper to show that i can draw or make music, but a paper about engineering is very flexible and versatile for a job
and i think thats good, innovation comes from cross disciplines......
This gave me motivation to solve my Problem set in Physics (I'm still a freshman) that has a lot of integrals since I realized from this video that these integrals are still probably basic stuff if compared to the future Maths I'll be taking later on lol. Thanks! I also became really excited about Electrical Engineering because of this video.
When ever I struggle with maths, I remind myself that the universe is maths, science is maths, everything is maths. If we wish to understand the universe, we have to learn maths. This gives me new energy. How are you doing now one year later?
Interesting. I studied Electrical Engineering The Netherlands at Delft University of Technology between 1993 and 1998, graduated cum laude and then followed with a PhD in electromagnetics finished 2002. The MSc degree had a lot of similarity with your classes. I think I had some more specialist classes in the 4th and 5th year, like antenna theory, radar, multiple electromagnetics classes with Finite-elements, reciprocity, transmission lines, Green's functions, inverse scattering problems etc.
I am finishing high school and I have been interested in Electrical Engineering since long ago. I am also graduated with some technician degree before finishing my highschool, and I just realised that I have done most of the courses for the career, lol. Of course in a lower level (we did not have the mathematical knowledge to properly go fully in-depth), but we were working a lot with amplifiers and more! I did some research in active filters. I am pretty excited to finally do all of this in the proper level. Thanks for doing this video :)
Honestly I seem intrested in EE but I don’t know if it matters but I took an auto shop class my junior and currently taking it my senior year where I have been welding and working on cars . But I’ve never been good at math you think I can be able to take this challenge?
@@unknownrocha9795 you surely can! Yet, mathematics is crucial, but I've known plenty of engineers who are not that good in math, but you have to learn the essentials. Nevertheless, it is overall doable with a weak mathematical background, you will just need to grind more, but you got this!
What type of technician degree. And where can I learn? May I contact you personally to go over it?
Good job bro, you remember so many details about your classes. I am still in college and can't even explain my math class that I had last semester.
I appreciate that!
Thats because you didn't enjoy it
Uni is a choice
the discipline you choose to study is a choice
School isn't a choice
if you didn't enjoy uni you wouldn't be there
thats' why he remembers
Notice he spent time talking about the one's he liked
and skipped over the one's that were average
@@martinkuliza Correct. I don't love em because they are mandatory and required for GE.
Not majoring in electrial engineering (majoring in computer science), but as a HS senior who took AP Physics 1 last year, and currently taking AP Calculus AB and AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism, it's cool to see all of this stuff actually makes sense! Just subbed too!
I'm first year bachelor of engineering in electrical and electronics engineering ❤
Bro, I needed that vid 6 years ago. Just graduated in 2021.
Studying electrical engineering is quite exhausting😢😢😢😢 every semester feels like a challenge, and unfortunately, many teachers worsen the difficulty.
Currently..in 4th year of my btech in EE
Edit:thanks for making this video...... 🎉🎉🎉🎉..i shared this with all my EE friends
I work in Telecom as an Outside Fiber Plant Engineer (Non-Certified). I worked my way up from fixing copper twisted pair circuits and dial tone for the phone companies. I absolutely love what I do now. I have always wanted to be an actual engineer since probably middle school. What we do is more of a combination of Civil and Electrical (Coordinating and designing with other utilities). The class load looks crazy and overwhelming, thanks for posting though!
Just graduated in EE and it’s interesting to see the similarities across programs. I also enjoy communications and RF and I think it’s interesting how your communications class was apart of your curriculum well as mine was an elective class. Also my calc 2 and 3 were combined and same with physics 2 and 3 which is also interesting
This is so cool, I’m doing electrical engineering technology. Finished first year and we didn’t do any calculus but did circuits and digital principles, signals, engineering computation, RL RC and RLC, power triangle, and trigs relationship with reactive current, true current and real. It’s just mind boggling to me now that I can understand what’s being talked about. Like this is the coolest thing ever and I’m kind of geeking out
Calculus is really important because it allows you to understand Fourier and Laplace. These are essential for time series analysis which is critical for comms engineering and especially digital signal processing. I think people who haven’t studied EE don’t appreciate what a complex and rich branch of engineering it is.
The MAIN thing is, you need to be truly interested in science and at least somewhat interested in applied math to do well in electrical engineering. I say this because I saw so many students who weren't interested in science and had no curiosity about how and why the universe works like it does. These students mainly learned by rote - they never understood the big picture and mostly got by via memorization in order to pass exams. Then I saw some of these people after getting jobs and working in engineering for a few years. Most of them either quit and went to work in something completely unrelated or they ended up becoming program managers, or getting into middle management. LOL! And none of them were very happy with their jobs and often felt insecure because they felt they were a dime a dozen - and they are! So follow your passion and don't get into engineering unless science and engineering truly are your passions.
For anyone that reads this comment and is about 2 or 5 years out of college & is a manager of some sort then you are doing well. "Got by via memorization" yeah no duh that's how you learn. I hear the music in multiple aspects of life (engineering being one of them), but I never put down my peers. Anyone who does so has no confidence in themselves. It takes a true leader to be a manager in the engineering world. "Dime a dozen" HA. Go find a P.E. who can also manage projects profitably and efficiently. The world is never just one thing, its a mix and balance of a lot of things. So go be artistic and logic, not robotic and bland.
@@17rkochrote memorization isnt the way to learn. Thats like saying the best way to do math is to memorize answers to every problem i stead of knowing how to solve wach problem and know hiw it works
@@17rkochAssignment based assessments are better than just memorizing a bunch of informatiom, but yeah, I agree with everything else you've said.
@@pizzapizzza4607 You learn math by muscle "memory." Going through the properties over and over again. Every time you fail hard, you'll remember what you did wrong so you don't repeat the mistake twice. There will always be fundamentals when doing engineering problems, after the fundamentals and getting into more complexity, that's when you apply what you are stating (which should be all the time i.e. critical thinking). I see where you did not understand me and I am sorry for not explaining my point more throughly. Maybe im the bigot in my first reply by not understanding what the guy meant by "full memorization." If I did that at my job, id lose my license XD.
@@alltheworldsastage4785 Thank you for agreeing with a tid bit of what I said. I see where you disagree with what I said and I apologize for not getting my point across in a more clear way. Its important to memorize the fundamentals. Its also important to use the fundamentals and critically think what the answer is to a engineering problem (i.e. engineering design). Each project is different and require critical thinking. Never forget your fundamentals though!
I wish I had this so much sooner. EE at my school was so difficult that I eventually changed to IT.
Ain't go lie this got me a little scared of electrical engineering
Nah man, you will learn everything along the way, its not that bad if you find it interesting
@@alithedazzling I hope because that the thing am interested in
Too late now I’m 1.5 years in
@@MohammedAhmed-dc5be lmfao
This got me excited for the video
During EE undergrad we were presented with "space is empty" and "space is curved" in physics, which 'raised eyebrows' in class.
We work at artificial gravity devices, despite the idolatry of General Relativity 'requiring' immense mass/energy.
This was our first device - it relies on E x B Lorentz force:
1) horizontally-oriented lamination of thin aluminum sheets each separated by an insulator layer with a circular layout
2) RF radial/horizontal currents induced in the lamination
3) axial (centered) and vertically-oriented magnetic field up through the center of the lamination
The induced, horizontal and radial RF currents (induced by eddy current coils adjacent to, but not touching the metal layers), and the vertical magnetic field leads to the Lorentz force acting on the charged particles in the metal layers (right hand rule, recall; E x B).
The charged particles in the metal layers are *coherently* accelerated (oscillated) co-planar (in the same plane of) the metals lamination by the Lorentz force.
We modified this first design by: 1) experimenting with the size of the foils lamination; 2) experimenting with different RF frequencies
partly with a goal to create resonance/standing waves in the metal layers.
Since you are on a phd track, you probably recognize that coherent Lorentz force waves of charged particles are acoustic waves in the metal (note for the uninitiated: 'acoustic' is a TYPE of wave, ie. "acoustic" and "audible" are not the same thing; all audible waves are acoustic, but very high frequency acoustic waves in matter are inaudible).
Our work required a supposition regarding the constituents of free space that allow propagation of EM waves, gravity, and electric and magnetic fields.
Our profs taught us "EM (electromagnetic) waves *_do not need a medium to propagate_*
I suspect this is still being taught, unfortunately.
William Sturgeon invented 'artificial magnetism' 200 years ago (the electromagnet). There is no reason to avoid pursuit of artificial gravity, despite the idolatry of General Relativity and other theories that have led to "learned helplessness" in most of the experimental physics community.
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added electrical engineering to my resume. thanks 🙏
LOL you're welcome
2:20 Chemistry is extremely important and relevant to Electrical Engineers. The Semiconductor Industry comes to mind right away as something that benefits from having an intimate understanding of Chemistry. I spent a summer working an internship as a maintenance technician in a semiconductor fab and the sheer amount of deadly gasses and liquids you work with and around is insane. The second point of relevance and benefit that sprung to my mind as to why chemistry is important to an electrical engineer is when you're looking at the physical properties of batteries, the materials their made out of, their form factors, as well as natural batteries such as various salts and minerals found in the natural world and how they can create a current when exposed to water, etc. Excellent video all together and I appreciate the summary, but that first bit about Chemistry triggered me a little bit I'll admit!
i have never even touched chemistry
not even in highschool
the most i learnt was general science in junior
had to equalize the equation of chemical turning into other stuff or something, and something about metal base water and acid if u know wat i mean
that was the extent of my chemistry
but still ee degree
very specific field and role u talkin about
Not gonna lie that seems like a chill start. Started my first semester in software engineering two weeks earlier, and my head is dying sometimes. We started out with atoms electric fields on how damn MOSFETs work in one subject. In math we basically have mathematical proofs which is horrible and fun but mostly a pain. My programming class started with a simple algorithm that simply translates for translating numbers in different number systems and how to implement this in C.
Edit: In addition to that we also had to understand how and why semiconductors work at the example of a diode what happens internally, and I still don't fully understand that yet.
Dude I didn't have any interest or knowledge of any kind in regards to electrical engineering a week ago and then I stumbled upon your channel. This stuff is insanely cool and magical and I'm seriously considering going to college for it just because it looks so interesting!
very happy to hear :)
Hey Ali, I appreciate these videos you made. They have helped me quite a lot in deciding which direction to go in as I’m a 17 year old that just graduated from highschool and will be enrolling this fall for engineering. I also just finished reading your book and it gave me so much insight and advice which I’ve never seen before. Thank you for taking the time to create such a masterpiece of work.
Based on your videos, electrical engineering seems so fascinating but I’m just afraid of hearing how difficult and complex it gets and if I’ll be even able to understand the concepts or make cool projects.
I’ve taken all the math (Calc 1) and Physics (junior and senior) in highschool but I’ve never actually coded before or worked with circuits before. Im not sure if that means I would be at a huge disadvantage compared to some other students who may have done this.
Thank you again for all your videos, I feel like I’ve learned a lot about what to expect in Engineering and I plan on watching a lot more :)
Thank you so much :)
Go mechanical. Trust me
@@cadehabetz9521Would you mind giving a further explanation? Thanks.
Thanks for sharing. I did my Electrical and Electronics Engineering back in 1997-2001 at Brunel University in the UK, and I could reminisce on most of the topics you shared here. My favourite topics were Digital Logic Systems, Digital Signal Processing and programming.
BTW, that was an OR gate shown at 8:57
For the practical segment as a mechanical engineering student, for the electric education part they threw us a breadboard and asked us to make a circuit, then started giving us zeroes because we didn't even know how these things function...
Let alone parallel circuit or on series, gotta love the Tunisian education...
In Kazakhstan is also the same situation, but we were lucky and we had one teacher, who was really interested in studying us 😅
@@Прогулкивокругсвета-ф2ю those are the best teachers, throughout my life if you ask me who's your best and favourite teacher it was the ones that were passionate about teaching, we had a teacher like that, I wish him the best!!!
Great video, super useful overview of the degree!
I remember going through this curriculum at UB. Some of these courses need an overhaul due to the instructors. I'd be pointing at EE 324, EE 336, EE 202 and a few others. The instructors were either harsh in their grading, couldn't teach after x number of years, or were there for research. The good EE classes I found to be were a few power/circuit classes and digital (Chris and Michael).
which year did you graduate?
@@alithedazzling 2018
@@GetaLifeMan1234 no way! me too lol
I just graduated this year and now that I've seen 4 years of elec engg from your perspective, I feel like I didnt even do a degree in elec engg (these where the exact concepts and subjects I had in my syllabus). This is what I should've gained but instead all I was taught was here's this theory and solve it with this formula. Really needed this guidance back then because all I was ever stuck in was that this is not for me and how do I find something in this that works for me because I hated the fact that I had to solve stuff without actually understanding why or how. The way you're imparting wisdom is exceptional and much needed, I don't understand how your accounts so underrated. Will surely be recommending it to my network!
Glad you like the video! Better late than never I am glad you have this info now, will be making more videos like this for sure :)
Love this video. it just felt like my entire EEE study life flashes before my eyes. love it ❤❤
Bro really appreciated the simplified examples and then attaching the advanced comparisons shortly after each one. Current 2nd year electrical apprentice with an electrical technology AA under my belt. Electrical engineer was my initial goal [my mindset after associates was to do the apprenticeship to get in field experience (while making money, obtaining 5 years of more education, and work to pay for further education) and obtain a more well rounded knowledge of what it was I was going to be creating before actually diving in] and I was beginning to lose sight of it because I actually enjoy the hands on work I do. This video reignited something in me and I’m happy it came across my TL. Props for creating this masterpiece.
Great video!! Very helpful, taking physics 3 in a week and it’s good to know that it’s a very important class!
Would you say Physics 2 (Electricity and magnetism) was more interesting than Physics 1(Mechanics)? I’m starting physics 2 in a week and people say it’s a nightmare, but I’m ready.
Glad you found it helpful, I think you will like it!!
@The Goat honestly physics 2 is WAY cooler than physics 1. Don't listen to those saying its a nightmare, these people are either conditioned to complain/fear monger or lack imagination
@@alithedazzling Thanks for the advice. I realized a lot of people do complain a lot and over exaggerate the difficulty of most engineering coursework. Before taking Calc 2 and differential equations people said it was super hard, but the concepts were actually easy. Mechanics was more difficult, but very doable also.
@@rapversuz Yeah it's all doable, millions of people have done it, no reason why you can't
"This class traumatized me in a really good way" - this statement alone speaks so much to the engineering undergrad experience. Its hard, it'll kick your ass. Your friends and family will ask why you put yourself through it. It makes you change the way you think about the world; it is a profound experience from which there is no going back.
The signals and system class important for sure. Most classes have a prerequisite for it. Controls, dsp, communications and other classes
Gald to saw this and it explicitely interpreted the courses settings correlated each other. And it Intuitively showed the core of course like probability and signals&system. Loooking back on what I have in school, I am regretted I can't go as far away as his age.
Ohm's and Kirchhoff's Laws, Circuits in Series and Parallel and combinations of them, Boolean Algebra, Boolean Logic, etc... all fun stuff!
Those are things that I like to study just for fun. You can pretty much say that I’m a geek when it comes to anything electronics, electrical or mathematical.
@@OSAS726 Same, but I don't stop there. Magnets are cool too. They're always fun to play with. And so are optics and acoustics. Then again I did play the trumpet for over 10 years...
I took my Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree at Loughborough University from 1977 to 1981. It was a 4-year "thick sandwich" honours degree. This meant the first two academic years were followed by a whole year in industry (the filling in the sandwich!) before the final academic year.
First year was all about bringing everyone up to speed on "the basics".
The second year, things got very deep very fast, it was intense.
The final year involved chosing a range of subjects to go with compulsory Engineering Mathematics and Financial Management. Depending on what you wanted to specialise in, you would do extra modules in those areas of interest and perhaps only one in the others.
For the first year, the subjects studied were:
Engineering Mathematics
Accounting
Engineering Drawing
Atomic Physics
Electric Circuit Theory I
Transformers and motors
Mechanical Engineering
Electromagnetism
Microelectronics
In the second year, the subjects were:
Engineering Mathematics
Economics
Thermodynamics
Fluid Dynamics
Electromagnetic of Field Theory
Microelectronics
Electrical Circuit Theory II
Control Theory
Signalling and Communications Theory
Computing
Microwaves
RF Electronics
Electrical Machines and Power
In the final year, the option modules were as follows:
Computers
Controls
Communications
Digital Data Transmission
Power Electronics
RF Electronics
Microelectronics
Power Systems
Each of these had units I and II (Unit II being the more advanced), and you could mix however you liked up to a maximum number of 8 units. The compulsory subjects were Engineering Mathematics, Finance Management and the final year project and dissertation.
As someone who just graduated Electrical Engineering, I forgot just how many subjects there were
I’m a bit nervous to start school. Just got out of the Navy as an AT. But after you reviewed this I realize how much my A school went over a lot of these topics. Feeling more confident.
How old are you now that you're starring college. I'm 20 right now and gonna do 5 years in the navy and might pursue EE post service. But I feel quite old at 25 or 26 tbh
It is interesting that you did not have control systems. I have two mandatory control engineering courses on the same degree in Denmark in the second year. I think they are even harder than signals and systems, with laplace, fourier, root locus plots and a lot of matrix algebra, but I got the impression that that topic is the essence of engineering.
I agree controls is very important
In India too, Control systems is essential. Electrical guys study that for 2 semesters (I studied all in 1 semester because I'm Electronics and Telecommunication grad). There's indeed a lot of stuff in controls (Systems analysis, Root locus, Polar-Nyquist plots, Bode plot, State space analysis, etc.), but it's limited to LTI systems. I still find Signals and Systems harder, first classification, identification, Fourier series, transform, DTFT, DFT-FFT, Laplace transform, Z transform (although later it gets limited to LTI systems too), digital filters, signal processing & Digital Signal Processors etc.
dont forget ruth-hurwitz, nyquist-shannon, poles and zeros etc.
In my university in Venezuela, we are required to take two classes in the field of Control Engineering: "Control Systems I" and "Automation and Process Control". Additionally, we have the option to choose elective courses within the same field, such as "Control Systems II" "Digital Control", "Industrial Control", and more.
I have done my electrical engineering in b.tecg i found your which is very informative for me thank you for resistance,diode , circuit breaker,😮❤😊
Finishing up my second year EE courses next week. Funnily enough it would appear that we go to the same university so it was weird seeing the flowsheet as it was years ago. It's changed a bit since then but still very similar. Gotta say, your explanations were rather accurate to what I have experienced so far:
Calculus - rates, and other miscellaneous tools used to solve equations
Physics 108 - The EE highlight reel
Circuit analysis - Reasonably challenging, but vastly useful class (get good with complex numbers and polar form though, this was the first class I had taken up to this point that regularly used them)
Digital Principles - Hehe digital logic make light turn on according to this truth table
Signals and systems - You absolutely were not lying, this class is and has been kicking my ass all semester. The concepts are fairly easy to grasp with some effort in my experience, but like you said; that math is pretty much a foreign language at first and still gives me massive headaches (Convolution nearly ended me at first).
And you were correct as far as I know about EAS140 being the turbine project, it's since changed to EAS199 and has been structured to use the first half of the course to teach the general engineering process, and uses the second half of the class to allow you to apply that process and create a wind turbine with the highest power output using that engineering process.
LOL convolution ended me as well don't worry
I am 68 years old and a retired engineering technician. I never had the self discipline to get through engineering, but I still am intensely interested in anything electronic. Love seeing this over view it inspires me to continue study on my own.
Thank you man !
Very happy to see someone doing this and sharing with us !
BIG THANK YOU !
I am learning on my own but definitely this video helped me, as you mentioned at the start, there is a specific order to learning, which I overlooked when learning myself, still, happy to see someone else passionate about electronics !
All the best !
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nicely summerised , now I am doing my masters specialising in automation and control engineering . EE has two sides firstly the course is vast and hard but the good part is there are lots of areas for doing masters in so I never regret it .
Man i have recently been watching a lot of your videos they are extremely helpful to me. As I watch this video I'm like wait, that looks like my exact flowsheet! I'm currently a sophomore undergrad EE at UB! It's cool to see what the flowsheet looked like from nearly 10 years ago. They did add a c/c++ class (that I'm currently taking) to take before eas 230 (MATLAB). It's probably my favorite course right now. However in signals we have been using MATLAB to look at convolutions and what not, definitely a powerful tool. It's also funny seeing this video after watching the video where you ranked the difficulty of each class, now knowing you took those classes at UB. I'm in signals, calc 3, and phy 3 rn and my least favorite is calc 3 by far!
Woah that's super cool! You're like the first UB student I get a comment from haha. I love UB man, I learned everything there. See if the UB Nanosat Lab is still a thing and go work on some projects there!
@@alithedazzling That's awesome I am enjoying UB so far. I will look into Nanosat as I think I have heard of them still being around. As for this summer, i have no internship but I would like to learn python on my own. That would mean I learn C/C++ now, python over the summer, and MATLAB next semester. I am not too sure about what I am into specifically yet but I'm going to dive a little bit deeper into programming for now.
@@trenji sounds like a good plan, if you have no summer internship you can stay around at something like nanosat or another project and get experience that way. Feel free to connect w/ me on linkedin btw Ali Alqaraghuli
I remember watching this way before I started electrical engineering.
Watching again now after my first year feels like a weird fever dream.
how do u feel about the program. im scared
@mohamedm3618 It's hard but doable. The first semester transition was the hardest for me.
As long as you don't under-estimate the modules and put in the time, you garanteed a pass at the very least.
Great! I'd love to see similar video on Master's and PhD 😁
Those would be a bit more difficult since they could vary entirely and and essentially are 100% electives.
Unless you mean my MS and PhD courses specifically
@@alithedazzling Yes, I would like to know more about your journey through MS and PhD. Courses you took and other stuff as well.
I'm starting MS next year so I'd like to know your perspective. It'll be interesting and beneficial for other as well, probably.
@@nickputkaradze1181 OK, I also think those would make good videos. I will likely record them once I move to Boston (in about 10 days or so) I'll likely talk more about my MS/PhD a lot in September, stay tuned
Thanks for the video. I really enjoyed hearing you give a summary of all the courses. it brought back a lot of good memories. I graduated from an EE program a little over 30 years ago. Even back then, I had the same core technical courses (except Physics 3; for us it was an optional science elective called Optics). Of course micro-controller technology has come a long way, so the equivalent course to Embedded systems & Application was much more limited. We had to hand compile assembler code and type it in manually in our "Motorola 6800 trainer", so it took a long time to get it to do anything interesting. Modern micro-controllers are much more rewarding to work with.
For anyone considering EE, if you find these things fun/interesting, and you're OK with doing quite a bit of math, you'll probably be successful in an EE course like this.
I am in my last year of EE degree and I already have a BS in Molecular Biology. EE is 1000 times harder than Molecular Biology. Hands down the hardest class I ever took was junior year, Static Electromagnetic Engineering which you called applied Electromagnetics. I found Signals and Systems to be a total piece of cake as I tutored Calculus for 15 years before doing my EE degree and I also was a cryptologist for 9 years in the Navy.
Chemistry is useful for batteries as well, to keep them from exploding when cells are mismatched and/or imbalanced.
Your course is so direct and resourceful. Here in Kenya we do almost 14 Units total per year. We honestly do not get time to comprehend things we have learned.
ain't gonna lie this made me feel that i'm so much ahead even tho university is an unknown subject for me
I´m doing electrotechnical and that video showed me that what im seeing is not that different from EE, awesome video
At this moment I've just finished my first year in Electronic&ICT engineering in Belgium (University of Antwerp). It is interesting to see that your subjects that you take in your second and third year we already take in our first year. and the subjects you take in your first year, we take in our final year
I'm a EE retired out of Bell labs and my own company. I think you need the degree and about 10 years experience before you are worth anything unless you are very exceptional. EE's peak at about 50 to 60 year old. The network theory is easy, it's the materials , parts knowledge and real world constraints that get young engineers in trouble. I went to university at 17 and finished the EE in 3 years but I was doing electronics and ham radio since i was 13
Yeah i picked the right major. All of this sounds fun (except chemistry) and has been so far.
As a final year student of Electrical Engineering. I can sure you will definitely enjoy.
Regarding internships, theory teaches you how everything works... when it all works RIGHT... practice teaches you all the different ways that things can GO WRONG... and you need BOTH bodies of knowledge to be really effective.I think best mix of time is 50/50 theory / practice. Nobody can predict exactly what topics you will need to know when you graduate, so some topics they teach might seem useless..... but don't forget... this is all "just theory"... until suddenly you run into a situation where it GETS REAL...only then do you understand why they forced you to learn this stuff, because years later, the people signing your paycheck will expect you to understand it. Hang on to your textbooks, I still have books I used 50 years ago to learn this stuff, and they are still handy.
only memories/exp i can relate this to is working on cars/electronics/musical equipment.. its true even at this noob lvl
It took me many many years since i dropped out of college in 2012 to finally realize i'm actually interested in electronics. But i guess it's kinda late for me to go back to college. But that wont stop me from learning as much as i can online.
I wouldnt be scared of going back!
As for all those suggesting going the junior college route and becoming a technician first hoping to transfer course work, my school didn't allow much if any tranfer credit. There's a good reason why that you'll only understand after you finish the program. Engineering has a notorious drop out rate, at my scool maybe only 1 out of three graduate. Unlike medical school where it's difficult to get in, but easy to stay in, engineering school is easy to get in but difficult to stay in. Unlike medical schools, engineering schools make no attempt to sort out who would be a good future engineer. Instead they let the individual determine it. They do this by piling on work,, enough to easy take up 70/80 hours a week and much of the concepts your expected to asimulate are intellectually more demanding than medical school - no medical grad will come close to your level of mathematical sophication. The first two years act as the sorting function not seen in junior college. They know you have brains to get this far, but can you work like a dog, too? The program I graduated in was scheduled as 150 semester hours over four years, whereas the standard BS or BA was 120 hours. Enough said...
at 7:12, J is basically current density and not just charge.
That's right! Good catch
Going to UB next year to finish up my aerospace engineering degree!!!!
09:02 OR gate. Fourier is the one to blame !! 🤣🤣
Feels like I'ev studied most of the basics while preparing for jee.
Exactly
This is an excellent review of electrical engineering and the classes you have to take. Definitely do internships as they helped me out in learning about real electrical engineering, what is like to work as an electrical technician and what future work would be like. When I was hiring engineers or programmers I always want to hear about their internships as it gave me a good idea what they were interested in.
Truly interesting insights! Thank you for sharing!
EE is the ultimate scientific gateway drug. Afterwards you can go into power grids/electronics, embedded design, HF, audio, video, OOP, data science, applied physics, field-theory, mathematics, hardware description languages and on and on. It just doesn't end
As an EE grad, I wish I had paid more attention to content like this - knowing the important parts about a course as well as why they are (or may not be) stepping stones in one's education I'd say is imperative to getting a good education as well as applying it in the future! Many thanks for the overview
Definitely get those internships while you're still in school - beat that Catch 22 experience before the job scenario
As an Electrical Engineering student I can confirm this is true.
Actually Electronics deal with non linear elements (none linear = none additive and none homogeneous systems). Electric circuits don't deal with electronics in the literal since. In fact, Electrical Engineer in its core is about providing Electrical power to load (Generators, Transformers, cables, capacitor banks, voltage drop, etc.) where you don't deal with electronic components. Therefore some academics distinguish it from Electronic engineering where you deal mostly with non linear components like diodes and transistors. Still I would club it all under the banner of Electrical Engineer, but knowing the context behind these terminologies is also useful.
Matlab is not a programming language.
How come they don't teach Electric machines (e.g. Induction Motors, Synchronous machines, transformers, etc.) as a fundamental course !!!
Not necessarily....linear or non-linear, passive or active, if a system has phenomenon of electricity in it it's all under 'Electrical engineering'....the application of such systems can be in any of the field like Energy, Power, Control, Instrumentation, Computing, Telecommunications, Medicine with varying specifications.
You're literally missing that electronic components are special type of electrical components which are made of semiconductors where 'electron' behave in a special way.
That's why they are called 'electronic'. That doesn't mean they are any less 'electric''😂
A diode is an electronic component, it's also electric; there's no doubt about that.
Interesting. I don't have the degree, but self taught as a technician to repair the equipment. To repair the equipment, I have to be proficient in all of those subjects. In working on semiconductor manufacturing equipment, the required knowledge base exceeds most of these subjects as the college classes listed are introductory classes that the actual job uses as a baseline, and progresses much further. I don't have the degree, but have the position as if I had the degree. Was a Technician, then became an Engineering Technician, then became an Engineer. It took about 20 years. Try to learn something new everyday. Having years of solving real world problems is valuable to employers looking to have problems fixed and designs improved. It is a fascinating and rewarding field, and yes it can be challenging.
Typical day work includes:
Temperature control for optical components within 0.01 degrees C. This is required as temperature changes the physical dimensions of the optics. When imaging semiconductor patterns in lithography to nano-meter dimensions, changes in optics, due to temperature fluctuation, will impact focus and device registration. Yes, a PID funciton is used in the temperature control along with fuzzy logic to control the heating and cooling portions.
Motion control with mechanical robotics alone is not accurate or fast enough for high volume manufacturing to position, focus, and image the wafers. In addition to robotics with a PID loop, laser inferometry and voice coil servo is required to complete the fine alignments. This uses another PID servo loop on top of the motion control on the robotics stage.
In order to image features that small, diffraction at visible wavelengths is impossible to focus that fine, so imaging for modern chips has to use shorter wavelengths of ligh, so the optics and electromagnetic wave theory is most definitely used.
On the optical side, the LASER light has to be detected and measured. This includes using photo diodes reverse biases, to produce photo currents. For linearity, the bias is at a constant voltage. The resulting current when fed into an op amp circuit, converts the current to voltage in a transconductance function.
Being active in the field will often expose me to cutting edge technology that has not yet been included in college classes, so even after you graduate, you are entry level in many fields and will have to continue to self study to remain relevant.
Example, The electronics I learned in the service after high school, was before the IBM PC was invented. A 16 bit ADC, was a rack, mount device, not a chip in your gaming headset. To stay current, self study is required. Digital motion control has replaced most analog with Digitial PID loops, but analog servo systems are part of the loop for the feedback and power sections of motion control. This is a huge change from the fully analog servo loops with loop filters that performed the PID function in all analog filters. The combination of low pass and high pass filters with gain, frequency cutoffs, etc formed the predecessor of the modern PID based motion control. Before the PC, there were not DSP chips to use as a building block for signal processing.
Acronyms:
PID Proportional, Integral, Differential
DSP Digital Signal Processor
ADC Analog to Digital Converter
so basicaly dont start a electronics program unless your seriusly intrested and can retain and apply what you learn every 3 or so months without forgetting
Best video on the topic! Congrats man and thank you for sharing
Thank you so much!
I'm electrical engineering student at my last semester in Egypt and this video is kinda nostalgic for me 😅😅
In my university we had to decide what field would we continue with from the beginning of second year...
So I decided to go with electrical power and machines... but then realized that I like electronics more than large electrical systems stuff but I found myself with power electronics where you need anything you learned 😂😂😂
I studied all subjects you mentioned
And yes (signals and systems) (here was DSP - introduction to digital signal processing) really kicked my ass into power electronics 😂😂😂
which university did you go to? I heard Ain Shams is the one that kicks peoples butts haha
It's mansoura university....
It kicks hard but not harder than Ain shams 😂😂😂
@@alithedazzling oh my 😂😂😂 is our university that notorious? junior EE student here and sadly Ain shams lol
Signal & Systems is a freshman’s course in my university (first semester).
I agree that this is a very important and also interesting course but at that time it just made me want to quit.
Great video even the curriculum of my university was a bit different it still stands as a solid introduction and oversight on what to expect. 👍🏻
At 53, I went back to school to get my Associates degree in Electronics. We don't have a four-year college on Kaua'i. 7am to 7pm, while living in a tent, for three years, with my wife. It's never too late. Get a support group (students in your class that you can connect with).
Writing this comment so the algorithm suggests me more videos like these even more 💯
to everyone reading this I hope all of your dreams come true
Hey i am from germany and currently studying sustainable systems engineering in germany in 4th Semester. For me its interesting to see how different the speed of american universities is. What you did in the fourth semester was part of our second und partly first. greetings 🎉
Awesome video, I wish you would do more on what technical electives you took your senior year
So I took my fall semester off and did an internship at NASA KSC, this counted as a technical elective for me. Perhaps I can make a video about my MS level classes which were kinda like electives
Thanks im taking ee major this year!!!
As an EE at the University of Minnesota (class of 2024), here's what students would generally take here:
Freshman:
Calc 1 & 2
Physics 1 & 2
Chem 1
EE1301 - Intro to Computing Systems: Introduction to C/C++, the lab component involves IoT experiments with a microcontroller. Includes and open ended final project
Sophomore:
Calc 3 & Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
Physics 3 OR Chem 2
EE 2015 - Circuits, Signals, Electronics: Circuit analysis (KVL, KCL, basic OpAmp circuits, Phasors, RL LC RLC filters). Includes a lab that deals with amplifier circuits involving OpAmps
EE 2115 - Digital and Analog Electronics: Builds on top of EE 2015, but adds basic MOSFET and Diode circuits, small signal analysis, etc. Lab deals with more amplifiers, but includes transistors and diodes.
EE 2301 - Intro to Digital System Design: Boolean Algebra, Combinational and Sequential logic, State Machines, etc. Lab involves building circuits with 74 series logic gate IC's, some FPGA programming
EE 2361 - Intro to Microcontrollers: Pure C/Assembly programming, create libraries from scratch. Heavily lab/homework based. The textbook is are the datasheets for the PIC24 microcontroller and whatever devices we interface with. Open ended group project at the end of the semester.
Junior:
EE 3015 - Signals & Systems: LTI systems, continuous and discrete, fourier analysis, laplace transform, z-transform. Heavy use of MATLAB.
EE 3115 - Analog Electronics: Diodes, MOSFETS, amplifiers, rectifiers, IC building blocks (gain cell, current mirrors/sinks, a basic opamp), feedback/stability, high-frequency small signal analysis
EE 3161 - Semiconductor Devices: Basics of semiconductor physics, how diodes work, how mosfets/BJTs work, and other devices
EE 3601 - Transmission Lines Fields and Waves: Transmission lines, electrostatics, magnetostatics, wave propogation, basically a lot of vectors and equations
EE 3025 - Statistical Methods for ECE: Set theory, discrete and continuous distributions, estimation, random variables
EE 3101 - Signals & Circuits Lab: Simulation of various types of filters in MATLAB & Simulink
EE 3951W - Junior design lab: Project based course -- in my case our goal was to increase the accuracy of the 10-bit ADC on a PIC24 microcontroller to 14-bits with noise and oversampling/averaging
Senior:
EE 4951W - Senior Design Project
A bunch of electives
I remembered I had to take a class in automatic control and feedback systems........hated it
I’m watching this instead of prepare for my physics exam.
Omg same
Same though its a paper
Here's my curriculum, currently in year 2 with 3 years remaining:
Freshman (1st):
1. Introduction to Engineering (basically a quick 6 week course that is highschool on steroids. Basics of linear algebra are introduced, a bit of chemistry, a mixture of everything) - fall semester.
2. Intro to computer science (C++ course, end project was making code that generates a maze) - fall semester.
3. General chemistry (basically rates of reactions, tons of thermodynamics, electrochemistry, organic, ended with a seminar on carbon chirality.....) - 30% in fall, 70% in Spring semester.
4. Analysis I & II (everything from defining limits to stokes, green, Ostrogradsky to solving ODEs with polynomials and power series and all that plus cool stuff like banach fix point thingy + a tiny intro to measure theory) - 50% Fall, 50% spring semester.
5. Linear Algebra I & II (ok cutest class, everything from defining fields to eigens to conics and quadrics to intro to group theory) - 50% fall, 50% spring semester.
6. Geometry (cool class, modelling stuff like curves and surfaces and all that) - spring semester.
7. Mechanics I (called "Mécanique rationnelle" from simple stuff like moments to things like virtual work and inertia) - 20% fall, 80% spring semester.
8. General Physics I & II (Optics, mechanics again, electricity from static fields to circuits to maxwell equations) - notoriously hard - spring semester.
9. First year project (we did an aArduinothing which uses sensors and a radar thingy to classify small tree pieces the size of half a coffee cup given a container of 20 of three size categories and two colour categories).
Sophomore (2nd):
1. Physical chemistry, intro to materials engineering, manufacturing methods (big course, everything from advanced phase diagrams to alloys to semiconductors) - 70% fall, 30% spring semester.
2. Mechanics II (cool stuff, things like Lagrange and Hamiltonians and other methods for modelling moving solid systems) - fall semester.
3. Electricity (actual electricity, circuit theory containing how to solve circuits and field theory containing maxwell applied to various scenarios) - fall semester.
4. Computer science II (advanced algorithmics, OOP, a bit of how computers work in deep, Kotlin for creating android apps- spring semester.
5. Solid mechanics and materials resistance - spring semester.
6. Analysis III (analysis on steroids and very huge course, stuff like Fourier and boundary value problems in DEs and intro to PDEs) - 50% fall, 50% spring semester.
7. Numerical methods (basically how to actually use a computer for science) - spring semester.
8. Probability and statistics (basic stuff in those two, course ends with a few chapters on introduction to operations research) - fall semester.
9. Quantum physics and statistical physics (from Schrodinger to Bose-Einstein condensates.....) - spring semester.
10. Second year project (we did pose estimation using AI, people who did electrical stuff did some sort of music note analyzer).
I know folks who take stuff like discrete maths on top of this.
Junior (3rd) - not yet here:
1. Applied electricity (don't know what it is yet) - fall semester.
2. Signals and systems (I heard it is just maths disguised with a cool name) - fall semester.
3. Fluid mechanics - fall semester.
4. ethics...... - spring semester.
5. Applied electronics - fall semester.
6. logic and digital circuits - fall semester.
7. Analog electronics - spring semester.
8. Physics of telecommunications - spring semester.
9. Signals and telecom systems - fall semester.
10. Control theory - spring semester.
11. Quantum mechanics I (basically a revision of Quantum physics seen in second year with more speed and more maths and more fun) - spring semester.
Extras: statistics II - fall semester; Probability II (Martingales, Markov chains, Markov processes,.....) - spring semester; Advanced algorithmics - fall semester; Advanced topics in algebra and geometry - both semesters, Advanced numerical methods.
I'm dying to take Control theory (professor spoken highly of and he's one of those admirable passionates who don't retire) and Probability II. Cutest class I had was algebra in freshman, electricity and quantum physics also come close. Also the materials class in chemistry in sophomore was cute especially the end that speaks of electrical properties (much of the course is alloys and their phase diagrams and such).
oh wow, which university is this?
@@alithedazzling
It's a Belgian engineering school.
I didn't write the last 2 years because well I haven't looked at the courses there in detail.
To add on one thing: Don’t take EE/CEG if you don’t like it to begin with. I’ve just finished my 4 years and hated it. Trust me, 4 years of doing something you dont like is hell on earth
One day you'll get a job and find out it is 40 years of doing something you don't like.
@@stargazer7644 or never work a day in ur life