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Hello, Thanks for watching my channel and reaching out. Fear of failure is understandable. I would say the first step is to have a plan and research study habits of engineers who have completed 4 year degrees on google and KZbin. There’s so much info out there now that I wish I had going into college. You have to believe in yourself before you do anything in life. As long as you develop healthy study habits you will be fine. In fact you’ll find school to be trivial. Go to every class. Review your notes immediately after each class. Summarize your class notes in bullet points for major topics in just a few words. Start each homework assignment the day it’s assigned. It ok if you don’t complete all of it in one day. Understand that engineering is difficult and it’s normal to work on one problem for hours at a time so don’t give up easily. Go to office hours for anything you’re stuck on. Study minimum 30 hours a week. Break it up into multiple sessions a day so that you don’t burn out. There’s no secret to success. Just believe in yourself and develop discipline. Hope that helps!

​@@ShaqJonesKnight Thank you so much for taking the time to write back. I suffer from depressive disorders, and I'm just starting to learn how to ask for help. I'm going to take a screenshot of your comment and save it to my desktop to remind myself when things start to feel challenging. Your comment gave more tools to add to my toolbelt which made me more motivated to start my healing process and push forward. Again thank you so much!

@@Ro.T560 Glad I could help. Keep in the fight. I know that struggle. You might want to check out something called ketamine IV treatment. It helped me.

@@ShaqJonesKnight I will definitely take a look into that. Thank you.

Engineering is difficult but it just requires hard work and consistency. As long as you don’t give up you’ll make it through. Just do your research on and try to find online programs. You don’t have to go to a large university and get into debt. Most courses are online now and you can learn things by teaching yourself.

How do you like it and what’s the pay and hours like

It's always possible to switch industries. Its much easier to do it earlier in your career than later for sure though. Aerospace is very board in general so I would recommend looking up an Aerospace companies you want to work for and searching for mechanical positions within those companies. Then you can try to slide into an aerospace position within that company once you're hired. I recommend learning a specific skill that you're interested in outside of work. For example rocket propulsion systems. Take an online course and do a project related to that to get experience. Companies will want to see that you have some relevant experience. Even if it's just a hobby outside of work.

How did your interview go

Hello, Here a link to his profile. I told him that you were expecting to hear from him. www.linkedin.com/in/ammar-abbas-33998225

@@ShaqJonesKnight Thank you :)

Hello Adrian, I understand your concern. I would say yes you can still pursue engineering even if you struggle with math. You are just going to have to put in extra work to harness the math skills necessary to pass your courses. I suggest reviewing topics that you struggle with by watching KZbin videos and learning how to study properly. There are many useful tips on how to develop fundamental maths skills online. Also check out the math for dummies books at Barnes and nobles. I’ve used them and they are great. They have them for each math topic. God bless.

Hello, Sorry for the late reply. If it were me and I planned on doing Aero in grad school I would definitely do aero as an undergraduate. Graduate school in general is very difficult especially for engineering. So trying to learn all the fundamentals of aerospace in graduate school would be tough. Doable but tough. Mechanical is a lot more broad for job hunting purposes and there a lot more opportunities because of that. Also I will note that I personally thought Aero was more difficult as an undergraduate when I switch from mechanical my sophomore year. It requires a broad range of technical skills. Programming. Decent math skills. Basic understanding of chemistry for combustion topics. Lab reports where you have to understand physics. You basically have to be Iron man!

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Check out my portfolio website link below. If you scroll down to the "About Me" section and click the "writing sample" button you will see a aero report I did back in my undergraduate studies for wind tunnel testing. Your project sounds very interesting. I would certainly add that to my portfolio. You never know how recruiters will see your projects. If your writing skills are good and the report shows you have some basic technical skills, that's worth showing in my opinion. Get more involved in projects where you can show your documented work. sjjone24.wixsite.com/apollo11sjjone24.wixsite.com/apollo11

@@ShaqJonesKnight thanks for the response. I’ll be taking a class on compressible flow later this year, and it heavily revolves on writing design reports just like what you have on your portfolio. As for projects, on Monday earlier this week, I actually just got accepted into a project called UCI Cargo Plane that competes in SAE Aero Design West, so that’ll definitely be something I can put on my portfolio. I also did a quadcopter design project in my freshman year, so that’s another project that I have currently. Regarding internships, how important do you think they are for getting a job? On one hand, I have people telling me they’re struggling to find a job because of their lack of internships, and on the other hand, a friend told me she (as an AE) and some of her AE friends didn’t have internships and still landed a job. For reference, she got into Lockheed Martin as soon as she graduated. If I do apply for one, I just feel like it might be a bit too late for me for apply for one as I’ll be graduating next year, but I can still apply for 2022 summer internships since I have a student status.

I'm glad you enjoy the content. Thanks for tuning into my channel. I certainly plan to continue!

What ever you are passionate about. You don't necessarily need to have a minor. Might add too much work to your engineering workload. Do research on the elective classes offered at your college ahead of time for your major and read the syllabus to see if you work be interested.

Glad my video was helpful. I would say since Mechanical engineering is more broad there are generally more positions available in the aerospace industry than electrical but thats just speculation. I would google the job outlook for these position to see the expected growth. Bureau of labor and statistics is a great website for this question. MBA is valuable if you plan to go into management role as an engineer. Assuming you want to climb the corporate latter to something like a VP of engineering position. But its certainly not required. Having a masters is important if you want to do more advance technical work and be on more cutting edge R&D projects. Generally the more advanced the project the more likely they want Phd and Master students who are experts. Thanks again for tuning into my channel.