The Map of Engineering

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The field of Engineering is amazingly diverse touching just about everything in our world. In this video I attempt to capture all of that diversity in one picture: the Map of Engineering, so that we can get our heads around it all and set some bounds on the subject. If you are interested in learning about engineering or want to pursue it as a career this video might help you figure out what direction to pursue.
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00:00 Introduction
00:37 Civil Engineering
04:55 Chemical Engineering
06:55 Bio-engineering
08:23 Mechanical Engineering
13:04 Aerospace Engineering
13:38 Marine Engineering
14:18 Electrical Engineering
17:50 Computer Engineering
19:33 Photonics
20:43 Sponsorship Message

[@ornotgortwormiii8731]

Aerospace engineers build missiles. Electrical engineers build guidance systems. Civil engineers build targets.

[@3bdo3id]

Brilliant general 😂

[@lucasscoz6090]

mechanical build thanks and guns, bio-eng builds bioweapons, chemical builds bombs, computer comunication photonics makes you see dark on battlefield or dont be seen and the he forget the food engineering make MRE and supplies

[@starship3812]

​@@lucasscoz6090😅 this is called destructive engineering

[@Dudeguymansir]

Combat engineers make openings

[@EzzedineAli2ndSH]

I got the missles

[@domainofscience]

I'd like to formally apologise for the number of times I said the word Engineering 🤣

[@zatannavolkoff]

Well the video is literally about engineering, so you're forgiven.

[@thespacenerd8928]

Kinda hard not to say it in an engineering video.

[@JaySmith91]

Top-tip - Instead of "mechanical engineering, optical engineering, software engineering, systems engineering and electrical and electronic engineering" it's acceptable to say "mechanics, optics, software, systems, and triple-E"

[@TheMixxon2]

@@JaySmith91 ??!! What do you mean, no he can’t … mechanics means one thing mechanical engineering is a completely different thing

[@JaySmith91]

​@@TheMixxon2 Yeah, I'm a mechanical engineer. It's just lazy shorthand and it's fairly common in some places. Tell me more about my profession though.

[@SnigdhaVasireddy]

My toxic trait is to think that once I understand math and physics I can conquer everything

[@maxb8360]

No this is pretty much true

[@TalooshDaBoss]

@@maxb8360 We wish it was true but living with other people doing other people things makes it impossible, can't know it all

[@oblivion5390]

it can definitely help a lot if you're adept at math and physics.

[@maxb8360]

@@TalooshDaBoss skill issue unfortunately

[@divijdomah6285]

very true but no mere human being has ever understood all of mathematics or physics so sadly you will not conquer anything

[@KevinWoW98]

The fun thing about being an engineer is that multidisciplinary knowledge is as valuable, or sometimes even more valuable, then specialized knowledge. I, for instance, am a civil engineer specialized in structural engineering. But I work for an oil company as a software engineer, writing software that deals with structures of oil rigs and ships. I don't know about ships as marine engineers do, about oil rigs as petroleum engineers do, about software as software engineers do, but knowing a decent amount about all those areas got me a really good job.

[@darkrising8280]

By knowing that, do you Biomedical Engineering is a good field to major in ? Considering it tries to cover vast topics of electrical and mechanical engineering on a surface level.

[@perfectsplit5515]

If you can choose between being: -a master of only one trade or -a jack of all trades; master of none. Then I think the latter is better in the long run because it allows one to adapt to the complex challenges of life.

[@KetooteK]

cool! You are responsible of killing the planet

[@johcokando2911]

​@@perfectsplit5515Agreed. Even more so in the new faster changing world. 50years ago one could practice your entire career in one specialized area. These days all fields evolve faster than one person can keep up with. Just understanding the principles of a few fields, and having a good internet connection, lets you manage a much more complex system and answer much more complex questions. Its almost wizardry by the standards of some decades ago. Quantum mechanics basically upset Einstein, but is all in a day's work now. Quite baffling.

[@hannahbunny2773]

@@darkrising8280as a current biomedical engineering student in senior year I think it is one of the hardest to kind of tell people what you do because you learn so much. So it’s a bit harder to get into “other” engineering jobs. Like you won’t commonly see a BME at raytheon or weapons. But you’ll easily see Mechanical or Electrical at a medical company. If you have an interest in medicine but don’t want to necessarily be face to face with patients YES I would recommend it. Do keep in mind there’s tons of paperwork especially dealing with the FDA. People with my degree at my work span every department, quality, lab personnel, R&D specialists, Manufacturing engineers, and more. However we are a biopharma company. Additionally you can go into research academia, or your own start up. Many people in my major enjoy research in academia and will stay there for a long time studying. There’s SO many things you can research with a BME degree, there’s hundreds of labs at my university. Similarly if you research something worth turning into a product you can start a startup and then hopefully make it as a company or!! get bought out and be rich. I would say BME is the jack of all trades engineer. I’ve learned coding, physiology, physics, mechanics, materials, chemistry, biology, and electronics. There are so many different paths with BME it is absolutely the best for someone who knows they want to do some engineering and enjoys medicine :)

[@MedlifeCrisis]

My natural tendency is to come here to say something sarcastic about engineers but I’ll be serious for a change. My grandfather was a district (civil) engineer in India. I was really close to him but he died when I was young. Years later I went to see a bridge, the construction of which he led (I also broke Indian law by taking a photograph lol). I remember thinking how amazing it was that that bridge outlived him and will outlive me. This monument to him and his team had helped god knows how many thousands of people. Not many jobs let you leave such huge legacies. So much work in this video, amazing stuff.

[@Ryush806]

It's always funny seeing a channel I watch near religiously appear in the comments on another channel I watch with the same fervor. I'd love to know your sarcastic engineer comment. My friends consist of ~90% engineers and doctors so we like to give each other a hard time about how we thought about med school but didn't think it'd be challenging enough and vice versa (if you can't tell I'm an engineer). We also get into weird discussions because engineers want everything to work by a set of hard rules but the human body is so complex that you often can't apply hard systems thinking to it (Or so my cardiologist friend tells me every time I ask him a question. I still don't believe him).

[@rubenverster250]

As a software engineer, I create a system for MIT. And with your comment, I am now aware that my shitty code will outlive me by far :D

[@Ryush806]

@@rubenverster250 I hope you’re like me and have comments like “I’m not sure why it works this way but not the other way. If something’s broken it’s probably this block”

[@coachman1532]

The only job that grants you a bigger legacy is an artist, but that’s only for 0.01% of them

[@rubenverster250]

@@coachman1532 code is art, that does something

[@andy_lamax]

This video has reminded me of no matter how well versed I am in my Electrical Engineering field, I am an expert of only a small portion of the whole Engineering map

[@mastershooter64]

which in turn is only a small portion of all of STEM and that is only a small part of all of of human knowledge, which is probably an incomprehensibly small part of all of all knowledge that could be acquired by humanity

[@Oblivion1407]

😂hey but you can leave a mark on so much projects

[@whannabi]

@@mastershooter64 knowledge that is not yet known isn't really worth thinking about. Things will come by themselves.

[@keyboardsmash3983]

I couldn't help but notice that areospace and chemical enigineering were on opposite corners of the map, and yet me (3rd year chemE) and my friend (3rd AreoE) can learn and exchange a lot of study material. The sheer number of times I have already asked them for fluids help, and helped them look over their energy and thermo problems with them is insane, and we are barely a month into our 3rd year. Me and them like joke that my degree is about preventing unwanted explosions, and theirs is about taking advantage of said explosions. But the more you take to people the more obvious it becomes how the fundamental of Math/science + stubbornness/problem solving really dont change. Its like speaking different dialects of the same language.

[@luminescentlion]

Fake news EE is the top, as such an EE is overqualified for any other type of engineering. /S

[@marta5sings]

I was reading all the comments, and I see that almost everyone is some kind of engineer. I am not - I'm a performing musician and a personal trainer. But I loved this video. I am very curious about all kinds of things - physics, natural sciences, math, biology, etc. In order to become certified as a personal trainer I had to learn a lot about the inner workings of our body - bones, musculature, chemical processes.and so on. Your videos are just wonderful and give me insights into so many other topics. Thank you so much!

[@eddarby469]

I am an engineer and an amateur musician. The things I learned in physics help me to be a better musician. The things I learned in math helps me understand music theory. And it doesn't end there. My engineering education helps me enjoy everything around me.

[@Kloppin4H0rses]

What is it with women finding the most useless skill and being "That's what I'm going to do 😊😊" Like seriously... Are y'all not capable of doing anything useful?

[@r1ain.602]

​@@Kloppin4H0rsestrue brother music is not a job or work, engineering is the only job that will exist in the world

[@tascrphs]

​@@Kloppin4H0rses perhaps so, but i'm a financial (engineer) structuring complex ways (deals & transactions) how to fund (pay) for stuff, particularly large projects that hire all sorts of engineers... I can do it on a PC (thanks EE, software, chem, mech, mat. eng) or I can do scribble it in the dirt with a stick cave man style. Long / short, without the money, everyone is living in the stone-age or like an African in the bush. So there's that caveat...

[@InsertNamehere63]

I really love what you said at the end about engineers having the "engineering mindset". I have a degree in Mechatronics and are currently getting a degree in Aerospace engineering, and the one true red string through both of them is what was taught to me at the very beginning of my studies: engineers are problem solvers. We try to analyse, structure, divide, test, iterate and solve given problems for the benefit of everyone. In order to do so, there is no "best engineering discipline", every situation requires different sets of skills and knowledge, and also like you said, ingenuity. Interdisciplinary knowledge is a very great asset in that regard. I believe having the engineering mindset just means, that you are not afraid to approach problems in a systematic way and work towards a solution, which very often involves teaching yourself new skills.

[@lightninggaming864]

Let me tell you, you're cool, mechatronics AND aerospace, my dream really

[@InsertNamehere63]

​@@lightninggaming864 Thanks, this makes me feel better about all those allnighters ;)

[@triggerhappy124421]

one thing i have noticed about engineering is how multidisciplinary the whole field is. My personal interests lie in thermal properties and the movement of energy, so I'm a mechanical engineer and i specifically like refrigeration cycles (AC, HVAC, refrigeration). Within that field, we have mechanical engineers that work in several areas that cross over into other disciplines. we have controls engineers that tune our controlled devices to get the desired thermal properties, we have software engineers designing predictive software to determine system behavior, and we have materials experts that know the properties of refrigerants inside and out. All of these people are Mechanical engineers in this case, but do interdisciplinary work at the crossover between 2 disciplines. its fascinating. Also, I'm glad you said mechanical is about energy conversion. throughout my schooling, everyone, including other MEs, would think i was crazy for saying that because they only focused on solid mechanics and couldn't recognize that that, too, is a energy related process.

[@ccounts5737]

I'm also an M.E that works in HVAC (specifically heating using gas). I work with E.E and Chemical engineers. The debates between disciplines can be one of the best parts of working in this field.

[@masternobody1896]

stem enjoyer

[@kushalsapkota3818]

hey man i've just started mechanical engineering I'm in 1st year can you help me with some do's and dont's! please!

[@ccounts5737]

@@kushalsapkota3818 Do: Go to class and ask questions. Read ahead. Take clear and consistent notes. Be able to explain things in simple terms Work and rework homework problems Don't: Use chegg or similar homework solvers Skip class Get complacent or stagnant Put something off to last minute Panic

[@mkay__89]

@@kushalsapkota3818 do what the other guy said but also work on yourself. Hit the gym just twice a week and try to be as social as you can

[@kd7jhd]

These maps remind me there are experts in each of these fields who have forgotten more about the subject than I will ever hope to know. When I become tempted to reject the counsel of experts, I will remind myself that I can almost always trust the consensus [of] experts to help me choose a path for myself. Thank you for another awesome video.

[@KRYMauL]

Yep, even specializing in a field will allow you know and forget more than any lay persons.

[@laurenpinschannels]

well. you can never trust an expert completely; any expert who tells you otherwise is going to make mistakes and should be trusted even less. but yes, people who have studied things deeply should be trusted to usually be right about some subset of things they've studied.

[@JohnSmith-kc6ov]

another thing, it's not just the experts speaking for themselves, they're speaking for the thousands of years of human ingenuity that went into figuring out what we know. If you spent 10 minutes thinking and think you found something nobody has ever thought of before, you didn't.

[@kd7jhd]

@@JohnSmith-kc6ov I think you nailed it. We are all the beneficiaries of the collective effort from millions of hard working dedicated people. Today's experts truly stand on the shoulders of giants. Thank you for your comment.

[@UGPepe]

yes more conformity and less independent thinking

[@hammadshah8993]

I feel like a Map of Finance/Economics would make a great video too. Its a very vast subject and I would like to see the nitty-gritties of it.

[@human-qn7fp]

true!

[@Schmiddelwutz2000]

And then there are economic engineers (who, as we all know, are no real engineers)!

[@88HaZZarD88]

Yes

[@kifter9675]

there is market engineering and financial engineering

[@duckymomo6602]

​@@kifter9675 wtf that's not engineering

[@derdecouvreur772]

I'm studying mechatronics engineering, and when the part about mechanical engineering comes in, I started to cry because I noticed again why I was studying this major and why I wanted to be an engineer: I really wanted to help people with their lives and make life easier, more accessible, and more efficient for people around the globe. Build stuff to help us. I haven't decided which specification I want to specialize in yet, but in these hard times, I'm glad I chose this path. To all engineers and engineering students, I respect you in that way. Let's make our world, with the power of science, bright, shining, peaceful, and painless! Not only for money, we shouldn't be smart minds under the control of capitalism. Don't forget why you chose to be an engineer! Never, even in the darkest of times. love from a future engineer!

[@yashkant1117]

Hey, same boat as you!

[@antoniomonti4107]

@@yashkant1117 where do you guys study? I’m pretty interested in it, even tho i’m still undecided between a couple of choices😭

[@yashkant1117]

@@antoniomonti4107 I'm studying Mechatronics - Engineering at one of the colleges in my city.

[@antoniomonti4107]

@@yashkant1117 what state?

[@yashkant1117]

@@antoniomonti4107 I'm in Toronto, Ontario, and the program is available at Humber College

[@jexyl8071]

I greatly appreciate your efforts in making all these maps

[@domainofscience]

Hey, thanks so much :)

[@BenReillySpydr1962]

@@domainofscience Please never disappear like that again

[@12345shushi]

@@domainofscience Hello, could you do a map of Philosophy of Science? I'm currently majoring in Theoretical Physics and minoring in Philosophy of Science, and I would definitely find a map like that very helpful!

[@Teeh0]

Network Engineering?! Hey! That's me!! I suffer from imposter syndrome so being represented here is awesomely validating. Seeing all of the other fields represented here also helps bring into perspective how not-simple and not-obvious the problems in my field can be to solve. Very cool video! Love it as always!

[@abdullahalmasri612]

Network Engineering is so underrated imo, we like to bully them in my uni saying they aren't engineers haha, just some banter (or at least used to) more and more students started seeing how Network engineering is so good as a career so people started switching to it so it's nice to see it getting some recognition

[@jacquigreenland4768]

I've been a Network Engineer for over a quarter of a century, although I originally graduated as a biomedical engineer, and I'm also a Chartered Engineer. There should never be any imposter syndrome from being one. Provided, of course, you apply engineering principles and standards to your profession and don't become a pointy, clicky, next, next, done merchant!

[@Hephasto]

NE are cool, I have no idea how immense could be the architecting of networks

[@Xyrozen]

Telecommunication Engineering and Network Engineering always works together tho :D.

[@rockercas]

Sus

[@marcus.the.younger]

i am a computer engineering student and i used to complain about some of the subjects like applied mechanics and thermodynamics because at that time, i thought they were irrelevant to computer engineering degree but thanks to your video, now i understand that all the disciplines of engineering are related.

[@animenmusic16]

I used to do the same stuff but reverse 🤣. I am a mechanical engineer so I need applied mechanics (almost all mechanics) and was always angry about how it's fair that I have to learn programming languages like python and matlab

[@paulo.mendes]

please keep doing these, our world needs more understanding of science in all matters 👏

[@msquaredsciencehistory]

I read a great popsci book on engineering last year called Structures and was stoked at the chapter dedicated to the properties of textiles. I was working in heavy duty textile manufacturing at the time and had an "oh duh" moment when i realised that the author of the book was a naval engineer, and one of the biggest clients we had at the factory was the australian navy - another one of those interdisciplinary things that was so obvious in hindsight! A funny thing the book mentioned was that in the 1920s or so a huge breakthrough was made in sail efficiency (re-orienting the fabric's bias with regards to the mast) but that breakthrough came from a Madeleine Vionnet, a fashion designer who created the bias cut dress

[@dianeorehek4633]

How much do I love this fact and entire comment(!)

[@clingyking2774]

I love this channel. The roadmaps are great to provide a gist of an entire field. As an applied maths major, this is quite helpul when it comes to gaining insights about other domains.

[@powerkartoffel9406]

I would love to get a map of Aerospace Engineering!

[@alrenobenjamin6566]

or marine engineering

[@beinguniverse]

its good, but little complicated, i have did aerospace engg

[@hxdravfx]

same!!

[@wren_.]

I love aerospace engineering! rockets and outer space have been my thing since I was little, and I’m planning to work at NASA someday

[@csmash342]

I’m a welding engineer in the aerospace industry

[@animus_loci]

Great overview and content. The map itself is well organized, but we have to give props to the small illustrations. They are amazing... simple enough, clear, have nice composition and are definitely well researched!

[@The__Leo69]

Totally appreciate the efforts to compress engineering into 20 min or so and doing it so perfectly.

[@jon9103]

The one change I would make would be to move the power grid into electrical engineering, while it certainly does branch off into other domains of engineering at its core it is electrical engineering. In fact power is probably the oldest form of electrical engineering. Eventually electrical engineers figured out how to harness electricity to do other useful things but originally it was all about power distribution enabling the decoupling of power generation from power consumption.

[@garethfuller2700]

Honestly, I think a good argument could be had for splitting it between Nuclear Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering- all of them contribute to the field, though I can see your point about EE having a major share. I personally had some comments (ChemE relies upon process controls, BioMEMS is a thing, etc), but for a generalized map- It works fairly darn well. The intersections of disciplines between all the engineering fields make making a map rather difficult, due to the many threads woven together in various sub fields.

[@senorelroboto2]

As a nuclear engineer, I didn't like it being put up as a subcategory of Civil Engineering. It's certainly a bit about my pride about being different from everyone else, but we're also the only field that makes use of all four fundamental forces.

[@lejogador]

As a counterpoint, you can generate energy without ever converting it to electricity. You can have steam engines that transmit all of it's power to mechanical devices. Given how ubiquitous steam generators are to almost all energy generation and how they usually rely on transforming one type of energy into another, I believe it should be in the mechanical engineering section. Solar might be the exception.

[@eewweeppkk]

@@lejogador The point was about the power grid, which always uses a turbine to transform mechanical energy into electricity, minus solar, not energy generation in general. Steam generators are almost always used to turn mechanical into electrical, especially when talking about the power grid.

[@myideaproductions]

My son’s an electrical engineer and I understand his work a teeny bit better after watching this. I love these maps! They are cool to look at and the information is explained and described beautifully. Thank you!

[@lavanyaappala4474]

I have recently subscribed to your channel and I was amazed to watch such mind boggling videos.Thankyou you for giving us clear understanding of every popular field

[@lucadoge]

Just started computational engineering college a week ago; love this map!

[@benneth92]

This is absolutely amazing, I'm sure it took a lot of work and research. I do a lot of STEM discussions for students I will definitely reference this material. Thank you so much!

[@armanigenes]

Thanks for all the effort and research that went into this🎉👍🏿

[@anrmanufacturingltd4436]

What a great video to demonstrate the wide range of career paths a young engineer can take. As you might expect, the team here at ANR believes that being a precision engineer is a most exciting and rewarding career. For many years we have run regular apprenticeship programmes. These courses always reaffirm to us how young people appreciate the importance and scope of engineering across every field of industry, and in all walks of daily life. This video confirms our belief that engineering is a great career for anyone to start and there are many specialist areas for budding engineers to work in.

[@illogicalgates]

Awesome map/video and I can tell there is a ton of effort that went into this. Was waiting to hear embedded systems engineering mentioned as it’s the true bridge from electrical to computer, though it certainly can fall right under computer engineering and maybe was too specific of a field. Good video!

[@valejandro1771]

I appreciate you for doing this work of gathering information and expressing in such an eloquent way.

[@davidmizak4642]

You deliver excellent content to your audience. It's very interesting material. All of your effort put into creating this video is much appreciated. I'm truly grateful for your help!

[@passeoconhecimento6655]

This video is just incredible! I'm an electrical engineer and a particle physicist who works at CERN. I can say that most of the subjects you covered in this video are things we need to know to work there. :)

[@anka1042]

Did you graduated in both careers at the same time?

[@ethanfreeman9243]

Hey just curious, how long ago did you start at CERN and what is the pay like? considering a similar career

[@3bdo3id]

Have you found aliens yet?

[@lavieestlenfer]

Love your maps. I shed a tear when you specifically mentioned mining without mining engineering, though.

[@antonioscaramozzino5296]

Excellent video. I truly enjoyed you walking me through the vastness that is Engineering. It will certainly help future students (or interested parties) understand which space suits their preferences best while also realizing how important it is to recognize the interconnectedness of all these areas in the real world.

[@desrepeerc206]

Very grateful this channel exists. Excellent use of engineering knowledge for the content, and art knowledge for the visual.

[@Tiogar60]

As a first year electrical engineering student, this is very useful for choosing elective courses!

[@Tumladen_24]

I absolutely love the contents of this channel. Could you also make a map of life sciences or map of diseases? It would be incredibly valuable to see the big picture :) Cheers!

[@nara.sundara]

One of the best, most organized, informative channel there is It even helped on career vocation

[@pammitu]

This video was awesome I learned so much, I have gained a deeper understanding and appreciation for this field. I wish I had enough grit to enter world of engineering and to help build something awesome but it is what it is. Shout out to all the engineers making it happen!!

[@herearewe]

I am a Metallurgical and Materials engineer, we are kind of a bridge between physics and engineering where we try to develop the materials for the engineered goods and structures.

[@user-jc3yo3on2b]

Finally I have some peace of mind thought you were not going to upload any video but kept hoping you upload and finally ♥️

[@ssenyonjodavis2037]

Thank you for organising for me this disorganised world and making it sensible in a realistic way. This is a more practical way to why I studied cause I was always so confused in what I was studying

[@ferda7102]

very nice and clean presentation of such a complex concept, well done! also i'm a new graduate from materials engineering and i'm happy to see some appreciation all around the map. thank you

[@ryanhasangapon489]

Great video, i just started mechanical engineering, i hope i can work hard and achieve a positive impact for the world. Love from Indonesia

[@OptimisticFuturology]

Awesome! Computer engineering is the best...although I may be a bit biased.

[@banditapattanaik3179]

I see what you did there!

[@Its0kToBeWhite]

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[@pham3383]

Not as heavy as electrical engineering ,heaviest in university, higher pay than CS Most engineers can divert to computer engineering, since we need coding for EE too

[@DesignFIaw]

@@pham3383 that depends on the education you are getting. In my uni, we (CSE) had many of our classes together with EE. We were taught stuff like subtle physics and chip building (eg. how to manufacture and 'program' a CPU) from their curriculum, and they got programming, computer science from ours. Among with other stuff like systems theory etc. So electrical engineers could divert to computer engineering, yes, but only for superficial areas, but the same can be said for other (including CS) engineers. Also, for both, the more in-depth you go, the more unlikely it is that you can get away with the superficial knowledge - the things you *need* the degree for. I doubt a computer science engineer could make a reliable 5g radio antenna wihout deep diving into EE subjects, but it shows a shallow understanding of computer engineering to think that it can be easily grasped - I wager that an EE could not, without prior training, understand and apply the mathemathics used by databases and the underlying computational nuances in a real life use-case, and come up with a solution that is acceptable from an engineering perspective. I mean, you said that you could divert to computer engineering, because you needed to code for EE as well. Only 10-15% of my subjects needed coding in computer science engineering. What about the rest? It is now about how to program, it's about what to program. Also, there is a difference between computer science and computer science engineering - so to compare CS and EE is not exactly fair.

[@user-qr9qj8wd2f]

Thank you for putting so much effort into this 😮❤❤much love and appreciation.

[@adriananarvaezcote9194]

What a great video! A simple manner to explain all connections. Thank you!!

[@WingofTech]

This has got to be one of the best explorations of the surface layers of all these beautiful different fields of engineering. A unique display, thank you so much for your research!

[@tobias_dahlberg]

For those who didn't quite understand industrial engineering as it was only touched upon very briefly: Industrial engineering could be simply explained as more of a general engineering field focussed on the optimization of complex systems. How do we optimize flows in a factory? How do we prioritize? How do we create supply chains that are cost-effective, efficient and robust? Industrial engineering is huge and an integral part when it comes to producing and moving things and is basically the discipline that takes into account how we move information, goods, money, and other things through a system, physically and digitally. An example is the automotive production line. We're dealing with vast numbers and varieties of supplier parts coming in to one spot to be assembled. The factory needs to be set up in an optimized way, the internal logistics needs to function well to minimize down-time, and nowadays we are focusing more and more on external systems or entire supply chains and optimizing them. In industrial engineering we say that companies are no longer competing with other companies. Supply chains are competing with other supply chains. This is very complex and requires an engineer that is more of a generalist and has his or her hand in many cookie jars. Everything from economics and negotiations, to production engineering and supply chains.

[@bloomerboi21]

Society needs more people like you

[@DazePhase]

Thank you for your time and effort for creating this video. It gives a wide perspective of things.

[@Gabriel-th5wz]

A lot of insight i've earned by watching this video. This means a lot for me, and now, I'm proud for being a mechanical engineer. Thanks!!!

[@kindlin]

As a civil/structural engineer, I loved this video. And I have a huge passion for computers which leads into electrical, and tons of other fields, and you nailed everything here. Amazing vid!

[@olenb]

Are you still working towards becoming a licensed structural engineer, or are you already there? If you are, how was the SE exam, and how is structural engineering as a whole? I'm looking at structural as a possible focus, as I am now reaching the end of my sophomore year in my undergrad. I've always had an interest in it but I have heard some pretty concerning things about the difficulty of the field, and have not had the chance to talk to a lot of structural engineers about it.

[@kindlin]

@@olenb I love Structural Engineering. I got my PE almost 2 years ago, am signed up for the CA PE exams this autumn/winter, and may pursue my SE after that. Tho, to be honest, a PE does most the work unless you want to design skyscrapers, stadiums, hospitals, or big bridges/dams/etc. I do want to design some really cool stuff, but I also want to break into rockets somehow, so I'm seriously thinking about trying to get a job off in that field. I may even try and get an Aeronautics degree, which basically just sounds like a fun time lol. As for how hard the PE was, I passed it no problem first try, but my coworker had much more difficulty, never passing it after multiple tries. I can also tell from working with him that he had a limited internal, fundamental grasp of the material, and was more of a table puncher/equation muncher, and liked to let the software do the work. He could do the engineering job you asked him to do, carefully, but under exam conditions, with a question he didn't exactly study for, I totally understand why he would have trouble applying all his knowledge to a new scenario, he was used to that _other_ thing.

[@olenb]

@@kindlin An additional degree in aeronautics sounds like it would be beyond me and my motivation lol, so good on you for wanting to pursue that further. I think designing large scale bridges and dams would be fantastic but I doubt I’d be able to get into that kind of thing until later in my career anyway, so I suppose that SE test really isn’t anything I need to worry about anytime soon, at least not until I get my FE and PE done. I’ve heard bad things about the FE though, and I plan to take it next year so I’ll have to see how that goes. I’ll be working an internship this summer building a smaller bridge over a small river, so I’m gonna try and get as much info as I can about the design process for bridges, since that’s what I’d ideally want to be doing within structural in the future. Regarding your coworkers situation, I am sometimes worried I will be finding myself in a similar situation, because sometimes with some of these subjects and problems in class I can see where you would need to apply the concepts, I just don’t know where to start, and if I do it oftentimes isn’t the right way to go. I really hope I can get better at that as I go through more of my classes, since I know I need to GET this stuff, I can’t just pass and hope that it’s enough knowledge to get me by. Thanks for the reply! I figured it might have been a bit of a long-shot considering your original comment was over a year old, but I was just very curious and wanted to ask.

[@kindlin]

​@@olenb I can confirm this has gotten easier over time. I've had to completely change the way I look at problems, like realizing that literally everything matters, and you should think about each and every item and determined that even if that did fail, or not do what you thought it should, you would still be OK. If that is EVER not the case, a note must added, a comment must be raised, a question must be asked, to make sure that someone is thinking about this. I'm not sure if this really supposed to be our job or not, but in reality, we are the last line of defense against bad designs leaving your desk. Permit people can help with this, and your contractor and fabricator will often raise valid concerns, but it's always better to learn from those comments and improve your next design. Right now, we do large (and small) telecommunication installations (I've designed mounts for a small antenna on a roof, and I've done complex ginpole construction sequence analyses of 2,049-ft, 12-level guy towers), and you need to be quite sure you fully understand what you're asking each and every bolt and plate to do, or else something bad can happen. I've also worked on the analysis of failed towers that cost lives, so things, like the code level checks, and even other checks that may just occur to you, are all very important, and it's not just a job to go and do and be done with, it really is a career of serving the public's best interest, and trying to make every design safe, constructible, and as economical as possible. It's a fun job, really, but people can ask a lot of you, and sometimes you just have to say no and it messes a lot of stuff up, but you can't break physics, is what I always say. I think both the FE and PE went exactly as I expected. I was generally good with tests in school, and the FE was just an easier version of all the tests I had taken, where my school had something like a 94% first try pass rate on the FE for engineers (UW Seattle). The PE, I took a practice test, knew I had issues with hydro and soil as expected, and had some extra difficulty with traffic due to all of the half-remembered plethora of misc variables I was supposed to be able to solve for, but after reading a bit of my hydro, traffic and geos books from college (I read quite a bit of the geo book outright), I felt like I had a solid grasp of each topic. I retook my practice exam and did well, each question was asking things I now understood much better. The PE was just a natural extension of that. My secret weapon is breaking everything down to first principles. I can think more abstractly, sure, but at the end of the day, I try and break it all down to simple forces acting in simple ways, with bolts and plates and shapes all doing just what we expect of them. If it becomes too complicated to think about fully and break the problem down into discrete steps, you're probably approaching the whole thing the wrong way and should try a different route, maybe add a brace, or remove the eccentricity, etc. to simplify it into something that has less assumptions and variability.

[@robertfindley921]

Nice summary. So few people understand this. When I was a little boy, I wanted to be an engineer. But the kind that drives a train. I ended up an Electrical Engineer.

[@kassandrasaavedra6312]

I think this is a great map! I am currently a biomedical engineering student who switched into this major recently, and I’m honestly loving how practical and useful and interdisciplinary all of the engineering fields are. I definitely appreciate the depth of knowledge used for all of the products made from engineering.

[@benro2066]

Thank you so much for this video, its really helped me decifer what type of engineering I would like to study at University.❤Thanks man

[@andyk2181]

Great to see another map from you, and from Clifton too 😃

[@dominicmcg2368]

Love to see systems engineering represented, despite degrees in mechanical and aerospace I find myself working as a systems engineer now, so its nice to have some recognition :)

[@Quirktart]

I'm so happy you put audio, broadcast, and audio equipment engineering

[@Speed001]

Woooooo! It's up! Thanks for mentioning how everything is really interdisciplinary.

[@letanloc66]

Thanks for the video, this shows the big picture of engineering world. Myself humble to add HVAC and Fire engineering to Mechanical field, which myself is employed now. We design HVAC, Fire protection and Fire safety for buildings. I would love to explore another field in near future. To those who studying Mech Eng, keep going dont give up! its a very broad engineering degree which can unlock a lot of opportunities in different fields for you fellow in the future! Peace

[@saxhorn1508]

Glad you found a place for systems engineering. I was an SE for a long time in aerospace. SE can be found whenever the government (read DoD or NASA) wants a defense contractor to build something.

[@m.s.9744]

Thanks for tackling this complex topic

[@chriswixtrom6514]

This is one of the most interesting and well presented videos I've ever seen!

[@christophyt3445]

Great work! A few things I might still want to add: information theory as a foundation for electrical engineering, semiconductors (deserve a mention of their own, I believe), battery technology (bit hard to categorize, but very important for our modern tech world) and solar tech (other renewables are mentioned, could have put that next to power systems).

[@chaz720]

agreed... many sub-disciplines of electrical engineering delve very deeply into more raw physics and mathematics: information/detection theory, Galois fields and coding theory, random processes and the mathematics of noise, semiconductor physics, antenna analysis, etc.

[@franidk2014]

As an acoustical engineering student, I loved the spot you used the field. Electronic related courses, are predominant in my degree. I have a friend who studies electronic engineering and we found ourselves frequently surprised from the programs similarities (this is taken into account exceptions like acoustical measurements and instruments which are exclusive, and many others). Great video !

[@TheRationalPi]

Personally, I would have liked to see acoustics straddling the line between mechanical and electrical engineering, since sound waves are fundamentally mechanical waves. That said, it's an intensely multi-disciplinary field, and you can find applications of acoustics in so many different sections of this map! In my graduate studies, I mostly did underwater acoustics, but since going into industry I've done electronics (audio DSP) and control systems (noise cancellation). The people I went to school with work in civil engineering (road noise), architecture, military, aerospace, and more!

[@dianeorehek4633]

Exactly! Similarities, variations, as Bach instinctively knew

[@humayounkhan2532]

Very interesting video. I have never seen a video like this before. It explains the major roles of every engineering field in a simple manner. 👍🏻

[@ChemEICast]

Fascinating to see someone explaining with passion and has excellent delivering skills

[@roijacob2127]

Great content, maybe for a next map content you can make the map of statistics. Statistics is a fascinating field and it has its application in every industry.

[@pablanche]

As an optical engineer, you kept me waiting up to the very end :)

[@furymern8162]

What degree did you study?

[@Haxxx]

I feel at home here mapping everything 😁🤣 Love your content very clear and organized I just got overwhelmed by the complexity behind building a skyscraper 🤯

[@bhargavs2813]

Wow blown my mind the way all are connected and no words the way you explained and keep connected..brilliant🙌🙌🙌🙌🤗🤗 The background and colour you use is just piece of marvelous art which itself guides as how much connected on field is with another.

[@Cristi-zt7to]

Excellent map!A map of electronics and communications engineering would be great!

[@keyreeves4631]

The electrical engineering topic misses one very important topic: Antennas and electromagnetic radiation. Also if you mention auto equipment, you also have to talk about imaging tools and displays

[@ntindle]

RF Engineering

[@abdullahalmasri612]

also putting power on the civil said in weird. i would 100% put it on the electrical side

[@Xyrozen]

its already included in Telecommunication Engineering.

[@shizuchuan]

@@abdullahalmasri612 not really... Mechanical job is to produce electricity. While, Electrical were the one who distributes it. Don't know why he put it mainly in Civil though.

[@abdullahalmasri612]

@@shizuchuan just put it in between them Also what's the discipline or sub-enginnering that deals with power from the mechanical side? Like how there's a whole program called power engineering that belongs to electrical engineering.

[@johnpryke8249]

been watching your videos since lockdown woah have you helped me and motivated me towrads science. im quite young so i havent done any education on advanced physics or science in general at school therefore its hard to get the right info and also find enjoying videos. thank you so much for everything and keep up making new videos because i cant wait.😁😀

[@DhritiSoni1703.5]

I don't know how do you do it! Just such a huge task but you've somehow found a way to represent such huge information in an easy to understand manner! Thank you it always proves helpful! ❤

[@JaySmith91]

My background is in Mechanical Engineering. Though with this, I have been a design engineer for military spy planes and commercial jet engines. I have designed and built water filtration and microhydroelectric power in Africa. I was offered a contract as a nuclear propulsion engineer on submarines. Now for several years I have operated in mechanical and systems engineering within the field of space lasercom, or laser communication, which is an intersection between telecommunications and photonics/optics - which the industry calls Free Space Optical Communication (FSO). Each lasercom terminal (on a vehicle, a ground station, or a satellite in space) relies upon teams of software engineers, electronics, mechanics, optics, controls and simulation engineers to develop it, plus it relies on specialists in materials, processes, manufacturing, quality, and systems engineering. The domain of engineering which one is exposed to is fantastically broad, even for a single engineer!

[@maalikserebryakov]

I have a Question When engineers come up with concept designs for a product Is there a method they follow to calculate the dimensions of each part of their design? For example how did you determine the dimensions of the parts of your spy planes?

[@JaySmith91]

@@maalikserebryakov Yes, dimensions are driven by the function it needs to do, plus accounting for all the constraints on its design and manufacture. For complex things you start from the laws of physics (such as mechanics or aerodynamics), which you see late in highschool and in early college. From that you might develop the concepts with simple approximations (e.g. an approximation for the required swept area of the wings, or the required thrust for the engines). The next step might be a 2D or a 3D simplified model of your system of interest, usually with aid of computer programs which other engineers and coders developed. For example jet engine design starts with a 2D model, a cross-section of the engine for thermodynamic and aerodynamic and thermomechanical analysis. Later you account for all the constraints and trade-offs with other systems, with budgets for things like mass, cost, volume, power and fuel consumption, design parts in CAD or CFD (fluids) software, and simulate those parts in different ways to optimize them, up to the point that it's manufactured.

[@ravi.tiwari.]

@@maalikserebryakov dimensions are determined by the usage of the product & the environment they are to be used on.

[@maalikserebryakov]

@@JaySmith91 i see, thank you for the response Have u ever tried formulating an optimization programme to solve for your concept design’s dimensions? ( i think You would express geometric, resource, structural and functional constraints, in terms of your design’s unknown dimensions and make one of them the objective function and then let the computer numerically solve it if a solution exists)

[@JaySmith91]

@@maalikserebryakov Programs already exist. Excel is good enough for most problems. For difficult constraints, where it's an option you could look into generative design and additive manufacturing.

[@radiaiffath9937]

So grateful to find your channel! Such an extraordinary work! It's the materials behind everything, the truest thing to be said. That makes me study material science more even from an agricultural background. Also one of the fact that brings me closer to God, when I think that from where all of these would be built if Allah didn't put these materials out there for us to explore! Thanks for the amazing work!

[@HaleyHenrickson]

This is an amazing video to give those great overview of all the engineering fields. I am teaching drafting to young minds (middle schoolers) and will be showing your video to them as a way to introduce all of these fields to them. And where appropriate, how drafting correlates. Thanks so much for making this so easy to understand and follow. My hope is that by seeing this, these young minds might begin to think about their futures in one of these areas. Bravo!!!

[@theskylighter2708]

Such beautiful and articulate representation of engineering😍🙌. Great video! (Thanks you might have actually helped me pick a right course for my career😇)

[@cesttrey4182]

As you continue to make more and more maps, these maps could possibly be intros to playlists that dive deeper into each subject. Now that i have this map overview, I want to see examples, neat things, notable steps in subject progress.

[@Diaming787]

I like how the closer you are end to the video, the more physics it can get. Photonics is basically physics at this point.

[@redcoffeemaker2142]

it’s all physics, always has been

[@MetaLove0000]

@@redcoffeemaker2142💯

[@tumipitsie7449]

Hi, thank you for the video. It is one of the best videos to introduce the subject of engineering to anyone. 👌! AMAZING 👏

[@ethancai681]

This video make me recognize engineering is a big words including many domains. Thanks.

[@peripheraleng5376]

It's funny how you can start in one field and end up somewhere completely else on this map. I feel like I've gone all over the place. Started with a bachelor in mechanical engineering, took a masters in fluid mechanics (here part of marine engineering). Took a job as an aerodynamicist (here part of aerospace engineering). Now at that job, I'm the only one who happened to take a python course in uni so I'm mostly doing software engineering (part of computer engineering).

[@josiah42]

I think it'd be interesting to put date stamps on each of these and make a heat map of when each area of engineering really came into its own. It struck me that most of these fields are less than a hundred years old. A decent number are less than 50 years old.

[@henkvanderwath4405]

This is incredible! I wish there was a test one can take to align with the best team fit and one's natural interests.

[@jaybutler9673]

For the disciplines involved in buildings you forgot about Acoustic Engineering. They work with the mech engineers and architects to design the Façade and floors to mitigate the transfer of vibration and sound. They are also involved in internal wall construction and glazing design for noise ingress and acoustic privacy.

[@N0Xa880iUL]

So useful and interesting thanks!

[@KakoriGames]

Great video, just want to add a few extra bits. It's very hard to really group all the different applications of engineering into tight little boxes, because of how much shared knowledge each discipline has, how vast each discipline is and how multidisciplinary real world applications are. I've heard that the 4 main branches of Engineering is Civil, Mechanical, Electric and Chemical, with all other engineering disciplines being somehow a branch of one or more of those, but that's really up to debate. Also, there's often way more engineering disciplines in college to choose from. Things like Food Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Automation Engineering, Environment Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, among many other areas that would usually be considered a sub-branch of another engineering often have full-fledged degrees or majors in many universities. And even then, the applications of each discipline are so vast that you can never learn everything there is to learn. Hopefully, if you go to a good university, you'll get to choose between a bunch of electives that will steer you in the direction you want to go. For instance, if you like the idea of designing structures so that they withstand loads and stresses without collapsing, you can do a major in Structural Engineering, but that's not available in every university, so you may choose to do either Civil or Mechanical Engineering depending on which type of structure you prefer to deal with and take the electives that correspond to Structural Engineering. Also, it's not uncommon to take classes in other fields. If you're into designing power plants, for instance, you might take a major in Electrical Engineering, but take some extra classes in Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering, since both of those disciplines are relevant to the design of power plants as well. Finally, you can even have interdisciplinary projects with non-engineering fields, like Computer Science, Design, Architecture, Surveying Technicians, Geologists, among others. What I like to say as a tip to anyone thinking about Engineering is to try to visualize where or with what you want to work after you graduate. Then, look at all the engineering fields that have something to do with that. Don't look only at their names, but also at their descriptions, curriculum and specially the electives they offer. Also, ask some former students if you can. Then, choose the major that fits best with your goals and interests.

[@JaySmith91]

You'll need more than those 4 branches - for example, it would leave out the software/firmware, controls and simulation engineers, or the systems engineers. Then Electrical doesn't include electronic (related to printed circuit board design and computer science) whereas Electrical is more concerned with moving power. I think universities need broad categories because they don't have the breadth to cover every single topic in one university. And so you usually get majors and minors, or elective subjects. You're right though, that you can usually pick and choose classes to aim you in the right direction, without getting too hung up on the name.

[@Lilz853]

I am now a year 1 student in University and I’m planning to take mechanical engineering as my major. What other engineering electives should I choose if I want to have a better understanding on building aircraft and spaceship? (That’s what I want to do in future.)

[@KakoriGames]

@@Lilz853 Well, that's not really my area, you're probably better off asking a professor, but probably fluid dynamics or aerodynamics would be a safe place to start with, thermodynamics as well, probably some electronics, materials science, radar systems, combustion engines, mechanical vibrations, are some things that come to mind as well. Some of those you might even have in your regular curriculum, but it may be worth to take an look at the ones you don't. You can also look at the curriculum of Aerospace Engineering degrees for some guidance.

[@Lilz853]

@@KakoriGames thanks so much for the advices!

[@parameshnat]

​​@@Lilz853 systems engineering is probably what you're after for how to design complicated aircraft and spacecraft. Things like the F35 have had massive breakthroughs in multiple disciplines (not just aeronautics/aerospace), but its success truly belongs with the systems engineers (speaking as a mechanical engineer myself...)

[@UAND154]

That is why we have a huge debt of gratitude to the great Seniors of Engineering people in the world community. Thanks for the extent and importance of the overview.

[@avesta5390]

That was a really satisfying 22 minutes!! Thanks for all this :)

[@lanceward7048]

As an engineering student, my impression of aerospace engineering has so far largely been government contracted defense systems, aside from passenger airplanes... and I had a chuckle when you said "now onto the more positive uses of mechanical engineering!" as you were seemingly moving away from the subject of weapons, and onto aerospace engineering, because my reaction was "what, MISSILES NOW?" XD Thanks for this incredibly detailed visual representation of 'the products of ingenuity'

[@Alkis05]

There are other aplications of aerospace engineering, since they specialize in how moving air interacts with structures. For example, some of my aerospace engineer collegues at uni went on to work designing wind turbines. Another is working in the auto industry. Also, there is a burgeoning agricultural drone industry in my country. Outside the US, there isn't such a bloated defense industry. Most engineering applications are civil.

[@mrseanpaul81]

I love this!!! You should do one for broad field like medicine.

[@lukeerlewein7473]

As a computer engineer I love the way you described both electrical software and computer engineering.

[@kevinraiyandi]

I'm a geodetic engineering student, but I didn't see my field explained on that map. the thing that has an intersection with my field is surveying. but as far as I know, geodetic engineering is more than just surveying and mapping the features of the earth. it integrates with some other engineering fields like civil engineering (of course), environmental engineering, geography, information system, and even aerospace engineering. well there are so many engineering fields that can be explored along with the development of times. i like the presentation and greatly appreciate your map and explanations. keep up the good works!

[@Chewychaca]

Chemical engineers largely do Semiconductor process engineering. Manufacturing Engineering and Industrial Engineering are also missing and these are huge. A lesser known one is Packaging engineering which might go in mechanical or in between mechanical and industrial/Manufacturing if you choose to include them. Didn't know about Marine Engineering, which peaked my interest.

[@Chewychaca]

I don't mean that chemical engineers are mostly process engineers, just that it's big for that group. I just learned about research engineering as well.

[@Alkis05]

Manufacturing engineering is on the map, you just missed it.

[@Chewychaca]

@@Alkis05 Thanks, Industrial too

[@InfinityRockstar]

As a mechanical engineer i confirm that, he covered pretty much everything, hats off to you

[@aswinp2135]

Wow this is so interesting to watch, I'm an engineering student and proud of it

[@ThyLegend27]

THANK YOU FOR THIS IT REALLY HELPS ME SEE MY ROLE AS A MECHANICAL ENGINEER IN THE LARGER PICTURE!!!