What I Loved and What I Hated About Engineering

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Everyone is going to enjoy certain parts of their major, but not enjoy others. This video goes over just a few of the things I really liked when it came to be an engineer in college, and some things I wasn't really a fan of. There is more I could add to each list but this should give you an idea of how I viewed my experience in college as an engineer.
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[@MrSaemichlaus]

Circuit: *doesn't work* Engineer: But why? _2 hours later_ Circuit: *works* Engineer: But why?

[@sadib3215]

😂😂😂

[@thebleugaming9444]

It's so ridiculous looking for something for 2 to 3 hours and you suddenly realize that it's because I have one wrong letter in my code

[@zw9423]

Quit spying on my life

[@Jousef9]

student: *asks for help* Professor: *disconnect things and reconnect it exactly the same* Circuit:*works* Bruh

[@michaelrichards5725]

Feature.

[@BB-bc1xv]

The worst feeling is when you start taking higher level courses and can’t find any relevant material online

[@slavsquatsuperstar]

“It appears you are the first one to ask this question on StackOverflow” T_T

[@AlexSKelly-up7lf]

@@slavsquatsuperstar This gives me fear for something I never thought you could be afraid of

[@MexicanSpinach]

Lol @Mech. Considerations of Robotics, almost no information online, and little information in her notes, too

[@ryanbreighner7408]

Bro literally, made me really start paying attention in class bc I couldn’t just look up homework answers🤣

[@chancellorpalpatine7486]

I got this when I took an advanced evolutionary biology class. Only place I could find go was class materials, to the professor, or to the textbook the professor wrote. One thing as was confused about was the evolutionary sequencing of group I, II, and III introns, and I couldn't not find anything relevant from online

[@aaroncutting]

*circuit doesn't work* Engineer: *takes it apart and puts it back together the same way* Circuit: *works*

[@Kirillissimus]

With the "solution" for contact jitter the guy have proposed that is exactly what is going to happen. You build the thing and it works. Then you go away and after a few weeks they call you and tell that the buttons don't work anymore. You go back, wiggle stuff a bit and then it works again. The next day the same thing apears so you replace the buttons and after an other couple of weeks the problem repeats. So next time you remove your cheap-ass chineesium buttons and put in nice german ones but the only thing that changes is the good buttons take a couple of months to die. Then you become desperate and try to show your design to some more experienced engineer. The guy looks at your schematics and asks about who was the imbecile who designed it for you because everything there is completely wrong and destined to bring constant pain in the butt to everyone who is going to deal with the device. Then he calms down a bit and tells you that the capacitors are actually the culprits of the problem because they store enough charge for repetitive arcing in the switches to fry and oxidize the contacts until they no longer make any contact. So you either use one of special simple circuits to deal with the well known for decades problem or just filter it out in software. So yes, seemingly magical things happen sometimes, but magic never spears to actually be real and generally the shadier the problem is the more dumb and simple is the explaination. I would even presume that the more you have screwed up before the better you are as an engineer. So let us wish for the engineering students to have as many issues with their projects as they can handle.

[@crazyphil7782]

I’m an EE in power electronics, we have an internal joke : if a power converter doesn’t function, blame the common mode

[@BootesVoidPointer]

This is the case with programming too.

[@Cris-qn2ii]

@@Kirillissimus well said, you can only learn the little tricks and traps in life if you fail first

[@Lomokkoe]

Had a lab where we had to put together an alarm system on a breadboard. My group literally had everything done withing the first hour of 3. For some reason it didnt work despite being checked multiple times, even by a TA. Ended up leaving lab as the last group because a chip was faulty

[@silverdoesmc891]

Me, a music major: *Yes, I will watch this.*

[@greenlampshade8909]

Wonder how many here know the difficulty of music degree, insanity of advanced music degree. Good luck!

[@ifusubtomepewdiepiewillgiv1569]

green lampshade music is too ez

[@cheenieamoin1809]

Omg 👀 this is me

[@Bruno_Noobador]

"Music Major" I see a lot of puns there

[@connor863]

How's it going during the COVID-19 pandemic?

[@AM-dd6dx]

Zach: dislikes how long it took to finally feel like a real engineer pre-med students: *heh*

[@hansangb]

There is no such thing as Pre-med degree It's just a feel-good saying for a whole lot of wanna-be's that may never-be's. Now if you had said "med students" or "residents" then I'd agree with you 100%.

[@chakdeuk]

@reshi p you could follow in the footsteps of Richard Yu tho

[@alecthomas7408]

@@hansangb the classes you need to take for a pre-req for med school are exceptionally difficult. Especially since you need to maintain around a 3.7 GPA to even be competitive in most schools, I’m finishing up my 4th year at about a 3.77 GPA and I had to make 8 sacrifices to satan along the way😂

[@hansangb]

@@alecthomas7408 The point I'm making is that there are no special "pre-med" biochem or Ogranics. They are all the same undergrad classes. The *MAINTAINING* a high GPA is hard to do. 100% agree there. But again, it's no different than anyone else wanting to maintain a high GPA. But bar none, once in medical school, I can't think of any other profession that is more arduous. Law School is a joke compared to medical school+Intern+Residency (and likely + fellowship) requirements. Mad respects to anyone taking on such a hard life of prolonged studies!!

[@simong1666]

Classic pre-med talk. I remember taking a couple of biology classes and there we're these annoying students in the front asking questions that they knew the answers to in order to try and get the prof's attention. They would tell everyone that they were pre-med. Turns out the university didn't have a pre-med program and they were just studying Biology degrees under the wrongful assumption that that was the most pre-med path to take. It's a good thing that they put some strong filters on the medical schools. That's the real pre-med... studying medicine and not a 2nd year biology course on cell microbiology.

[@badboy-ez7le]

I feel that lab reports are long and tedious because professors are preparing students for a very specific career path which they know best: how to do research (and how to publish papers). Many professors actually never worked before in the "real-world", hence the disconnect between engineering curriculum and the skills needed for 90% of engineering jobs.

[@zachstar]

Absolutely true.

[@jnor2258]

students can just try to do internships

[@MarkMcDaniel]

That is the problem, instructors who've only taught in life.

[@TheMrgoodmanners]

This is it

[@inorite4553]

Thats a massive issue with how all collegiate programs are comprised

[@kushagrabainsla1641]

You were so happy talking about your project😂

[@nadirkhan8123]

kushagra bainsla so is everyone else about their hand made equipments

[@vernoneatwell5449]

@@nadirkhan8123 very true

[@haleyvargas7576]

things i didnt like: 1: Too much work things i did like: 1: learning the theory

[@TechKidShazil]

seems like this woukd be my future

[@theLUCKYdude17]

But then learning the theories you like requires the hell loads of work. *cough * cough discrete mathematics

[@rewrose2838]

Too many stupid subjects

[@win7dot]

😂😂😂

[@ayanaxhye]

@@theLUCKYdude17 😨

[@thomasmorrison3279]

I studied Mechanical engineering. Stress was extreme and the number of very smart students did not help the stress level. Overall worth it to get the degree, but I had almost no fun in college. I had 3 job offers before graduation, so it was worth it to get the degree. I took a 2 credit programming course that required about 25 hours per week of work and study, which was ridiculous. The labs were no joke either. We had physics labs, chemistry labs, mechanical engineering labs and circuits labs. I understand your comment about things not working. I once had a project involving a pump. I turned on the pump and no fluid flowed. I later found out that you have to prime the pump first by filling it with liquid. The circuits I build in the lab rarely worked the first time.

[@sqrt-1equalsneonrubindium284]

"things in the real world aren't perfect". We literally were told to leave our faulty electric equipment distributed through the drawers as a life lesson for the next class of engineers. Have fun guys!

[@fallendown8828]

This is pure evil

[@nnje3371]

That lab report one is too true..

[@licensedblockhead]

I just graduated as an EE and got a job working with military helicopters

[@tyler7992]

Yee Haw Congratulations!

[@aldotheapache6496]

no you didnt

[@licensedblockhead]

amjad af lol ok

[@aldotheapache6496]

Yee Haw just fucking wit you congrats

[@yvngdon1652]

Congrats pal

[@user-cw9lf3gl6x]

20 pages lab report Me: *cries in 100 pages handwritten lab report*

[@urmemlel8721]

Damn bro.

[@imhulki463]

Wtf

[@kasym]

Where do you go to school? Hell?

[@andrescanales4562]

@@kasym and in fuckin 1930

[@hians8734]

same here bro... i feel you

[@MalamIbnMalam]

Definitely one of the best channels on KZbin.

[@rossporteous4944]

As someone going into engineering. I was pretty scared to watch this video but the negatives don't even seem bad at all compared to the positives.

[@integraxnine745]

He summed up your future 4 years. At first, you will have no idea what you're doing and things will be clearer and sometimes darker with every step you take. I'm an EE in my 4th year and i can assure you two things: stress is real and lab reports are your worst everlasting nightmare. There will be times when you study 24/7 and it's no enough. There will be times when you study the subject over and over and you will get a nice, rounded zero. With that being said, don't worry about grades and try to understand things and not just do math. Engineering is bittersweet. Good luck!

[@abhijitmajee6754]

The most important advice I can give as a 2020 EE passout is that give most of your time to do practical projects. Making them with your own hands will give you a kind of understanding and satisfaction that no lecture can. You would learn about such trivial but important stuff that would never be taught in any class. Start with smaller ones and grow your ambitions towards complex ones. And lastly, learn how to build a team. With a good team, you will learn exponentially. All the best!

[@rossporteous4944]

In my first semester now. Can confirm lab reports are not fun.

[@audrothewise340]

@@rossporteous4944 me too shits tough lmao

[@JV3Player]

Also, don't waste with extraciricculars, maintain a few side hobbies and friends, maybe relationship... Accomplishing engineering with a 3.0-4.0 is excellent. I joined the "Honors College" and realized what a huge waste of time it was after my first year... The only extraciricculars you need is an Internship, and maybe a minor.

[@hansangb]

@3:20 I'll never forget what a Lockheed visiting professor said to us on her first day: you won't really use everything you learn in this class or any other class. But you are a toolbox. Your job is to learn how to use those individual tools. That's what university classes are for. When you get your first job, they will teach you how it all comes together. So if you feel like you're not really learning, don't worry. That's almost verbatim. I never forgot that and it took a lot of the "am I ever going to use this again? angst away" Great channel!

[@TheFootballPlaya]

6:30-6:53 That's what intrigues me about engineering & math. It's oddly satisfying to be able to see end to end and the relationships between physical phenomena and numerical relations.

[@samsmusichub]

Your number 3 is SO RELATABLE. I didn't feel like an engineer throughout my whole education because of my "measly" 3.35 GPA and my friends always reminding me of how "easy" everything was. I had a few close friends that were real and weren't like this but for the most part there's a lot of ego in engineering. Now that I've landed a full time position with Boeing I'm beginning to see myself as a real engineer and it feels amazing.

[@ligtnin1]

your point with feeling like an engineer really makes me appreciate how my university does it, on our second semester we have to do a full semester long project (along with other classes) for a company, so we have to find a company with a problem, discuss it with them and figure out a solution ll on our own (with light guidence from a teacher) which makes you feel like an engineer. And by having it so early you really get a feeling for how basic material science, statics, and math, can bring you a long way. By the way I am a mechanical engineering student so can't speak for electrical or civil (the building one, we call it construction or construction design engineer)

[@louisuchihatm2556]

I wish we did that in our University. Am in 3rd year and I feel completely useless as a Mech Eng student

[@ligtnin1]

I think it really comes down to how the university handles the engineering department (and the others too) mine has a really tight relationship with most industrial companies in the area and keep contact on what they expect us to know and with internships etc. so we are always taught what is needed and not anything else. This has also caused us to loose out on some theory so we could get more practical experience

[@alisw81]

@@ligtnin1 "This has also caused us to loose out on some theory so we could get more practical experience" I'd consider that a downside. Hopefully not much theory is lost since that's the foundation for anything practical.

[@ligtnin1]

@@alisw81 no I was thinking more in the style of mathematical proves

[@alisw81]

@@ligtnin1 Ahh I see. Thanks for the clarification.

[@bitsbytes123]

2:07 “Required searching for every single symbol or operation individually” Guess someone forgot about latex

[@Quotenbrtchen]

You are not taught LaTeX by default (at least in my program), so you'd have to learn it for yourself. But you're right, it would make wirting lab reports with lots of formulas and hand calculations a lot easier

[@gordontang7837]

@@Quotenbrtchen wouldn't google's equation bar be super helpful as well? (I don't take Engineering so idk)

[@danielrowson3379]

The equation editor in word really isn’t that bad. I wrote my whole engineering PhD thesis in word and it was totally fine.

[@frogstereighteeng5499]

@@danielrowson3379 word is apt to change with every update though. I like LaTex because it's robust; it's made for that sort of thing

[@williamkoller9873]

LHCFan, true but I wish they did teach it. Not an engineer, but got my undergrad in physics, and was one class shy of an EE minor, and chem minor. (I’m rather indecisive lol). But never learned latex and did a lot of very equation heavy labs in Word for physics, EE, and chem classes. Now in a grad math program and everything is done in latex. Man I wish I learned latex sooner lol

[@2009Xavo]

Dude I am a third year engineering student.. I am scared by how much I agree with what you said, or have felt exactly the same.... I mean, word by word, every point, it's incredible. I have a smile on my face right now, seeing how someone had such an experience like me. Of course I'm not finished yet, but I'm really looking forward to it. Working as an engineer really makes me happy at the end of the day

[@obi-wankenobi1750]

I feel that. My parents didn’t give a crap about what I did with my life, and I can make money in easier ways, but here I am in my first year of EE. I took all the electrical classes at my high school, and was originally going to just be an electrician, but at the last second I changed my mind and decided to go to get an EE degree. I felt like it would be a waste of my potential if I didn’t at least try to go the hard route, and I knew that I would never forgive myself if I didn’t try.

[@kevenjimenez4354]

I am in the same boat. I was thinking about becoming an electrician but now I think I want to go the EET route. Good luck and best wishes!

[@yehah]

Well done man, glad you’re enjoying what you love. I know a few people who got an internship whilst completing their EE degree and they also go to a technical college to get their trade as an electrician, so they got the best of both worlds 👍🏿

[@BatterflyHigh]

This just convinced me that I wished I'd studied engineering haha. As much as I loved being a math major, all of this sounds so fun and useful

[@JohnSmith-fs8bu]

It’s not

[@youlostabetwithsatanandnow8592]

@@JohnSmith-fs8bu cope.

[@alexlanyi2329]

Which major would you be interested in?

[@someguyontheinternet4277]

Did u get into grad school

[@gabrielmesaric253]

after high school I went straight to work since the passion of learning still did not hit me. Now after 1 year of working as a security tehnician and working with proper EE's the projects you showed in the video seem like a piece of cake. I do have some friends that went to university right after high school and they do show me what they do there and I can handle most of it with no problem, which is why I will start studying electrical engineering this year and I look forward to learning some theory. Every project I do at work daily makes me want to know more and more about it and it always leads down to strings that connect perfectly with the subject that the univerity has for EE's. Cant wait to get stuck in...as we say in the cycling world.

[@UliSwag]

Do a video on how to ace engineering interviews

[@trevorwilson5457]

I also still have my first "Engineering" project. I was studying computer science in college, and I absolutely hated it so I dropped out of the program and took a couple engineering classes for fun. One was a 3D modelling course (Inventor, AutoCAD) and the other was a prototyping course. In the prototyping course we designed and manufactured our own planetary gear set. I fell in love with engineering in that class, and now I'm a 3rd year mechanical student at a different university!

[@sevenaries]

Trying to figure out my life at night is a mood

[@abih9134]

I'm going into my Junior year as an engineering student and was getting pretty nervous about it. This video reminded me why I loved it enough to pursue it, and that it's not impossible. Happy to know it gets better towards the end. Thank you for sharing, this really helped me out :)

[@MarkNealJr]

I'm an EE undergraduate student and can relate to many of the things you are saying. The not feeling like you could be of any use to a company really hit me.

[@ZÏ̇̃]

This was cool. Your personality is good as a youtuber even when not doing sketches

[@andresgalindo9588]

Glad to hear directly from an EE. I can definitely relate to what you said about the lab courses. Also, that damn oscilloscope never gives me the right output smh .

[@shifty25_]

I didn’t mind lab report personally, even though sometimes they’re upwards of 10-15, sometimes even 20 pages I found them deeply satisfying. What pisses me off the most is all of these modeling programs we learn, and just dealing with so much software all of the time, different ones for FEA, solid modeling, PLC, CAM

[@obi-wankenobi1750]

That was my only hesitation with going into engineering.

[@ismailb4334]

Things I did not like: 1- Lack of girls 2- See number 1 Jk lol nice video

[@AbiRizky]

Somebody somewhere eh, it depends on your university i guess. Where I'm from, there's a lot of hot girls, just not in my major. Fucking mechanical engineering.

[@ismailb4334]

Abi Rizky Well yeah I'm talking about my major too. The university is full of hot girls but once I go to my Electrical Engineering class, I feel depressed. It's as dry as The Great Sahara Desert.

[@hanalee894]

:D

[@ismailb4334]

Hana Lee I was just joking don't take offense :')

[@hanalee894]

not offended! i wish more girls went into engineering too, it's a shame because i love my course :)

[@cpt.greenybrown2031]

Thanks for the advice I will never give up on my dream.....thaaankkkkk uuu

[@Switcheroo10]

Hey there, i have been following you channel for a while. I am portuguese, and i am currently studying Aerospace Engineering here in Europe, in Lisbon. I am in my first year in my second semester. I am loving it. Your videos are very well made, congrats. :)

[@carbon273]

The page breaks in your lab report triggers me 😂

[@zachstar]

haha that's cause I imported it from a word file to google docs and really didn't feel like making any changes.

[@kiomi101]

I am considering going into Mechanical Engineering. Your videos have helped me a lot with considering going into this field. Thanks!

[@GabrielWehrle]

Just about to start my second semester of my sophomore year in computer engineering, and this video was very encouraging! Seeing how excited you were talking about the projects you did and how you saw a connection between theory you learned and the real world (like with the AM radio example) makes me excited as well for the coming semester!

[@thewizard555]

bro now youre graduate

[@GabrielWehrle]

@@thewizard555 😂 Haha, I am!

[@leemand7529]

I love how relatable all these videos are as an engineering student :) And it's really nice hearing all of the positive things you have to say for engineering!! thanks for sharing zach!!

[@elinfelicia382]

The thing with engineering courses is that they're actually pretty easy but they're super-condensed, making it really stressful. Especially since most content is just repetition with a different method of thinking and most of my time was wasted to debug a project. I especially struggle with these condensed units because I tend to procrastinate like what I'm doing right by watching this video.

[@thatoneuser8600]

Do you use spaced repetition and active recall? Ideally, taking notes should be a waste of time if you use Anki instead, especially since interleaved practice is much better than block practice. Also, learning LaTeX might help with writing lab reports faster

[@elinfelicia382]

@@thatoneuser8600 As I’ve said it’s not the memorising that’s difficult for me as programming is mostly about problem solving. Basically like maths. They give you a formula and you need to apply it to a question to get a solution.

[@hassanabdur-rahman1559]

Zach, I really appreciate your videos. I commend you for giving what you like and dislike about engineering without tearing down the discipline. I also commend you for studying engineering for the love of learning as opposed to the desire to make a lot of money. Although corporations stifle most careers, engineering by nature is a profession that serves humanity. That should be the motive of whatever we is help make life better for humanity as well as the planet as a whole.

[@awesomefacepalm]

I like how your videos suddely appeared om my recommended feed after I applied for electrical engineering att uni

[@talesoftheinlandseas5063]

ok some of this makes me feel relieved. Especially the lab report part. I go to a STEM high school where everything he describes as being necessary for lab reports is required when we do our own lab reports for our research projects. It's tough, but I feel glad I will be prepared.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

I am as far from an engineering person as possible, and yet, I enjoy your content, lol.

[@wh5080]

Great vid majorprep glad to see the both sides of a persons oppinion. Keep up the great work

[@Frostasy]

Going into my second year as an EE major. Your videos have definitely solidify my decision to pursue this area of study. After my undergrad, I anticipate pursuing graduate studies in AE as well. Thank you for all of the content that you post!

[@noblesirtancelot]

What I liked: maths, maths, thermo and fluids 💕 What i hated: never understanding circuit analysis and how circuits work, not understanding how breadboards work bc the phd student helping us told us off for not knowing how to use breadboards, bad mechatronics professors so never understanding any of electronics, control theory and etc. AND STRUCTURAL/STATIC MECHANICS

[@picachuisnotcuteamvs5866]

this video has made me even more certain that i want to pursue a career in engineering, thanks!

[@thepro8447]

Continue those videos please!Love you from Turkey❤

[@Jeon1958able]

I can't agree more with what you said. Especially the lab part. Lab should be at least 3 credits. I hated lab because I was losing time to study other subjects, so I skipped all the lab and took all of them in one semester near the end of my undergraduate years. I slept 2~3 hours per day taking 5 labs at once. Still it was worth it.

[@tylerbrown3135]

It doesn't really matter as to how many credit hours a lab is because you would still be required to take them. They could all be labeled as 100 credit hour courses and the program would simply bump up the number of required credits to graduate. The advantage to having labs be worth only one credit hour is that many engineering programs have a limit on hours per semester (mine is 18).

[@luissoto4981]

Dude you are amazing! I am currently in college majoring in EE but I have recently felt down by of the same things you said,“ I don’t feel like an engineer” watching your videos just makes me feel better and makes me keep pushing to not give up, thanks dude!

[@mahammadoutunkara6430]

bruh thanks so much I don't think you understand how much help this is for me. Honestly i am only scared of the math part but at the same time excited by the building your own stuff part

[@extropiantranshuman]

I wasn't sure why we'd do a caption, but when you read back on the lab report, it makes sense why it's there.

[@extropiantranshuman]

I like how honest this is. This sunk into my head better than any other prep video or book I ever saw

[@harleyspeedthrust4013]

8:17 This reminds me of hardware design. I have an FPGA board (Basys 3 Board with Xilinx Artix-7) and I remember writing debouncer modules for my projects to take care of this behavior. It's called "bouncing," (hence why the module is called a "debouncer") and it happens because when you press the button the contact vibrates and "bounces" over a very small time period before settling and giving you a constant signal

[@tylerlane4124]

Seriously love your channel, I'm starting college in the fall and I'm going to be an electrical engineer and your videos have been solidifying my choice. I am also minoring in physics so that I can take on some classes with optics, quantum mechanics, and astronomy so that I can be well rounded and have more job opportunities in the future. I just wanted you to know that your videos do help a lot and that I enjoy them very much.

[@zachstar]

Thanks for the comment Tyler! So glad the videos have been helping.

[@SiddhantSharma181]

Graph Plotting Suggestion: set up your programming code to throw an error/warning when you plot a graph without captions, labels, or axes. This way you know the code failed because you didn't add relevant information for your HW. And once it works, you'll never lose points on such formatting errors again!

[@bheemvarkhedi8184]

I totally relate to feeling useless for the first two years of engineering.

[@nancywangeci8189]

I just love your videos . thanks a lot for them , keep uploading more and more ... thanks

[@Hector52441]

I can relate to this video so much Great video

[@FrankGutowski-ls8jt]

Yup. Engineers sure like making things work. I majored in chemistry. It finally came together in my junior year. Went to grad school. Got my PhD, then an MBA, then became an investor. Never practiced what I’d learned. Friends who’d earned PhD’s became patent or IP lawyers. Another, a musician.

[@phoenix-king779]

I want to be a pilot but only for 10 years in the Air Force. After that I want to invest too

[@knowledgeiskey4087]

The worst thing about doing a coding project the first time in college is the part where you have to make a plan. Sometimes it can be really clear and sometimes it might seem clear to you but you might skip over something. Analytical thinking is the hard part. Programming is easy.

[@siqueira4470]

To feel like an engineer, enter some competition team (combat robots, save formula, rockets, Aero, ...) from your university. You will learning much faster and you will enjoy much more the class you take, because you can use it in the real world.

[@bpark10001]

Forget the formal competition teams! That is wrought with dirty politics, money, and arbitrary rules. Do your OWN projects instead.

[@jellybelly8672]

As someone doing my first year of general education but majoring in EE, I actually like the fact that multiple years will be spent on simply the math and the basics. I wanna make sure I have it all ready to go for when I start real projects.

[@s7r0ngm4d]

Oh dude you went to Cal Poly!! I literally took the same DSP class with Pilkington and had the same lab report lol

[@mauri1996fs]

great video! i can definitely relate to some of them. keep it up :)

[@huh5950]

What should I do to overcome impostor sindrome? I finished High school and I'm about to start computer Engeneering but feel like I'm incapable of doing anything, I don't even have a functional study method to memorize things...

[@comicalastranomical2780]

I did this all of freshman year in college... So I started to talk to close friends this exact question, “how did you feel going into engineering even though you know you read physics and quicker ways to solve calculus problems in your head?” .... I was looked at like I’m insane. That’s when I knew I had talent and interests beyond normal. Now I solve things to prove I still have “uncommon” capabilities to stay motivated and work my ass off. But also really enjoy it.

[@casimirdebonneval8150]

Look into the software anki and the supermemo blog that has a lot of info about how to learn efficiently

[@rachelwillis3331]

It takes time to build the skills. I would suggest studying with a group as well as on your own. It helps to talk out some of the problems with others. Working well with others also is a good skill to have when going into your career as an engineer. Also just do your best. That's all you can do.

[@benitozenlucas9332]

Growth mindset my dear friend

[@Dariusissocool]

I made a similar box called a “Digital Trainer” my first semester of college. It look identical to yours on the inside. It’s still sitting in my room.

[@vimtheprotogen2855]

I just wrote a 40 page report just last night for my Digital Controls final. I calculated it two semesters ago and my lab reports for all my classes so far have exceeded 200 pages. Which means I'm probably on 300 to 400 pages.

[@mark7166]

Although I absolutely loathed working with computers when I started my engineering degree in 2002, and although I failed my first year C++ course (and barely passed it the second time, haha...), I ended up doing a final-year design project, where my portion of the project was 100% software development. This turned out to be fortunate, since I discovered a love for programming, and when I was laid off in 2008, I redirected my career path into software development and have never looked back. I do wish I could've made more of my engineering career, though. There was some pretty cool stuff there.

[@louisuchihatm2556]

what engineering did you take. I just want to do more of coding rather than mechanical stuff

[@mark7166]

Louis UchihaTM I took electrical engineering.

[@DownWithBureaucracy]

I have never heard a more relatable phrase than "it was fun to work on a project, but not fun when the project wasn't working right before it was due"

[@northernskies86]

Although I love physics, the one thing I dread the most are the required lab classes. I hate lab reports, especially when they're graded harshly.

[@SomeWeirdCat]

"As you can see there's a lot going on here" Me: wow, that is the least complicated or dense power supply board I've seen Also, yeah, bounce will get you lol. Always gotta debounce your buttons. The first useful thing I got to build was in microprocessors where in lab we slowly built a working PIC16 on breadboard that we could use the assembly and C we learned in lecture (or usually in lab where we were expected to already know it from a lecture we hadn't had yet). It's exciting to build something with actual use outside the class itself, even if I'd happily use any arduino before my breadboard PIC lol

[@renchesandsords]

Zach: I really wanted to study it Me: NERRRRRRRRD! Also Me: Me too

[@MarkMcDaniel]

Embrace your inner nerd, we bake the best Star Wars-themed pastries. (Edit: Classic SW, not Disney SW.)

[@pencilicefire]

As a 4th year EE, I wouls share this video to all the incoming Freshman or senior Highschool. This video shown all the good/bad in Engineering. I would highly suggest students to join Engineering clubs to work on real life applications and you will find much more fulfillment.

[@Louis66666666]

You know you're an engineer when he describes the waveform switching issue and your first thought in 2 nanoseconds is 'bouncing contact causing a rising edge', your second thought is 'disconnect button and bridge contacts to confirm' and third thought is 'check capacitor between input pin and ground, add a 10uF if there isn't one already'.

[@benjamincalloway]

The part about the labs was spot on wow

[@kalwalsh]

Great video! I am working on Electrical Engineering at UC San Diego and I totally relate with your list! It's frustrating to know all the ideal theories behind circuits but not know how real world circuits will work. Keep up the great videos! (Also, im struggling really hard in quantum physics since its literally all theoretical)

[@zachstar]

Thanks for the comment! And quantum was very difficult for me too so you're not alone. Best of luck!

[@wascallywabbit2057]

Thanks for making this video! I recently decided to go into EE and I start summer classes in 1 week! A lot of your pros and cons I feel like line up with mine. I really like doing the math and science behind everything, but I also am not a fan of lab reports. Also I hate how you have to take things unrelated to your major, such as history or psychology. Those things interest me but I'd rather focus on 1 thing.

[@zachstar]

Man no one hated taking those unrelated classes more than I did. I thought it was such a waste of time (at least for most of them with the exception of maybe technical writing or speech). But since it wasn't directly engineering related I didn't include that in the video.

[@Osmanity]

Very, very good video!😍 Wow i feel exactly the same way and that make me mindblow. Can you please make a tutorial project of how u made that project (in the video) step by step and how the electronics compentent effect the system and maybe the program code effects..., you are asweome!:))))

[@kevindickson2178]

i'm a mechanical eng. school was brutal at virginia tech and 1st job (power plant) as big adjustment from academic to real world. six yrs after graduating got my PE. after that, my confidence soared as i was able connect school knowledge to real applications....mostly fluids, heat transfer, thermo.

[@joseandrescota423]

I kinda know the feeling when things just doesnt work because of the reality of stuff are not perfect. I spent a couple weeks working with an electronic engineer and his team to get “points” for my school. I helped building some stuff but didnt really know what was happening (i just did what the enginner told me to do). One time, we made a parking bar (i dont know how to say it in english), but it had to be automatic. The crew sometimes could spend hours checking to solve the issue. Its stressing but fun in a challenging way in how we all brainstorm ideas of what could have gone wrong. At the end it was a mistake from the manufacturer that sent us the part that give the tickets.

[@RXJ020]

Bro, I being watching your engineering videos. I didn't know you went to the same school. I'm in the College of Architecture and Environmental design in SLO.

[@inorite4553]

You know, it's not just the labs that are a slog. Some classes advertised as 3 credit hours completely dominated some semesters even though other classes were 4 or 5 credit hours. Sometimes, the difficulty/credit hour lists do not match up because it's almost impossible to know what subjects are going to tax which students.

[@andyiswonderful]

Your comment about labs only being one credit, yet occupied the most time is sooooooooo true.

[@jdl13b]

Can you do a video on your studying routine while you're in college?

[@MS-oy4vo]

You should include which Engineering degree you earned in the title/info

[@naga1018]

it was electrical enginering

[@rfqa4116]

Everyone's talking about electronical and mechanical engeneering while i'm just here trying to find anything on mechatronics

[@bpark10001]

Avoid the "mechatronics" and other 'combination degrees such as "aviation engineering", or "robotics". In those classes you go on field trips, look at photos and videos of airplanes being made, etc., but learn nothing about the theory! You need the fundamental theory! Otherwise, you will end up designing a "lead balloon", or a "submarine with a screen door in the bottom". Take EE and ME classes!

[@rfqa4116]

@@bpark10001 Good to know. Thanks!

[@jamesyount2423]

Using a cap on a button is a way to create a hardware debounce. You can also make a debounce function in your software to handle the same thing.

[@EM_303]

The point is to make you a competent employee. It's to make you really think about what you are submitting.

[@joseandrescota423]

I feel more motivated now. im going to college this year in electronic engineering. (Maybe ill have to start online because of the quarantine 🙄)

[@lordflufffluff]

How's it going? I'm close to done with my first year.

[@joseandrescota423]

Well, im in the online classes and i cant have lab class. Besides that, its pretty good

[@lordflufffluff]

@@joseandrescota423 I feel the same way. I do kind of a miss having actual labs.

[@itsmethemario8846]

I'm on my 3rd semester EE major in a German university. I can relate everything you said, the enjoyment when your project actually works is real! If you want to major EE, this is the channel you're looking for.

[@natedogmarik2554]

So here is my path so far! I always fond over the idea of being an engineer. My whole life I always asked why things work the way they do. From how a refrigerator works, radio, MRI, etc. In my undergrad the school gave me a really good scholarship(85% 120k worth of tuition through 4 years) but the school didn't have engineering it had pre-engineering. So I became a math major and concentrated my degree around pre-engineering. Now I'm in grad school pursuing a masters in biomedical engineering. And even now with my math background I'm so interested in the field. My math background makes math so easy, but the concepts of a BME are from every other engineering I get caught up studying and taking electives in mechanical and electrical engineering. I hope one day to get into the field of BME working with medical devices and hope to land a Co op and get my feet wet in the field. One of the things I dislike about engineering is that the field is becoming more computer science and programming rather than engineering. If you are a young engineer in undergrad I suggest getting a minor in computer science so that you'll be really good at programming.

[@thedoctor0272]

Mining engineering is the most hands on engineering for the first couple years. Im a second year student and I know a good amount of things regarding mining and it’s operations to be somewhat useful as an intern.

[@jb3757]

the reason why I hated lab reports was that they required a lot of explanation for a ridiculously simple circuit like you have to fill the page for a single pole RC filter, at some point in writing you would just right stories to fill the page up like: "So I was shopping at this mall and the guy working there was talking too fast so I had to apply a lowpass filter to his mouth to chill him down...".

[@bossartwork2269]

Number 3 hits hard for me. I am in my junior year rn and I feel the same thing you were saying.

[@Marqui91]

Finally figured out he's a EE. Took me so many videos

[@TheTariqibnziyad]

you are a great inspiration !!!

[@darkguardian1314]

I was looking right at the button when I heard the symptoms on the signal generator. :) Engineering is what you make it... What's boring is doing QC/QA analysis ion processes instead of R&D and doing your own designs. QC/QA is important but for engineers that want to do high speed stuff, it's mundane.

[@vontonchicken5967]

I've been into electronics engineering since my 7th grade! I'm still only a Junior in highschool but I'm now in classes me it and I love it.