I took a few electrical and electronics courses and found it very difficult to comprehend. Probably because you can't see electricity. It's interesting though so I try to keep refreshing the info so I don't forget but it's not easy.

I mean its not neccessarly hard, but the new concepts are tought to get along with

@@Shannon_Robbie put some leds and you can

You contradicted yourself by saying "everyone" then denying it in your last sentence

@@_Cfocus touché

your previous experience will definitely be helpful in all areas of life, so definitely do not be anxious!! When I went through these classes I was younger so I did not have much of an appreciation for them, I feel like you definitely would appreciate them more now that you are entering at a more mature state. Best of luck!!!

This is inspirational for me since I’m 23 barely going transfer by next spring and feel like I’m way too behind. You got this bro! I’m finishing up my final calculus class and differential equations and physics. If I can do it, you can tho man with ease! Goodluck!

Hey you got this! I'm 27 aswell I'm in second year

@@alithedazzling lol i wonder how old somebody needs to be to enjoy calc 3 XD

im right there with you im a crayon eater and never gave math the attention it deserved so ive been trying to hammer down on the fundamentals before i start college

1969 I was not even bone yet. I used Fortran about 10 years ago in my Final Year Chemical Engineering project to solve a system of partial differential and algebraic equations for an air separation unit. Was quite a learning curve. I used got exposed to machine language through a science expo project I did in high school.

Wow. Sir. Great to hear from a senior. FORTRAN is interesting language. But they did not have a mouse back then. Keyboard was only option. I want to learn FORTRAN.

Nah man, you will learn everything along the way, its not that bad if you find it interesting

@@alithedazzling I hope because that the thing am interested in

Too late now I’m 1.5 years in

@@MohammedAhmed-dc5be lmfao

This got me excited for the video

BEE? dont tell me the B stands for basic? how many years until you get to advanced

@@Winsky82 Bachelor's

People need to hear this -- thank you for commenting

One question I have is about internships. Because I’m planning to go back to school while working but i don’t think I’ll have the time for internships so are they really that important? Where they for you?

I am in second year of EE and i suffered in electromagnetics quite a lot and probably might even fail, your story gives me hope

Why did you took 6 years to complete your degree?

​@@maitreyajambhulkarnot everyone can be a full time student. I'm 40 and in my junior year of EE. I had a full time job, wife, kid, bills, etc. I started at 37 to get my bachelor's in EE after getting a degree earlier in life that wasn't nearly as difficult. But, putting food on the table is far more important than taking one extra class. The world can wait.

Man that makes me so happy, thats why I make those videos! I appreciate the comment -- I will continue to make content that you will hopefully find useful!

@@alithedazzling I guess a long overdue video is on "time management" The concept itself is completely ridiculous and frustrating because all the other gurus talk about it in a hyperfocused manner, it doesn't even consider A. your hobbies and interests B. opportunities C. Exploration and creativity I'm very curious to hear your thoughts about the topic I doubt you're a person who goes on a hyper strict boring schedule so how do you blanace between school work and opportunities? do you even use a planner? for me it's not that I don't know what to do it's that im literally interested in everything lol. Wonder if you have a method to your madness

@@blitzer658 I will absolutely make a video about this! This is actually one of my favorite topics to talk about since I really hate the gurus approach, and I think it's much simpler. You are right in that I have tons of time for hobbies and hanging out with friends/family/my cat, as well as just time relaxing/recharging. There is a method! Stay tuned

Exactly! 💯

@@alithedazzling would love to see your approach on time management as well👍🏻

Thank you so much :)

Go mechanical. Trust me

@@cadehabetz9521Would you mind giving a further explanation? Thanks.

thank you very much!

Thank you so much!

Once you take real analysis you realize it is all just limits.

​@@joelwillis2043 Dont they like define the derivative with a limit in calc I? You should figure it out right then.

@@whatever7338 "You should figure it out right then" means what?

​@Joel Willis Whatever means that when you learn the limit definition of a derivative, calculus students should realize that all of its content comprises of limits. This is in reference to your precious reply.

@@jtris01 Sure but most fail to realize that series and sequences are studied as well in the context of limits. Same for integrals. Learning some point-set topology builds intuition to deal with a lot of the nuisances and allows one to form a mental framework of the material. Instead most just learn a bunch of techniques without really grasping what is going on underneath it all.

do you link of the table you've provided.

@@francislydz4234 engineering.buffalo.edu/home/academics/undergrad/advisement/flowsheets.html?plan=EE-2023

Can you please make a list of all these courses' textbooks maybe, or recommend some? As a non native English speaking country student who is going to persue a phd in America, I really want to review all my ee courses in English version, but I don't know about your mainstream textbooks😢

HAHHAAH he was struggling

glad you liked it! EE is tons of fun haha

Nerd

​@@hehericky said by a dropout

You not going to learn anything but the personalities of instructors who think it's a good idea to teach theory math courses for engineering

Woah that's super cool! You're like the first UB student I get a comment from haha. I love UB man, I learned everything there. See if the UB Nanosat Lab is still a thing and go work on some projects there!

@@alithedazzling That's awesome I am enjoying UB so far. I will look into Nanosat as I think I have heard of them still being around. As for this summer, i have no internship but I would like to learn python on my own. That would mean I learn C/C++ now, python over the summer, and MATLAB next semester. I am not too sure about what I am into specifically yet but I'm going to dive a little bit deeper into programming for now.

@@trenji sounds like a good plan, if you have no summer internship you can stay around at something like nanosat or another project and get experience that way. Feel free to connect w/ me on linkedin btw Ali Alqaraghuli

Honestly I seem intrested in EE but I don’t know if it matters but I took an auto shop class my junior and currently taking it my senior year where I have been welding and working on cars . But I’ve never been good at math you think I can be able to take this challenge?

@@unknownrocha9795 you surely can! Yet, mathematics is crucial, but I've known plenty of engineers who are not that good in math, but you have to learn the essentials. Nevertheless, it is overall doable with a weak mathematical background, you will just need to grind more, but you got this!

What type of technician degree. And where can I learn? May I contact you personally to go over it?

Glad you enjoyed it!

I appreciate that!

Thats because you didn't enjoy it Uni is a choice the discipline you choose to study is a choice School isn't a choice if you didn't enjoy uni you wouldn't be there thats' why he remembers Notice he spent time talking about the one's he liked and skipped over the one's that were average

@@martinkuliza Correct. I don't love em because they are mandatory and required for GE.

For anyone that reads this comment and is about 2 or 5 years out of college & is a manager of some sort then you are doing well. "Got by via memorization" yeah no duh that's how you learn. I hear the music in multiple aspects of life (engineering being one of them), but I never put down my peers. Anyone who does so has no confidence in themselves. It takes a true leader to be a manager in the engineering world. "Dime a dozen" HA. Go find a P.E. who can also manage projects profitably and efficiently. The world is never just one thing, its a mix and balance of a lot of things. So go be artistic and logic, not robotic and bland.

​@@17rkochrote memorization isnt the way to learn. Thats like saying the best way to do math is to memorize answers to every problem i stead of knowing how to solve wach problem and know hiw it works

​@@17rkochAssignment based assessments are better than just memorizing a bunch of informatiom, but yeah, I agree with everything else you've said.

@@pizzapizzza4607 You learn math by muscle "memory." Going through the properties over and over again. Every time you fail hard, you'll remember what you did wrong so you don't repeat the mistake twice. There will always be fundamentals when doing engineering problems, after the fundamentals and getting into more complexity, that's when you apply what you are stating (which should be all the time i.e. critical thinking). I see where you did not understand me and I am sorry for not explaining my point more throughly. Maybe im the bigot in my first reply by not understanding what the guy meant by "full memorization." If I did that at my job, id lose my license XD.

@@alltheworldsastage4785 Thank you for agreeing with a tid bit of what I said. I see where you disagree with what I said and I apologize for not getting my point across in a more clear way. Its important to memorize the fundamentals. Its also important to use the fundamentals and critically think what the answer is to a engineering problem (i.e. engineering design). Each project is different and require critical thinking. Never forget your fundamentals though!

very happy to hear :)

Would you say Physics 2 (Electricity and magnetism) was more interesting than Physics 1(Mechanics)? I’m starting physics 2 in a week and people say it’s a nightmare, but I’m ready.

Glad you found it helpful, I think you will like it!!

@The Goat honestly physics 2 is WAY cooler than physics 1. Don't listen to those saying its a nightmare, these people are either conditioned to complain/fear monger or lack imagination

@@alithedazzling Thanks for the advice. I realized a lot of people do complain a lot and over exaggerate the difficulty of most engineering coursework. Before taking Calc 2 and differential equations people said it was super hard, but the concepts were actually easy. Mechanics was more difficult, but very doable also.

@@thegoat6460 Yeah it's all doable, millions of people have done it, no reason why you can't

So I took my fall semester off and did an internship at NASA KSC, this counted as a technical elective for me. Perhaps I can make a video about my MS level classes which were kinda like electives

To be fair, Germany has a 3-level school system, so this could be comparable to AP-classes

"Congrats, you understand V=IR. NOW BUILD A RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATOR FOR YOUR FINAL YEAR"

Romania to.. differentials, integrals, Maxwell etc all in high school..

@Spots Corner Huh? I never implied anything like that. Also 9 different schools is impressive

Same here in Malta! that AM radio omg, so many sleepless nights! And those triple surface integrals :@

Very cool! What do you do now?

@alithedazzling I went back to school for an MBA and now I do electric utility consulting! Essentially applying the power classes I took to help clients add new generation plants to the grid

@@danielfonseca3609 very cool, sounds like a good job for mixing engineering + people!

not hard at all if u r experienced and interested not about the material had ee in highschool, didnt know most of the thing, but got interested in actually making stuff, u can really show ur creativity in ur circuit and all that experience makes the degree a breeze because it is basically same stuff a high school with a little more topics, but this time i understood without even trying, in highschool i basically mastered digital circuits including micros, i would say im even better at programming micros than most engineers out there, since i learnt that from programming a video game, one example i can give is that my teacher used arrays for led arrays, while i used the coordinates system and translated the output, much more flexible solution. i also did some basic analog stuff, and blew up a lot of transistors and power transistors. but man in degree, i didnt even need to try, i mastered analog circuits including actual amplifiers without video tutorials or textbooks, i used what i actually learned and knew, didnt blow up, it was like i blew up all the transistors i needed to in highschool, felt like edison, like i always had it in the back of my mind and it just clicked after going through it 2 times, that is experience, and that really just moved me into the next level which was rf circuits. in highschool, i know what a simple circuit would do, but man had i no idea any circuits that was complex, put some more transistors and connect them in strange ways and i would have no idea what it even is, in degree, i could tell u wat each small part was doing and wat that whole thing was for, that was experience, small knowledge and design knowledge adding up together over the years u know whats funny, my interest in engineering is only as a hobby, aint goin into shit that can get me killed for a job, but highschool showed me that it was interesting as i could literally create watever i want and imagine without being limited to buying available things with fixed features im aiming for game development to get that bread but, u aint need a certificate for that, but getting a certificate for a field about things that can literally explode and kill u is very reasonable, just like a doctor cant be a doctor without going through the official study and training, or it be illegal, cant be a doctor by online learnin, same cant be said for a lot of other paths. i dont need a paper to show that i can draw or make music, but a paper about engineering is very flexible and versatile for a job and i think thats good, innovation comes from cross disciplines......

Glad it was helpful!

Glad you like the video! Better late than never I am glad you have this info now, will be making more videos like this for sure :)

which year did you graduate?

@@alithedazzling 2018

@@GetaLifeMan1234 no way! me too lol

One day you'll get a job and find out it is 40 years of doing something you don't like.

@@stargazer7644 or never work a day in ur life

Those are things that I like to study just for fun. You can pretty much say that I’m a geek when it comes to anything electronics, electrical or mathematical.

@@OSAS726 Same, but I don't stop there. Magnets are cool too. They're always fun to play with. And so are optics and acoustics. Then again I did play the trumpet for over 10 years...

Those would be a bit more difficult since they could vary entirely and and essentially are 100% electives. Unless you mean my MS and PhD courses specifically

@@alithedazzling Yes, I would like to know more about your journey through MS and PhD. Courses you took and other stuff as well. I'm starting MS next year so I'd like to know your perspective. It'll be interesting and beneficial for other as well, probably.

@@nickputkaradze1181 OK, I also think those would make good videos. I will likely record them once I move to Boston (in about 10 days or so) I'll likely talk more about my MS/PhD a lot in September, stay tuned

Exactly

I agree controls is very important

In India too, Control systems is essential. Electrical guys study that for 2 semesters (I studied all in 1 semester because I'm Electronics and Telecommunication grad). There's indeed a lot of stuff in controls (Systems analysis, Root locus, Polar-Nyquist plots, Bode plot, State space analysis, etc.), but it's limited to LTI systems. I still find Signals and Systems harder, first classification, identification, Fourier series, transform, DTFT, DFT-FFT, Laplace transform, Z transform (although later it gets limited to LTI systems too), digital filters, signal processing & Digital Signal Processors etc.

dont forget ruth-hurwitz, nyquist-shannon, poles and zeros etc.

In my university in Venezuela, we are required to take two classes in the field of Control Engineering: "Control Systems I" and "Automation and Process Control". Additionally, we have the option to choose elective courses within the same field, such as "Control Systems II" "Digital Control", "Industrial Control", and more.

In Kazakhstan is also the same situation, but we were lucky and we had one teacher, who was really interested in studying us 😅

@@user-ht1bv5xq9j those are the best teachers, throughout my life if you ask me who's your best and favourite teacher it was the ones that were passionate about teaching, we had a teacher like that, I wish him the best!!!

LOL you're welcome

I wouldnt be scared of going back!

Glad I could help!

LOL convolution ended me as well don't worry

Sure, that would be a good one, will add it to the list. Are you interested in more technical content in general?

@@alithedazzling Yes! Technical content would be awesome! theoretical as well 😅

@@f1xzor great

i have never even touched chemistry not even in highschool the most i learnt was general science in junior had to equalize the equation of chemical turning into other stuff or something, and something about metal base water and acid if u know wat i mean that was the extent of my chemistry but still ee degree very specific field and role u talkin about

I didnt have an end goal when I started, but as I took classes and met with people and got involved wiht projects, I started leaning more towards communication systems