Electrical Engineer

[iLOVENATURE2011]

cool course...ty for uploading...

[TheUltimateBeing01]

This video was good, but I want something more in depth.

Like the tools they use, what systems they work on, if travel is required, e.t.c.

[MrJivePirate]

@TheUltimateBeing01 that depends what you do and where.

[sheentje13]

E engineering is kinda easy, i'm gonna start with my second year on hs, and i like it alot.. People bbm just send your bbpin

[DevanPx]

I'm a freshman this fall getting my BSEET and then my MSEE,I can't wait to start learning and expanding my knowledge.

[emanpiano10]

@DevanPx how is that possible to get a masters in electrical engineering when you are in a Engineering Technology program? Their is a very big difference between Engineering and Engineering Technology. hardly any credits from a EET program will transfer over to an engineering program. they are totally different programs. Engineering technology is for people that wants to become engineering technicians or technologist not engineers. Engineering is for people that wants to become engineers.

[DevanPx]

@emanpiano10 the EET program I am enrolled in states in the curriculum guide that that I will be eligible to take both the (FE) and (PE) exams which are the two exams required to become a "professional engineer". But from my understanding I will only have to take a few extra course in order to eligible to go back and get my MSEE. Also,a couple of employers that I have looked into with engineering positions have stated that could have your EET for that position.

[emanpiano10]

@DevanPx actually if you are transferring from a BSEET to MSEE that will take you a very long time to finish since the core classes from a EET program are not the same in a EE curriculum. Did you know that EET core classes are more practical and less theory and that Engineering in general is much more theory and less hands on?. You are more likely going to have to start from the bottom when you get in the MSEE. that means another 4 to five years because the core classes are not the same.

[emanpiano10]

@DevanPx Also taking the Professional engineering exam does not make you an engineer. you are refereed to an "Applied Engineer" not a regular electrical engineer. Applied engineers are "technologist". those positions can be Test engineer, Plant engineer, Instrumentation Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Electronic Engineering Technologist, Electronics Technician, Application Engineer, Electrical Systems Project Engineer. as you see that these positions have noting to do with "Design".

[emanpiano10]

and from statistics hardly anyone these day take the PE exam. PE is only necessary for government level projects like for an example if you were involved in a Inventions and you wanted to protect your Patents. PE are licensed people so that they can do certain things with in the legal of engineering. most engineers are not licensed in general are still able to work and be called engineers. But EET people are "Technologist" which is a sort of Applied Engineer.

[emanpiano10]

@DevanPx from my understanding of course you can transfer some credits to an engineering program but without the lost of time and alot of credits lost due to the fact that the core classes of EE and EET are not the same. of course you can take Calc 3, Differential equations\Laplace, Linear algebra, probability statistics, and more on classical physics and chemistry to transfer to EE. your humanities, and social sciences classes will but not your core EET clasess.

[emanpiano10]

@DevanPx So if you really want to become an "Engineer" Go strait into EE not EET. so if you are already in your first year and decided that you wanted to became an engineer. I would suggest to stop what you are doing and change your major from EET to Electrical Engineering. If you are in enrolled at a community college then you will have to enroll in Pre-Engineering. If you really want to become an electrical\electronics technician or elctronics technologist then I would stay in BSEET program.

[DevanPx]

@emanpiano10 The school that I am enrolled in is a division 2 school not really a community college but I have a distant relative that took the same path that I am taking he obtained his BSEET from the school I am going to,then took the "crossover" courses and obtained his MSEE from Pitt and he now works as a nuclear engineer. the reason I didn't just go to the division 1 school to begin with is because the school I'm going to is only 10 miles from me vs. 30

[DevanPx]

@emanpiano10 I also have a job in which I work 25+ hours a week and I will to commute to class on a daily basis so 60 miles of daily travel is sort of out of my reach. I know in the end I will have to take some extra course and pay more in tuition but it will be good to have knowledge of both degree it sort of expands the job field.

[emanpiano10]

@DevanPx Ok does your school offer online classes? Because it will take you an awful long time to finish both of those majors? What do really enjoy the most? Do you like hands on practical stuff tinkering with circuit boards converting ideas of an engineers concept design and turn it in to reality?= This is for EET. Or do you like inventing things, solving complex mathematical problems and solve real world problems and creat concept designs, like design the next Xbox 360 etc..?= This is for EE

[emanpiano10]

@DevanPx Another way of putting is do you like working with Math and Theory all day and for the rest of your life. That's what Engineers all do in there every day job. solving complex problems coming up with ideas to make the world better by inventing things. Or do you like to fix things, convert ideas of engineers concept designs, make prototype models, supervise, conduct test, maintenance, modify designs or help out in a design but very limited since design requires more theory. =This is EET

[DevanPx]

@emanpiano10 both concepts are appealing to me but I love teamwork and i really enjoy solving complex problems,I am also a very artistic person so naturally I would love a job where design is a major part of my daily schedule. and in a most cases engineers will make more than the technologist that is a plus but the main thing is enjoying your career and making your school worth the time/money/effort.

[emanpiano10]

@DevanPx also I may not know what your school articulation with EE and EET? but if your 2 year division will let you take "theory engineering" classes mix with "practical engineering technology" classes with all your math requirements Calc 1 Calc 2 Calc 3 Differential equations\lapse, Liner Algebra Physics 1&2 Chemistry 1&2 then i wouldn't see much of a problem transferring in to an engineering program.

[emanpiano10]

@DevanPx But if your school has that option then you will be fine but at the same time you would be waste time an credits on classes that has nothing to do with Electrical Engineering if you are in Electrical Engineering Technology if you are aiming to became an engineer

[emanpiano10]

@DevanPx Another way if you just want to go ahead and go straight in to Electrical Engineering is not be in EET and just take a bunch of general ed classes like liberal arts. take all your required math and science classes, humanities and social science classes. which you have complete all of those then you can transfer you credits to an engineering program instead of wasting time and credits on classes that you wouldn't use in an engineering. Engineering has much more math than Caclulus 2.

[emanpiano10]

@DevanPx But it is up to you what you really enjoy and want to be. just giving some advice what Engineering Technology and Engineering is about. and what the difference of the two majors are.

[Mustang5Speed]

destined to be an engineer but I am completley torn between the two. It is sooo lame that you have to specialize. I am about to completeley give up on it altogether becuase it is causing me serious depression problems. I do not want to be stuck in a career I don't like. I have other engineers I know telling me that one or the other is better and just confusing me more. One person told me MEs are just mechanics with college degrees and EEs aren't real engineers. I hate this decision. I need help

[009Alexander]

@Mustang5Speed You could be a Mechatronics Engineer. search it up

[Mustang5Speed]

I seriously need help. I am sooooo freaking stressed out. I don't know if I should do mechanical engineering or electrical engineering. I always take apart mechanical clocks and study how they work, I live the mechanics. I also like studying how the motherboard in the computer makes the computer do what needs to be done, all by electrical signals. I also love thermodynamics in school, as well as circuit design and programming. I LOVE Math and I LOVE physics. I know I am (continued below)

[dominicfhk]

0:39 OMG it runs windows ?

[hesham3540]

Math is the best part of E.engineering :D

[signeduplate]

hi. i mean im in 2nd year and we have to do 3 math subjects incl ad math....it gets so hard...do we actually have to analyse circuits on the job or solve diff equations of the job??????? i wanna drop out

[razorflown2]

It doesnt matter man. remember in 3rd grade when addition was hard?

how about 6th grade when division was hard.

You're learning whether you think you are or not.

If you would change your major to save your gpa, then you shouldnt be an engineer anyway though.

[idricool]

@razorflown2 For me division and addition wasn't hard at 1st, 3rd or 6th grade...

Calculus was also easy for me when I first learned it....

[Chronox5]

@razorflown2 I think your comment just changed my life. Thank you! (physics major)

[beenn15]

@signeduplate The math you're learning right now will be used in other 4 year level courses. You need math to analyze control systems and system processings. You need diff eq to fairly predict a system's behavior... Math is used all throughout the learning process. If you're not interested in understanding how the equipments you're gonna be using work... or how the equipments calculate a particular result, maybe EE isn't for you... It's not easy... but it pays.

[signeduplate]

@beenn15 hi man managed to overcome my fears. im 4th year now. need to find a job though, i hope God Helps me.

[MrMakuaj]

@signeduplate

congratulations..

i have just started

its bloody difficult

[chavarin619]

si again and again

[e521soediv]

Good People.