7 Tips for Engineering Students 

Ironic how im procrastinating by watching a video telling me to have better time management...

Wait... You want me to be social?

Tips from a Computer Engineer in his last week in undergrad: 1. Visit office hours, even if you have no questions. Name recognition is everything and more often than not, you can get helpful tips on study topics. I have even gotten exam questions ahead of time from professors who want to reward interest. 2. Love the process. I averaged 40 hours a week in the library (this does not include class time). If you do not love the material, or are not willing to force yourself, you will have much difficulty keeping up. 3. Study with people smarter than you. You become who you spend time with. If you spend time with non-motivated students on their third round in the class, you adopt the mindset. 4. Value delayed gratification. You will have to make sacrifices. If it was easy, everyone would do it.

Pro tip for engineering students - learn the Greek alphabet

"Maintain a 3.0 GPA" _has a 2.1_ *cries*

Lecturers : "Lets set the due date of the projects, assignments and report at the same date"

1) Go to class 2) Do the homework and don’t look at chegg until you’re done or you’re really stuck and have tried to work through a problem for more than 15 minutes 3) Read the textbook and get an idea of how different problems are set up how you’d solve them in your mind 4) Pay attention in fundamental classes. At times they may seem dull but they will be your foundation for courses down the road (calc 1 and 2, statics, thermo, physics, circuits)

I graduated with an EE degree with a 3.79GPA. I got a lot of job offers. Now I am a licensed engineer and I get even more.

Let add few on Time Management. As engineering students, we really need to know how to spend our times otherwise we end up screwing up our semester (speaking from experience). Also, staying awake late night is one of the major reason why we ended up doing nothing productive the next day. Try to go to bed at 10 and get full 8hours of sleep, wake up around 6 or 7. Write down tasks for the day and try to complete it. I'm pretty sure at the end of the day you will have 2-3 Hours to have fun.

I am a preengineering student that comes from no background of engineering or even math loving family members! I have a hard time with math myself and I failed Calc 1 and passed programming with a D which is still passing but obviously not how I wanted to pass. I am determined no matter what! My time management still needs a few tweaks but I am very dedicated worker. So much I decided to retake Calc 1 and programming now I have a B+ in Calc and A+ in programming! I am determined no matter what I also grew to love math even if I am not the worlds best! That and I have to work and provide at home for bills and live with a family who does not allow me to study! This is not for me to get pity or sympathy! This message is from my personal life to the world to hopefully encourage those who struggle! This channel scares me with facts but it helps me a lot!! If I haven’t subscribed now I sure will now!

I'm graduating in a week and a half. Very true! Engineering is tough, but doable, if you dedicate 4-5 years to strictly focusing on school

Just to emphasize the awesomeness of interning/co-oping: I am a mechanical engineering co-op/intern at a Fortune 50 Petroleum company making $36.88 an hour as a junior. My friend also is interning at another petroleum company and is making around $55 an hour. If you keep your GPA high and apply for internships and you can easily pay off your tuition in one semester of interning.

To those who are down bad right now: I failed differential equations, probability/statistics theory, electrical networks analysis, and signals and systems on my first attempts. All of these were the "weed out" courses at my school intended to reduce the amount of students that move forward, but I didn't give up easy. It sucked so bad and my gpa was a 2.1 at one point, but I pushed forward each time and now I'll be graduating by the end of this week with an EE degree at exactly a 3.0. There's always hope, so just dip deep and keep on keeping on!

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Keep GPA at or above 3.25 - Everything else you said is right on point. Also, if there are no internship opportunities ask your Professors if there are any summer research projects you can hop on. This will also look good on your resume. Join IEEE if you're Electrical Engineering student. Good luck guys!

You're a man of wisdom, I love your advice and how you educate me on becoming an engineer, you're one of the best RU-vidrs out there and they reason I love to use the internet. Keep up the good work and don't give up

Wow, this was one of the best videos I have seen yet. I learned so much, I hope you never quit doing what you're doing.

My engineering teacher the day before our test “if at any point you find yourself unsure and not writing, you should just skip it because you are gonna run out of time.”

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THank you Chat for helping me with my essays for all the bs classes I had to take. Your channel is full of great content. Thank you.

Thanks for the very useful information i will always keep those tips in mind👍

Thanks bro! I'm glad you provided perspective on class failures.

Im about to start studying Mechanical engineering , watching your videos clears my mind out a bit, thanks and keep the good work up!!!

Every videos of yours really help for people interested in this field, please keep posting more.

Solid advice. The opportunities exist and the idea to keep in the front of your mind is that you are building your resume. It needs to tell a story. The story is part GPA, part internship/co-op, research with teacher, projects on your own, etc.. Just listing your courses, regardless of what university you attend, doesn't make you stand out amongst the other 40,000 graduates each May.

damn dude nice video. Im currently enrolled in CheE and all of this has pretty much already flowed through my mind.

This is what I needed to hear. Thank you! 😊😌

Bro i just admire you a lot for doing this Thank you

thanks a million ! I am gonna start my new semester tomorrow , I learned many things that i was ignoring them

I'm going into my second year of college as an EE major, and this video has been so helpful in building my confidence! Thank you so much!!! Your tips really helped me see the bigger picture of engineering rather than the smaller challenges we face along the way.

Thank you so much for your videos. They are hands-down the most helpful and informative I've seen. Appreciate you - keep it up! :)

You are like a freaking SAVIOR to pre-engineering and engineering students.

Make your exact predicted schedule for the next week at the end of each week and commit yourself to it. You'll have a lot less stress when you know exactly what you should be doing at any given timeframe. Leave room to adjust so as to deal with unexpected events adequately. Study fast and rigorously. Try to engage with the material as hard as you can. The more "friction" or resistance you feel towards whatever it is your studying (like, sometimes even painful), the more your mind is trying to establish synapses and make new neural connections. Once you understand enough of the material and a bigger picture of it forms in your mind, you'll skyrocket from there and will start to actually like it. Studying slow not only makes your work take longer to finish, but also gives your mind excuses to wander off bc it's not fully engaged with the topic. This means that the faster you go, the better you study as you slowly adjust to higher speeds. Don't worry about not understanding things at first this rate, just mark them and come back to them after a while. Believe me, making this a habit will not only change the way you study (for better) but will also make you faster at everything else. It'll change your life. Also, try to enjoy it. Convince your mind that this is exciting info it's gathering for future successes and applications. Never choose short-term pleasure over long-term satisfaction. Suffering is good if you consciously decide to take it on for the sake of your goals and dreams. If you don't pick your poison, life will pick it for you and you will not be pleased with it.

I agree with some of the tips mentioned. I personally am a Mechanical Engineering and Business double major at UC Berkeley and wouldn't recommend summer classes, as these are times when internships are key. I think my channel could be helpful. My twin brother and I have interned at Apple, Tesla, and Microsoft, and are Juniors at UC Berkeley. We share weekly insights on how we got there, hopefully helping budding engineers along the way

Really helpful, I'm a high school student and I am thinking of making EE my major. This video helped a lot.😘😘

Thank you for making this video!!!

Awesome video mn. Very good mind opening and perspective

Your voice and speed are splendid.

Thx for the tips man!!!!!!!!!

Your videos are the best Thanks for these tips

Great advise sir ! Thank you !

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Thanks for the video it help me, now I'm in my first year second semestrer of Civil Engineer and it's hard to manage time. But I'm trying my best to keep learning and have good grades.

Thank you, this semester is getting to me.

I want the vedio on what is geomatics engineering. Your videos are inspiring and motivating .Thanks for all 😊

I would add staying on top of requirements for your program, like gpa minimum, max attempts at a class (my school only allows 2 attempts total), and any changes to what classes are required. I recommend meeting with an advisor at least once a semester to check in and make sure you're on track and find out about any new changes or resources. Also, if you're going to a community college then transferring to a 4 year degree, make sure your credits will transfer (get it in writing if possible). I know a lot of people that have had set backs due to a requirement they didn't know about!

Love your videos keep it up!

Great input thanks!

Thanks for your informations..its very useful for my future and many engineering students..:)))

S/o to you brother this was awesome!

I cant wait to graduate and prove these tips work!

thanks for the tips it was really useful

Senior year Mechanical Engineer student here, and I wish someone have said the same tips to me when I started college. All he said is true. 😀

This was inspirational💡

Great content, I wish you have million subscribers by end of next year

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Engineering student here, thanks for the motivation :D.

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Hey! I really like and enjoy the informative content of this channel , it really helps. next year is my first year in college and I am still not sure wether to study Mechanical or Civil Engineering. your video about mechanical engineering is really helpful but i researched for civil engineering videos on RU-vid but didn't found a good one. It would be really great to see a civil engineering video on this channel. Sorry for the long comment LOL!

As a sophomore civil engineering major at manhattan college, I say with experience that anyone thinking about taking online summer courses SHOULD ABSOLUTELY TAKE THEM!!! My college requires that we take some form of religion 100, 200, and 300 level courses, and I took both 200 and 300 last summer. Now, I have one more social science to finish up next summer and I’m all done with GE’s. For me, they were 7 weeks long, had about five assignments a week, and were quite possibly the easiest A’s that I’ll ever get in a course here. You will never, I repeat, NEVER, regret taking summer courses, especially one that’s online. Best of luck to all my fellow engineering majors out there! You got this!

guy u r so useful, u r more like engineering journalist!

Even though I’m a hs senior I’m trying to manor in mechanical engineering in college and I’m sure some of these tips will come in handy in college.

thanks...for ur tips...those are great

I am chemical engineer student thank you so much for this excellent tip.

Not sure why I watched as I finished my computer engineering masters five years ago, lol... Bur great tips! I will also add that for programmers, one of the best resume enhancers is having contributed to open source projects on github and the likes... It really gets the recruiter's mouth watering!

If your looking for a college, try to find one with a mandatory coop program. You get alternating school and work terms. You get real engineering experience before you even graduate so your already ahead of other schools grads.

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Very nice video. I left aerospace engineering earlier this year for political science, but I wanna go back for civil engineering and all this info was really helpful. I've heard a lot of this my first semester but your video conveyed it in an interesting manner, thanks!

Never told that senior design project will specify your working field and you can determine which area is the closest to you in the future with your own thesis and the projects of the courses and accordingly you can set the roadmap for yourself.

An additional piece of advice I recommend is to become as skilled as possible in various software tools and development environments that are available. As strange as it may sound, becoming very skilled in things like MS Excel can really showcase your abilities because most people that use MS Office only use the rudimentary features. One thing that honestly got me in the door in one job is because I knew how to connect Excel directly to a database via ODBC and make Excel documents dynamic. Also, perform some job searches for specific companies you are interested in and find out what specific skills they are looking for. Each company maintains different systems. Some may use Salesforce. Some might be using bug tracking tools like JIRA or Bugzilla. Understanding their current implementations and familiarizing yourself with those solutions is a great asset and will be looked upon favorably by the company.

You can be successful in engineering by doing endless textbook problems and then doing some MORE textbook problems. You guessed it. Do some more textbook problems! :)

Also do college in the high school (I graduated high school with an associate's degree and am about to graduate university at age 20), or pursue community college after high school to save a ton of $$$. You get a higher GPA because community college courses are a lot easier than the weedout university courses, and you get the same exact classes for like a fourth of the price.

Taking a summer class lower my gpa. 5 weeks to learn data structure in java was pretty difficult. When you said the average gpa for engineering student i started to have hope again.

ahh I've already failed at all of this so far

I love your channel.. And I'll love to be a Engineer.

I was hoping to start my own projects after college maybe with a part-time to cover the costs of living, that's the main reason I got into engineering, to begin with, to have that freedom to be able to do whatever your creativity allows. Not rush into a 9 to 5. My GPA sucks since physics kicks my ass but I'm very sociable and know everybody from freshman to senior, I already have 3 or 4 potential projects that as soon as I have the required knowledge I'm going to start working on. Mostly bio-engineering stuff and bio is mostly 4th-year classes. (engineering last 5 years where I'm from)

“Making connections is really important” Me with crippling social anxiety: 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

While these tips do help, the biggest thing is perseverance. There will be a lot of tough classes, there will be a lot of work. But nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. Some classes are meant to weed out people however if you get help and surround yourself with people who also want to succeed. College is tough and engineering is one of the toughest majors, but if you want it bad enough, put in the work and you will succeed.

Amazing vid

Well sir❤👍🏻

Helpful 🙌🙌

Engineering is so hard! :D

Thanks! I'm a 12th grader who will be graduating in June 10th. Planning on taking on mechanical engineering because of how broad it is career-wise.

Dimension lines got me messed up in high school already.

Hi I'm actually a student from Lebanon Now i am at what you call high school I'm 16 and since this summer I began searching and asking about what majors I will choose at university I watched your video of physicist vs EE And I found it really helpful I continued to watch your videos and you were a real help to me 😀 Now just one little question what do you know about scholarships in universities ?

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Don't get the generals done early! Keep them for as long as you can! A semester of only engineering classes is brutal. 3 technical classes and a general is so much more manageable than 4 technical classes.

A family member worked for Boeing, they paid for his masters at Carnegie Mellon, whether he came back to them or not! ❤️

This video is perfect.

When I worked at NSA many years ago, I was surprised to see all the high school interns we had. Some got pretty good positions in comp sci or in admin or whatever. You might want to check into it as NSA is very high-tech oriented (math, engineering, signals, comp sci, EE, plus foreign languages, etc.) and they would definitely want to hire you when you graduate from college as you will have a Top Secret Special Intelligence security clearance with several accesses, and this is HUGE with them and a lot of other employers.

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Experiment with studying on your own. Working with people can be great, but it can also be: -distracting -give you a false sense of understanding if you’re all working on the same problem -take up time meeting, setting up, and doing stuff after -make you compromise what you’re focused on with the group Studying with friends can be super useful, but personally, I prefer chegg and a quiet desk

I would like to ask, I'm not sure between college on space engineering and cybersecurity and I'm not sure which of these two schools I'd like to do, so I'm doing "research" on what I'd like more and so I wanted to ask you what to watch out for and ask type when choosing. Otherwise, I'm very enjoying your videos, keep going like this.

Please make video on important skill requirement for mechanical engineering student