Please don't worry about job opportunities for either of them. I am graduating this semester in EE, and I am getting an average of 2 interviews per week from companies like Tesla, GM, SpaceX, and startups. Just love your craft and be good at it and you will be sought after, and you will make great things!
@@piotr5646 computer programming can be classified as a computer science,not electrical engineering.Electrical encompasses the hardware aspect of computers,you wouldn’t expect to be taught programming on just an EE degree.Now computer engineering, takes both worlds,computer science and EE and combines the two,maybe this is more what you seek?Im a computer engineering student myself.
@@piotr5646 computer programming is NOT like computer programming, computer programming is more like using logic and typing into a keyboard, EE is actually designing and manufacturing the things that computer programs can run on.
@@piotr5646 most EEs do code and programming is essential to the work of an electrical engineer however it's not always a necessary skill and it's more important for software engineers than EEs who are focused on the design of hardware
I think what's great about engineering is that you get a general understanding of all branches and can basically just choose what you want to work with depending on what you enjoy, regardless of what education you chose. I was struggling a lot with choosing either ME or programming. I then learned about CFD where I use all the knowledge of my ME degree, but basically write code all day.
@@yencytolentino4299 sure! Computational Fluid Dynamics "CFD" is used to model and simulate how fluids like air and water behave. I work with pumps and flow field iterations therein. How different geometries will affect the flow and thereby power consumption
I am interested in cars, motorbikes and jet fighters. I really like mechanical engineering but all my relatives and friends are saying everything is shifting away from machines to electronic devices. What should i do. Shall i choose Mechanical or Mechatronics I'm at a crossroad, because with mechanical, i can do what i love,that is building engines But with Mechatronics,can i build an engine while also building a computer to control the engine?
The way u diffirentiated electrical and mechanical engineering using the human body, was creativity at its peak. The way you advised on how to choose a course to persue by looking at the topics one enjoyed in high school, was incredible. Lastly, giving us an open mind on how u can relate the two(ee & me) no matter wat u specialise in, is a very big motivation in the engineering field. Long live science.
Great breakdown of the difference between the degrees. As a BSEE and now an MD, I would add that the EE degree has more electives and is more flexible. My first computer was a slide rule.
At least in Australia, a big part of electrical engineering is working with power (which is something you didn't discuss - perhaps it's less of a focus area in American universities). A lot of the electromagnetism that we learn is to prepare us for working with power lines, converting electrical power into mechanical work through motors (and vice versa for generators), and safely and efficiently transmitting power across large distances. I'd personally break down the career trajectories of EE into: 1. Power engineer - You'll be working in industry or on the power grid, on the generation, transmission or use of electrical power. This can mean maintaining the grid, helping companies select the right motor for a particular application, integrating a new housing development or building into the grid (and modelling power consumption, etc) 2. Analog - This is really the heart of EE. This involves designing electronic circuits using Resistors, Capacitors, opamps, etc. A lot of analog circuitry relates to communications, audio and power (converting AC to DC) 3. Digital/Embedded engineer - heavily programming focused; your job will be to design programs that will be run on microcontrollers and interact with sensors. There are also audio and Telecommunications engineers, who are have an EE qualification
Nowadays there's also Mechatronics engineers who focus heavily in the automation industry, machine designs and so on They study mechanical, electrical and also electronics though all in a slightly lesser depth compared to purely Mechanical, Electrical or EE (Electrical & Electronics)
@@etjh6560 afaik in most unis you can only pursue mechatronics for your last year/postgrad of MEng (or other engineering fields depending on the university).
Back then I wanted to study ME because my friends also did that. But during an Internship my colleagues said that ME is about excavators: heavy, bulky, dirty and metal stuff. He recommend EE to me and I followed his advice. Now I am about to finish my master degree and super happy that I chose EE.
Glad you're happy with your choice. But if I'd been there during that discussion with your colleagues I would have mentioned one of my favorite E.E. T.A.'s who used to tell us about digging ditches in Africa installing power grid infrastructure and the M.E.'s I knew who spent their days in front of computers in air-conditioned offices doing C.F.D. modelling. 😁
Buddy I think heavy mud excavators are associated with civil engineering Mechanical and electrical are more similar to each other They even teach some EE classes in ME
I’ve always wanted to become an Electrical engineer, but I felt I was too dumb, so I became apprentice electrician instead, the job was ok but I wasn’t content, I left my job 2 months ago and enrolled in a community college currently I’m playing catch-up, i’m in College alg and I will be taking summer and winter semester so I can get my associates in 2 years and then hopefully transfer to get my bachelors degree, I watch all your vids and you tips and vids are the reason I’m pursing my dreams.
You got it my man, having the electrician background is gonna give you a huge advantage. Lots of the people in my classes don’t really understand the practical aspects of EE at all, just the theoretical stuff, which is definitely important but only part of the picture
I'm actually in the same position. Not sure whether you'll see this. I wanted to be a computer hardware engineer, I was getting horrible grades in CC and decide to go HVAC. I went into the HVAC field because I wanted to troubleshoot. I then started learning some python and html. And was planning on becoming a coder, but as I was learning this I still felt that I wanted to deal with hardware and create something more tangible, but similar. Anyways I'm rambling but seriously I hope everything goes well for you.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm starting university soon and want to choose a engineering degree that interests me. I could choose mechatronics but it is alot harder. So far I'm leaning to mechanical.
I just started my undergrad Electrical Engineering. It helps to have at least an understanding of electrical! But either is a blast to be apart of and getting to do labs is super fun!. It is a LOT of work but as long as you visualize all the cool things you can do in engineering in the future and remember, it'll all be worth it in the end. Happy studying fellow engineers, we got this! :D
I have an undergrad in EE and I had no understanding of electrical when I started. My professor in my first engineering class said to us “it’s ok if you don’t know anything about engineering, cause you will learn it here.” After I heard that I felt a lot better. It’s ok not to have any prior knowledge of ur major , that is what college is for, to learn.
As an ME student, it's definitely EE that's more difficult. Just the fact that it's more theoretical because the people there work with literal imaginary numbers (i), and that's just one of the many reasons why.
@@hhhuthhhjj5599 Bro I don't fear math, I enjoy doing it in my free time. I'm just saying that the math in EE is more difficult. If I say multiplication is more difficult than addition, that doesn't mean I'm struggling at multiplication lmao.
At start i was also stuck at this question should i chose ME or EE? But at last I choose I choose EE and I didnt regret it i am right now doing EE. It is so cool you will interact with how robots works and circuits.. I dont know how people call it to difficult to visualize. For me it is so cool that everything you study at the time when u peroform it in lab is same it is so cool.... But i would suggest everyone that choose major with your interest . Thanks :)
@@abdullahmaqsoodhere good question, well I look at it as a spectrum, I also like civil, biomedical/biological, chemical, aerospace, etc. so doing mechanical gives me the broadest scope. I want to maximize my possibilities and I want to work in different areas, I may specialize in biomedical engineering. Either way my bread and butter I would like to be mechanical engineering
I am an electrical engineer. If you like to do small embedded systems electrical engineering better prepares you for those kind of projects. I know lots of mechanical engineers that never touched a microcontroller, which is a shame
This is the best video on channel, ME and EE has been a big struggle to narrow down and pick on for me. I am a third yr ME student and still idk if its the right thing for me or EE because I honestly love both same level and I chose ME since its broader. I can’t really change my major to EE rn cz its late and idk if its possible by any chance to work as EE in the future if i acquire and demonstrate the skills of EE job without the need to go back to college for EE degree, i hope i can, because its really hard to know what im gonna enjoy working on until i try it
Ive heard a lot of success stories from people who graduate with one type of engineering degree, yet specialize in another. An example is my dad , who did his undergrad in mechanical engineering but his PhD in Civil. Dont be too scared about your choices being narrowed down due to your degree. You can always do a masters or PhD in a field similar enough to your own. Look into it, and dw. Cheers
I am an ME and CS minor and I have a job offer to work with radar, which I was able to do because I focused a lot of my experience on simulation and modeling of mechanical and thermodynamic systems (rockets, jet engines) so the manager who interviewed felt that would be enough to switch to radar. Most of what you learn in engineering industry is anyways self taught, so if they see you're a good candidate they'll just hire you
@conacal rubdur didn't see this till now. I haven't started my job yet, so I don't know too many details about the role yet. But when I asked how to prepare they told me to read a radar systems textbook (that explains the electromagnetic and signal processing aspects) and brush up on some scripting languages. So im getting the sense that it's less structural and im hoping that it won't be structural as I don't really want to be a solid mechanics kind of engineer.
My academic background is Cinema and Physics = OPTICS, i was into Lenses design, etc. but when I got to be PROFESSIONAL I had to learn Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Chemical and NUCLEAR engineering = the learning you have to do never really does not stop and EVERYTHING is very HARD if your work gets to be at top 1% in your engineering field profession = NOTHING is just EASY
Although I haven't watched the video yet, I'm just going to go on a hunch and say that electrical engineering is harder because of all the abstract concepts that have to be visualized and that cannot be seen when working practically
Same bro. I’m getting all my gen-eds done and so I really haven’t taken any hard classes. I’m really nervous but excited. I start calculus and engineering graphics next semester though.
Hello Tamer. I have been watching your channel for the last few days. As a first semester student in mechanical engineering I have to telling you seeing you is really pushing me forward in studying when feeling hopeless about it. I just wanted to ask on your opinion about when you’d suggest me or us to start looking for interns and getting into coops (mind you I’m currently fully occupied with the uni courses to get used to it). Thanks!
Ideally as soon as possible. But, if you're stressed in your first year of engineering, then start the hunt after your first year. That way, you focus on your university work at first.
There is also a control engineering aspect that you can divert from basically any engineering branch, and it is more like applied math. Also, after graduation, you can say I decided to change my major and do graduate study in any composite engineering branch. You can study anything with just 1 extra year of preparation. I am talking with professors ranging from biology - EE - ME - biomechanics - biomedical etc. All of them seem plausible for graduate study. So maybe just focus on math and do 1 or 2 good enough projects in it?
I find both kinds of engineering very interesting, but what killed it for me was circuits in High School, this thing single handedly made my grades go lower than ever before. It was so counter intuitive at the time, I would think I was doing the wrong thing and mark another answer, buth the first one was right. I realized I would end up killing someone if I did that in real life so I went ME all the way.
Thank you for making this. I‘m graduating high school this year and since there’s no option for a bsc. in robotics, which I was aiming for, I have to decide on which to choose from EE and ME but I’m starting to get a better idea now thanks to your explanation.
No offense, but I think you need to spend a bit more time working in industry and getting exposure to what ME's in different areas *actually* do. Walk into a grad school computational mechanics department and say "EE's do harder math" and you will get coffee thrown at you. I've never designed a keyboard... that is what product developers do. Real Mechanical Engineers do stress analysis, fracture mechanics, creep life calculations, design the flaps on airplanes, build rockets, reactors, suspension systems... For god sake, ME's built the Apollo moon lander man... and you picked headphones as an example?
The thing is, Electrical Engineering is simply harder than Mechanical. I study Mechanical and a friend of me studies Electrical and we often compare the stuff we learn and the exams as well. It's easy to tell Electrical is the harder of the two
One thing I always note on these videos that talk about ME or EE, is that they always focus on product development stuff. The description of these fields is quite different in the heavy process industries (oil and gas, pulp and paper, specialty chemical, mining, power generation, etc.). I do partially blame that on the universities because they push things like mechanitronics super hard but often neglect things like thermal fluid process design (quite different from HVAC).
I'm a licensed ME so I'm a bit biased obviously, but I actually bothers me when I see this type of thing because it paints a ridiculous picture of what ME is as a profession. I don't make keyboards, I make power plants. I'm sure that there is some ME involved in the development of headphones, but that is such an unusual example that it's hardly worth mentioning. It seems like the majority of people who make videos like this are fresh out of school and have virtually no idea what industry is actually like.
I understand where you're coming from. Working in heavy process industries is something that mechanical and electrical engineers can do as well and I probably should've talked more about it. The reason I didn't mention it as much was because I have been exposed mainly through the tech side of mechanical and electrical engineering. Also, with this video, I'm trying to show that engineering isn't all heavy, dirty, and bulky machinery...but it can actually have an aesthetic side too.
@@TamerShaheen ME is so broad and the overlap with EE is becoming much greater as ME programs adapt to technological changes, so there will be exceptions to anything you say. With that said I think it should be mentioned that the mathematics in ME depend largely on the emphasis. The fluids, thermo, and heat transfer route have mathematics with difficulty on par with anything in electrical, especially at the graduate level where many of those courses reside. It sounds like you got a small taste from your 3rd year fluid mechanics course as you had a note of 'lots of math'. Also a robotics emphasis has programming on par with the electrical majors as well with industry wages to match. But your video was looking most at the manufacturing emphasis and contained good content from that angle. Just a few ideas for future videos.. overall nice video.
That was really a helpful and reliving video. I used to look for infos like these on yt 1 year ago. That's how i found u though. But i think yt back then didn't have enough resourceful contents like yours
I am an EE and would not recommend double majoring. Just pick whichever one you want to do more, if you still like both do a mechatronic, robotics, electromechanical, or some other major like that, but it won't be offered everywhere.
There are some niche combinations, I’m doing Ecen at my school which is electrical and computer engineering(learning the hardware and software side of computers). I’m not sure if I would recommend it. I end up having to explain my major to interviewers and a lot are impressed, but some doubt that I would be as good a programmer as someone focusing on one area like a cs major, even though I take all the same classes.
I have a B.S. in Mechatronic Engineering, to sum it up you pretty much learn everything you need to know as a mechanical engineer to design a mechanical system, then you learn everything on the EE/SW side to automate it.
@@fatimadarling9656 it's all about familiarity on the subject. electrical engineering is easy for me because i have studied it for 4 years and now working on it.
I have a Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering and are close to finishing my electrical engineering master. Not common/easy to switch, but possible.
Bro you're amazing and it blows my mind how knowledgeable you are. Hoping to be like you some day. I was a bright student in high school then college made me careless. Your tips are really useful and I'm definitely using them to get back on track!
I think electrical engineering is way easier than mechanical engineering. As a student of mechanical engineering in college and learning electrical engineering by self with open sources, i have come to known from very young age that electrical engineering is way easier than mechanical engineering. The concept that we can understand things better by visualising them is overrated. Most people just cant do that because they dont have the imagination power to do that. And practicing mechanical engineering in real life is way harder than practicing electrical engineering. P.S.:This is just my opinion
Hi Tamer! I know that you’re not an electrical engineer and are a mechanical engineer, but I was wondering if you help me with a project I’m trying to build. Recently, I’ve been trying to build an electric bike for a school project, and I’ve been running into problems regarding sparking and fire. For the bike, I bought a 350w 24v electric motor that comes with a gear sprocket attached to it. I plan to mount a similar but larger sprocket on the rear wheel and attach a chain connecting the rear wheel’s sprocket to the motor’s sprocket, which will in theory turn the bike. The battery im using is a 22.2v 1400mah lipo battery that has a xt60 connector. The motor has 2 exposing wires to power the motor with, so in order to connect the battery to the motor, I bought a xt60 to wire adapter to connect both of them. I also bought a small electric switch to turn on and off the motor when I use it. Everything seemed to make sense, until I decided to plug it in. When the parts came, I attached the battery to the adapter, and the adapter to the motor, and then a loud spark occurred. The motor powered on and still works till this day, but everytime I connect everything, a loud spark occurs, and some of the connectors have burn marks on them. Everything works well, but a spark occurs everytime and leaves burn marks on some of the connectors, and once started a small fire. Is it possible if you could tell me why this is occurring, and what to do to fix it?
I don't know how it is in america but here in Europe the bachelor of mechanical engineering has also parts in informatic and electrical engineering. For example I'm an mechanical engineer student with direction energy and i have done plenty of stuff in mechanical and elcectiracl engineering.
Just wondering if Electrical Engineering (EE) and Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) a single program in the states. I'm from the Philippines and they are separate programs.
It’s crazy how you explained the courses for Mechanical, last semester I completed statics and now this semester I’m doing dynamics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, got me excited for this degree 😂. Got any tips for fluid mechanics questions? I find some of the tutorial questions difficult 😞
I take the course Electrical Engineering but I really wanted to learn to create a PCB is there also time that we will create a pcb when I'm at this course?
I'm doing mechanical engineering, but now I think I enjoy more like electronics and also want to learn robotics, means towards mechatronics. Give me some advice what should I do? I've completed 2 years.
But what if i want both? I both like making moving stuff especially stuff like machines for factories and planes, but i'm also really interested in antennas/radios and how to work with them and achieving processes through building analog circuits...
It's crazy how I didn't take so many classes you mentioned for electrical engineering. Struggling to find a job for it since COVID messed up a lot of opportunities.
@@virajp8726 nice, glad for you! How do you think engineering for people who good in math, physic etc? If I'm dumb, should I even look at the engineering side? XD
Mmm strange, in Italy Electrical Engineering deals with most of what you said, but we don't take so many programming lectures and instead we focus on power distribution, electrical motors, electrical machines, machine design and so on. In Italy Electrical Engineering is much more like Electromechanical engineering. In fact, like 40 years ago its name was Power Electronics Engineering, and I seriously prefer to use electromagnetism and Newtonian physics to build electrical motors that studying algorithms and data structures (and I can tell this because, as a bechelor, I am a computer engineer)
It depends what college you go to, in my college it focuses on what he discussed in video but in the college 3 hours from where I live they focus more on power like you said
As Tamer said in the video, Mechatronics is for you if you like both electrical and mechanical engineering. Basically if you both like to make and design the circuits as well as the mechanical body, Mechatronics is the one for you (you'll probably be doing robots and such). If you don't like electrical or it's too hard for you, mechanical is better. Hope it helps! (and anyone correct me if I'm wrong) ^_^
I’m looking to do some type of engineering and my college it says mechanical engineering is both mechanical and electrical maintenance tasks do you think that would be better than picking either mechanical or electrical engineering
yo loved the creative analogy you made, that ME is like one's skin and skeleton and EE is like one's brain and nervous system haha😆 and for sure CS def comes with the heftiest paycheck 💵
