What Is Electrical Engineering? 

Hey everyone, yes I have done many videos on EE but the one's on "why is EE a difficult major" have seemed to scare some people in terms of the major which is never the intention of these videos. Tried a different delivery with this one to replace those, hope this gives a good overview of just what to expect. For those just coming across the channel there are many more videos on EE as I mention at this end of this video that you can find in the description. Hope you enjoy!

This is the kind of information that a typical high school kid would need when they inevitably ask the question. 'Why are we studying this stuff'? If a teacher can then go into to this and answer questions while doing it. That is a real teacher. Most teachers actually don't know the answer.

You forgot crying.

general people really confuse engineers with technician

i watched this video back in 2020 before starting my first electrical engineering year, one year from now i will be getting my diploma in electrical engineering, specifically in telecommunication engineering and everything said in this video is so true thank you Zach for guiding me through my journey and goodluck for all electrical engineers enthusiasts out there!

I am an electrical engineer. Graduated this year with a First Class Honors from University of Nairobi. It's the best choice one could ever make. Trust me.❤️❤️❤️❤️

I'm back in college at 32. Looking to get an EE degree. I'm on my third semester. I have 10 years experience in graphic design. My focus is alternative energy and EV. I also bought an Arduino to practice building circuit and to do project.

As an electrical engineering student myself, your videos are extremely helpful and honestly invaluable. This is the stuff that no one tells you but is so important. These videos have really helped me narrow my focus and prepare for the future. My roommate said after watching a video, "man I really wish I knew this when I was starting out". Thank you!

Having studied electrical engineering 25 years ago in Germany, it's good to see that this field is very stable even across countries. I had about 90% of the same classes.

The most thing in my life I'm proud of is that I'm an ELECTRICAL ENGINEER!!

Great video! I'm an EE major I can confidently say this is a well-described summary. I would suggest a video comparing Electrical and Computer Engineering, and maybe benefits for those doing both as dual.

You are my motivation to choose electrical engineering !!Awesome!

The information you’ve provided with all these videos is so helpful, please keep up the good work

Thank you for this video, its awesome! It helped me regain some motivation even if i'm already in my early stages of my major :) Love you!

Studying may suck at times but in between our dreams and success, there's surely a lot of midnight studying and coffee breaks that's going to happen. Most of the people reading this are probably waiting for an exam to happen as well. This pandemic surely has caused others to loose their motivation. Some have lost that exam vibe and it's quite difficult to bring back our old self - the one who was always motivated to study every day. You won't always be motivated but you can be determined to keep going no matter how hard it gets. Hard work will never disappoint you because every second of it is going to pay off. One day, we will all be taking that exam that we have been preparing for. For now, let us focus on our goals. Keep studying and be consistent. That license is waiting for you! ❤️

Love your videos, very informative. I love it, keep up the amazing work.

I'm a fourth-year undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering student and I really wished I had this video when I started at my University or when applying for majors at my college. This video is honestly a really great overview of what was to come. Having done all these courses already, I can see the bigger picture now. But at the time of starting out, I often questioned why I was taking these courses, other than we had to. Your video is still really helpful, even now, since job interviews are coming up and I've forgotten some of the material that I am supposed to know.

Thanks for this video man! Im a 2nd year engineering and I love that EE is so broad and with one degree you can do anything and work anywhere!

I am a highschool student who is struggling with choosing a major. Electrical Engineering was an option I had in my head. This is has been of so much help, I can't even begin to put it in words. THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS!

You Zach Star have got the best engineering degree overviews on RU-vid that I've seen by far. I really love how you break everything down in such simply terms and it is really giving me a lot of insight on what I should do in life. With that being said I'm still a little hung up on whether I should do Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering. That right now is my biggest toss up with what major I should go with. At first I was leaning on the Computer Engineering side. However, this video is really making me lean towards the Electrical Engineering side. So I guess I need at least one more video on the types of classes that Computer Engineers take and if I see that then maybe I will be able to make a decision.

Your explanation skill is really good. Thank you very much and keep up the good work.

This sounds hard asf. Yall is insane for doin this.

This video was really really helpful. Thanks a lot. This is the kind of info that should be wide spread among high school students and freshers in tertiary institutions

Great content as always man, I gotta start tweeting out your channel on different people's pages to get you some more traffic because these are extremely useful to college students like me or even high school students and below. I think people should know that it is very difficult but that they are capable of a lot more than they think, it's not like every engineer and scientist was a genius or even exceptionally gifted. I'm studying Electrical Engineering and plan on working for a year or two then getting my PhD in Applied Physics. I wanted to ask you if you could do a video on undergraduate research? I'm very interested in doing that in the two summers during my actual Engineering program. (I'm doing my pre-reqs and getting my AA at Community College before I transfer to Uni.) Thanks mate, keep it up!

Damn, I was unsure of wether i wanted to pursue a degree in EE or if I should switch to ME, but this video makes me exited to go into electrical. Thanks!

Brilliant video, I'm switching from math to electrical engineering, due to the fact that I need a job when I finally get out of school

Great video, covered all the bases and pretty accurate across the board

this was a really helpful video, I am looking at entering school for this degree when in the next year, and this has really excited me.

Great video, some things that need to be discussed is how hard some of these classes are. If people can get passed calc 1-4 and phys 1-3. You still have fields 1 and 2, which is wild and signals and systems good luck.. Just focus and ccncentrate on studying and no negative energy, you guys got this.

Never watched a video that's so detailed before

Awesome video, thank you for your work! Please do lots more electrical engineering videos

Great and helpful content as always!

Good video! Also, all EE students at my school had to take a couple programming classes. This should be required everywhere. Having programming knowledge is imperative as it complements your skills with embedded systems, signal processing, controls, and many other engineering disciplines. EE and computer science are actually much more related than people think, I actually double majored in them because they overlapped enough.

This video was really well done. Thank you!

I really wish to be an electrical engineer soon!! I figured that I can use my prior experience being on a competitive robotics team to help me out with it as well. I've always been interested in this field and I didn't realize there were different types of electrical engineering 😱

Sometimes I really want to just give up and walk away from EE, but something, no matter how hard the labs or exams are, always brings me back.

As an Eletrical ingeniering student i must say that this video was extremely accurate interms of our current an future courses. A very good video to watch for people who is interested in the electrical engineering.

Thank you so much for the video! It is really informative.

First year computer engineering student at Cal Poly SLO! Love these videos my dude

Thankyou, will reach you back once I finish my bachelors in electrical engineering.

thanks men. thanks to you and your videos i decided to choose my right major.

Sweet video! Thank you for the information.🙏

MajorPrep, Can you make a video on Optical Engineering, the majors you should take to specialize in it, ir a job fields and stuff?

Love your video! Do more EE and EET videos please!

Great job guys keep up the good work.

Bro. I watched this video years ago to see wtf I was even getting myself into. I'm glad I watched this and some of your other videos going into more depth. It helped me choose what I was interested in. I'm now an EE and this video popped back up in my feed. Just came back to say thanks for the info

Informative..keep up the good work

Very good video. Stressing WHY something is important to learn is key to understanding the subject matter. The video also does an EXCELLENT job of explaining what college is and isn't. College is meant to give you foundational knowledge in a certain area. Then you build expertise from there with further education and experience. Good job.

Thank you for your videos they are very helpful!

Wish you were around when i was in High school and contemplating what field i should major in. Your videos break down all the STEM majors for a beginner, and gives them an overview of what to expect. I would have chosen EE as my major and not Computer Science had i known the overview of both.

What a brilliant way of explaining how we academically approach electrical engineering :)

@zachstar Your videos have given me great insight into each engineering branch and it's cons and pros. It took me a lot of time to pick between mechanical and electrical engineering, I'm a bit more than halfway done with Mech Eng and couldn't be happier. But I still am very interested in electrical engineering and it's systems implementations. I'm going to take electromechanical systems FEA as electives. That will help me dip my toes in it. But I am debating if I should get a masters in Mechatronics or go back in a few years to get an electrical engineering degree as well. I have looked everywhere and asked some advisors and professors about this, did not get much insight into my dilemma, and decided to come here to ask your opinion. What would you say is the best approach?

Thanks for the video Zach. I'm interested in creating/designing computer devices etc. I pressume this field would be perfect for me. I'm already working in IT but interested in learning this field to branch out a bit.

Great video! really sums up what knowledge is needed for this area of study without being overly simplified like most other videos describing what EE is

This is an excellent video. Could you make one on electromagnetics engineering?

Great video again! Very informative. Can you do some videos on environmental engineering as well ? :)

Thank you so much for this video sir !!

Electrical engineering is a field of technical research and application related to electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. This field became the first important and career-related formation of it in the late 19th century after telegraph and electricity power supply entered commercialization.

Hey bro. Please make a video on engineering physics(as a major in itself!). What are my career prospects, stuff I can learn etc???

Hi +MajorPrep can you do a separate video for Electronics Engineering (ECE)? Because I think it covers a different topic than Electrical Engineering. Your response will be appreciated. :)

Great video, thanks for sharing.

You forgot to say about the main subject -"ELECTRICAL MACHINES" ( Its about alternators ,motors and synchronous machines)

I'm glad this dude immediately started talking about the subfields of electrical engineering.

Stuck in Trig... I'll keep pushing. Thanks for the awesome video!

This is a great and informative video. As a first year college student who is majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering and minoring in Computer Science, what field of Electrical Engineering would you recommend to use my degrees to their fullest?

I wish I knew this when taking this course...now I have complete my 1 year..only 3 more years to go thank for the info

Great channel! Hope you get more subs

Thanks for this information.

Excellent introduction tutorial 🙏

Thank you Zach this is really informative wanted to get in to the field when I was younger but for one reason or another never did 👍🏼😁 this is great

Hey could you do some more videos on some of the sciences such as Chemistry, or Biology?

Great video! Have you ever considered doing a podcast, id be definitely interested in listening since Im doing EE too!

I see many back to Uni at different age. I am 40 with a BSc and MA in Business, with my own company but I start EE in BSc in couple of days! Exciting and scary in the same time. Some years ago I swore I would not be back to uni anymore... and here I go!! EE is the only engineering field where you dont need drawing skills. I have none! Engineers are cool - they make the world go forward!

Ide love to do this, I’m just unsure if I have the capability

Great video! People who are thinking of going to EE should check this video out before making a decision

I don't know if you usually take requests, but I am going into a really niche major in the fall and I would love to know a bit more about the jobs and practical applications of it going in. If you could do one of these style video about Photonics/Optical Engineering that would be really cool!

Very informative, thank you

I wish I saw this channel before going to college.

I love the way he those these I haven't done any of these Crouse's as yet in college but I've done them in highschool and because off they look like they so hard ppl don't do them but there actually some what easy n he made that clear

Hi Zach I was wondering if you could do a video over electrochemical engineering? Thank you!

Pleaaaase one like this for MECHATRONICS engineering😭

Iam a electrical and electronics engineer (EEE) from INDIA.keep doing lot in our field

That's really helpful, thanks. I think I'm going to go into avionics.

You should make a video on what is Geomatics Engineering. :)

The transistor example at 10:50 is showing a BJT which is current controlled unlike a MOSFET which is the voltage controlled transistor.

Great content

I'm 14 years old, and I was instantly interested in electricity and electronics when I was a kid. I LOVED electrical systems and electronics. All I can say is thank you for the video, I hope that I'll get into university with electrical engineering

In Mechatronics I learned the basics, like Parallel, Series, AC, and DC circuits, some mathematical equations and other integral stuff.

Please do a video on engineering physics

Electrical engineering is more than what you mentioned here. Additional comprehensive specialties and interdisciplinary ones: Qunatum computing, Detection/Estimation, MIMO signal processing, PNT, Radar Systems, Robotics, Acoustic Signal Engineering, Computational EM, photonics, Lasers, magnetohydrodynamics "plasma physics".

I be watching every of your videos! I have a question though. Do you recommend me study Programming or math at home? Because I know Electrical Engineers don’t take many programming courses, so that’s why I was thinking of studying programming at home because I also love hardwares so I can have a basic knowledge of programming. But I also was thinking of studying math, so when I enter college I don’t get intimidated specially because I forgot a lot about Algebra 1/2. What do you think should be better studying at home before entering college(in about 5 month). Good video by the way!

Again man, love your videos, especially this one since I'm an EE student haha. Just wanted to throw out some ideas for future videos. I realize that I can't remember every video you've done so I may repeat something you've already covered. Fair warning, I put down a decent amount but I love your content and the way you present topics so I know they would be great. 1. Undergraduate Research, including research in related but different fields from your major and how to get accepted for it. 2. I would LOVE for you to do a video on Game Theory and Probability and Statistics and their importance in fields of Engineering, Physics, and other domains of science. It's something I'm trying to learn the basics of on my own and is unbelievably important and relevant in every branch of society. 3. Another video on Artificial Intelligence and some of the specific problems like the alignment problem. 4. Maybe some tips on getting into Grad school, specifically, can an Engineer study physics in grad school and vice versa? 5. The emerging and increasing importance of programming and computer science across many fields of science and how you can learn some of that stuff on your own. 6. Maybe a video on Quantum Computing and what you might study to work in that field? 7. Plasma Physics, specifically what you need to study to work on Nuclear Fusion research. 8. Genetics, specifically with a view to working in research areas like CRISPR. 9. Economics. 10. Cognitive Science. 11. Nuclear Physics and Engineering. (Can't remember if you've done a video on this one or not.) Ok that's all I can think of haha. Thanks again for the content.

Hi. I am currently trying to work on my math, science, and language arts skills. I wonder if you can do a video covering technical writing and how much reading and writing STEM majors use. As you see, I am working and trying to get into a decent college. So I thought that those three skills are the most important skills because they seem like important technical skills to work on as an accomplished industry professional, which applies to most industry professionals.

I am almost one year away from getting my Electrician Journeyman’s license. I’ve been planning to pursue an EE program for a few years now, but I wanted to get some field experience to learn more about how all of this applies to the real world. Super nervous about the math but I’m super excited! Excellent video!

Ngl, you've opened my eyes to how interesting Engineering can be. The electives I chose were Physics and Software Engineering, so still STEM, but I had no idea about how much I liked these fields (except physics and somewhat math). I liked stuff like chemistry, software engineering, computer engineering, etc. but I didn't really LOVE something except physics. I also had no idea what jobs I would be able to get with these fields. Now I am switching my elective from SE to EE and it's basically the only subject I love as much as physics. Thank you

Thank you so much!

After finishing my bachelor in EEE i can agree that this video shows everything what I learn in college

Very helpful, thank you

I'm an EET major and this pretty much covers it. The only difference is EET focuses more on labs and practical application. There's also less math courses.

The tech part of electrical engineering sold me. I hate coding but I'd love to work and design technology