Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Hardest Engineering Major and How To Learn It" video.

AEROSPACE engineer here: Sorry to call your prof out but its BULLSHlT that electrical engineering is the hardest. Its not close to either aerospace or nuclear engineering. Due to various outcomes I have spent most of my career in industrial control systems and automation. So I have done a fair amount of electrical engineering and know what it is and isn't. WHAT MAKES Aerospace and Nuclear engineering so much harder is the additional maths classes needed to get the required skills to do things like (in my case) aerodynamics, propulsion, orbital mechanics and the hardest class I ever took Spacecraft Dynamics. I don't know how far you are into your degree but if you like I'll let you know why I found some classes horrendously hard and others more palatable and others MORE USEFUL. Sorry but they all sort of suck in their way its just that some suck worse than others.
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@LT72884 I have actually spent most of my career working in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. So I have a lot more experience working as an electrical than as an aerospace. I can tell you for a fact that there's nothing in electrical that's close to the harder aspects of aerospace. Don't get me wrong there's some seriously hard stuff in Electrical. I did 2 options in electrical as an undergrad. 1 was so easy a high school kid could pass it and the other was damn difficult. It was in semiconductors, which I thought would be interesting. It was all about the actual theory of doping and how you create semiconductors with particular properties. So it was a weird combination of physics, electrical and some bizarre math. So I know how hard their classes can be as well as working in the field. PID tuning is a snap as most systems have auto-tuners which do most of the work for you before you even start. Most of automation and electrical is actually developing the knowledge base of what components are available from which suppliers so that you can integrate components into a solution. I hate to tell you but that knowledge base only comes with time out their solving problems. What I would tell any young engineer is that to be very careful getting into large companies straight out of college. Yes there's career pathways, but you can also become indoctrinated into a lot of false beliefs. I have encountered a lot of really good young engineers who simply could not function outside of the company they first joined. In a few cases it took a lot of hard work to re-educate them.
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