mechanical build thanks and guns, bio-eng builds bioweapons, chemical builds bombs, computer comunication photonics makes you see dark on battlefield or dont be seen and the he forget the food engineering make MRE and supplies
My natural tendency is to come here to say something sarcastic about engineers but I’ll be serious for a change. My grandfather was a district (civil) engineer in India. I was really close to him but he died when I was young. Years later I went to see a bridge, the construction of which he led (I also broke Indian law by taking a photograph lol). I remember thinking how amazing it was that that bridge outlived him and will outlive me. This monument to him and his team had helped god knows how many thousands of people. Not many jobs let you leave such huge legacies. So much work in this video, amazing stuff.
It's always funny seeing a channel I watch near religiously appear in the comments on another channel I watch with the same fervor. I'd love to know your sarcastic engineer comment. My friends consist of ~90% engineers and doctors so we like to give each other a hard time about how we thought about med school but didn't think it'd be challenging enough and vice versa (if you can't tell I'm an engineer). We also get into weird discussions because engineers want everything to work by a set of hard rules but the human body is so complex that you often can't apply hard systems thinking to it (Or so my cardiologist friend tells me every time I ask him a question. I still don't believe him).
@@rubenverster250 I hope you’re like me and have comments like “I’m not sure why it works this way but not the other way. If something’s broken it’s probably this block”
Top-tip - Instead of "mechanical engineering, optical engineering, software engineering, systems engineering and electrical and electronic engineering" it's acceptable to say "mechanics, optics, software, systems, and triple-E"
@@TheMixxon2 Yeah, I'm a mechanical engineer. It's just lazy shorthand and it's fairly common in some places. Tell me more about my profession though.
The fun thing about being an engineer is that multidisciplinary knowledge is as valuable, or sometimes even more valuable, then specialized knowledge. I, for instance, am a civil engineer specialized in structural engineering. But I work for an oil company as a software engineer, writing software that deals with structures of oil rigs and ships. I don't know about ships as marine engineers do, about oil rigs as petroleum engineers do, about software as software engineers do, but knowing a decent amount about all those areas got me a really good job.
By knowing that, do you Biomedical Engineering is a good field to major in ? Considering it tries to cover vast topics of electrical and mechanical engineering on a surface level.
If you can choose between being: -a master of only one trade or -a jack of all trades; master of none. Then I think the latter is better in the long run because it allows one to adapt to the complex challenges of life.
@@perfectsplit5515Agreed. Even more so in the new faster changing world. 50years ago one could practice your entire career in one specialized area. These days all fields evolve faster than one person can keep up with. Just understanding the principles of a few fields, and having a good internet connection, lets you manage a much more complex system and answer much more complex questions. Its almost wizardry by the standards of some decades ago. Quantum mechanics basically upset Einstein, but is all in a day's work now. Quite baffling.
@@darkrising8280as a current biomedical engineering student in senior year I think it is one of the hardest to kind of tell people what you do because you learn so much. So it’s a bit harder to get into “other” engineering jobs. Like you won’t commonly see a BME at raytheon or weapons. But you’ll easily see Mechanical or Electrical at a medical company. If you have an interest in medicine but don’t want to necessarily be face to face with patients YES I would recommend it. Do keep in mind there’s tons of paperwork especially dealing with the FDA. People with my degree at my work span every department, quality, lab personnel, R&D specialists, Manufacturing engineers, and more. However we are a biopharma company. Additionally you can go into research academia, or your own start up. Many people in my major enjoy research in academia and will stay there for a long time studying. There’s SO many things you can research with a BME degree, there’s hundreds of labs at my university. Similarly if you research something worth turning into a product you can start a startup and then hopefully make it as a company or!! get bought out and be rich. I would say BME is the jack of all trades engineer. I’ve learned coding, physiology, physics, mechanics, materials, chemistry, biology, and electronics. There are so many different paths with BME it is absolutely the best for someone who knows they want to do some engineering and enjoys medicine :)
This video has reminded me of no matter how well versed I am in my Electrical Engineering field, I am an expert of only a small portion of the whole Engineering map
which in turn is only a small portion of all of STEM and that is only a small part of all of of human knowledge, which is probably an incomprehensibly small part of all of all knowledge that could be acquired by humanity
I couldn't help but notice that areospace and chemical enigineering were on opposite corners of the map, and yet me (3rd year chemE) and my friend (3rd AreoE) can learn and exchange a lot of study material. The sheer number of times I have already asked them for fluids help, and helped them look over their energy and thermo problems with them is insane, and we are barely a month into our 3rd year. Me and them like joke that my degree is about preventing unwanted explosions, and theirs is about taking advantage of said explosions. But the more you take to people the more obvious it becomes how the fundamental of Math/science + stubbornness/problem solving really dont change. Its like speaking different dialects of the same language.
I really love what you said at the end about engineers having the "engineering mindset". I have a degree in Mechatronics and are currently getting a degree in Aerospace engineering, and the one true red string through both of them is what was taught to me at the very beginning of my studies: engineers are problem solvers. We try to analyse, structure, divide, test, iterate and solve given problems for the benefit of everyone. In order to do so, there is no "best engineering discipline", every situation requires different sets of skills and knowledge, and also like you said, ingenuity. Interdisciplinary knowledge is a very great asset in that regard. I believe having the engineering mindset just means, that you are not afraid to approach problems in a systematic way and work towards a solution, which very often involves teaching yourself new skills.
For those who didn't quite understand industrial engineering as it was only touched upon very briefly: Industrial engineering could be simply explained as more of a general engineering field focussed on the optimization of complex systems. How do we optimize flows in a factory? How do we prioritize? How do we create supply chains that are cost-effective, efficient and robust? Industrial engineering is huge and an integral part when it comes to producing and moving things and is basically the discipline that takes into account how we move information, goods, money, and other things through a system, physically and digitally. An example is the automotive production line. We're dealing with vast numbers and varieties of supplier parts coming in to one spot to be assembled. The factory needs to be set up in an optimized way, the internal logistics needs to function well to minimize down-time, and nowadays we are focusing more and more on external systems or entire supply chains and optimizing them. In industrial engineering we say that companies are no longer competing with other companies. Supply chains are competing with other supply chains. This is very complex and requires an engineer that is more of a generalist and has his or her hand in many cookie jars. Everything from economics and negotiations, to production engineering and supply chains.
Engineering is the Art of making a product work in a certain way. And industrial engineering the step back and looks at the process of manufacturing the product and making it work
My son’s an electrical engineer and I understand his work a teeny bit better after watching this. I love these maps! They are cool to look at and the information is explained and described beautifully. Thank you!
I'm an electrical engineer working on nanoelectronics , the field has expanded so much in recent years! Amazing time in the world my friend.... AMAZING TIME!
one thing i have noticed about engineering is how multidisciplinary the whole field is. My personal interests lie in thermal properties and the movement of energy, so I'm a mechanical engineer and i specifically like refrigeration cycles (AC, HVAC, refrigeration). Within that field, we have mechanical engineers that work in several areas that cross over into other disciplines. we have controls engineers that tune our controlled devices to get the desired thermal properties, we have software engineers designing predictive software to determine system behavior, and we have materials experts that know the properties of refrigerants inside and out. All of these people are Mechanical engineers in this case, but do interdisciplinary work at the crossover between 2 disciplines. its fascinating. Also, I'm glad you said mechanical is about energy conversion. throughout my schooling, everyone, including other MEs, would think i was crazy for saying that because they only focused on solid mechanics and couldn't recognize that that, too, is a energy related process.
I'm also an M.E that works in HVAC (specifically heating using gas). I work with E.E and Chemical engineers. The debates between disciplines can be one of the best parts of working in this field.
@@kushalsapkota3818 Do: Go to class and ask questions. Read ahead. Take clear and consistent notes. Be able to explain things in simple terms Work and rework homework problems Don't: Use chegg or similar homework solvers Skip class Get complacent or stagnant Put something off to last minute Panic
These maps remind me there are experts in each of these fields who have forgotten more about the subject than I will ever hope to know. When I become tempted to reject the counsel of experts, I will remind myself that I can almost always trust the consensus [of] experts to help me choose a path for myself. Thank you for another awesome video.
well. you can never trust an expert completely; any expert who tells you otherwise is going to make mistakes and should be trusted even less. but yes, people who have studied things deeply should be trusted to usually be right about some subset of things they've studied.
another thing, it's not just the experts speaking for themselves, they're speaking for the thousands of years of human ingenuity that went into figuring out what we know. If you spent 10 minutes thinking and think you found something nobody has ever thought of before, you didn't.
@@JohnSmith-kc6ov I think you nailed it. We are all the beneficiaries of the collective effort from millions of hard working dedicated people. Today's experts truly stand on the shoulders of giants. Thank you for your comment.
I was reading all the comments, and I see that almost everyone is some kind of engineer. I am not - I'm a performing musician and a personal trainer. But I loved this video. I am very curious about all kinds of things - physics, natural sciences, math, biology, etc. In order to become certified as a personal trainer I had to learn a lot about the inner workings of our body - bones, musculature, chemical processes.and so on. Your videos are just wonderful and give me insights into so many other topics. Thank you so much!
I am an engineer and an amateur musician. The things I learned in physics help me to be a better musician. The things I learned in math helps me understand music theory. And it doesn't end there. My engineering education helps me enjoy everything around me.
What is it with women finding the most useless skill and being "That's what I'm going to do 😊😊" Like seriously... Are y'all not capable of doing anything useful?
@@Kloppin4H0rses perhaps so, but i'm a financial (engineer) structuring complex ways (deals & transactions) how to fund (pay) for stuff, particularly large projects that hire all sorts of engineers... I can do it on a PC (thanks EE, software, chem, mech, mat. eng) or I can do scribble it in the dirt with a stick cave man style. Long / short, without the money, everyone is living in the stone-age or like an African in the bush. So there's that caveat...
I'm studying mechatronics engineering, and when the part about mechanical engineering comes in, I started to cry because I noticed again why I was studying this major and why I wanted to be an engineer: I really wanted to help people with their lives and make life easier, more accessible, and more efficient for people around the globe. Build stuff to help us. I haven't decided which specification I want to specialize in yet, but in these hard times, I'm glad I chose this path. To all engineers and engineering students, I respect you in that way. Let's make our world, with the power of science, bright, shining, peaceful, and painless! Not only for money, we shouldn't be smart minds under the control of capitalism. Don't forget why you chose to be an engineer! Never, even in the darkest of times. love from a future engineer!
I was set on pursuing a career in finance for the money…but I realized that I wasn’t going to be satisfied doing something I thought was merely a means to an end. I want to do something that leaves a positive impact on the world, and I think engineering will allow me to do that in some way. Thank you for making this, it really showed me the purpose engineers have and the utility they provide for the world. I know now that I want ti be an engineer, no matter how difficult the road is to getting there
Network Engineering?! Hey! That's me!! I suffer from imposter syndrome so being represented here is awesomely validating. Seeing all of the other fields represented here also helps bring into perspective how not-simple and not-obvious the problems in my field can be to solve. Very cool video! Love it as always!
Network Engineering is so underrated imo, we like to bully them in my uni saying they aren't engineers haha, just some banter (or at least used to) more and more students started seeing how Network engineering is so good as a career so people started switching to it so it's nice to see it getting some recognition
I've been a Network Engineer for over a quarter of a century, although I originally graduated as a biomedical engineer, and I'm also a Chartered Engineer. There should never be any imposter syndrome from being one. Provided, of course, you apply engineering principles and standards to your profession and don't become a pointy, clicky, next, next, done merchant!
i am a computer engineering student and i used to complain about some of the subjects like applied mechanics and thermodynamics because at that time, i thought they were irrelevant to computer engineering degree but thanks to your video, now i understand that all the disciplines of engineering are related.
I used to do the same stuff but reverse 🤣. I am a mechanical engineer so I need applied mechanics (almost all mechanics) and was always angry about how it's fair that I have to learn programming languages like python and matlab
This video is just incredible! I'm an electrical engineer and a particle physicist who works at CERN. I can say that most of the subjects you covered in this video are things we need to know to work there. :)
The one change I would make would be to move the power grid into electrical engineering, while it certainly does branch off into other domains of engineering at its core it is electrical engineering. In fact power is probably the oldest form of electrical engineering. Eventually electrical engineers figured out how to harness electricity to do other useful things but originally it was all about power distribution enabling the decoupling of power generation from power consumption.
Honestly, I think a good argument could be had for splitting it between Nuclear Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering- all of them contribute to the field, though I can see your point about EE having a major share. I personally had some comments (ChemE relies upon process controls, BioMEMS is a thing, etc), but for a generalized map- It works fairly darn well. The intersections of disciplines between all the engineering fields make making a map rather difficult, due to the many threads woven together in various sub fields.
As a nuclear engineer, I didn't like it being put up as a subcategory of Civil Engineering. It's certainly a bit about my pride about being different from everyone else, but we're also the only field that makes use of all four fundamental forces.
As a counterpoint, you can generate energy without ever converting it to electricity. You can have steam engines that transmit all of it's power to mechanical devices. Given how ubiquitous steam generators are to almost all energy generation and how they usually rely on transforming one type of energy into another, I believe it should be in the mechanical engineering section. Solar might be the exception.
@@lejogador The point was about the power grid, which always uses a turbine to transform mechanical energy into electricity, minus solar, not energy generation in general. Steam generators are almost always used to turn mechanical into electrical, especially when talking about the power grid.
As a civil/structural engineer, I loved this video. And I have a huge passion for computers which leads into electrical, and tons of other fields, and you nailed everything here. Amazing vid!
Are you still working towards becoming a licensed structural engineer, or are you already there? If you are, how was the SE exam, and how is structural engineering as a whole? I'm looking at structural as a possible focus, as I am now reaching the end of my sophomore year in my undergrad. I've always had an interest in it but I have heard some pretty concerning things about the difficulty of the field, and have not had the chance to talk to a lot of structural engineers about it.
@@olenb I love Structural Engineering. I got my PE almost 2 years ago, am signed up for the CA PE exams this autumn/winter, and may pursue my SE after that. Tho, to be honest, a PE does most the work unless you want to design skyscrapers, stadiums, hospitals, or big bridges/dams/etc. I do want to design some really cool stuff, but I also want to break into rockets somehow, so I'm seriously thinking about trying to get a job off in that field. I may even try and get an Aeronautics degree, which basically just sounds like a fun time lol. As for how hard the PE was, I passed it no problem first try, but my coworker had much more difficulty, never passing it after multiple tries. I can also tell from working with him that he had a limited internal, fundamental grasp of the material, and was more of a table puncher/equation muncher, and liked to let the software do the work. He could do the engineering job you asked him to do, carefully, but under exam conditions, with a question he didn't exactly study for, I totally understand why he would have trouble applying all his knowledge to a new scenario, he was used to that _other_ thing.
@@kindlin An additional degree in aeronautics sounds like it would be beyond me and my motivation lol, so good on you for wanting to pursue that further. I think designing large scale bridges and dams would be fantastic but I doubt I’d be able to get into that kind of thing until later in my career anyway, so I suppose that SE test really isn’t anything I need to worry about anytime soon, at least not until I get my FE and PE done. I’ve heard bad things about the FE though, and I plan to take it next year so I’ll have to see how that goes. I’ll be working an internship this summer building a smaller bridge over a small river, so I’m gonna try and get as much info as I can about the design process for bridges, since that’s what I’d ideally want to be doing within structural in the future. Regarding your coworkers situation, I am sometimes worried I will be finding myself in a similar situation, because sometimes with some of these subjects and problems in class I can see where you would need to apply the concepts, I just don’t know where to start, and if I do it oftentimes isn’t the right way to go. I really hope I can get better at that as I go through more of my classes, since I know I need to GET this stuff, I can’t just pass and hope that it’s enough knowledge to get me by. Thanks for the reply! I figured it might have been a bit of a long-shot considering your original comment was over a year old, but I was just very curious and wanted to ask.
@@olenb I can confirm this has gotten easier over time. I've had to completely change the way I look at problems, like realizing that literally everything matters, and you should think about each and every item and determined that even if that did fail, or not do what you thought it should, you would still be OK. If that is EVER not the case, a note must added, a comment must be raised, a question must be asked, to make sure that someone is thinking about this. I'm not sure if this really supposed to be our job or not, but in reality, we are the last line of defense against bad designs leaving your desk. Permit people can help with this, and your contractor and fabricator will often raise valid concerns, but it's always better to learn from those comments and improve your next design. Right now, we do large (and small) telecommunication installations (I've designed mounts for a small antenna on a roof, and I've done complex ginpole construction sequence analyses of 2,049-ft, 12-level guy towers), and you need to be quite sure you fully understand what you're asking each and every bolt and plate to do, or else something bad can happen. I've also worked on the analysis of failed towers that cost lives, so things, like the code level checks, and even other checks that may just occur to you, are all very important, and it's not just a job to go and do and be done with, it really is a career of serving the public's best interest, and trying to make every design safe, constructible, and as economical as possible. It's a fun job, really, but people can ask a lot of you, and sometimes you just have to say no and it messes a lot of stuff up, but you can't break physics, is what I always say. I think both the FE and PE went exactly as I expected. I was generally good with tests in school, and the FE was just an easier version of all the tests I had taken, where my school had something like a 94% first try pass rate on the FE for engineers (UW Seattle). The PE, I took a practice test, knew I had issues with hydro and soil as expected, and had some extra difficulty with traffic due to all of the half-remembered plethora of misc variables I was supposed to be able to solve for, but after reading a bit of my hydro, traffic and geos books from college (I read quite a bit of the geo book outright), I felt like I had a solid grasp of each topic. I retook my practice exam and did well, each question was asking things I now understood much better. The PE was just a natural extension of that. My secret weapon is breaking everything down to first principles. I can think more abstractly, sure, but at the end of the day, I try and break it all down to simple forces acting in simple ways, with bolts and plates and shapes all doing just what we expect of them. If it becomes too complicated to think about fully and break the problem down into discrete steps, you're probably approaching the whole thing the wrong way and should try a different route, maybe add a brace, or remove the eccentricity, etc. to simplify it into something that has less assumptions and variability.
I read a great popsci book on engineering last year called Structures and was stoked at the chapter dedicated to the properties of textiles. I was working in heavy duty textile manufacturing at the time and had an "oh duh" moment when i realised that the author of the book was a naval engineer, and one of the biggest clients we had at the factory was the australian navy - another one of those interdisciplinary things that was so obvious in hindsight! A funny thing the book mentioned was that in the 1920s or so a huge breakthrough was made in sail efficiency (re-orienting the fabric's bias with regards to the mast) but that breakthrough came from a Madeleine Vionnet, a fashion designer who created the bias cut dress
My background is in Mechanical Engineering. Though with this, I have been a design engineer for military spy planes and commercial jet engines. I have designed and built water filtration and microhydroelectric power in Africa. I was offered a contract as a nuclear propulsion engineer on submarines. Now for several years I have operated in mechanical and systems engineering within the field of space lasercom, or laser communication, which is an intersection between telecommunications and photonics/optics - which the industry calls Free Space Optical Communication (FSO). Each lasercom terminal (on a vehicle, a ground station, or a satellite in space) relies upon teams of software engineers, electronics, mechanics, optics, controls and simulation engineers to develop it, plus it relies on specialists in materials, processes, manufacturing, quality, and systems engineering. The domain of engineering which one is exposed to is fantastically broad, even for a single engineer!
I have a Question When engineers come up with concept designs for a product Is there a method they follow to calculate the dimensions of each part of their design? For example how did you determine the dimensions of the parts of your spy planes?
@@maalikserebryakov Yes, dimensions are driven by the function it needs to do, plus accounting for all the constraints on its design and manufacture. For complex things you start from the laws of physics (such as mechanics or aerodynamics), which you see late in highschool and in early college. From that you might develop the concepts with simple approximations (e.g. an approximation for the required swept area of the wings, or the required thrust for the engines). The next step might be a 2D or a 3D simplified model of your system of interest, usually with aid of computer programs which other engineers and coders developed. For example jet engine design starts with a 2D model, a cross-section of the engine for thermodynamic and aerodynamic and thermomechanical analysis. Later you account for all the constraints and trade-offs with other systems, with budgets for things like mass, cost, volume, power and fuel consumption, design parts in CAD or CFD (fluids) software, and simulate those parts in different ways to optimize them, up to the point that it's manufactured.
@@JayLikesLasers i see, thank you for the response Have u ever tried formulating an optimization programme to solve for your concept design’s dimensions? ( i think You would express geometric, resource, structural and functional constraints, in terms of your design’s unknown dimensions and make one of them the objective function and then let the computer numerically solve it if a solution exists)
@@maalikserebryakov Programs already exist. Excel is good enough for most problems. For difficult constraints, where it's an option you could look into generative design and additive manufacturing.
Love to see systems engineering represented, despite degrees in mechanical and aerospace I find myself working as a systems engineer now, so its nice to have some recognition :)
As an acoustical engineering student, I loved the spot you used the field. Electronic related courses, are predominant in my degree. I have a friend who studies electronic engineering and we found ourselves frequently surprised from the programs similarities (this is taken into account exceptions like acoustical measurements and instruments which are exclusive, and many others). Great video !
Personally, I would have liked to see acoustics straddling the line between mechanical and electrical engineering, since sound waves are fundamentally mechanical waves. That said, it's an intensely multi-disciplinary field, and you can find applications of acoustics in so many different sections of this map! In my graduate studies, I mostly did underwater acoustics, but since going into industry I've done electronics (audio DSP) and control systems (noise cancellation). The people I went to school with work in civil engineering (road noise), architecture, military, aerospace, and more!
What i love about being a mechanical engineering student is that my field is by far the most broad discipline ever. I can choose to work in almost all these other engineering fields as a mechanical engineer (to a certain degree)
Nice summary. So few people understand this. When I was a little boy, I wanted to be an engineer. But the kind that drives a train. I ended up an Electrical Engineer.
I'm a geodetic engineering student, but I didn't see my field explained on that map. the thing that has an intersection with my field is surveying. but as far as I know, geodetic engineering is more than just surveying and mapping the features of the earth. it integrates with some other engineering fields like civil engineering (of course), environmental engineering, geography, information system, and even aerospace engineering. well there are so many engineering fields that can be explored along with the development of times. i like the presentation and greatly appreciate your map and explanations. keep up the good works!
Thanks for the video, this shows the big picture of engineering world. Myself humble to add HVAC and Fire engineering to Mechanical field, which myself is employed now. We design HVAC, Fire protection and Fire safety for buildings. I would love to explore another field in near future. To those who studying Mech Eng, keep going dont give up! its a very broad engineering degree which can unlock a lot of opportunities in different fields for you fellow in the future! Peace
I'm currently at my dream job as a front-end software engineer. I make the user interface used by thousands if not millions. It's so fulfilling to see my visions come to life on the screen. And the UI I make are so cool, even I'm impressed with it at times. I'm so glad I moved from full-stack to front-end. The room for creativity expands drastically.
It's funny how you can start in one field and end up somewhere completely else on this map. I feel like I've gone all over the place. Started with a bachelor in mechanical engineering, took a masters in fluid mechanics (here part of marine engineering). Took a job as an aerodynamicist (here part of aerospace engineering). Now at that job, I'm the only one who happened to take a python course in uni so I'm mostly doing software engineering (part of computer engineering).
Great work! A few things I might still want to add: information theory as a foundation for electrical engineering, semiconductors (deserve a mention of their own, I believe), battery technology (bit hard to categorize, but very important for our modern tech world) and solar tech (other renewables are mentioned, could have put that next to power systems).
agreed... many sub-disciplines of electrical engineering delve very deeply into more raw physics and mathematics: information/detection theory, Galois fields and coding theory, random processes and the mathematics of noise, semiconductor physics, antenna analysis, etc.
I think this is a great map! I am currently a biomedical engineering student who switched into this major recently, and I’m honestly loving how practical and useful and interdisciplinary all of the engineering fields are. I definitely appreciate the depth of knowledge used for all of the products made from engineering.
I’d love to know what major you previously tried. How was it and why you did you switch? Also how is biomedical engineering going for you if you’re still doing it? I’m thinking about trying out biochemical engineering which I know is different but the school I’m going to doesn’t offer biomedical.
I can’t thank you enough for this video!!! I’m a computer scientist that’s always been passionate about understanding how things work. I’ve wanted to pursue engineering but feel like I can’t decide between electrical and mechanical. It’s just been so overwhelming trying to pin point a path when I keep learning about topics and see how they connect but feel like I’m deluding myself thinking it’s all data that I can utilize.
Not as heavy as electrical engineering ,heaviest in university, higher pay than CS Most engineers can divert to computer engineering, since we need coding for EE too
@@pham3383 that depends on the education you are getting. In my uni, we (CSE) had many of our classes together with EE. We were taught stuff like subtle physics and chip building (eg. how to manufacture and 'program' a CPU) from their curriculum, and they got programming, computer science from ours. Among with other stuff like systems theory etc. So electrical engineers could divert to computer engineering, yes, but only for superficial areas, but the same can be said for other (including CS) engineers. Also, for both, the more in-depth you go, the more unlikely it is that you can get away with the superficial knowledge - the things you *need* the degree for. I doubt a computer science engineer could make a reliable 5g radio antenna wihout deep diving into EE subjects, but it shows a shallow understanding of computer engineering to think that it can be easily grasped - I wager that an EE could not, without prior training, understand and apply the mathemathics used by databases and the underlying computational nuances in a real life use-case, and come up with a solution that is acceptable from an engineering perspective. I mean, you said that you could divert to computer engineering, because you needed to code for EE as well. Only 10-15% of my subjects needed coding in computer science engineering. What about the rest? It is now about how to program, it's about what to program. Also, there is a difference between computer science and computer science engineering - so to compare CS and EE is not exactly fair.
Great video, just want to add a few extra bits. It's very hard to really group all the different applications of engineering into tight little boxes, because of how much shared knowledge each discipline has, how vast each discipline is and how multidisciplinary real world applications are. I've heard that the 4 main branches of Engineering is Civil, Mechanical, Electric and Chemical, with all other engineering disciplines being somehow a branch of one or more of those, but that's really up to debate. Also, there's often way more engineering disciplines in college to choose from. Things like Food Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Automation Engineering, Environment Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, among many other areas that would usually be considered a sub-branch of another engineering often have full-fledged degrees or majors in many universities. And even then, the applications of each discipline are so vast that you can never learn everything there is to learn. Hopefully, if you go to a good university, you'll get to choose between a bunch of electives that will steer you in the direction you want to go. For instance, if you like the idea of designing structures so that they withstand loads and stresses without collapsing, you can do a major in Structural Engineering, but that's not available in every university, so you may choose to do either Civil or Mechanical Engineering depending on which type of structure you prefer to deal with and take the electives that correspond to Structural Engineering. Also, it's not uncommon to take classes in other fields. If you're into designing power plants, for instance, you might take a major in Electrical Engineering, but take some extra classes in Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering, since both of those disciplines are relevant to the design of power plants as well. Finally, you can even have interdisciplinary projects with non-engineering fields, like Computer Science, Design, Architecture, Surveying Technicians, Geologists, among others. What I like to say as a tip to anyone thinking about Engineering is to try to visualize where or with what you want to work after you graduate. Then, look at all the engineering fields that have something to do with that. Don't look only at their names, but also at their descriptions, curriculum and specially the electives they offer. Also, ask some former students if you can. Then, choose the major that fits best with your goals and interests.
You'll need more than those 4 branches - for example, it would leave out the software/firmware, controls and simulation engineers, or the systems engineers. Then Electrical doesn't include electronic (related to printed circuit board design and computer science) whereas Electrical is more concerned with moving power. I think universities need broad categories because they don't have the breadth to cover every single topic in one university. And so you usually get majors and minors, or elective subjects. You're right though, that you can usually pick and choose classes to aim you in the right direction, without getting too hung up on the name.
I am now a year 1 student in University and I’m planning to take mechanical engineering as my major. What other engineering electives should I choose if I want to have a better understanding on building aircraft and spaceship? (That’s what I want to do in future.)
@@Lilz853 Well, that's not really my area, you're probably better off asking a professor, but probably fluid dynamics or aerodynamics would be a safe place to start with, thermodynamics as well, probably some electronics, materials science, radar systems, combustion engines, mechanical vibrations, are some things that come to mind as well. Some of those you might even have in your regular curriculum, but it may be worth to take an look at the ones you don't. You can also look at the curriculum of Aerospace Engineering degrees for some guidance.
@@Lilz853 systems engineering is probably what you're after for how to design complicated aircraft and spacecraft. Things like the F35 have had massive breakthroughs in multiple disciplines (not just aeronautics/aerospace), but its success truly belongs with the systems engineers (speaking as a mechanical engineer myself...)
I love this channel. The roadmaps are great to provide a gist of an entire field. As an applied maths major, this is quite helpul when it comes to gaining insights about other domains.
This is absolutely amazing, I'm sure it took a lot of work and research. I do a lot of STEM discussions for students I will definitely reference this material. Thank you so much!
As an engineering student, my impression of aerospace engineering has so far largely been government contracted defense systems, aside from passenger airplanes... and I had a chuckle when you said "now onto the more positive uses of mechanical engineering!" as you were seemingly moving away from the subject of weapons, and onto aerospace engineering, because my reaction was "what, MISSILES NOW?" XD Thanks for this incredibly detailed visual representation of 'the products of ingenuity'
There are other aplications of aerospace engineering, since they specialize in how moving air interacts with structures. For example, some of my aerospace engineer collegues at uni went on to work designing wind turbines. Another is working in the auto industry. Also, there is a burgeoning agricultural drone industry in my country. Outside the US, there isn't such a bloated defense industry. Most engineering applications are civil.
Glad you found a place for systems engineering. I was an SE for a long time in aerospace. SE can be found whenever the government (read DoD or NASA) wants a defense contractor to build something.
What a great video to demonstrate the wide range of career paths a young engineer can take. As you might expect, the team here at ANR believes that being a precision engineer is a most exciting and rewarding career. For many years we have run regular apprenticeship programmes. These courses always reaffirm to us how young people appreciate the importance and scope of engineering across every field of industry, and in all walks of daily life. This video confirms our belief that engineering is a great career for anyone to start and there are many specialist areas for budding engineers to work in.
I am a Metallurgical and Materials engineer, we are kind of a bridge between physics and engineering where we try to develop the materials for the engineered goods and structures.
The electrical engineering topic misses one very important topic: Antennas and electromagnetic radiation. Also if you mention auto equipment, you also have to talk about imaging tools and displays
@@RieMUisthegoaT not really... Mechanical job is to produce electricity. While, Electrical were the one who distributes it. Don't know why he put it mainly in Civil though.
@@shizuchuan just put it in between them Also what's the discipline or sub-enginnering that deals with power from the mechanical side? Like how there's a whole program called power engineering that belongs to electrical engineering.
Great overview and content. The map itself is well organized, but we have to give props to the small illustrations. They are amazing... simple enough, clear, have nice composition and are definitely well researched!
Mechanical engineer specialized in waste management here. Many years ago, I worked on training engineers of any field, on waste management, so for a couple of months i had to interact with engineers of almost every field. Chemical engineers were by far the ones with the most insane depth of knowledge on an extremely wide variety of fields followed by mechanical engineers. The rest were more or less masters of their own fields, but Chem and mech ones were a class above as far as my experience through the years. I do enjoy cooperating with engineers of different fields. It's interesting to see the different problem-solving approaches each field applies.
mostly variety we do take classes on a lot of thing but sometimes sad that we dont do in depth things that will be up to the person when they already finish college and got on their job Sometimes you found something interesting in class then we dont end up doing because thats not our ''focus'' of the class you just have to know and not in depth like we do have classes of strentgh materials but we dont know much like material science and engineer carrer we take organic chemistry but not like in depth as biochemistry student, even doctor know more about chemistry and chemic compounds than us we take lab classes but is just the first 4 semester then you do absolutely nothing of chemistry or touch any chemical you do some of petro engineer but abviusly the petro engineer carrer know more than you yo can go into the field of food but food engineer know more about food than you so lot of thing but nothing at the same time yo can go as process engineer but process engineer know more than you I think the more we advance chemical engineer is getting wider and at some point is gonna become branched and became extinct To wide to be just one thing I dont think we can compare and say mechanical engineer are more easy than chemical but one thing is true, the amount of time we spend on lab is too much I would not say mech eng is easier because idk the classes difficukty but LESS TIME DEMANDING
@@skydivenext Weird. i know a lot of people who had a lot of chemistry courses with chemEng. Im actually one of those ppl! So i dont think all ChemEng are the same. Plus where tf did you do your major??? you didnt have chemistry after 4 semesters? thats really bad. I did have chemistry after my first four semesters! chemical reactions in reactors? catalysts in the chemical industry? biochemical engnieering courses? combustion? polymers and material science courses? who is going to take care about the packaging and materials that make up the product packaging? most food packaging is made of polymers and chemical engineers are good with polymers. The ChemEng experience is really good when working in materials since you know ALL the process really well and have a bigger picture than most engineers. Believe me, ChemEng are really good when it comes to polymers but not so good when it comes to metals (MechEngs are better for that). The heart of Material Science is chemical engineering and some of mechanical engineering. Whatever you need to know to do will learn in in the job so thats why flexible majors are better in engineering, its kind of the opposite compared to Science majors: the more specialization, the better I think you are forgetting about chemical industries. The one with reactors that uses microorganisms or catalysts. This is where the ChemEng really shines. There are thousands of chemical industries PLUS the food industry does benefit a lot for the ChemEng background. Fluids and energy? a mechEng or ChemEng can work there! both are extremely prepere for those subjects and that's why ChemEng and MechEng can both work in process engineering. There are not too much Food scientists and employers still dont know what's the role of this major. ChemEng do know about food industry and they can work there. MechEng work in thousands of industries: food, energy, chemical, materials, etc. And they didn't specialize on those. Employers dont care about an specific major. They want to stick with what they know: civil, chemical, mech and electrical. The four main branches of engineering. Like it or not, employers will always prefer a jack of all trade engineer because engineering is an interdisciplinary field, you are a ChemEng? you will eventually know about mechEng, ElecEng, MatEng, etc. You need to. And this engineering is perfect for that. This one and MechEng are good enough. Id say civil and electrical are more specialized. The Bottom Line: ChemEngineers are really flexible and can see the big picture fair easily, plus is the base of so many engineers like biochemical engineering, medical engineering, material science and engineering, food science, etc.
@@Abstractor21 chemical reactions in reactors? catalysts in the chemical industry? biochemical engnieering courses? combustion? polymers and material science courses?;;; the science buddy the base is all learned in the first 4 semesters then you go in the industry factor which esseantially made you not know much about everything and all those are most of chemeng job already so idk why you list them Like it or not, employers will always prefer a jack of all trade engineer because engineering is an interdisciplinary field, you are a ChemEng?;;; yes they will obviously but eventually their view will broad and think more of specialize major than generalized majors that dont go deep in anything plus is the base of so many engineers like biochemical engineering, medical engineering, material science and engineering, food science, etc. you just summarized your hole thing in this sentence on what I said lol , you dont specialize on nothing of this, just broader feel, even food science there is countries that already do food engineers major which I said in my first comment but you listed at food science which is not the carrer I am referring to idk why you got butthurt lol that just the reality( biochemical engineering, medical engineering, material science and engineering, food science, etc. )you know nothing more than then they are all superior and know more in their own field than you But afterall when you work, the reality is you learn in the industry everything from the scratch again every industry has different thing and different products and different machines different reactor brand differents software to learn to use, superiority doesnt mean anything once you work your base science and the classid I SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE is useles in their respective field, dont let you chemeng ego kick into you buddy
@@skydivenextDo you learn all of those things in the first two years? Most of the courses I mentioned require a high level of math. How is it possible to cover those courses in the initial years without all the math and physics and chemistry from the first years? Would you like me to show you the chemical engineering courses from some of the most recognized universities in the US? In the initial years, the focus is primarily on chemistry, math, physics, and some introductory engineering courses that do not delve deeply into the subjects. I am not upset, and since we are communicating through text, it's better not to make assumptions. I am relaxed. "yes they will obviously but eventually their view will broad and think more of specialize major than generalized majors that dont go deep in anything" Why would they? Employers value a 'jack of all trades' because they can grasp the whole picture relatively easily. This is easier compared to highly specialized majors. In engineering, especially in process engineering, you really need to be a 'jack of all trades' engineer, at least initially. Then, you can specialize deeply in your job or pursue a master's degree. Even in the field of science, you can benefit greatly from general degrees. Just look at r/biology, r/chemistry, r/physics; everyone advises getting a general degree in biology, chemistry, or physics, and then specializing later on with an MSc or PhD. Mechanical Engineering is a great example; it's the most flexible engineering degree, making you a 'jack of all trades.' You can work in practically any industry. Look at the job market, the job offers, and the requirements. Material science? CFD? Process engineering? Environmental engineering? Food and agro industry? Textile industry? Nuclear engineering? They all require chemical or mechanical engineers to perform a myriad of different tasks, and this demand will continue because engineering isn't just about the curriculum of a particular university; it's about problem-solving, understanding the big picture, and drawing conclusions with limited information. Moreover, even if you are right, both Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering allow for a wide range of specializations for postgraduate studies. They are not only flexible in the job market but also academically. If you find an industry that's currently booming and you are interested in it, you can pursue a master's or PhD in that field and enhance your employability. For example, an Electrical Engineer pursuing a master's in fluids or thermodynamics might seem unusual, as most Electrical Engineering programs in the US and Europe do not heavily incorporate these subjects; they are typically offered as electives. Civil Engineering is also more specialized, focusing too little on the industry side of things but rather on buildings and related structures.
@@Abstractor21 man I am not reading all your reply again and just at a glance you still mentioned "especially in process engineering, you really need to be a 'jack of all trades" that are specialized engineers majors lol There is a carrer for process engineer Stop being butthurt
Hello! I'm in the midst of getting my Masters in Chemical Engineering, and there are a couple of things I'd like to add- Chemical Engineering also relies a fair amount on Process Controls (as running a process to obtain the best results for the least cost is vital) Also- There's another intersection- BioMEMS, the cross between biology and MEMS. (I'm currently taking a Mechanics of BioMEMS class as an elective- complex, but interesting!) Awesome video, and I hope you have a wonderful day!
In my case, I'm a Chemical Engineer and I have a Master of science Degree in Metallurgical Engineering. The chemical enginerring have a scope of action
This has got to be one of the best explorations of the surface layers of all these beautiful different fields of engineering. A unique display, thank you so much for your research!
@@resiliencewithin because things are so interdisciplinary that mechanical, civil etc are only things remained for college. Once you get into job, you can't say that I've only learned "mech" things so I can't do civil or electrical stuff...
For the disciplines involved in buildings you forgot about Acoustic Engineering. They work with the mech engineers and architects to design the Façade and floors to mitigate the transfer of vibration and sound. They are also involved in internal wall construction and glazing design for noise ingress and acoustic privacy.
I have recently subscribed to your channel and I was amazed to watch such mind boggling videos.Thankyou you for giving us clear understanding of every popular field
Chemical engineers largely do Semiconductor process engineering. Manufacturing Engineering and Industrial Engineering are also missing and these are huge. A lesser known one is Packaging engineering which might go in mechanical or in between mechanical and industrial/Manufacturing if you choose to include them. Didn't know about Marine Engineering, which peaked my interest.
I don't mean that chemical engineers are mostly process engineers, just that it's big for that group. I just learned about research engineering as well.
Thank you for organising for me this disorganised world and making it sensible in a realistic way. This is a more practical way to why I studied cause I was always so confused in what I was studying
Currently a senior studying ECE (Electrical/Computer Engineering). There seems to be quite a bit of bredth of topics even just in undergrad. There is the chemistry required for understanding how conductivity changes for different materials. Currently taking a class on Semiconductor Design, which talked about Fermi Energy, optimal unit cells for different materials/temperatures, and how band gaps change in respect to the dimensions of the unit cell. There is the programming side and analysis of algorithms/data structures, and within that, going lower level, theres the assembly languages and computer architecture. And going lower level there is the actual logic gates implementations. And understanding how they can be used for different combinational circuits or sequential circuits or memory. And even further lower the implementation of transistors when making the logic gates themselves. Which also includes the circuit analysis requirements. And then introduces spectral analysis (laplace/fourier) for understanding how the circuit responds to different input signals. And then that could be generalized into signals and systems. Which you could use signal processing techniques to analyze whether or not the system is stable, unstable, causal, anti-causal, or memoryless. Then the control systems aspect of determining how to make unstable causal open loop systems into stable causal closed loop systems with minimal error and low settling time. Then there are real world practical/buissness classes. Talking about optimal practices in the work place, such as how to estimate costs of making developing software. When to spend the effort on developing documentation, and how to do so. And all of these topics could be used in design classes. For instance I took a class on biosensor design, which talked about the process of how we can use electrical properties of systems to measure specific quantities. Such as measuring impedance of some blood sample, since cells have some capacitance specific for their size/shape. If you can capture cells by having receptors that bind to specific proteins/antibodys on specific cells you can then note the change in cell count to note the concentration of those antibodys/cells within the sample, which may be unique to a certain diseased state (I think reduced cd4 proteins can indicate HIV, might have mixed that up though). But you also have to take into account the fact that we have high frequency noise due to nearby powerlines, and baseline drift from low frequency noise, so you have to design a filter first which gets back in the circuits and spectral analysis. Then there is the legal parts of submitting for FDA approval and patenting and filing for trade marks... I barely remember the names of those forms though. This is not even mentioning the indepth topics within these areas. Like machine learning, or AI, or communication system (which I havent taken classes on, but other seniors have). And majority of the time you are just taking the prerequisites for these topics (2 years of physics, 2.5 years of calculus, 1 year of inorganic chemistry, linear algebra, discrete math)
I absolutely love the contents of this channel. Could you also make a map of life sciences or map of diseases? It would be incredibly valuable to see the big picture :) Cheers!
Hey, a Process Instrumentation & Control Engineer here. Would just like to add (instrumentation and control engineering) as it is the branch that establishes a lot of the connections between various types of engineering. It serves as the heart of automation and is crucial for ensuring the safe operation of all systems.
That is why we have a huge debt of gratitude to the great Seniors of Engineering people in the world community. Thanks for the extent and importance of the overview.
So grateful to find your channel! Such an extraordinary work! It's the materials behind everything, the truest thing to be said. That makes me study material science more even from an agricultural background. Also one of the fact that brings me closer to God, when I think that from where all of these would be built if Allah didn't put these materials out there for us to explore! Thanks for the amazing work!
Awesome map/video and I can tell there is a ton of effort that went into this. Was waiting to hear embedded systems engineering mentioned as it’s the true bridge from electrical to computer, though it certainly can fall right under computer engineering and maybe was too specific of a field. Good video!
I think it'd be interesting to put date stamps on each of these and make a heat map of when each area of engineering really came into its own. It struck me that most of these fields are less than a hundred years old. A decent number are less than 50 years old.
Now you brought me into a huge crisis... I thought I was well set on Civil Engineering, but now Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bio Engineering and Aerospace Engineering are growing in me...
I would have put semiconductors in there somewhere. You sort of touched on it in places but designing processors containing billions of transistors is really a field of its own.
As a recent graduate in ME it was fun to take this "walk" through the various engineering fields. The part about how interdisciplinary things can get is certainly felt in mechanical. It touches almost everything, and that was reflected in our curriculum of maths & physics, chemistry, materials, mechanics, energy, circuits, control, manufacturing, statistics, economics, ethics, and more. One thing I would have added or at least mentioned are the traffic engineers and transportation engineers that move people and shape society. Besides novel computing and materials in the last century, transportation (and HVAC) have completely transformed the world.
Hi there recent graduate. If you want to work for the government, I could give you a quiçk test. This is publicly available information. The National Institute of Standards and Technology World Trade Center Seven investigative team admitted World Trade Center Seven was in free fall for 2.25 seconds. NIST and the mainstream media say the total collapse was not caused by a controlled demolition. What are your thoughts on that 2.25 seconds of free fall? The test here is to see if you can respond as a scientist from NIST would.
@@dunexapa1016 It's the result of Bushian motion, a rare phenomenon, caused by overseas oil reserves, which accelerates previously structurally sound buildings as if in free fall in spite of the many other counteracting forces created by things such as steel beams and concrete. This Bushian motion is known to create other bizarre phenomenon such as causing crashed planes to disappear after striking five-sided buildings.
@@escthedark3709 , *ARE YOU A COWARD OR A TRAITOR?* *DO WHAT I DID! I MADE THESE PHONE CALLS!* *CALL THE POLICE!* CALL YOUR LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT AND CALL THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND TELL THEM THIS; *THERE IS AN UNSOLVED MASS MURDER CASE OF SIXTY POLICE OFFICERS.* THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY NIST (NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY) WAS GIVEN THE RESPONSIBILITY TO INVESTIGATE THE COLLAPSE AND DESTRUCTION OF THE WTC 1 AND 2 BUILDINGS. NIST FAILED TO *PROVE* IF SIXTY POLICE OFFICERS WERE MURDERED BY CONTROLLED DEMOLITION OR IF THEY WERE NOT MURDERED BY CONTROLLED DEMOLITION. NIST'S VERY OWN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT *IS PROOF* OF THE FACT JUST STATED. NIST'S INVESTIGATION STOPPED AT THE MOMENT THE TOTAL COLLAPSE OF EACH BUILDING *BEGAN.* LESS THAN FIVE PAGES OF NIST'S ENTIRE REPORT IS ABOUT WHAT CAUSED THE MURDER OF SIXTY POLICE OFFICERS. *AFTER* THE START OF THE TOTAL COLLAPSE, NIST SAYS EACH BUILDING CAME DOWN "ESSENTIALLY IN FREE FALL, AS SEEN IN VIDEOS". WHAT THIS STATEMENT MEANS, IN TERMS OF PHYSICS, IS THAT VERY LITTLE OF THE KINETIC ENERGY OF THE FALLING BUILDING PARTS ACTUALLY CAUSED ANY OF THE DESTRUCTION. WHEN AN OBJECT IS IN FREE FALL, THE FALLING OBJECT IS DOING NO WORK AS THE OBJECT IS FALLING. THIS IS PHYSICS 101. "ESSENTIALLY IN FREE FALL" MEANS LITTLE WORK IS BEING DONE BY THE FALLING BUILDING PARTS TO CAUSE DESTRUCTION. IF *YOU* CLAIM IT WAS NOT A CONTROLLED DEMOLITION THEN *YOU* ARE CLAIMING THAT *ONLY* THIS SMALL AMOUNT OF THE GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY CAUSED THE TOTAL COLLAPSE AND *ALL* OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WTC 1 AND 2 BUILDINGS. *NIST NEVER PROVED THIS!* IT IS EASY TO PROVE OR DISPROVE CONTROLLED DEMOLITION BY DOING A NET ENERGY STUDY. A NET ENERGY STUDY WOULD COMPARE THE ENERGY *ACTUALLY USED* TO CAUSE ANY DESTRUCTION TO THE AMOUNT OF *ENERGY NEEDED* TO CAUSE *ALL* THE DESTRUCTION SUCH AS OCCURRED ON THE DAY OF 9-11-01. ANY COMPETENT ENGINEERING COMPANY COULD DO IT!!! LET'S GET THIS INVESTIGATION STARTED!!!!!! THE QUESTION EVERY AMERICAN MUST ASK THEMSELVES IS THIS; . *WILL YOU LET THIS STAND?* THIS IS NOT 'ANOTHER' INVESTIGATION, THIS IS THE *FIRST* INVESTIGATION INTO THE MURDER OF SIXTY POLICE OFFICERS. THEY WENT INTO THOSE BUILDINGS TO SAVE LIVES. DO NOT DISRESPECT THEM OR THEIR MEMORY!!! *WILL YOU LET THIS STAND?* IF YOUR ANSWER IS NO, THEN *PLEASE* DO THESE THREE THINGS; 1. FIRST, CONFIRM WHAT I AM SAYING IS TRUE. THIS IS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION. THE NIST REPORT. I WANT YOU TO BE CERTAIN IN YOUR MIND, AS WELL, BEFORE PROCEEDING TO THE NEXT TWO STEPS. 2. CALL YOUR LOCAL POLICE. GIVE THEM THIS INFORMATION. TELL THEM THE SAME THING. THEY CAN VERIFY IT ALSO. 3. CALL NYPD CRIMESTOPPERS HOTLINE. TELL THEM THIS INFORMATION. THEY CAN CONFIRM IT JUST AS YOU HAVE. THEY NOW HAVE TO ANSWER THE SAME QUESTION; *WILL YOU LET THIS STAND?* HOW YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTION WILL DETERMINE IF YOU ARE A MAN OR A COWARD. IF YOU REFUSE TO CONFIRM WHETHER NIST PROVED CONTROLLED DEMOLITION OR NOT YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY A COWARD. IF YOU CONFIRM THAT NIST DID NOT PROVE CONTROLLED DEMOLITION AND YOU ARE AFRAID TO CALL THE POLICE, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY A COWARD AND A TRAITOR.
I turned 18 recently, and just like the herd in my country, i am following the path of engineering. To be honest, i had no idea what and engineer is since all i saw were people doing every other job than doing the job they studied for i.e. engineering and never really knew what an engineer actually does. But Lately im coming to a realisation and becoming serious about being an engineer, a passionate one. I still havent started this video, but the comments themselves imply that it would be worth it.
I find it really difficult to settle on a certain discipline. I just started studying civil engineering at university but I constantly find myself being interested in other fields aswell, especially power and energy systems and renewable energy.
Similar here! I was going to go into electronic systems engineering but my Uni is starting a new energy systems engineering program here that I'll switch to with a focus in renewable energy. Follow your heart! Your happiness in your career matters a ton more than a few bucks.
civil engineering (civies) majors be like: " I have to go to concrete class today" ( this is an actual quote from several civies at my engineering college)
classes include concrete, steel, and timber designs. Also we have a little bit of everything like basic mechanical, electrical, bioengineering, and computer programming (which I really don't know why)
As you continue to make more and more maps, these maps could possibly be intros to playlists that dive deeper into each subject. Now that i have this map overview, I want to see examples, neat things, notable steps in subject progress.
Excellent video. I truly enjoyed you walking me through the vastness that is Engineering. It will certainly help future students (or interested parties) understand which space suits their preferences best while also realizing how important it is to recognize the interconnectedness of all these areas in the real world.
Great content, maybe for a next map content you can make the map of statistics. Statistics is a fascinating field and it has its application in every industry.
It is a good vídeo, a very good job, i liked but there is something that i am not agree, i am an industrial engineering and that discipline is a lot Bigger than how you expose it, industrial engineering involves desing, gestion and improves for production procesess of products and services, also including areas like time studies, quality control, logistics, maintenance, project management, ergonomics, auxiliary facilities, operations research and a lot of other fields, i would really like of you do a video talking about all of these great things that industrial engineering has
I too am a MechE. It did miss HVAC, heat transfer and thermo-fluid systems being strongly within our domain of energy conversion, and their relationship to pressure piping and vessel design (preventing steam boilers explosions being the basis for the formation of ASME)
Mechanical engineering - With it, you could work with nearly anything! By the end of it, you might know more about physics than Newton did. Then you could work on aircraft, on power stations, on ships, on buildings, on consumer products, or whatever you want. If you find out what you're interested in before you graduate, you can start to specialize.
@@nayanb.j.5737 as you are studying mechanical eng I have a question. When mechanical engineers are given a design problem and they come up with a design idea and begin sketching it / drawing it on CAD. How do they calculate the dimensions of the parts of their designs? Is there a mathematical procedure you use
@@maalikserebryakov well.. First of all, the design dimensions will mainly depend on the machine/object they are related to, those dimensions are the first contraint. And secondly, you have to keep some proportions in the design (you can't do it as large as you want, for exemple!) and that's when the study of solid mechanics (and the math that comes with it) is crucial.
This is a contribution in Austrian economics that is not nearly widely enough understood! It’s called the structure of production. It’s super interesting although 10 or so years ago when I was more into economics, it wasn’t as well explained as it should have been, and I had to read things like prices in production by FA Hayek (which is a slog). I assume now it’s better elucidated by the new generation of economist. But it’s fascinating. All material goods are linked in a sort of matrix and connected to each other like cells in a body or, tiny, mechanical machines, moving things from one place to another, and turning them from one thing into another on a global scale. An outcome or phenomenon in the system can be caused by a small change somewhere far removed in time and space and it’s immediate origin cannot be apparent without this concept.
Aerospace engineers build missiles. Electrical engineers build guidance systems. Civil engineers build targets.
Brilliant general 😂
mechanical build thanks and guns, bio-eng builds bioweapons, chemical builds bombs, computer comunication photonics makes you see dark on battlefield or dont be seen and the he forget the food engineering make MRE and supplies
@@lucasscoz6090😅 this is called destructive engineering
Combat engineers make openings
I got the missles
My natural tendency is to come here to say something sarcastic about engineers but I’ll be serious for a change. My grandfather was a district (civil) engineer in India. I was really close to him but he died when I was young. Years later I went to see a bridge, the construction of which he led (I also broke Indian law by taking a photograph lol). I remember thinking how amazing it was that that bridge outlived him and will outlive me. This monument to him and his team had helped god knows how many thousands of people. Not many jobs let you leave such huge legacies. So much work in this video, amazing stuff.
It's always funny seeing a channel I watch near religiously appear in the comments on another channel I watch with the same fervor.
I'd love to know your sarcastic engineer comment. My friends consist of ~90% engineers and doctors so we like to give each other a hard time about how we thought about med school but didn't think it'd be challenging enough and vice versa (if you can't tell I'm an engineer). We also get into weird discussions because engineers want everything to work by a set of hard rules but the human body is so complex that you often can't apply hard systems thinking to it (Or so my cardiologist friend tells me every time I ask him a question. I still don't believe him).
As a software engineer, I create a system for MIT. And with your comment, I am now aware that my shitty code will outlive me by far :D
@@rubenverster250 I hope you’re like me and have comments like “I’m not sure why it works this way but not the other way. If something’s broken it’s probably this block”
The only job that grants you a bigger legacy is an artist, but that’s only for 0.01% of them
@@coachman1532 code is art, that does something
I'd like to formally apologise for the number of times I said the word Engineering 🤣
Well the video is literally about engineering, so you're forgiven.
Kinda hard not to say it in an engineering video.
Top-tip - Instead of "mechanical engineering, optical engineering, software engineering, systems engineering and electrical and electronic engineering" it's acceptable to say "mechanics, optics, software, systems, and triple-E"
@@JayLikesLasers ??!! What do you mean, no he can’t … mechanics means one thing mechanical engineering is a completely different thing
@@TheMixxon2 Yeah, I'm a mechanical engineer. It's just lazy shorthand and it's fairly common in some places. Tell me more about my profession though.
The fun thing about being an engineer is that multidisciplinary knowledge is as valuable, or sometimes even more valuable, then specialized knowledge. I, for instance, am a civil engineer specialized in structural engineering. But I work for an oil company as a software engineer, writing software that deals with structures of oil rigs and ships. I don't know about ships as marine engineers do, about oil rigs as petroleum engineers do, about software as software engineers do, but knowing a decent amount about all those areas got me a really good job.
By knowing that, do you Biomedical Engineering is a good field to major in ? Considering it tries to cover vast topics of electrical and mechanical engineering on a surface level.
If you can choose between being:
-a master of only one trade
or
-a jack of all trades; master of none.
Then I think the latter is better in the long run because it allows one to adapt to the complex challenges of life.
cool! You are responsible of killing the planet
@@perfectsplit5515Agreed. Even more so in the new faster changing world. 50years ago one could practice your entire career in one specialized area. These days all fields evolve faster than one person can keep up with. Just understanding the principles of a few fields, and having a good internet connection, lets you manage a much more complex system and answer much more complex questions. Its almost wizardry by the standards of some decades ago. Quantum mechanics basically upset Einstein, but is all in a day's work now. Quite baffling.
@@darkrising8280as a current biomedical engineering student in senior year I think it is one of the hardest to kind of tell people what you do because you learn so much. So it’s a bit harder to get into “other” engineering jobs. Like you won’t commonly see a BME at raytheon or weapons. But you’ll easily see Mechanical or Electrical at a medical company.
If you have an interest in medicine but don’t want to necessarily be face to face with patients YES I would recommend it. Do keep in mind there’s tons of paperwork especially dealing with the FDA. People with my degree at my work span every department, quality, lab personnel, R&D specialists, Manufacturing engineers, and more. However we are a biopharma company.
Additionally you can go into research academia, or your own start up. Many people in my major enjoy research in academia and will stay there for a long time studying. There’s SO many things you can research with a BME degree, there’s hundreds of labs at my university. Similarly if you research something worth turning into a product you can start a startup and then hopefully make it as a company or!! get bought out and be rich.
I would say BME is the jack of all trades engineer. I’ve learned coding, physiology, physics, mechanics, materials, chemistry, biology, and electronics. There are so many different paths with BME it is absolutely the best for someone who knows they want to do some engineering and enjoys medicine :)
My toxic trait is to think that once I understand math and physics I can conquer everything
No this is pretty much true
@@maxb8360 We wish it was true but living with other people doing other people things makes it impossible, can't know it all
it can definitely help a lot if you're adept at math and physics.
@@TalooshDaBoss skill issue unfortunately
very true but no mere human being has ever understood all of mathematics or physics so sadly you will not conquer anything
This video has reminded me of no matter how well versed I am in my Electrical Engineering field, I am an expert of only a small portion of the whole Engineering map
which in turn is only a small portion of all of STEM and that is only a small part of all of of human knowledge, which is probably an incomprehensibly small part of all of all knowledge that could be acquired by humanity
😂hey but you can leave a mark on so much projects
@@mastershooter64 knowledge that is not yet known isn't really worth thinking about. Things will come by themselves.
I couldn't help but notice that areospace and chemical enigineering were on opposite corners of the map, and yet me (3rd year chemE) and my friend (3rd AreoE) can learn and exchange a lot of study material. The sheer number of times I have already asked them for fluids help, and helped them look over their energy and thermo problems with them is insane, and we are barely a month into our 3rd year.
Me and them like joke that my degree is about preventing unwanted explosions, and theirs is about taking advantage of said explosions.
But the more you take to people the more obvious it becomes how the fundamental of Math/science + stubbornness/problem solving really dont change. Its like speaking different dialects of the same language.
Fake news EE is the top, as such an EE is overqualified for any other type of engineering. /S
I really love what you said at the end about engineers having the "engineering mindset". I have a degree in Mechatronics and are currently getting a degree in Aerospace engineering, and the one true red string through both of them is what was taught to me at the very beginning of my studies: engineers are problem solvers. We try to analyse, structure, divide, test, iterate and solve given problems for the benefit of everyone. In order to do so, there is no "best engineering discipline", every situation requires different sets of skills and knowledge, and also like you said, ingenuity. Interdisciplinary knowledge is a very great asset in that regard. I believe having the engineering mindset just means, that you are not afraid to approach problems in a systematic way and work towards a solution, which very often involves teaching yourself new skills.
Let me tell you, you're cool, mechatronics AND aerospace, my dream really
@@lightninggaming864 Thanks, this makes me feel better about all those allnighters ;)
cool
For those who didn't quite understand industrial engineering as it was only touched upon very briefly:
Industrial engineering could be simply explained as more of a general engineering field focussed on the optimization of complex systems. How do we optimize flows in a factory? How do we prioritize? How do we create supply chains that are cost-effective, efficient and robust? Industrial engineering is huge and an integral part when it comes to producing and moving things and is basically the discipline that takes into account how we move information, goods, money, and other things through a system, physically and digitally.
An example is the automotive production line. We're dealing with vast numbers and varieties of supplier parts coming in to one spot to be assembled. The factory needs to be set up in an optimized way, the internal logistics needs to function well to minimize down-time, and nowadays we are focusing more and more on external systems or entire supply chains and optimizing them. In industrial engineering we say that companies are no longer competing with other companies. Supply chains are competing with other supply chains. This is very complex and requires an engineer that is more of a generalist and has his or her hand in many cookie jars. Everything from economics and negotiations, to production engineering and supply chains.
Engineering is the Art of making a product work in a certain way. And industrial engineering the step back and looks at the process of manufacturing the product and making it work
Thank you for the insight.
I am 90% sure this was writen using ai. Kind of ironic isn't it?
My son’s an electrical engineer and I understand his work a teeny bit better after watching this. I love these maps! They are cool to look at and the information is explained and described beautifully. Thank you!
I'm an electrical engineer working on nanoelectronics , the field has expanded so much in recent years! Amazing time in the world my friend.... AMAZING TIME!
one thing i have noticed about engineering is how multidisciplinary the whole field is. My personal interests lie in thermal properties and the movement of energy, so I'm a mechanical engineer and i specifically like refrigeration cycles (AC, HVAC, refrigeration). Within that field, we have mechanical engineers that work in several areas that cross over into other disciplines. we have controls engineers that tune our controlled devices to get the desired thermal properties, we have software engineers designing predictive software to determine system behavior, and we have materials experts that know the properties of refrigerants inside and out. All of these people are Mechanical engineers in this case, but do interdisciplinary work at the crossover between 2 disciplines. its fascinating.
Also, I'm glad you said mechanical is about energy conversion. throughout my schooling, everyone, including other MEs, would think i was crazy for saying that because they only focused on solid mechanics and couldn't recognize that that, too, is a energy related process.
I'm also an M.E that works in HVAC (specifically heating using gas). I work with E.E and Chemical engineers. The debates between disciplines can be one of the best parts of working in this field.
stem enjoyer
hey man i've just started mechanical engineering I'm in 1st year
can you help me with some do's and dont's! please!
@@kushalsapkota3818
Do:
Go to class and ask questions.
Read ahead.
Take clear and consistent notes. Be able to explain things in simple terms
Work and rework homework problems
Don't:
Use chegg or similar homework solvers
Skip class
Get complacent or stagnant
Put something off to last minute
Panic
@@kushalsapkota3818 do what the other guy said but also work on yourself. Hit the gym just twice a week and try to be as social as you can
These maps remind me there are experts in each of these fields who have forgotten more about the subject than I will ever hope to know.
When I become tempted to reject the counsel of experts, I will remind myself that I can almost always trust the consensus [of] experts to help me choose a path for myself.
Thank you for another awesome video.
Yep, even specializing in a field will allow you know and forget more than any lay persons.
well. you can never trust an expert completely; any expert who tells you otherwise is going to make mistakes and should be trusted even less. but yes, people who have studied things deeply should be trusted to usually be right about some subset of things they've studied.
another thing, it's not just the experts speaking for themselves, they're speaking for the thousands of years of human ingenuity that went into figuring out what we know. If you spent 10 minutes thinking and think you found something nobody has ever thought of before, you didn't.
@@JohnSmith-kc6ov I think you nailed it. We are all the beneficiaries of the collective effort from millions of hard working dedicated people. Today's experts truly stand on the shoulders of giants. Thank you for your comment.
yes more conformity and less independent thinking
I was reading all the comments, and I see that almost everyone is some kind of engineer. I am not - I'm a performing musician and a personal trainer. But I loved this video. I am very curious about all kinds of things - physics, natural sciences, math, biology, etc. In order to become certified as a personal trainer I had to learn a lot about the inner workings of our body - bones, musculature, chemical processes.and so on. Your videos are just wonderful and give me insights into so many other topics. Thank you so much!
I am an engineer and an amateur musician. The things I learned in physics help me to be a better musician. The things I learned in math helps me understand music theory. And it doesn't end there. My engineering education helps me enjoy everything around me.
What is it with women finding the most useless skill and being "That's what I'm going to do 😊😊"
Like seriously... Are y'all not capable of doing anything useful?
@@Kloppin4H0rsestrue brother music is not a job or work, engineering is the only job that will exist in the world
@@Kloppin4H0rses perhaps so, but i'm a financial (engineer) structuring complex ways (deals & transactions) how to fund (pay) for stuff, particularly large projects that hire all sorts of engineers... I can do it on a PC (thanks EE, software, chem, mech, mat. eng) or I can do scribble it in the dirt with a stick cave man style. Long / short, without the money, everyone is living in the stone-age or like an African in the bush. So there's that caveat...
@@tascrphsu had to drag Africans in this to
I'm studying mechatronics engineering, and when the part about mechanical engineering comes in, I started to cry because I noticed again why I was studying this major and why I wanted to be an engineer: I really wanted to help people with their lives and make life easier, more accessible, and more efficient for people around the globe. Build stuff to help us. I haven't decided which specification I want to specialize in yet, but in these hard times, I'm glad I chose this path. To all engineers and engineering students, I respect you in that way. Let's make our world, with the power of science, bright, shining, peaceful, and painless! Not only for money, we shouldn't be smart minds under the control of capitalism. Don't forget why you chose to be an engineer! Never, even in the darkest of times.
love from a future engineer!
Hey, same boat as you!
@@yashkant1117 where do you guys study? I’m pretty interested in it, even tho i’m still undecided between a couple of choices😭
@@antoniomonti4107 I'm studying Mechatronics - Engineering at one of the colleges in my city.
@@yashkant1117 what state?
@@antoniomonti4107 I'm in Toronto, Ontario, and the program is available at Humber College
I was set on pursuing a career in finance for the money…but I realized that I wasn’t going to be satisfied doing something I thought was merely a means to an end. I want to do something that leaves a positive impact on the world, and I think engineering will allow me to do that in some way. Thank you for making this, it really showed me the purpose engineers have and the utility they provide for the world. I know now that I want ti be an engineer, no matter how difficult the road is to getting there
Network Engineering?! Hey! That's me!! I suffer from imposter syndrome so being represented here is awesomely validating. Seeing all of the other fields represented here also helps bring into perspective how not-simple and not-obvious the problems in my field can be to solve. Very cool video! Love it as always!
Network Engineering is so underrated imo, we like to bully them in my uni saying they aren't engineers haha, just some banter (or at least used to) more and more students started seeing how Network engineering is so good as a career so people started switching to it so it's nice to see it getting some recognition
I've been a Network Engineer for over a quarter of a century, although I originally graduated as a biomedical engineer, and I'm also a Chartered Engineer. There should never be any imposter syndrome from being one. Provided, of course, you apply engineering principles and standards to your profession and don't become a pointy, clicky, next, next, done merchant!
NE are cool, I have no idea how immense could be the architecting of networks
Telecommunication Engineering and Network Engineering always works together tho :D.
Sus
I greatly appreciate your efforts in making all these maps
Hey, thanks so much :)
@@domainofscience Please never disappear like that again
i am a computer engineering student and i used to complain about some of the subjects like applied mechanics and thermodynamics because at that time, i thought they were irrelevant to computer engineering degree but thanks to your video, now i understand that all the disciplines of engineering are related.
I used to do the same stuff but reverse 🤣. I am a mechanical engineer so I need applied mechanics (almost all mechanics) and was always angry about how it's fair that I have to learn programming languages like python and matlab
please keep doing these, our world needs more understanding of science in all matters 👏
This video is just incredible! I'm an electrical engineer and a particle physicist who works at CERN. I can say that most of the subjects you covered in this video are things we need to know to work there. :)
Did you graduated in both careers at the same time?
Hey just curious, how long ago did you start at CERN and what is the pay like? considering a similar career
Have you found aliens yet?
The one change I would make would be to move the power grid into electrical engineering, while it certainly does branch off into other domains of engineering at its core it is electrical engineering. In fact power is probably the oldest form of electrical engineering. Eventually electrical engineers figured out how to harness electricity to do other useful things but originally it was all about power distribution enabling the decoupling of power generation from power consumption.
Honestly, I think a good argument could be had for splitting it between Nuclear Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering- all of them contribute to the field, though I can see your point about EE having a major share.
I personally had some comments (ChemE relies upon process controls, BioMEMS is a thing, etc), but for a generalized map- It works fairly darn well. The intersections of disciplines between all the engineering fields make making a map rather difficult, due to the many threads woven together in various sub fields.
As a nuclear engineer, I didn't like it being put up as a subcategory of Civil Engineering. It's certainly a bit about my pride about being different from everyone else, but we're also the only field that makes use of all four fundamental forces.
As a counterpoint, you can generate energy without ever converting it to electricity. You can have steam engines that transmit all of it's power to mechanical devices. Given how ubiquitous steam generators are to almost all energy generation and how they usually rely on transforming one type of energy into another, I believe it should be in the mechanical engineering section. Solar might be the exception.
@@lejogador The point was about the power grid, which always uses a turbine to transform mechanical energy into electricity, minus solar, not energy generation in general. Steam generators are almost always used to turn mechanical into electrical, especially when talking about the power grid.
As a civil/structural engineer, I loved this video. And I have a huge passion for computers which leads into electrical, and tons of other fields, and you nailed everything here. Amazing vid!
Are you still working towards becoming a licensed structural engineer, or are you already there? If you are, how was the SE exam, and how is structural engineering as a whole? I'm looking at structural as a possible focus, as I am now reaching the end of my sophomore year in my undergrad. I've always had an interest in it but I have heard some pretty concerning things about the difficulty of the field, and have not had the chance to talk to a lot of structural engineers about it.
@@olenb I love Structural Engineering. I got my PE almost 2 years ago, am signed up for the CA PE exams this autumn/winter, and may pursue my SE after that. Tho, to be honest, a PE does most the work unless you want to design skyscrapers, stadiums, hospitals, or big bridges/dams/etc. I do want to design some really cool stuff, but I also want to break into rockets somehow, so I'm seriously thinking about trying to get a job off in that field. I may even try and get an Aeronautics degree, which basically just sounds like a fun time lol.
As for how hard the PE was, I passed it no problem first try, but my coworker had much more difficulty, never passing it after multiple tries. I can also tell from working with him that he had a limited internal, fundamental grasp of the material, and was more of a table puncher/equation muncher, and liked to let the software do the work. He could do the engineering job you asked him to do, carefully, but under exam conditions, with a question he didn't exactly study for, I totally understand why he would have trouble applying all his knowledge to a new scenario, he was used to that _other_ thing.
@@kindlin An additional degree in aeronautics sounds like it would be beyond me and my motivation lol, so good on you for wanting to pursue that further. I think designing large scale bridges and dams would be fantastic but I doubt I’d be able to get into that kind of thing until later in my career anyway, so I suppose that SE test really isn’t anything I need to worry about anytime soon, at least not until I get my FE and PE done. I’ve heard bad things about the FE though, and I plan to take it next year so I’ll have to see how that goes. I’ll be working an internship this summer building a smaller bridge over a small river, so I’m gonna try and get as much info as I can about the design process for bridges, since that’s what I’d ideally want to be doing within structural in the future.
Regarding your coworkers situation, I am sometimes worried I will be finding myself in a similar situation, because sometimes with some of these subjects and problems in class I can see where you would need to apply the concepts, I just don’t know where to start, and if I do it oftentimes isn’t the right way to go. I really hope I can get better at that as I go through more of my classes, since I know I need to GET this stuff, I can’t just pass and hope that it’s enough knowledge to get me by. Thanks for the reply! I figured it might have been a bit of a long-shot considering your original comment was over a year old, but I was just very curious and wanted to ask.
@@olenb I can confirm this has gotten easier over time. I've had to completely change the way I look at problems, like realizing that literally everything matters, and you should think about each and every item and determined that even if that did fail, or not do what you thought it should, you would still be OK. If that is EVER not the case, a note must added, a comment must be raised, a question must be asked, to make sure that someone is thinking about this. I'm not sure if this really supposed to be our job or not, but in reality, we are the last line of defense against bad designs leaving your desk. Permit people can help with this, and your contractor and fabricator will often raise valid concerns, but it's always better to learn from those comments and improve your next design.
Right now, we do large (and small) telecommunication installations (I've designed mounts for a small antenna on a roof, and I've done complex ginpole construction sequence analyses of 2,049-ft, 12-level guy towers), and you need to be quite sure you fully understand what you're asking each and every bolt and plate to do, or else something bad can happen. I've also worked on the analysis of failed towers that cost lives, so things, like the code level checks, and even other checks that may just occur to you, are all very important, and it's not just a job to go and do and be done with, it really is a career of serving the public's best interest, and trying to make every design safe, constructible, and as economical as possible. It's a fun job, really, but people can ask a lot of you, and sometimes you just have to say no and it messes a lot of stuff up, but you can't break physics, is what I always say.
I think both the FE and PE went exactly as I expected. I was generally good with tests in school, and the FE was just an easier version of all the tests I had taken, where my school had something like a 94% first try pass rate on the FE for engineers (UW Seattle). The PE, I took a practice test, knew I had issues with hydro and soil as expected, and had some extra difficulty with traffic due to all of the half-remembered plethora of misc variables I was supposed to be able to solve for, but after reading a bit of my hydro, traffic and geos books from college (I read quite a bit of the geo book outright), I felt like I had a solid grasp of each topic. I retook my practice exam and did well, each question was asking things I now understood much better. The PE was just a natural extension of that.
My secret weapon is breaking everything down to first principles. I can think more abstractly, sure, but at the end of the day, I try and break it all down to simple forces acting in simple ways, with bolts and plates and shapes all doing just what we expect of them. If it becomes too complicated to think about fully and break the problem down into discrete steps, you're probably approaching the whole thing the wrong way and should try a different route, maybe add a brace, or remove the eccentricity, etc. to simplify it into something that has less assumptions and variability.
I read a great popsci book on engineering last year called Structures and was stoked at the chapter dedicated to the properties of textiles. I was working in heavy duty textile manufacturing at the time and had an "oh duh" moment when i realised that the author of the book was a naval engineer, and one of the biggest clients we had at the factory was the australian navy - another one of those interdisciplinary things that was so obvious in hindsight! A funny thing the book mentioned was that in the 1920s or so a huge breakthrough was made in sail efficiency (re-orienting the fabric's bias with regards to the mast) but that breakthrough came from a Madeleine Vionnet, a fashion designer who created the bias cut dress
How much do I love this fact and entire comment(!)
I would love to get a map of Aerospace Engineering!
or marine engineering
its good, but little complicated, i have did aerospace engg
same!!
I love aerospace engineering! rockets and outer space have been my thing since I was little, and I’m planning to work at NASA someday
I’m a welding engineer in the aerospace industry
My background is in Mechanical Engineering. Though with this, I have been a design engineer for military spy planes and commercial jet engines. I have designed and built water filtration and microhydroelectric power in Africa. I was offered a contract as a nuclear propulsion engineer on submarines. Now for several years I have operated in mechanical and systems engineering within the field of space lasercom, or laser communication, which is an intersection between telecommunications and photonics/optics - which the industry calls Free Space Optical Communication (FSO). Each lasercom terminal (on a vehicle, a ground station, or a satellite in space) relies upon teams of software engineers, electronics, mechanics, optics, controls and simulation engineers to develop it, plus it relies on specialists in materials, processes, manufacturing, quality, and systems engineering. The domain of engineering which one is exposed to is fantastically broad, even for a single engineer!
I have a Question
When engineers come up with concept designs for a product
Is there a method they follow to calculate the dimensions of each part of their design?
For example how did you determine the dimensions of the parts of your spy planes?
@@maalikserebryakov Yes, dimensions are driven by the function it needs to do, plus accounting for all the constraints on its design and manufacture. For complex things you start from the laws of physics (such as mechanics or aerodynamics), which you see late in highschool and in early college. From that you might develop the concepts with simple approximations (e.g. an approximation for the required swept area of the wings, or the required thrust for the engines). The next step might be a 2D or a 3D simplified model of your system of interest, usually with aid of computer programs which other engineers and coders developed. For example jet engine design starts with a 2D model, a cross-section of the engine for thermodynamic and aerodynamic and thermomechanical analysis. Later you account for all the constraints and trade-offs with other systems, with budgets for things like mass, cost, volume, power and fuel consumption, design parts in CAD or CFD (fluids) software, and simulate those parts in different ways to optimize them, up to the point that it's manufactured.
@@maalikserebryakov dimensions are determined by the usage of the product & the environment they are to be used on.
@@JayLikesLasers i see, thank you for the response
Have u ever tried formulating an optimization programme to solve for your concept design’s dimensions?
( i think You would express geometric, resource, structural and functional constraints, in terms of your design’s unknown dimensions and make one of them the objective function and then let the computer numerically solve it if a solution exists)
@@maalikserebryakov Programs already exist. Excel is good enough for most problems. For difficult constraints, where it's an option you could look into generative design and additive manufacturing.
As a first year electrical engineering student, this is very useful for choosing elective courses!
Love to see systems engineering represented, despite degrees in mechanical and aerospace I find myself working as a systems engineer now, so its nice to have some recognition :)
As an acoustical engineering student, I loved the spot you used the field. Electronic related courses, are predominant in my degree. I have a friend who studies electronic engineering and we found ourselves frequently surprised from the programs similarities (this is taken into account exceptions like acoustical measurements and instruments which are exclusive, and many others). Great video !
Personally, I would have liked to see acoustics straddling the line between mechanical and electrical engineering, since sound waves are fundamentally mechanical waves. That said, it's an intensely multi-disciplinary field, and you can find applications of acoustics in so many different sections of this map! In my graduate studies, I mostly did underwater acoustics, but since going into industry I've done electronics (audio DSP) and control systems (noise cancellation). The people I went to school with work in civil engineering (road noise), architecture, military, aerospace, and more!
Exactly! Similarities, variations, as Bach instinctively knew
What i love about being a mechanical engineering student is that my field is by far the most broad discipline ever. I can choose to work in almost all these other engineering fields as a mechanical engineer (to a certain degree)
Yeah me 2 I'm also a mechanical engineer
I feel like a Map of Finance/Economics would make a great video too. Its a very vast subject and I would like to see the nitty-gritties of it.
true!
And then there are economic engineers (who, as we all know, are no real engineers)!
Yes
there is market engineering and financial engineering
@@kifter9675 wtf that's not engineering
Nice summary. So few people understand this. When I was a little boy, I wanted to be an engineer. But the kind that drives a train. I ended up an Electrical Engineer.
Totally appreciate the efforts to compress engineering into 20 min or so and doing it so perfectly.
I'm a geodetic engineering student, but I didn't see my field explained on that map. the thing that has an intersection with my field is surveying. but as far as I know, geodetic engineering is more than just surveying and mapping the features of the earth. it integrates with some other engineering fields like civil engineering (of course), environmental engineering, geography, information system, and even aerospace engineering. well there are so many engineering fields that can be explored along with the development of times. i like the presentation and greatly appreciate your map and explanations. keep up the good works!
Thanks for the video, this shows the big picture of engineering world. Myself humble to add HVAC and Fire engineering to Mechanical field, which myself is employed now. We design HVAC, Fire protection and Fire safety for buildings. I would love to explore another field in near future.
To those who studying Mech Eng, keep going dont give up! its a very broad engineering degree which can unlock a lot of opportunities in different fields for you fellow in the future! Peace
As an optical engineer, you kept me waiting up to the very end :)
What degree did you study?
Just started computational engineering college a week ago; love this map!
I'm currently at my dream job as a front-end software engineer. I make the user interface used by thousands if not millions. It's so fulfilling to see my visions come to life on the screen. And the UI I make are so cool, even I'm impressed with it at times. I'm so glad I moved from full-stack to front-end. The room for creativity expands drastically.
hey, i wanna be a software engineer. can you tell me what to study to be one. and also where r u from??
It's funny how you can start in one field and end up somewhere completely else on this map. I feel like I've gone all over the place. Started with a bachelor in mechanical engineering, took a masters in fluid mechanics (here part of marine engineering). Took a job as an aerodynamicist (here part of aerospace engineering). Now at that job, I'm the only one who happened to take a python course in uni so I'm mostly doing software engineering (part of computer engineering).
Finally I have some peace of mind thought you were not going to upload any video but kept hoping you upload and finally ♥️
Great work! A few things I might still want to add: information theory as a foundation for electrical engineering, semiconductors (deserve a mention of their own, I believe), battery technology (bit hard to categorize, but very important for our modern tech world) and solar tech (other renewables are mentioned, could have put that next to power systems).
agreed... many sub-disciplines of electrical engineering delve very deeply into more raw physics and mathematics: information/detection theory, Galois fields and coding theory, random processes and the mathematics of noise, semiconductor physics, antenna analysis, etc.
I think this is a great map! I am currently a biomedical engineering student who switched into this major recently, and I’m honestly loving how practical and useful and interdisciplinary all of the engineering fields are. I definitely appreciate the depth of knowledge used for all of the products made from engineering.
I’d love to know what major you previously tried. How was it and why you did you switch? Also how is biomedical engineering going for you if you’re still doing it? I’m thinking about trying out biochemical engineering which I know is different but the school I’m going to doesn’t offer biomedical.
I can’t thank you enough for this video!!! I’m a computer scientist that’s always been passionate about understanding how things work. I’ve wanted to pursue engineering but feel like I can’t decide between electrical and mechanical. It’s just been so overwhelming trying to pin point a path when I keep learning about topics and see how they connect but feel like I’m deluding myself thinking it’s all data that I can utilize.
Awesome! Computer engineering is the best...although I may be a bit biased.
I see what you did there!
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Not as heavy as electrical engineering ,heaviest in university, higher pay than CS
Most engineers can divert to computer engineering, since we need coding for EE too
@@pham3383 that depends on the education you are getting. In my uni, we (CSE) had many of our classes together with EE. We were taught stuff like subtle physics and chip building (eg. how to manufacture and 'program' a CPU) from their curriculum, and they got programming, computer science from ours. Among with other stuff like systems theory etc.
So electrical engineers could divert to computer engineering, yes, but only for superficial areas, but the same can be said for other (including CS) engineers. Also, for both, the more in-depth you go, the more unlikely it is that you can get away with the superficial knowledge - the things you *need* the degree for. I doubt a computer science engineer could make a reliable 5g radio antenna wihout deep diving into EE subjects, but it shows a shallow understanding of computer engineering to think that it can be easily grasped - I wager that an EE could not, without prior training, understand and apply the mathemathics used by databases and the underlying computational nuances in a real life use-case, and come up with a solution that is acceptable from an engineering perspective.
I mean, you said that you could divert to computer engineering, because you needed to code for EE as well. Only 10-15% of my subjects needed coding in computer science engineering. What about the rest? It is now about how to program, it's about what to program.
Also, there is a difference between computer science and computer science engineering - so to compare CS and EE is not exactly fair.
Great video, just want to add a few extra bits. It's very hard to really group all the different applications of engineering into tight little boxes, because of how much shared knowledge each discipline has, how vast each discipline is and how multidisciplinary real world applications are. I've heard that the 4 main branches of Engineering is Civil, Mechanical, Electric and Chemical, with all other engineering disciplines being somehow a branch of one or more of those, but that's really up to debate.
Also, there's often way more engineering disciplines in college to choose from. Things like Food Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Automation Engineering, Environment Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, among many other areas that would usually be considered a sub-branch of another engineering often have full-fledged degrees or majors in many universities.
And even then, the applications of each discipline are so vast that you can never learn everything there is to learn. Hopefully, if you go to a good university, you'll get to choose between a bunch of electives that will steer you in the direction you want to go. For instance, if you like the idea of designing structures so that they withstand loads and stresses without collapsing, you can do a major in Structural Engineering, but that's not available in every university, so you may choose to do either Civil or Mechanical Engineering depending on which type of structure you prefer to deal with and take the electives that correspond to Structural Engineering.
Also, it's not uncommon to take classes in other fields. If you're into designing power plants, for instance, you might take a major in Electrical Engineering, but take some extra classes in Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering, since both of those disciplines are relevant to the design of power plants as well. Finally, you can even have interdisciplinary projects with non-engineering fields, like Computer Science, Design, Architecture, Surveying Technicians, Geologists, among others.
What I like to say as a tip to anyone thinking about Engineering is to try to visualize where or with what you want to work after you graduate. Then, look at all the engineering fields that have something to do with that. Don't look only at their names, but also at their descriptions, curriculum and specially the electives they offer. Also, ask some former students if you can. Then, choose the major that fits best with your goals and interests.
You'll need more than those 4 branches - for example, it would leave out the software/firmware, controls and simulation engineers, or the systems engineers. Then Electrical doesn't include electronic (related to printed circuit board design and computer science) whereas Electrical is more concerned with moving power. I think universities need broad categories because they don't have the breadth to cover every single topic in one university. And so you usually get majors and minors, or elective subjects. You're right though, that you can usually pick and choose classes to aim you in the right direction, without getting too hung up on the name.
I am now a year 1 student in University and I’m planning to take mechanical engineering as my major. What other engineering electives should I choose if I want to have a better understanding on building aircraft and spaceship? (That’s what I want to do in future.)
@@Lilz853 Well, that's not really my area, you're probably better off asking a professor, but probably fluid dynamics or aerodynamics would be a safe place to start with, thermodynamics as well, probably some electronics, materials science, radar systems, combustion engines, mechanical vibrations, are some things that come to mind as well.
Some of those you might even have in your regular curriculum, but it may be worth to take an look at the ones you don't. You can also look at the curriculum of Aerospace Engineering degrees for some guidance.
@@KakoriGames thanks so much for the advices!
@@Lilz853 systems engineering is probably what you're after for how to design complicated aircraft and spacecraft. Things like the F35 have had massive breakthroughs in multiple disciplines (not just aeronautics/aerospace), but its success truly belongs with the systems engineers (speaking as a mechanical engineer myself...)
I love this channel. The roadmaps are great to provide a gist of an entire field. As an applied maths major, this is quite helpul when it comes to gaining insights about other domains.
What's the difference between applied math's and physics? Asking as an undecided highschooler
This is absolutely amazing, I'm sure it took a lot of work and research. I do a lot of STEM discussions for students I will definitely reference this material. Thank you so much!
As an engineering student, my impression of aerospace engineering has so far largely been government contracted defense systems, aside from passenger airplanes... and I had a chuckle when you said "now onto the more positive uses of mechanical engineering!" as you were seemingly moving away from the subject of weapons, and onto aerospace engineering, because my reaction was "what, MISSILES NOW?" XD
Thanks for this incredibly detailed visual representation of 'the products of ingenuity'
There are other aplications of aerospace engineering, since they specialize in how moving air interacts with structures. For example, some of my aerospace engineer collegues at uni went on to work designing wind turbines. Another is working in the auto industry. Also, there is a burgeoning agricultural drone industry in my country. Outside the US, there isn't such a bloated defense industry. Most engineering applications are civil.
Glad you found a place for systems engineering. I was an SE for a long time in aerospace. SE can be found whenever the government (read DoD or NASA) wants a defense contractor to build something.
Love your maps. I shed a tear when you specifically mentioned mining without mining engineering, though.
What a great video to demonstrate the wide range of career paths a young engineer can take. As you might expect, the team here at ANR believes that being a precision engineer is a most exciting and rewarding career. For many years we have run regular apprenticeship programmes. These courses always reaffirm to us how young people appreciate the importance and scope of engineering across every field of industry, and in all walks of daily life. This video confirms our belief that engineering is a great career for anyone to start and there are many specialist areas for budding engineers to work in.
I am a Metallurgical and Materials engineer, we are kind of a bridge between physics and engineering where we try to develop the materials for the engineered goods and structures.
This video should be necessary for any engineering student. I didn't know half these disciplines existed until I had my engineering job.
The electrical engineering topic misses one very important topic: Antennas and electromagnetic radiation. Also if you mention auto equipment, you also have to talk about imaging tools and displays
RF Engineering
also putting power on the civil said in weird. i would 100% put it on the electrical side
its already included in Telecommunication Engineering.
@@RieMUisthegoaT not really... Mechanical job is to produce electricity. While, Electrical were the one who distributes it. Don't know why he put it mainly in Civil though.
@@shizuchuan just put it in between them
Also what's the discipline or sub-enginnering that deals with power from the mechanical side? Like how there's a whole program called power engineering that belongs to electrical engineering.
Great overview and content. The map itself is well organized, but we have to give props to the small illustrations. They are amazing... simple enough, clear, have nice composition and are definitely well researched!
I like how the closer you are end to the video, the more physics it can get. Photonics is basically physics at this point.
it’s all physics, always has been
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Mechanical engineer specialized in waste management here. Many years ago, I worked on training engineers of any field, on waste management, so for a couple of months i had to interact with engineers of almost every field. Chemical engineers were by far the ones with the most insane depth of knowledge on an extremely wide variety of fields followed by mechanical engineers. The rest were more or less masters of their own fields, but Chem and mech ones were a class above as far as my experience through the years.
I do enjoy cooperating with engineers of different fields. It's interesting to see the different problem-solving approaches each field applies.
mostly variety we do take classes on a lot of thing but sometimes sad that we dont do in depth things that will be up to the person when they already finish college and got on their job
Sometimes you found something interesting in class then we dont end up doing because thats not our ''focus'' of the class you just have to know and not in depth like we do have classes of strentgh materials but we dont know much like material science and engineer carrer
we take organic chemistry but not like in depth as biochemistry student, even doctor know more about chemistry and chemic compounds than us
we take lab classes but is just the first 4 semester then you do absolutely nothing of chemistry or touch any chemical
you do some of petro engineer but abviusly the petro engineer carrer know more than you
yo can go into the field of food but food engineer know more about food than you
so lot of thing but nothing at the same time
yo can go as process engineer but process engineer know more than you
I think the more we advance chemical engineer is getting wider and at some point is gonna become branched and became extinct
To wide to be just one thing
I dont think we can compare and say mechanical engineer are more easy than chemical but one thing is true, the amount of time we spend on lab is too much
I would not say mech eng is easier because idk the classes difficukty but LESS TIME DEMANDING
@@skydivenext Weird. i know a lot of people who had a lot of chemistry courses with chemEng. Im actually one of those ppl! So i dont think all ChemEng are the same. Plus where tf did you do your major??? you didnt have chemistry after 4 semesters? thats really bad. I did have chemistry after my first four semesters! chemical reactions in reactors? catalysts in the chemical industry? biochemical engnieering courses? combustion? polymers and material science courses? who is going to take care about the packaging and materials that make up the product packaging? most food packaging is made of polymers and chemical engineers are good with polymers. The ChemEng experience is really good when working in materials since you know ALL the process really well and have a bigger picture than most engineers. Believe me, ChemEng are really good when it comes to polymers but not so good when it comes to metals (MechEngs are better for that). The heart of Material Science is chemical engineering and some of mechanical engineering. Whatever you need to know to do will learn in in the job so thats why flexible majors are better in engineering, its kind of the opposite compared to Science majors: the more specialization, the better
I think you are forgetting about chemical industries. The one with reactors that uses microorganisms or catalysts. This is where the ChemEng really shines. There are thousands of chemical industries PLUS the food industry does benefit a lot for the ChemEng background. Fluids and energy? a mechEng or ChemEng can work there! both are extremely prepere for those subjects and that's why ChemEng and MechEng can both work in process engineering. There are not too much Food scientists and employers still dont know what's the role of this major. ChemEng do know about food industry and they can work there.
MechEng work in thousands of industries: food, energy, chemical, materials, etc. And they didn't specialize on those. Employers dont care about an specific major. They want to stick with what they know: civil, chemical, mech and electrical. The four main branches of engineering.
Like it or not, employers will always prefer a jack of all trade engineer because engineering is an interdisciplinary field, you are a ChemEng? you will eventually know about mechEng, ElecEng, MatEng, etc. You need to. And this engineering is perfect for that. This one and MechEng are good enough. Id say civil and electrical are more specialized.
The Bottom Line: ChemEngineers are really flexible and can see the big picture fair easily, plus is the base of so many engineers like biochemical engineering, medical engineering, material science and engineering, food science, etc.
@@Abstractor21 chemical reactions in reactors? catalysts in the chemical industry? biochemical engnieering courses? combustion? polymers and material science courses?;;; the science buddy the base is all learned in the first 4 semesters then you go in the industry factor which esseantially made you not know much about everything and all those are most of chemeng job already so idk why you list them
Like it or not, employers will always prefer a jack of all trade engineer because engineering is an interdisciplinary field, you are a ChemEng?;;;
yes they will obviously but eventually their view will broad and think more of specialize major than generalized majors that dont go deep in anything
plus is the base of so many engineers like biochemical engineering, medical engineering, material science and engineering, food science, etc.
you just summarized your hole thing in this sentence on what I said lol , you dont specialize on nothing of this, just broader feel, even food science there is countries that already do food engineers major which I said in my first comment but you listed at food science which is not the carrer I am referring to
idk why you got butthurt lol that just the reality( biochemical engineering, medical engineering, material science and engineering, food science, etc. )you know nothing more than then they are all superior and know more in their own field than you
But afterall when you work, the reality is you learn in the industry everything from the scratch again
every industry has different thing and different products and different machines different reactor brand differents software to learn to use, superiority doesnt mean anything once you work your base science and the classid I SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE is useles in their respective field, dont let you chemeng ego kick into you buddy
@@skydivenextDo you learn all of those things in the first two years? Most of the courses I mentioned require a high level of math. How is it possible to cover those courses in the initial years without all the math and physics and chemistry from the first years? Would you like me to show you the chemical engineering courses from some of the most recognized universities in the US?
In the initial years, the focus is primarily on chemistry, math, physics, and some introductory engineering courses that do not delve deeply into the subjects.
I am not upset, and since we are communicating through text, it's better not to make assumptions. I am relaxed.
"yes they will obviously but eventually their view will broad and think more of specialize major than generalized majors that dont go deep in anything"
Why would they? Employers value a 'jack of all trades' because they can grasp the whole picture relatively easily. This is easier compared to highly specialized majors. In engineering, especially in process engineering, you really need to be a 'jack of all trades' engineer, at least initially. Then, you can specialize deeply in your job or pursue a master's degree. Even in the field of science, you can benefit greatly from general degrees. Just look at r/biology, r/chemistry, r/physics; everyone advises getting a general degree in biology, chemistry, or physics, and then specializing later on with an MSc or PhD.
Mechanical Engineering is a great example; it's the most flexible engineering degree, making you a 'jack of all trades.' You can work in practically any industry. Look at the job market, the job offers, and the requirements. Material science? CFD? Process engineering? Environmental engineering? Food and agro industry? Textile industry? Nuclear engineering? They all require chemical or mechanical engineers to perform a myriad of different tasks, and this demand will continue because engineering isn't just about the curriculum of a particular university; it's about problem-solving, understanding the big picture, and drawing conclusions with limited information.
Moreover, even if you are right, both Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering allow for a wide range of specializations for postgraduate studies. They are not only flexible in the job market but also academically. If you find an industry that's currently booming and you are interested in it, you can pursue a master's or PhD in that field and enhance your employability.
For example, an Electrical Engineer pursuing a master's in fluids or thermodynamics might seem unusual, as most Electrical Engineering programs in the US and Europe do not heavily incorporate these subjects; they are typically offered as electives. Civil Engineering is also more specialized, focusing too little on the industry side of things but rather on buildings and related structures.
@@Abstractor21 man I am not reading all your reply again and just at a glance you still mentioned
"especially in process engineering, you really need to be a 'jack of all trades" that are specialized engineers majors lol
There is a carrer for process engineer
Stop being butthurt
I'm so happy you put audio, broadcast, and audio equipment engineering
Hello! I'm in the midst of getting my Masters in Chemical Engineering, and there are a couple of things I'd like to add-
Chemical Engineering also relies a fair amount on Process Controls (as running a process to obtain the best results for the least cost is vital)
Also- There's another intersection- BioMEMS, the cross between biology and MEMS. (I'm currently taking a Mechanics of BioMEMS class as an elective- complex, but interesting!)
Awesome video, and I hope you have a wonderful day!
The same can be said about all the other fields as well. As technology evolves, these boundaries no longer make sense.
In my case, I'm a Chemical Engineer and I have a Master of science Degree in Metallurgical Engineering. The chemical enginerring have a scope of action
This has got to be one of the best explorations of the surface layers of all these beautiful different fields of engineering. A unique display, thank you so much for your research!
As a mechanical engineer, i can certainly say that after completing college, I'm no longer a mechanical engineer but rather I'm now an "Engineer"
How?
@@resiliencewithin because things are so interdisciplinary that mechanical, civil etc are only things remained for college. Once you get into job, you can't say that I've only learned "mech" things so I can't do civil or electrical stuff...
Thank you for your time and effort for creating this video. It gives a wide perspective of things.
For the disciplines involved in buildings you forgot about Acoustic Engineering. They work with the mech engineers and architects to design the Façade and floors to mitigate the transfer of vibration and sound. They are also involved in internal wall construction and glazing design for noise ingress and acoustic privacy.
I have recently subscribed to your channel and I was amazed to watch such mind boggling videos.Thankyou you for giving us clear understanding of every popular field
Chemical engineers largely do Semiconductor process engineering.
Manufacturing Engineering and Industrial Engineering are also missing and these are huge.
A lesser known one is Packaging engineering which might go in mechanical or in between mechanical and industrial/Manufacturing if you choose to include them.
Didn't know about Marine Engineering, which peaked my interest.
I don't mean that chemical engineers are mostly process engineers, just that it's big for that group.
I just learned about research engineering as well.
Manufacturing engineering is on the map, you just missed it.
@@Alkis05 Thanks, Industrial too
Thank you for organising for me this disorganised world and making it sensible in a realistic way. This is a more practical way to why I studied cause I was always so confused in what I was studying
I appreciate you for doing this work of gathering information and expressing in such an eloquent way.
Very well explained and great visuals! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for all the effort and research that went into this🎉👍🏿
Currently a senior studying ECE (Electrical/Computer Engineering). There seems to be quite a bit of bredth of topics even just in undergrad.
There is the chemistry required for understanding how conductivity changes for different materials. Currently taking a class on Semiconductor Design, which talked about Fermi Energy, optimal unit cells for different materials/temperatures, and how band gaps change in respect to the dimensions of the unit cell.
There is the programming side and analysis of algorithms/data structures, and within that, going lower level, theres the assembly languages and computer architecture.
And going lower level there is the actual logic gates implementations. And understanding how they can be used for different combinational circuits or sequential circuits or memory. And even further lower the implementation of transistors when making the logic gates themselves.
Which also includes the circuit analysis requirements. And then introduces spectral analysis (laplace/fourier) for understanding how the circuit responds to different input signals.
And then that could be generalized into signals and systems. Which you could use signal processing techniques to analyze whether or not the system is stable, unstable, causal, anti-causal, or memoryless. Then the control systems aspect of determining how to make unstable causal open loop systems into stable causal closed loop systems with minimal error and low settling time.
Then there are real world practical/buissness classes. Talking about optimal practices in the work place, such as how to estimate costs of making developing software. When to spend the effort on developing documentation, and how to do so.
And all of these topics could be used in design classes. For instance I took a class on biosensor design, which talked about the process of how we can use electrical properties of systems to measure specific quantities. Such as measuring impedance of some blood sample, since cells have some capacitance specific for their size/shape. If you can capture cells by having receptors that bind to specific proteins/antibodys on specific cells you can then note the change in cell count to note the concentration of those antibodys/cells within the sample, which may be unique to a certain diseased state (I think reduced cd4 proteins can indicate HIV, might have mixed that up though). But you also have to take into account the fact that we have high frequency noise due to nearby powerlines, and baseline drift from low frequency noise, so you have to design a filter first which gets back in the circuits and spectral analysis. Then there is the legal parts of submitting for FDA approval and patenting and filing for trade marks... I barely remember the names of those forms though.
This is not even mentioning the indepth topics within these areas. Like machine learning, or AI, or communication system (which I havent taken classes on, but other seniors have). And majority of the time you are just taking the prerequisites for these topics (2 years of physics, 2.5 years of calculus, 1 year of inorganic chemistry, linear algebra, discrete math)
I absolutely love the contents of this channel.
Could you also make a map of life sciences or map of diseases? It would be incredibly valuable to see the big picture :)
Cheers!
Hey, a Process Instrumentation & Control Engineer here. Would just like to add (instrumentation and control engineering) as it is the branch that establishes a lot of the connections between various types of engineering. It serves as the heart of automation and is crucial for ensuring the safe operation of all systems.
Collaboration is magic, right?
That is why we have a huge debt of gratitude to the great Seniors of Engineering people in the world community. Thanks for the extent and importance of the overview.
So grateful to find your channel! Such an extraordinary work!
It's the materials behind everything, the truest thing to be said. That makes me study material science more even from an agricultural background. Also one of the fact that brings me closer to God, when I think that from where all of these would be built if Allah didn't put these materials out there for us to explore!
Thanks for the amazing work!
Awesome map/video and I can tell there is a ton of effort that went into this. Was waiting to hear embedded systems engineering mentioned as it’s the true bridge from electrical to computer, though it certainly can fall right under computer engineering and maybe was too specific of a field. Good video!
I think it'd be interesting to put date stamps on each of these and make a heat map of when each area of engineering really came into its own. It struck me that most of these fields are less than a hundred years old. A decent number are less than 50 years old.
A lot of insight i've earned by watching this video. This means a lot for me, and now, I'm proud for being a mechanical engineer. Thanks!!!
One of the best, most organized, informative channel there is
It even helped on career vocation
As a mechanical engineer i confirm that, he covered pretty much everything, hats off to you
Now you brought me into a huge crisis... I thought I was well set on Civil Engineering, but now Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bio Engineering and Aerospace Engineering are growing in me...
My uncle was saying aerospace engineering is a waste of time 😅
I would have put semiconductors in there somewhere. You sort of touched on it in places but designing processors containing billions of transistors is really a field of its own.
Yes, a field called photonics
As a recent graduate in ME it was fun to take this "walk" through the various engineering fields. The part about how interdisciplinary things can get is certainly felt in mechanical. It touches almost everything, and that was reflected in our curriculum of maths & physics, chemistry, materials, mechanics, energy, circuits, control, manufacturing, statistics, economics, ethics, and more.
One thing I would have added or at least mentioned are the traffic engineers and transportation engineers that move people and shape society. Besides novel computing and materials in the last century, transportation (and HVAC) have completely transformed the world.
Hi there recent graduate. If you want to work for the government, I could give you a quiçk test. This is publicly available information. The National Institute of Standards and Technology World Trade Center Seven investigative team admitted World Trade Center Seven was in free fall for 2.25 seconds. NIST and the mainstream media say the total collapse was not caused by a controlled demolition. What are your thoughts on that 2.25 seconds of free fall? The test here is to see if you can respond as a scientist from NIST would.
@@dunexapa1016 It's the result of Bushian motion, a rare phenomenon, caused by overseas oil reserves, which accelerates previously structurally sound buildings as if in free fall in spite of the many other counteracting forces created by things such as steel beams and concrete. This Bushian motion is known to create other bizarre phenomenon such as causing crashed planes to disappear after striking five-sided buildings.
@@escthedark3709 , *ARE YOU A COWARD OR A TRAITOR?*
*DO WHAT I DID! I MADE THESE PHONE CALLS!*
*CALL THE POLICE!*
CALL YOUR LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT AND CALL THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND TELL THEM THIS;
*THERE IS AN UNSOLVED MASS MURDER CASE OF SIXTY POLICE OFFICERS.*
THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY NIST (NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY) WAS GIVEN THE RESPONSIBILITY TO INVESTIGATE THE COLLAPSE AND DESTRUCTION OF THE WTC 1 AND 2 BUILDINGS.
NIST FAILED TO *PROVE* IF SIXTY POLICE OFFICERS WERE MURDERED BY CONTROLLED DEMOLITION OR IF THEY WERE NOT MURDERED BY CONTROLLED DEMOLITION.
NIST'S VERY OWN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT *IS PROOF* OF THE FACT JUST STATED.
NIST'S INVESTIGATION STOPPED AT THE MOMENT THE TOTAL COLLAPSE OF EACH BUILDING *BEGAN.*
LESS THAN FIVE PAGES OF NIST'S ENTIRE REPORT IS ABOUT WHAT CAUSED THE MURDER OF SIXTY POLICE OFFICERS.
*AFTER* THE START OF THE TOTAL COLLAPSE, NIST SAYS EACH BUILDING CAME DOWN "ESSENTIALLY IN FREE FALL, AS SEEN IN VIDEOS".
WHAT THIS STATEMENT MEANS, IN TERMS OF PHYSICS, IS THAT VERY LITTLE OF THE KINETIC ENERGY OF THE FALLING BUILDING PARTS ACTUALLY CAUSED ANY OF THE DESTRUCTION.
WHEN AN OBJECT IS IN FREE FALL, THE FALLING OBJECT IS DOING NO WORK AS THE OBJECT IS FALLING. THIS IS PHYSICS 101. "ESSENTIALLY IN FREE FALL" MEANS LITTLE WORK IS BEING DONE BY THE FALLING BUILDING PARTS TO CAUSE DESTRUCTION.
IF *YOU* CLAIM IT WAS NOT A CONTROLLED DEMOLITION THEN *YOU* ARE CLAIMING THAT *ONLY* THIS SMALL AMOUNT OF THE GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY CAUSED THE TOTAL COLLAPSE AND *ALL* OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WTC 1 AND 2 BUILDINGS.
*NIST NEVER PROVED THIS!*
IT IS EASY TO PROVE OR DISPROVE CONTROLLED DEMOLITION BY DOING A NET ENERGY STUDY. A NET ENERGY STUDY WOULD COMPARE THE ENERGY *ACTUALLY USED* TO CAUSE ANY DESTRUCTION TO THE AMOUNT OF *ENERGY NEEDED* TO CAUSE *ALL* THE DESTRUCTION SUCH AS OCCURRED ON THE DAY OF 9-11-01.
ANY COMPETENT ENGINEERING COMPANY COULD DO IT!!!
LET'S GET THIS INVESTIGATION STARTED!!!!!!
THE QUESTION EVERY AMERICAN MUST ASK THEMSELVES IS THIS;
.
*WILL YOU LET THIS STAND?*
THIS IS NOT 'ANOTHER' INVESTIGATION, THIS IS THE *FIRST* INVESTIGATION INTO THE MURDER OF SIXTY POLICE OFFICERS. THEY WENT INTO THOSE BUILDINGS TO SAVE LIVES. DO NOT DISRESPECT THEM OR THEIR MEMORY!!!
*WILL YOU LET THIS STAND?*
IF YOUR ANSWER IS NO, THEN *PLEASE* DO THESE THREE THINGS;
1. FIRST, CONFIRM WHAT I AM SAYING IS TRUE. THIS IS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION. THE NIST REPORT.
I WANT YOU TO BE CERTAIN IN YOUR MIND, AS WELL, BEFORE PROCEEDING TO THE NEXT TWO STEPS.
2. CALL YOUR LOCAL POLICE. GIVE THEM THIS INFORMATION. TELL THEM THE SAME THING. THEY CAN VERIFY IT ALSO.
3. CALL NYPD CRIMESTOPPERS HOTLINE. TELL THEM THIS INFORMATION. THEY CAN CONFIRM IT JUST AS YOU HAVE.
THEY NOW HAVE TO ANSWER THE SAME QUESTION;
*WILL YOU LET THIS STAND?*
HOW YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTION WILL DETERMINE IF YOU ARE A MAN OR A COWARD.
IF YOU REFUSE TO CONFIRM WHETHER NIST PROVED CONTROLLED DEMOLITION OR NOT YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY A COWARD.
IF YOU CONFIRM THAT NIST DID NOT PROVE CONTROLLED DEMOLITION AND YOU ARE AFRAID TO CALL THE POLICE, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY A COWARD AND A TRAITOR.
I turned 18 recently, and just like the herd in my country, i am following the path of engineering. To be honest, i had no idea what and engineer is since all i saw were people doing every other job than doing the job they studied for i.e. engineering and never really knew what an engineer actually does. But Lately im coming to a realisation and becoming serious about being an engineer, a passionate one. I still havent started this video, but the comments themselves imply that it would be worth it.
Yeah dude me too , I'm 24 I got 3 engineering degrees and I still didn't know all of these disciplines, I love learning about this
What country are you from though
@@கோபிசுதாகர் heyyo that's sick Man, 3 degress at 24 is Commendable, I'm from India wby
20:13 Very well said!!! I hope the entire world knows this TRUTHFUL FACT.
Couldn't say it better in fact
@@foca_ Better than most royals that have existed in the past. Maybe all of them!
I find it really difficult to settle on a certain discipline. I just started studying civil engineering at university but I constantly find myself being interested in other fields aswell, especially power and energy systems and renewable energy.
Similar here! I was going to go into electronic systems engineering but my Uni is starting a new energy systems engineering program here that I'll switch to with a focus in renewable energy. Follow your heart! Your happiness in your career matters a ton more than a few bucks.
It’s often funny to me in the dives into engineering that get posted how unlikely it is to see industrial and systems engineers represented.
Or material engineering
As a computer engineer I love the way you described both electrical software and computer engineering.
I certainly enjoyed his dark humor...😅😂😂👌👏👏
Excellent map!A map of electronics and communications engineering would be great!
civil engineering (civies) majors be like: " I have to go to concrete class today" ( this is an actual quote from several civies at my engineering college)
yeah, what is wrong with that statement. They literally study concrete. Most likely twice (two courses)
classes include concrete, steel, and timber designs. Also we have a little bit of everything like basic mechanical, electrical, bioengineering, and computer programming (which I really don't know why)
As you continue to make more and more maps, these maps could possibly be intros to playlists that dive deeper into each subject.
Now that i have this map overview, I want to see examples, neat things, notable steps in subject progress.
Thank you for putting so much effort into this 😮❤❤much love and appreciation.
Excellent video. I truly enjoyed you walking me through the vastness that is Engineering. It will certainly help future students (or interested parties) understand which space suits their preferences best while also realizing how important it is to recognize the interconnectedness of all these areas in the real world.
Great content, maybe for a next map content you can make the map of statistics. Statistics is a fascinating field and it has its application in every industry.
It is a good vídeo, a very good job, i liked but there is something that i am not agree, i am an industrial engineering and that discipline is a lot Bigger than how you expose it, industrial engineering involves desing, gestion and improves for production procesess of products and services, also including areas like time studies, quality control, logistics, maintenance, project management, ergonomics, auxiliary facilities, operations research and a lot of other fields, i would really like of you do a video talking about all of these great things that industrial engineering has
"So what type of engineering do you guys do?"
Mechanical engineers: "Yes"
Very grateful this channel exists. Excellent use of engineering knowledge for the content, and art knowledge for the visual.
I too am a MechE. It did miss HVAC, heat transfer and thermo-fluid systems being strongly within our domain of energy conversion, and their relationship to pressure piping and vessel design (preventing steam boilers explosions being the basis for the formation of ASME)
So useful and interesting thanks!
Which engineering would you recommend for someone who likes Newtonian physics?
I would say Mechanical engineering. That's what i am actually studying and because of your same reason.
Mechanical engineering - With it, you could work with nearly anything! By the end of it, you might know more about physics than Newton did. Then you could work on aircraft, on power stations, on ships, on buildings, on consumer products, or whatever you want. If you find out what you're interested in before you graduate, you can start to specialize.
@@nayanb.j.5737 as you are studying mechanical eng
I have a question.
When mechanical engineers are given a design problem and they come up with a design idea and begin sketching it / drawing it on CAD.
How do they calculate the dimensions of the parts of their designs? Is there a mathematical procedure you use
@@maalikserebryakov well.. First of all, the design dimensions will mainly depend on the machine/object they are related to, those dimensions are the first contraint. And secondly, you have to keep some proportions in the design (you can't do it as large as you want, for exemple!) and that's when the study of solid mechanics (and the math that comes with it) is crucial.
This is a contribution in Austrian economics that is not nearly widely enough understood! It’s called the structure of production. It’s super interesting although 10 or so years ago when I was more into economics, it wasn’t as well explained as it should have been, and I had to read things like prices in production by FA Hayek (which is a slog). I assume now it’s better elucidated by the new generation of economist. But it’s fascinating. All material goods are linked in a sort of matrix and connected to each other like cells in a body or, tiny, mechanical machines, moving things from one place to another, and turning them from one thing into another on a global scale. An outcome or phenomenon in the system can be caused by a small change somewhere far removed in time and space and it’s immediate origin cannot be apparent without this concept.
someone else that is into austrian economics? i’ve never met another