Ranking Engineering Courses from Easiest to Hardest
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
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Engineering is known to be hard…but which courses are the hardest? Watch this video to find out! I’ll be comparing the courses using a tier list to better demonstrate the relative difficulty. Timestamps are as follows:
00:00 Intro
01:01 First Year
03:13 Second Year
06:40 Third Year
11:02 Summary
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Got a C in Physics one. The concepts weren’t hard but you’re right the test questions are so ridiculously more difficult than they need to be
What’d you get in the class?
Physics is what I love, the reason why I went to this degree. But I do agree some of the questions the professors give you as little information as possible and overcomplicate the problems even with the lenguage of the question...
I took physics too but the one that physicist level one it was PHYS 121 I think that one is even harder than the engineering one. Got a C cause Mastering Physics saved me otherwise exams made me literally cry.
@@Hxhz-hl1gg ended up with a C and am taking Physics 2 this fall
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I think the difficulty of the course has a lot to do with the professor you take. Some professors seem to enjoy making the exams brutally difficult and taking off points for everything, while the same course with a more lenient professor will earn you a whole letter grade better.
I feel that
this is why grades shouldn’t matter that much
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I'm struggling in physics even though I took it in high school so the fact you ranked it a D and still got that degree makes me feel a bit better-
Ya haha ur not alone…it was a struggle for many
I had the same problem in physics 1. My entire class did. And I’m still going strong as a sophomore.
@@xxbatman69xx98 Well Physics 2 is much harder ;-; Also- where is statics in this video :0
@@lapetitefleur3482 WHAT I loved physics 2 so much (though that’s because I’m going electrical engineering) so I didn’t struggle with it at all.
@@lapetitefleur3482 also I can’t blame him for forgetting about statics because it was such a boring class.
As someone with a masters degree in mechanical engineering, I would say the electronics and electrical engineering modules I did were the hardest
Fair enough haha, I can see that
I agree, I thought the electronics were the most difficult classes as well. However, I think with a majority of these classes the difficulty is dependent on how good the professor is at teaching and how strict they are with their exams.
@@RC-io7ie yep. Usually people in mechanical courses have trouble with electronics for reasons like 1- You learn in one class concepts that electric engineers learn in multiple classes, 2- it envolves a way of thinking very different from mechanical stuff and 3- It various a lot from professor to professor. Mine was terrible, I literally just passed because of the help I got from internet classes and youtube videos explaining.....
I'm struggling with Engineering mechanics
I am going back to school after 5 years and studying because I am pursuing engineering. you and your videos are a blessing. I have watched your videos almost daily for information that has since helped me so much. thank you
Happy to help :)
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Love this video topic and the ranking system you came up with Tamer. I couldn't agree more that how hard a course is largely depends on the professor 😅
Professors can honestly make or break engineering
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This is probably one of your best videos. You encouraged me to take the plunge and become an engineer after working for 2 years.
Just beginning my journey in obtaining an engineering degree and your videos are extraordinarily insightful. Great videos.
I was a computer engineering major: analog circuits, signals and systems, digital communicatuon, operating systems and computer architecture were the hardest for me.
I’m a dual computer and electrical major and facts, signals and systems was my worst class. Didn’t help that I took it as an 8-week course during summer 2020 lol
lol i have the signal and systems exam next week and I'm really struggling a lot
CprE here too. I though the toughest courses were "Waves & Fields (EE)" and getting tossed into a Junior level Engineering Mechanics course w/o any of the background all the MEs had taken. My favorites were the EE and CprE labs where we designed and built circuits -- so satisfying to get to build them and see them work.
@@wangarangmiao8888how did it go
@@Determinator21 It was 2 years ago almost lol but well, 28/30
I'm loving all your videos! great work! I'm learning CS but got interested in mechanical engineering because of you! lol!
Good job. Maybe next year you will like chemical engineering listening to another person.
I'm so happy you're back tamer !
Haha thanks, but I didn’t go anywhere 😅
You’re content is interesting and you have a cool production style. Keep it up 👍
This video should really be renamed "Ranking MECHANICAL Engineering Courses from Easiest to Hardest", because calc 2 and 3 are exceptionally useful in high level engineering fields like Electrical engineering, where monitoring electromagnetic waves requires an enormous amount of calculus skill. Also its useful in structural engineering as you can model say how fast a room fills with gas. Chem 1 while it may be trivial, is the start for any chemical engineer. Calculus 2 is powerful for computer programmers as the Taylor and Maclauren series are how computers calculate certain values, or programming a physics engine for a video game.
Hello I am going to start my undergrad on my bachelor's on (pre) mechanical engineering this fall and am very confused about the courses to take and there are all these different terms like perquisites and electives and additional stuff which is very confusing. So I wanted to know if you could tell me which courses are useful but not that difficult for my first year in Western Michigan University in the US. Thank you for your help in advance!
Yeah, Calc 2 was difficult as hell....but if you cannot integrate, you can't Engineer. Calc 3 was only useful for partial differentials.
@@inorite4553 Respectfully, I found calculus 3 to be significantly more challenging due to the amount of visualization present. Once you understand the concepts in calculus 2 it really isn't that bad. The professor also matters as i've heard that calculus 2 is a hard class to teach competently.
I found this channel today and totally in love with it!!!!!! thanks Tamer ! u do a huge work and important one 4 us !
Come on dude, F for Dynamics, we are mechanical engineers because of it. That seperates us from civil engineers...
LMAO ur right...but the exam was insanely difficult 😔
@@TamerShaheen idk for some reason dynamics just came naturally to me. Easiest A out of my curriculum. Really depends on the professor
Some people will just complicate a subject. I watched my 8 year old sister get taught how to play chess and she was just confused even more. I sat down with her and taught it my way and she figured it out much faster and loves chess after that
@@matviyk3066 yes, some people just like to make their subject hard for students, idk is it their ego or something, some are not good educators, they don't know how to teach.
@@mehanikal5639 I’ve heard that a lot of times professors are just researchers teaching
Im going through thermodynamics a second time. I did a little better at understanding except they made the first exam extremely difficult compared to last semester which was really upsetting
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It's really strange how my overall experience matches yours😂😂! although I studied for my bachelors in Saudi Arabia, so it seems to me that engineering is taught similarly around the world.
which uni did you attend? I am thinking about KingAbdulAziz uni!
@Element cute
@Element get a life
@Element DNE
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Yo quick question if u dont mind. So im in gr12 tryna get into UW tron and wanted to do some shit on the sides to boost my AIF. I was thinking of buying a robotics kit from online and building my own bot to do whatever. Do u think that would look good as a personal project both on my AIF going into uni AND for to put on a resume for co-ops or one of the two? thanks g
Yea that would be good, any project helps. Then use the experience u get from that project to work on ur own projects from scratch.
Hi,
Could you please provide me a list of all the courses that a Mechanical Engineer student has to take up during the undergraduation. And it would really help if you could also mention the textbooks that are recommended for those courses.
It would be interesting if you did a video on your electives. I would like to know what the courses cover and the difficulty.
Ohh good idea, I’ll make one like that
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Really depends on the major I guess, I'm doing engineering physics. And we use calc 3 like crazy for electromagnetic field theory and even for things like analytical mechanics. Calc 2 and beyond is required when we're dealing with upper maths courses like linear analysis or when doing signal analysis, integration is just a big part of doing transforms. We also integrate alot in our quantum mechanics course. I like the facts that we keep using the stuff we're learning.
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Bro for me, a frikkin' course on Convective Heat and Mass Transfer was the most challenging theoretically and mechanical workshop practically.
I think this really depends on what you do after graduation. I do CFD and I have actually been asked in interviews about divergence, curls, cross products, and dot products. I have never been asked a design question ever lol. Hence, for me, all the design courses are useless but all the more mathematical intensive and theoretical courses tend to be the more useful ones.
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This review might be a bit too subjective tbh but still helpful in a nutshell. Thank you!
This guy undervalues linear algebra and calc 3 which are pretty essential for higher level understanding of upper div eng courses. If you have any expectation of going into grad school, matlab is unavoidable. Also you learn integration methods in calc 2 which without it differential equations is pretty rough
All of this plays a part but imo the professor matters the same, if not more, than any of these factors. Great video!
How well did your education prepare you to release drawings to the machine shop and production?
Dynamics IS Mechanical Engineering. We solve problems through movement, and we take care about everything that produces, transmits and overgoes movement. It is one of the hardest courses but if you learn it right, you are on your way of being awesome :=) And I agree SO MUCH on Design; it is THE single hardest thing I ever did in university, that course alone is worth a whole semester of other classes and you don't really learn much more than just what your teacher complains about you doing wrong over and over and it made me feel miserable.
Hello I am going to start my undergrad on my bachelor's on (pre) mechanical engineering this fall and am very confused about the courses to take and there are all these different terms like perquisites and electives and additional stuff which is very confusing. So I wanted to know if you could tell me which courses are useful but not that difficult for my first year in Western
@@samiulhuda9413 cool thing! Hmm I think every uni is different and idk if they would relate to my experience, but my take is:
There are 2 MAIN branches, if you want to work on mechanical engineering as an actual engineer or you see yourself more as an investigator/scientist. If (and only if) you would like to do investigation take math and more "theoretic" classes. In my experience, you need math to understand what you are doing but it should not be your priority. The more "applied" a course sounds, the more useful it will be if you want to actually work on design or work with machines and installations in general. Programming is useful, 3d design, technical drawing, excel, and in general any course that does not HEAVILY rely on full theoretic base (all courses should rely on theory, and you -should- understand it with importance, but it should not be the final objective).
Now, idk if "pre" mechanical engeneering will include some of this more applied stuff. First and second year usually are mostly theory.
Let me know if you need anything
Honours in Mech Eng WITH distinction. Amazing work
Dude!! Classical mechanics is so hard... I agree 100% with you.. like it deserves an S due to the practical applications.. not to mention the foundation it lays for other classes..btw the tests were stupid hard.. like the concepts by the book are not hard but some of the things asked on test is like, whoop over my head sometimes lol
Fluid mechanics is really hard man there are a lot of concepts to learn, and the problems always have something new popping out of nowhere
Thank you man
Brave of you to assume I took calculus and physics in high school 😂😂
I thought every one needs to take those before getting into engineering in university
@@TamerShaheen I took pre-cal 1/2 in the summer before I started uni, but physics is pretty standard.
@@TamerShaheen For Waterloo, those are the requirements, but many/most public/private schools in America require math up until Precalc so you’re on track to Calc 1. 👍🏿
Great video btw! This excites me as I’m planning on majoring in Civil Engineering later this year when I start college in the fall.
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Did u have to take linear algebra with calc 1 or calc 2 in the same semester? And does either relate to each other?
I took linear algebra with calc1 at the same semester and linear algebra relates abit to calc.
I was a full-time worker, earning my BSEE entirely during evening classes. I had terrible instructors for 3 crucial areas: electronics 1, engineering probability & statistics, and linear algebra. I used calc 1-2-3 in many classes (very common in BSEE degrees) so all of them were very crucial. I graduated in 2002, the height of the tech bubble burst. I never worked even 1 day as an EE. I use the math from that degree to do statistics for the insurance industry. Not a dream job, but not a bad career choice either. Very stable employment. Decent pay.
your little rant at 5:56 hahah feel that with a lot of courses
Current 1A mechanical Engineer, Currently Phys 115 is very difficult, math 115 is also really difficult to be honest. Having fun in math 116 tho
I loved math 116. Math 115 really depends on ur prof tbh. I had a shitty prof and found it hard, but others had a good prof and found it easy.
Then you didn't read further in mechanics of materials .
Some of the problem can be difficult.
Check Gate psst questions
So quantum mechanics to me was a killer. I am a retired EE.
I agree 💀💀
Anyone got any advice for differentail equations? I got a final on monday and its the only course im struggling in
The dynamic question was exactly the question I had on my Dutch high school exam for physics 😂
I'm STRUGGLING with Engineering Mechanics, I failed it 3 times, any tips? I really love it though, even though I suck. But still I don't understand why I get so low, even though I expect more. I think I'm going to fail my final exam it as hard.
Hey, diid you take Elementary Physics or General Physics?
You had a course for Ordinary Differential Equations in your second year?
We had Ordinary Differential Equations together with Multidimensional Calculus and regular Calculus in our first year in Analysis 1&2, a course thag spanned both semesters
Also do you not need Partial Differential Equations for Mechanical Engineering?
We had that in third year of high school
Good video but I got to disagree with many of them. As an example Calc III is heavily used in elasticity theory, FEM and FEA, some fluid mechanics and dynamics as well as CFD... It's pretty much the gateway to solving any 3D problem in engineering, and 3D is what real life is like. Sure simplifications to 2D are most of the time possible but with less accuracy and a much lower tolerance in structures etc ...
I got a B in physics 1 rn but holding on for life in calc. Never took calc in high school and find it much more difficult than physics
Is there a maths subject in design field ?
Hello. What would you recommend an electrical engineering major to do or learn during summer vacation?
Work on personal projects. If you’re a complete beginner, then use an arduino and a breadboard to work on basic electrical projects. If u have no ideas, then google “arduino projects for beginners” and do those. That’ll help u get future internships and jobs. Also, consider looking into the Eagle CAD software.
@@TamerShaheen thank you very much!
I am a CS engineering student and i still wonder why the hell did collage waste my 1-2 months of time on chemistry, physics , and social sciences class what the hell
In Mechanical Engineering at UOttawa, Math for Engineers (ME 303 in your video) is equally useless. It's basically an entire course dedicated to Fourier transform, with an overload of theoretical math that never gets used again. And at the end of the course, all that we learned could only be applied to extremely simple geometries, so basically circles, squares, rectangles, and spheres.
EE in uottawa. If you are in EE, Fourier and Laplace transform is your best friend 0.0
Its useful for data measurements and calibrating
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All I gotta say, as a first-year student in comp eng, ECE 105 has definitely made me doubt my career path every time.
What school do you go to because I took an ECE 105 class last year and it was hell on earth😮💨
I wonder continuum mechanics course where would be??
Maybe your electrical subjects is lite enough, that's why it's easy to you. But electrical especially electronics is the most hardest to understand and difficult to solve like a very complicated electronics circuits because every component has tons of parameters and characteristics curve.
I am doing Mechanical Engineering from UET Lahore Pakistan. I want to compare your course with mine in depth. Kindly make a video on books or topics you studied for at least mechanical core subjects......
If I do this for my Mechatronics Course, I'd probably crash before I can even turn the camera on. Been trying to graduate since forever now, and I want to burn them down tbh
Decent video though!
Haha how many years do u have left?
@@TamerShaheen hopefully not more than a year. I was supposed to graduate 6 months ago, but we all know this isn't easy.
How come, that most of your third year courses are allready in my second Semester?? (RWTH Aachen)
In north america there is no Abitur so the entire degree takes an entire year longer as they spend first year teaching what german students should already know. You'll notice most German bachelor of engineering programs are 3 instead of 4 years.
Calculus is very hard it was my nightmare as a civil engineer we don't have much use of it but we have to clear it anyway
I was wondering why you had so many courses but then I found out that UW has a quarter term system.
At most schools(at least in the US) we take Gen Chem. It’s basically a course designed to stick a hundred different majors into one class and fail out as many STEM students as possible
im not gd at math and physics do u think i can pass me but i love it
so do you need to do all the courses you mentioned in the video or do you have internal choices to choose between different courses?
taking calc 3 rn, u putting it in D is scaring me lol
My school combines the thermo classes into one semester and it has about a 20% passing rate...
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Great video!!!! MoMs 2 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I felt that!
How many Engineer tittle existing until today, with old and new, I recently notice. Now have Robotic Engineer in state of Georgia.
You really put the glass game from squid games in the video😂
Haha I had to 😂
in greece we have five years (58 courses)...
Where’s the Mark Rober course?
Bro what were your electives?
For complementary electives, I took religion studies. But, for technical electives, I lool courses like biomechanics, HVAC, Energy, Fluor Controls and Optimization
am year two mechanical engineering in in alex
big support men
Appreciate that :)
All the calculus and physics I learned in highschool? Lmao man I wish I would’ve prepped better for college. I’m a senior in ME now but def had to do extra studying. Calculus wasn’t bad at all. It was the algebra rules and tricks that gave me problems because I hadn’t taken algebra in 10 years when I started college
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F it´´s most difficult and S minus ¿Right?
Come on dawg as an engineer I think you could of come up with a less confusing grading scale.
What scale did you have in mind?
@@TamerShaheen I think a scale based purely on the courses difficulty would have been better, because with this one, it's like we have several variables and the grading scale loses Its meaning, in my opinion
@@marcoskrupiczer6595 agreed
agreed
dude what have I done 3 years learning shit and never understanding anything
where is mechanical vibration
No statics class?
Mechanics of Materials is just another name for statics
Calc 2 is killer
Asynchronous MATH 115 is fucking brutal rn
I feel that 😕
Dynamics does deserve an F
Yup
Did you get tutored for any of your courses ?
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Where is MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS ??
Calculus over linear algebra? That's a stretch.
Everyone is a little different I guess
He had to show the squid game glass
Haha I had to
Not the dynamics question 💀
dynamics is haunting mee
So how was the problem at 5:40 solved with out knowing the weight or initial speed of the shuttle?
Initial speed is something you'd have to calculate yourself, since point P is a point in space orbiting the Earth. The wording is poor (it's not "taking off" from that point, it's beginning a maneuver). You don't need to know the mass of the shuttle because the question isn't asking about the amount of force it'll take, only the change in speed.
Part a) is easy and a first year student could solve it.
Part b) is probably the bulk of the problem and what you learned in the Dynamics course. I'm not sure, I was a CS student and only took Mechanics (thus why I know part (a) is solvable by a first year student). This might require a differential equation since the shuttle will lose speed while traversing between the two points.
Part c) I don't understand. Since the satellite is 300,000km up and point P is 200,000km up, the satellite and the shuttle will have different orbital periods and it's more just a matter of timing. If they're meant to be on the same orbit but just opposite of each other as the diagram shows, and one of the numbers is in error, then the shuttle will never hit the satellite during this maneuver.
@@saintsword23 aah okay I didn't get that it was orbiting the earth. The last part is pretty straight forward from there. Draw a circle with point P and than just draw a circle around that. At its furthest point, the r (shuttle to earth) is larger than 3Mm. While at the closest point the r is smaller than 3Mm. Therefore there are at least 2 interceptions. But the satellite is at the opposite point of P, so we only have to account for 1 interception. Than just calculate the place where the shuttle intercepts with the satellite trajectory (keep in mind that the satellite will probably make full laps before the shuttle is in reach). From there you can calculate the speed at which the shuttle probably reaches the point at the same time as the shuttle. The question could be better understand as "which shuttle speeds should be avoided"
Hey! Can you explain about job in mechanical engineering?
What do you mean? Do you have specific questions?
@@TamerShaheen I mean what job can we do in mechanical engineering. Because next year I need to choose between mechanical engineering and industrial engineering.
@@sereibothsek9739 mechanical engineering is better. Industrial engineering is more about management, production impromevent etc. But if you are good at languages, and you like to communicate with people for example it may be more fun to you. Sorry for my English.
@@dominikbaricak9589 thank you
0:58 i wonder why you put this clip whenever you talk about shitty professors lol😂😂😂
no way this guy said thermo 2 is pretty straight forward 😭
No physics 2? Wow
My fluid mechanics exam class avg was a 70%
Sooo is that good or bad?
Toughest was boolean logic and circuits because as an me I didn’t care
How did you possibly take 19 COURSES in 2nd year wtf
Before i watch this, i m going to guess Fluid Mechanics as most difficult
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definitely an opinion
The way u said Deadly 🤣
No physics 2 electricity and magnetism lucky duck
Well I had to do all that stuff and more in my circuits courses: GENE 123 and ME 269. So, I wouldn’t say I’m lucky haha 😅
@@TamerShaheen oh fair enough, I just have to take a circuit analysis class after this more theoretical stuff. Also what do you mean you could learn all of thermodynamics 2 the day before the exam? how is that possible
This guy literally says all courses are "Easy" lol.....ODE, easy.....yeah ok bud. Your IQ must be 150+
Your school was way too easy if you think heat transfer was easy and repetitive😂
honestly he needs to swap heat transfer and dynamics 😂
@@claraghattas6984 yeah that’s facts, his school was prob super light
@@beatsbyturbo6233 not necessarily, I guess everyone has their strengths but i’ve never met anyone who said that heat transfer was easy, that’s usually the worst class throughout the whole undergrad
@@claraghattas6984 dam
When u look at heat transfer from a high level point of view, there are so many patterns! Especially when learning the concept of the Nusselt number. Also, this is just my opinion haha so take what I say with a grain of salt. I hated dynamics and enjoyed heat transfer...might be cuz of my profs 🤷♂️