Keys to a Successful Engineering Career LESSON 1: An Introduction
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- In this video I am going to give an introduction to my next video series. In this series I will share with you the secrets I learned to having a successful engineering career. I had a successful career in the Electrical Engineering world, and would like to share with you the things I learned along the way.
#Engineering - Наука та технологія
Wow! I'm a 39 y/o with no engineering experience. I'm at the very early stages of planning to enter engineering as a career. I'm hopeful that this series will give me added focus and direction. This will be a long ride but I am determined to succeed!
Good luck man!
hows it going?
How has the palnning gone mate? i hpe you are killing it!!
Welcome to Engineering! Give us some updates
Im 30 in im planning on becoming an engineer
Im studying for my electronics engineering degree in Zimbabwe and ive always wondered how far i can go , man like you always give us hope and i feel really motivated thank you sir.
SAME HERE
I just finished college majored in Mechanical Engineering but I can already tell that you sir are the one best teacher I never had. Greetings from the Philippines.
Hi !
I am a Software engineer for the last 15 years.
As a school student, I loved physics.
And I liked math, primarily because it could explain the physical world beautifully.
Now, I have to say, that the field of engineering is quite varied in a sense.
I mean, you have civil and mechanical engineering on one hand,
that are very close to the physical world.
The spatial reasoning is at its highest in these fields.
And then, it progresses on to the more and more
abstract world of electrical, electronic and finally, computer science.
The fun, amusement park, that you speak of, becomes more and more imaginary,
with the interfaces of the systems we work with no longer directly in touch with the physical world.
Indeed, it does, but its not the same as things we can touch and feel.
The connection with software took longer for me to develop. But I am enjoying solving software problems now.
Paul, I loved your other series. My son is an Electrical Engineering Student at Widener University in Pennsylvania. I am sending him this video and telling him to pass it to the other Engineering Students. He is friends with students in all disciplines, Electrical, mechanical, civil, and bio-medical. I hope you don't mind having more followers!!!
About to start college in a couple months now. I love engineering and your channel is very much relevant to my interests. Subscribed and recommended to friends. Thank you very much for posting. I love the pace that you talk at. Your wisdom is radiating from all your videos. Thanks again!
This is exactly what I've been looking for. I am a sophmore mechatronics engineering student from Egypt, and I really apreciate your great work. I will recommend this series to my friends and try to learn from your experiences in this great field. thank you so much for this and hope that eveything is ok with you at this period of time.
Hi Sir Paul McWhorter, I am an electronics Engineer Form Pakistan. You're great as my teacher because I learned many many kinds of lessons from you. Your Arduino lessons are much informative and easy to learn. Thank you and keep teaching us.
Where are you studying?
Hello! I'm a software engineering student from Turkey and I have recently started your Arduino series along with this one! Even though I'm in my 3rd year now, I barely have a grasp on the engineering world and I am motivated so I'm looking forward to learn from a teacher like you!
What an impressive career! Thanks for sharing. Congrats on all of your success.
I'm so sad that I discovered your channel late Mr. McWhorter. You're amazing. Thank you so much. I study metrology, standardization and certification engineering and currently in my 3rd year. I know these videos gonna help me a lot✨
You are an inspiration! I'm excited to learn from you! Thank you for your videos
This is lovely and very educative and inspiring. I would really like for this to be a podcast, and I'm sure a lot of people would like that too. You're an awesome man Paul McWhorter.
this is AMAZING !!! Video, I am very happy to watch this series of lessons while I am still in my first year of high school, because my dream is to become a successful electromechanical engineer, and I am sure that this series of lessons will definitely help me to achieve my dream,
Thank you Mr Paul for all of your videos, and keep going
YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!
Thank you for starting this series! I m now going through what I feel like a stagnant stage in the study career where it does not seem like I ve done anything engineering related besides studying! I m looking forward to hearing a point of view of this degree/and career that I havent yet heard previously (or heard but I was not ready to understand and take seriously before).
Wow, this really deserves so many more views and appreciation. I am so glad I discovered your videos and I can't wait to learn more. I guess there aren't a lot of people that get to enjoy and learn from your experience and wisdom, so I consider myself lucky. I'm also glad I came across your work at the end of the 1st year in college. I'm sure it will make a difference in my future career. Thank you!
I'm a second year student at the University of Technology, Jamaica and I'm really pumped to watch this series! Thank you for the lessons👍💯
I love you Paul McWhorter, keep up the good work; I watch your videos a lot here in Nigeria.
Thank you very much for the kind words. I will also tell you how much I love Africa and the African people. I have visited Africa 7 times. I just bought a farm in Africa, and hope to move there soon.
Paul McWhorter I hope to see you soon in Nigeria.
What African countries have you already visited? I'm from Africa and studying engineering now in France. I really love your videos because thanks to them, I acquired incredible skills. I wanna be a great engineer.
I visit Kenya and Uganda
That's wonderful. I am from Burkina Faso which litterally means the country of honest men. You should visit it. When are you going to upload the videos on resumés?
Awesome life story Mr. McWhorter!!! I also am an EE and have projects all over the world. It was good to hear someone who I can relate to. I look forward to watching your whole series on a successful engineering career.
awesome thank you. I will study in SMU, Dallas, TX. Glad I found your channel.
Hi paul, keep up all the good work love your series. I am a mechanical/electrical engineer on a tug boat and watching all your series thx ; ) greeting from holland
I'd love to see next episode of these series, and that story of your life was amazing :D.
OK, stay tuned as I hope to release a video a week in this series. Hope to hear from you on future videos. Keep your comments coming!
Hi Paul, I am grateful everyday that I found your channel. Can't wait to watch these series.
My goodness. You are the one my son is going to look up to. Though I am an Engineering manager, nowhere have I had the same amazing experience as you had. My son and I are so happy to discover your channel. Very exciting.
Love your videos! like you were I am a student studying electrical engineering. Your videos have become a great way for me to continue learning while I am off for the summer. You have a way of conveying a lesson in a calm and relaxed fashion but without putting the viewer to sleep.I glad to have found your channel and am excited to watch this new series of yours. Keep up the good work!
It is good to hear you are staying awake during the videos! I know they are sort of slow, but when I was trying to learn I felt like everyone was moving too quickly. So I try and go at a relaxed pace.
this first video has me incredibly hyped up for the rest of these videos! Started on the Arduino videos, but now you have me hooked.
I look forward to hearing these lessons. Much respect to you!
I'm contemplating getting into engineering
Great! I hope you find the lessons useful, and hope you will participate in the discussion in the comment section. Loved every day of my life as an engineer. Hope you will seriously consider pursuing it.
The video was extremely useful for me , and I do agree with you at any point
You inspire me everyday, thank you so much!
Thanks for doing this. Wish you good health and happiness🙏
Tremendous respect for you, sir! Always wondered what your background was and I am blown away!
Excited for yet another journey with you Paul ! I am here from the New Arduino Tutorials.
i see you have some real followers, i hope to see more forward thinkers
your knowledge ie so much more impressive than meets he eye, you got it now. (more exposure today is the way!)
good job!
Yeah going to see the whole serie through and listen very carefully..
I appreciate the work you've been doing Paul. While I am not personally interested in an engineering career, I do like to tinker, and I have been working through several of your series with my son who is currently in middle school. Your efforts are helping to show him there's a much bigger world than video games, and it can be much more satisfying to discover where he's made a mistake in coding, than to simply beat the big boss in a video game level.
For that, I thank you. :)
It is encouraging to hear your son is learning from the material. I wish more young people would catch on that is is about developing technology, not just playing with it. Many a young person has gotten sucked into a useless life of video gaming.
you really motivated me sir, i'm a engineering student in food industry, thank you for sharing your valuable experience with us
Looking forward to viewing these. I've been working in hardware architecture since joining the military many a moon ago. As I've been getting older I noticed that just about every new company requires a degree in engineering before they even take a resume or consider you for a contract/project. Used to be all about experience and ability. I still make robotics and repair items that people seem to no longer train for, but it's sad to think that people with the proclivity to master an ability are discounted due to a different choice in collegiate pursuit. I have an interest in history, but I'm good at hardware architecture because I love it. Should I have thrown away an interest in history to pursue a single passion? I don't think so. Obviously, others do. Can't wait to hear this series.Thanks Paul.I enjoy your style of teaching as well.
Hello, Paul, thanks for this introduction. It sounds like you've had a great career. Can't wait for the later part of the series! Myself I'm a mechanical engineer with a master's degree and plenty of passion in applied mechanics. Having worked for 3 years now as a product engineer in a company of 60 people I sometimes feel like I'm plateaueing. You know, I'm good at my thing and I like it, but there really isn't that much I can learn from people around me. Being one of a few mechanical amongst mostly electrical engineers, and the only one specialized in mechanics, I have to discover most things on my own. I truly would appreciate your thoughts on this kind of situation. Thank you so much!
This is sort of a tough one. Not much room for upward mobility in a company of 60. Best hope is for the company to grow, but then you must ask if you are not part of the mainstream expertise of the company, is your skill values to the point that you could benefit from company growth. A company with 60 people is sort of an awkward size company . . . too small to be big and too big to be small. Best of luck with your situation.
This is exactly the video series I need. Also Hi from New Zealand :) keep up the great work
I have never been to New Zealand but have been to Australia four times. Really love it and sorry I was never able to get to New Zeland
Hello again from New Zealand!
Hey Paul, I knew you had the info i was looking for, I also know that you can help millions of others, i get what you have been thru and the valuable lessons you are capable of passing to me/us.i would like to learn from you thru your endevours. much more to say, please dont stop, for me/ and others who have not come up to speak, just for/from me you are one of the most cherished teachers to me.
Thanks for the kind words!
I'm loving your videos Paul! Thank you soooo much for sharing your knowledge and experience with us, and for free!!! I'm currently working as an Embedded Software Engineer at a small company. I graduated with a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering this past May. Really love what you're doing here! Anyone who wants to be an engineer should watch every second of every video you have on youtube!
Wow, thanks for the encouraging words. Hope you continue to tune in for the rest of this series.
I certainly will. Your lessons on arduino and raspberry pi with linux are directly helping me with my job. I can't say thank you enough for giving high quality and informative videos away for free.
I should be watching all these earlier, thanks Paul. I am a full-stack programmer going on 45 and still having so much fun with my job. I see a chance that everyone can make his product at home in near future. And your channel makes a perfect place for everyone to learn. Thank you so much!
Great video , thank you for wises and advances speech
sir words cant thank you enough the information you give are priceless , in my opinion your videos are one of the best in whole youtube platform thanx
I'm so pumped up after your video. Please, keep it going with this one.
Ok, well I will try to release a video a week on this series. I am still doing the sketchup tutorials as well, so plan to release one from each series a week. Hope you stay tuned.
OMG, I am an engineer in Tokyo Japan and doing the job that's not my main major, not my dreaming field. I have to follow the path of a Japanese software company and even I had to lie to myself that I love software programing. Indeed I love embedded programing, I love electronics, IC, sensor and microcontroller programing... When I studied in university in Vietnam, I could not sleep because the circuit did not working, I could never stop thinking about the new idea of embedded devices.. I remember when my first project was just blinking a led, but I SEE IT AS A MAGIC. Thank you so much sir, you called my soul to wake up..
I love embedded programing, I love electronics, IC, sensor and microcontroller programing... too, and my first elecreonic program is blinking LED ,too,but I meet the same problem about carrer.With embedded program ,you can touch not just imagination ,you can watch the object but not just the screen.Do you have any new idea about your waking up，ヾ|≧_≦|〃
Hi Mr Paul, thanks for sharing your experience with us,
look forward to see these lessons
Good to have you on board, and hope you like the ride!
I look forward to the rest of the series
I had no idea what I wanted to do in life when I was in high school. My friends tagged me to be the most low minded student in the class but after watching series of your Arduino lessons, I was able to understand the fundamentals of Arduino and how to make some interesting projects. I promise to give you credit whenever I'm interviewed, teaching or inspiring other young engineers in the future. Thank you very much for your help Paul McWhorter.
5 year check how’s it going brother
engineering is the dream. that and art and music, everyone wants in!!!
Mr. McWhorter, thank you for this series.
Chanced upon your UA-cam channel and after just one 14 minute video I knew I'd be willing to watch any video on any topic you spoke on.
Finding this series on engineering was like finding gold.
I'm a high school, college, university drop-out, and a 'failure' in business by age 23.
As you have mentioned, hard work trumps all.
I am currently a Nuclear Operator at a Candu site in Ontario, CA.
Your comments regarding the ability to have your better half stay home to raise your child struck home for me. Because of my significant income we've had this same opportunity. My wife volunteers at our kids school. She is helping kids get caught up at the first signs of lagging behind.
You see, my daughter was born with a genetic disorder. One of the consequences of her disease is a significant likelyhood of having a learning disability. In grade 4 we finally learned the truth from her teacher that my daughter was about 2 years behind in her Math comprehension. This scared me as I very much recognized the lost opportunities this would mean for her.
Having that income mentioned earlier allowed us to move our children to a private school. In just 2 years she has become an A student in Math. As well my bored-at-school son is now very much engaged in learning again.
This makes it all worth it. All the hard work has been well rewarded. I'm not an engineer. But I sure recognize the doors that are opened by following this path.
We recently decided to fund the development of an electronics lab at the kids school. I look forward to guidance from your tutorials as we work through our plans on what this lab will 'look' like. i.e What types of projects it will enable.
Regards,KWT
PS. I would like to mention, the reason for leaving school each time and not completing anything, Mental Health. Just throwing that out there. I'm sure there will be some of your followers who will appreciate that anything is possible with hard work and a great attitude towards success.
I know im 6 years late but thank you for commenting this. This is inspiring.
Great series! Love how you present your stuff! People you have to understand that this man is also divinely guided and if you put as much heart in your doing as Paul did you won't fail. Never mind the high salary- it comes by itself if you live in the moment and give all you got. I feel how effortless Paul does the things he does- he's not alone, but with heavens support. Live and love things you do and success finds you! This is law of the Universe- love brings more love! And if you are stuck ask Creator to give some advice, advice from the best engineer in the whole Universe ;) Sad that i didn't have you as a mentor or friend 20 years ago...
Thank you so much sir ,you are a great inspiration.
Greetings from Brazil ! Amazing video, and amazing lifestory ! Congratulations .
Wonderfull Paul, real passionate electrical engineers need this tutorials to make them realize how beautiful is engineering! Love from India! Life changer for me :)
Thank you Sir Paul McWhorter.I study electrical engineering and I watch your videos a lot here in Perú.
This is absolutely brilliant , thank you for sharing your years of experience with us .
Glad you are finding it useful. Stay tuned for more videos in this series.
I feel lucky to view your videos. They are the best. Everything is explained from scratch.Currently I am taking your videos on Arduino. Thank you for making these amazing videos.
I'm so happy that I finally found your channel and found something useful on UA-cam
Thanks
I cant wait to see more in this series, i am an Electrical Engineering major headed into my first year. I hope to learn some tips on how to deal with the school/work load, and once I'm finished how to present myself as an asset to a company. Thank you Paul for giving us future engineers a place to find helpful tips and strategies for the professional and academic world.
by the way i loved your raspberry pi videos, please continue to make new and interesting about all things tech.
OK well good luck as you prepare for school, and be sure and watch this series of videos
A very inspiring and brilliant person !!!
ha.....fallen in love with your series.
thanks a lot sir,
me@INDIA
Sir, you keep saying in the video that " i am not giving you a motivational lecture or else " but really you are doing so...😃
Thank you sir Paul. You are igniting my passion back with Engineering. I am an electronics engineer
Very much interested for further videos, but I will be selectively watching them n comment if required, thank you
Thank you for sharing such a good example
Thanks for this video, it was very motivated
I always knew you were a bright engineer just from watching your first arduino series years ago. As a Mechanical Engineering major with a couple semesters left I'm looking forward to this series. You have a real knack for teaching.
Well glad you are enjoying the lessons and thank you for the kind words.
Great job Paul McWhorter um an electrical engineer from Egypt and your channel is my second home
Glad you are enjoying the channel.
Wow brother im halfway through your Arduino playlist (the updated one) and this channel is a gem! Currently my 3rd year in Computer Science but have always been interested the most in physics but the more and more i work with software the more i love it. Hope these videos help and i can become a successful engineer. Much love from Serbia bro, Univeristy of Novi Sad.
Great to hear!
You are a good man doing good work Paul- everyone who watches appreciates you, I am sure of that - greetings from Taiwan :)
Thank you for the kind words.
Hi Paul. I want you to know that your videos are the most excellent source of both information and inspiration for many of us. I am from Scotland, i'm 31 years old, having just completed my first year of my Engineering degree (I have another few months before I decide whether to go Electrical or Mechanical). I should have taken this path when I left high school but instead pursued a successful, but loveless, career in physiotherapy and sports performance. I spent nearly 11 years in that field, but every single day I knew I had taken the wrong path. All of my hobbies are engineering based, I build, repair, tinker and dismantle just about everything I can find for the fun of it.
Better late than never.
Having watched many of your recent videos I think I am swaying more towards Electrical Engineering as a focus.
Many thanks.
The more exciting jobs are in electrical engineering. Hate to say it, but lots and lots of mechanical engineering jobs are pretty boring.
@@paulmcwhorter Yeh, I think I am starting to get that. I believe that a well trained electrical engineer with a sound understanding of physics, maths and a good bit of CAD training behind them could probably do rather well in the world of mechanical engineering, where as the reverse perhaps may not be so true. Electronics seems to be a very specialised discipline that will only become more important as the world electrifies and moves away from hydrocarbon fuel sources.
Thank you very much sir .this is the exact kind of lesson I wanted !!!
Great. Hope you find it interesting.
I am in Engineering school (industrial engineering) right now and man , at least there is still passionate people to give hope because, as I approach the end of the road, I am fearful of what comes next, classes are quite boring, and leave you feeling unprepared ( i know there is a work of learning that has to be done behind the scene) but at least there are still people like you outside kindling the fire.
Exactly... Having breaks between writing my (for now, at least) boring assignments for my electrical engineering classes in university(first year, and even first semester), by following Mr Paul's content here is extremely motivational.
Got an aerospace engineering masters, just graduated, want to move into renewable energy sector. Thanks for making great videos from someone with a first hand perspective of how to approach each stage of an engineering career. Food for thought and plenty of helpful tips!
thanks for making this series
Glad you enjoy it!
Great video for the young generation of this country. Many young people do not want to go through the discipline to study engineering anymore. Kids, regardless you want to become engineer or not put your video games down to listen to this man.
Hi Mr. McWhorter, thanks for sharing your success story. Very inspiring. Really excited to watch all your videos.
OK, I hope they help you to achieve success in your career.
hi dear Paul, I really love this series of lessons
really interesting for me :)
thanks a million
I'm so excited
Thank you for your insights
Its so amazing and important what you said. Keep the good work and thmbs up. Im from Honduras
Thanks.
I'm an Electrical and Electronic engineering undergraduate student in Sri Lanka and just started to follow the degree.I just started to watch your videos and they're really interesting and inspiring.I hope this video series would gonna be really helpful to enjoy my journey .Thank you :D .
#2023#09#
Haha love it, low key shots fired at Tony Robins.
how great it is to find such good advices for free.
Thank you good sir.
this one greatly gave me a positive challenge
Thank you for wise video and i really recommend people come and watch this video especial ESL engineers
Hi Paul, I am a first-year computer science student in Australia. I have watched all of your video series. I always enjoy to listen and learn from your tutorials. You are perhaps one of the best teachers ever have. Again, thank you so much for putting your time and effort in spreading your knowledge and wisdom. Keep up the amazing work. :)
Thanks for the kind words!
You have always been very helpful in the past with Arduino and 3D printing and im look forward to your videos
OK, well glad you are on board with this next set of material.
Looking forward for this series.
Good deal. I will try and not dissappoint
Thank You so much for making this series. i'm a middle schooler and my dream is to become an engineer and open up my own company. This video really helped me out. I'm trying to prepare myself for this career and i'm grateful you're putting this out for free.I know this series will give me direction to my dream. You've become a great role model for me.
You are on the right track. Start now by taking as many of the lessons on my channel as you can. In High School, take as much of the hardest math as you can. Supplement your math at school with Khan Academy at home. YOu will go far. Who knows, you might change the world.
Hi sir, I'm from Pakistan and studying Mechanical Engineering. This is the first of your videos that I've watched; I've decided to integrate your videos into my 'daily-watch' (I subbed). I'm in Final Year so I guess it's time to take things real serious. Better late than never.
YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love your channel and truly appreciate you taking your time to make this very informational videos! I can speak from experience working alongside engineers. I obtained an Associates in industrial Technology. I didn't take a job right after finishing that degree. I actually transferred to Purdue to study Electrical Engineering and within two years into it I obtained an offer I couldn't pass up. I never did finish the other two years of my bachelors in EE but you are inspiring me to go back and do so! My current role is being a technician to million dollar automated equipment. It is quite frustrating that sometimes I am not allowed to get involved with coding when I have a bit of knowledge when first introduced to programming within my first year of Engineering. Anyways yes the engineering title definitely carries a lot more weight behind it when suggesting different approaches to problems that have not been dealt with. Anyway thanks!
One of the problems in Engineering is there is a heavy weight put on having the degree . . . sometimes the field does not recognize the value and judgment of people who have deep experience in the field, and wisdom, and self taught. Unfortunately, without the stamp of "Engineer", some very capable people are pigeon holed into certain roles and are not utilized in areas such ad design and product strategy. This is a problem and I wish things were different. Do consider getting the degree, because it does carry a lot of weight in this industry.
@@paulmcwhorter very great advice. I am 40 and i think I am a software engineer without a degree. I guess only i recognize myself as a software engineer.
I wouldn't go study computer software development, i don't mind studying structural engineering though. I am struggling to complete a degree in mathematics right now.
God bless you, your Arduino course is unbelievable. I can't believe how simple you make everything for free. God bless you and your family. I lived in Austin Texas but i am now in Africa.
Hey, I'm an international engineering student in Japan. Your Arduino tutorials helped me a lot. Thank you, Paul! I wish you were my Kosen teacher seriously. Recently, I found myself binge-watching your channel because your teaching is so engaging.
Not only that, I found a solution to mind boggling problem thanks to your instruction.
Glad I could help!
Great Idea Paul!!!!! I think a set of lessons like this is perfect for anyone wanting to get into this field. I have met a lot of people in my years as an engineer that could have used some information like this. Specifically those just coming out of college expecting to be paid top dollar for the job they are looking for. Just because you have book learning doesnt mean you can do the job. You have to build up practical experience to get the top dollar salary. as you said the first year will make or break their career. I look forward to seeing this series of videos!!!!
I never considered myself as a successful engineer but i guess i am one. I started as a drafter and worked my way up in the temp market. I became what could be called the A team drafter, the guy they sent in when they had a hot project that needed to get done fast. when i stopped using AutoCAD i had over 65,000 hours. In 96 i went to ITT Tech and got my BS in engineering and started working for a company designing printed circuit boards and doing tech support for the software they sold. Eventually i developed a way to work with a team of PCB designers in Romania remotely. In 2002 I started my own company with my old boss as a partner. We are currently designing PCBs that are used in ultra high speed cameras and boards that are used to simulate chips before they are built. My company is still surviving and thriving, its not a big company but then i never wanted a big company. So i guess you could say i have been successful in 2 careers. One as a design drafter and one as a PCB designer and engineer.
sounds like you are both a successful engineer and a life long learner . . . both very important things. Hope you will continue to contribute to the conversation as this series progresses.
This is very interesting! I'm going to watch all the videos in this series! Helpful
Hope you enjoy!
@@paulmcwhorter I watched the first 3 videos in the series so far!
Are you successful in your engineering career?
Hello Paul, I like this chanel verry much. I'm a I&C teamleader in a nuclear powerplant in Belgium. Looking forward for more. Thank you verry much. Greetings from Europe. Koen
Great to hear we have a viewer in Belgium, and one already working in the field. Hope you will continue to track this series, and hope you will leave comments on your perspective.
can't wait to go through all the videos on this playlist! I am a 25 yr old, 1st yr mech eng student at the University of Windsor. Decided to go back to school after graduating a 3 yr diploma at Durham College for Mech eng tech and working for a yr. I really hope the videos I go through enlighten me towards a brighter future!
Hope they help. Keep us posted as you progress.
Thank you so much for your videos. they are really helpful. I am an engineering student in Microelectronics and Telecommunications. I watched your arduino lessons and arduino with python as well. I have too many projects and I have some questions