Keys to a Successful Engineering Career LESSON 1: An Introduction

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

[lastwellnderere]

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.

[MarvinBowen]

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!

[nitrogen]

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.

[thomashilferty]

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!!!

[tkinter]

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.

[slnuygn]

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!

[Abrar_Ashraf]

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. <3

[mohamedamasha]

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.

[emurtuzayeva]

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✨

[aniekancharles]

I love you Paul McWhorter, keep up the good work; I watch your videos a lot here in Nigeria.

[jason]

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!

[Sulerhy]

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..

[jmSD]

What an impressive career! Thanks for sharing. Congrats on all of your success.

[michaelbuabeng]

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.

[Enginmann]

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!!!!

[prateekdhingra]

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!

[sumadoolpeep]

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).

[kt]

Mr. McWhorter, thank you for this series.
Chanced upon your YouTube 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.

[anishsingh]

Sir, you keep saying in the video that " i am not giving you a motivational lecture or else " but really you are doing so...😃

[lukalamarche]

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.