Should You Consider an Engineering Degree or Online Degree?

Online Degrees and On-campus Engineering degrees. Which is the better option?

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[massimookissed]

Glass side panel on degree: Check.
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[CBNZandar]

I am 48 and i just got my HS Diploma December of 2017! It is never too late to go to school!! I am thinking about going to College but have not decided on what i want to study. I love making things and working with my hands i am also good with people sometimes LOL. I have been building computers as a hobby and for friends and family for a long time. I also have several soldering certificates for soldering including Fine Pitch with a microscope. I want to build on the skills that i have ie soldering and thought that a Engineering Degree would make it so i could design and make circuit boards of my own. I was also looking into learning how to make video games same theme tech and more tech. I really enjoy your videos keep it up i will keep watching. Give me a yell and let me know what you think!

[Czecher_]

I've dropped out of college now twice (not due to grades) .. I don't recommend it. I went to UMD (University of Minnesota duluth) for mechanical engineering. After i initially dropped out I found it extremely hard to find a well paying job, and I still haven't. Even with my intellect and perseverance I have struggled to make more than $20/ an hour. I've sold insurance for Aflac, I've started my own business, but none of it worked out for me. Luckily for me my work on YouTube has provided me with a great part time job... And things are looking good finally. This isn't for everyone though. Get your degree, Its gonna be a bunch of BS but get it. I still want to get mine if my career on YouTube ends. Even though a degree might be full of BS classes its still worth it in the end.. But thats just my opinion :D

[JP-wirr]

Having Engineering & Business together are a great way to be your own boss.

Spend a couple years training with a company to learn the industry standards & build some relationships, then LLC & contract your services out.

This is a fairly common practice in the auto & aero industries.

[nickl]

Mechanical Engineer here. Two things I'd like to add:

Don't go into an engineering program lightly. If you want to make it, it will be a lot of work. GPA is key when getting internships or getting into big companies straight out of college.

Pay attention to the school's reputation in that engineering field. This can often be the deciding difference between when deciding between new grads/intern candidates. This arguably saved me when I had a less then stellar GPA on graduation.

[diegomontilva]

the answer is yes, engineers are the pillar of modern society

[Phynix]

Most important thing, it varies with each University & their teaching methodology. Professors play a major role in this.

[insanarafat]

Damn can relate to this hard.
Just started my journey as an undergrad student of electrical engineering.

[tiborklein]

Choosing a career path is a very heavy decision. I graduated from high school with good grades, I was good at math and was always interested in science, so I decided to study chemical engineering. That was the worst decision of my life. I hated it and it didn't suit me at all, so I dropped out after the first semester. After a few years of shenanigans (unemployment, acquiring 2 professions and working for a year) I decided to give myself one more chance at university, so I started studying finance and accounting. Now I'm in my 3rd year and I'm enjoying it.
Conclusion: Don't choose a career path based on what you want to be, choose one that suits your skills and capabilities. That way you will have success in it, which makes you love what you do.

[irldoge]

Double Majoring in EE and CS starting this fall. Thanks for this video, really eased my worries

[Markgangzta]

My advice: If you're good at maths, do engineering. If you're not so hot at it but still not afraid of something technical do computer science, straight software engineering/web development or management information systems. If the idea of tech scares you do accounting, finance or more general management/"business". Law will treat you like shit, medical school is ridiculously tough going for the average person who just wants to start earning asap, and if you do liberal arts you're just going to end up as a broke teacher or doing something that never required a degree in the first place (just with crippling student loans).

[AngelGuillermoGutierrez]

Greg: as a early subscriber and despite a minor dispute during your early days of Hardline cooling (admittedly decrease some interest), I admire you greatly. I love this video. Giving your experience and the seemingly pushing nature of this video to urge viewers to continuing on bettering themselves with education/etc is awesome and spreading awareness of the real negatives of the field. Yes, school isn't for everyone. Encouraging your viewers is awesome. Awesome video! (Also, props for referring it to 'playing the game)

ALSO GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR MASTERS COURSES!!! You're lucky yours is online. I love my program but it's rather long and intense. Hopefully it's worth it for.you and everyone else with pursuits.

[BilalKhan-zlvr]

You read my mind! I so wanted a video about this.

[andreww]

I got one too. Nothing else really interested me in college. Just registered for my P.E. exam in October. I finally got 4 years of experience. It has actually paid off very well. My company compensates me accordingly.

[Tom-xymx]

I'm personally pursuing my degree in computer science and so far its been very rough since I need to pass a hell of a lot of math classes. Most of the time I scrape by with C's, not because I dont put in the effort to study, but because it genuenly takes me a lot longer than most to grasp these concepts. Im a great self taught programmer, and am considering pursuing a small career as an indie game dev, but I totally suck at math and its been holding me back a lot in school.. Thankfully Im only a class or two away from being done with math completely so I'm at least proud of that =)

[hood]

Chemical engineering is awesome! However some of the topics were pretty difficult to grasp in the beginning. Once you get past thermo (our bread and butter), and the transport classes everything makes sense. Unless you get to cover kinetics in Physical Chemistry before you get to the transport classes, if you do its a bit easier. It takes a lot of work to grasp everything though. Make it to the end and you get to take reactor design its super fun! Also if you can take PDE's then you can really show off for your professors. Once again though its really difficult, Chemical engineering is considered one of the more harder engineering majors.

[Putzl]

I totally agree with Greg. I am studying Mechanical Engineering and I am about to graduate. I struggled with math early on, but those classes like calc 1, 2, 3 and Differential Equations and physics 1 and 2 focus on the theory and not much application. I learned a lot of my math from engineering classes. It is a very rigorous major so lots of partying is not really an option. That being said, there are some really fun classes that I've taken that have helped me outside of the classroom.

[reliabilityeater]

Just Graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering and it was one of the best decisions I had made. It was the perfect curriculum for me as I got to learn how to build and analyze many different types of circuits, and also learned programming meant for robotics, computer parts, embedded systems etc. Any of the engineering fields are quite hard, but absolutely worth it.

[BRAINPAINx]

This was an awesome video IMO! I am a junior in high school and I take engineering classes, and I’ve already covered topics like Gear Ratios, Circuit Calculations, Pneumatics etc. The one thing I have been very worried about when I go to college though is calculus but I study hard and put in effort and I’m glad to hear from someone as long as you put in hours after class so thank you for making this video! I appreciate the engineering aspect/science aspects into your videos!

[AdmitthatijustdiditX]

Getting as much math done in High school is absolutely crucial, it really made a difference between me and all my peers.

If you end up being able to take calculus senior year of high school, but struggled with it, don't hesitate to take Calculus again in college.

My struggle came from a weak math background, and since most engineering courses require math courses to be completed, I had trouble registering for classes since I didn't meet requirements.

My algebra was weak, and made calculus very difficult, took me 5 tries to pass....partially from lack of effort, but also lack of motivation by the end.