Ranking Electrical Engineering Classes: Hardest to Easiest

Electrical Engineering classes and electrical engineering curriculum are some of the toughest in engineering. In this video I answer the question: which electrical engineering class is hardest? What is the electrical engineering curriculum like?

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[patricks]

All EE classes are difficult. Believe me.

[fmfarhan]

Hi Ali. Amazing! I am an EE myself. I have worked on optical transmission systems, RF transmissions, embedded control systems, DSP ASICs and last 10 years pure software systems (server and mobile as well as medical devices) and couldn't agree with you more. EE has helped me imagine the unimaginable and be able to solve the toughest INVISIBLE problems. Keep up the fantastic work!! So proud of you!

[cholyom]

"One man's meat is another man's poison." Always remember this proverb

[fatimadarling]

This is insane. I am a senior studying Electrical Engineering at Qatar University and I agree with you on almost all points. Cuz I studied almost all of what you mentioned such as electric circuits 1, 2, signals and systems, communications engineering, electromagnetics, digital systems design (vhdl), embedded systems (C language using mbed) and digital signal processing. However, I found digital signal processing to be easier to comprehend than embedded systems, signals and systems, and control. The most enjoyable I would say is electric machines which is where we study magnetic circuits, transformers, synchronous, asynchronous, and dc machines.

[erenjaeger]

In my university in the 3rd semester you have to specialize in one of three recesses. And most of the students choose energy systems. And the minority chooses communication/RF.

[georgesadler]

Thank you for the video. Students have to do many problems in order to understand these courses in Electrical Engineering. Writing proofs is also important in these courses. Advanced Calculus is a course that undergraduate students should consider taking before tackling Signal and Systems Theory and Probability Theory.

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Funny that I agree with your ranking for most students and for yourself personally as it is also applicable to me. Yet I ended up working in Power Systems. What make courses difficult in my opinion are 1) that students don't establish strong basics from the beginning and 2) teaching staff is not qualified/interested enough to teach these things

[Kevin-yjnd]

Basic powers systems might not be that complicated, but once you dealt with networks equations, and fault balancing it gets pretty hard. To me embedded is easier.

[manganiphiri]

Diploma in Electrical Engineering, having problems with advancing my studies to persue a EE Beng due to sponsorship but I agree the electronic parts of the course are really tough and confusing. I initially wanted to go the electronic route but power electrical seems much more stimulating because things are easy to visualise.

[friedoysterskins]

Honestly the difficulty depends on the professors. Electronics is kicking my ass bro, my exam is in a week and Im about to cry. Linear systems/ Signals and systems is very difficult too but the professor is great

[joostpalucki]

signals and systems was a great course imo, first half of the semester nothing made sense, in the end a puzzle began to emerge and after 3 weeks of intense studying right before the exam i got the subject, was a great experience

[abrarfahim]

1.Signals and systems
2. Engineering electromagnetics
3.Probabilty and statistics
4.Mocroelectronics
5.Embedded System/VHDL
6.Digital Electronics
7.Power Systems

[sagirhassan]

Thanks so much bro I'll start learning the difficult courses before I get there😊

[altulenko]

By far, the most difficult class for me in my EE curriculum was Thermodynamics. Talk about abstract!!!

[zDoubleE]

Learning microelectronic circuits from books by Sedra Smith or Neamen was tough because the basic concepts were drowned out by all the math and design considerations like oxide thickness and other dimensions. I had to go back and look at Boylsted’s microelectronics textbook to get the meat and potatoes.

[ronakraichandani]

I am Currently studying ECE(Electronics and Communication) in India, just came to realize that the 4 out the top 5 subjects that you mentioned in the video are the subjects that were taught to me this semester and I am not the only one who feels that these courses are interesting yet the most difficult.

[charzanboo]

Oh man, those textbooks and authors you put up...the flashbacks... they must be world-wide famous, lol 😆

[dekev]

Vhdl is more related to digital principles than it is to embedded systems. In practice, they do not necessarily have the same use. Yes you can use FPGAs in place of microcontrollers for most functions. HDLs like Verilog and VHDL ( by extension FPGAs) are mainly used for designing flexible digital circuits.

[linkpad]

I would move modern embedded systems up a bit in the rankings if it where me, you have to learn C, C++ as well as real time operating systems and data structures and memory management makes any engineer want to cry!

[ZavesRave]

Advanced Power Systems was hardest and I also found that in industry to. Can easily experiment with electronic design and signals as costs are low. Where power systems costs are very high with no room for error or over design