Most Important Skills for Electrical Engineering

The top skills for electrical engineering and electrical engineering students. In this video I cover all the skills needed to thrive in electrical engineering.

My name is Ali Alqaraghuli, I am a postdoctoral fellow at NASA Jet Propulsion lab and have a PhD in Electrical Engineering.

0:00 Intro
1:30 Base Knowledge in Physics
7:35 Software and technical skills
23:00 Soft Skills
28:40 How to learn new skills

#electricalengineering

[alithedazzling]

The networking software is called NS-3, which stands for network simulator.... what an creative name lol

[KingAlexEng]

As freshman electrical engineering student ravishing in learning and critical thinking this video is helpful thank you Ali...and no I do not plan on quitting for business lmao.

Key points:

1.Technical Skills:
a. Basic Physics Knowledge: 1:26
- Think and Solve Problems by asking quesitons; think outside the high school mind;
- This includes getting comfortable with: Mechanics, Maxwell's equations, Circuit Theory, Smith Chart,

b. Basic Software: 7:31
- MATLAB: the engineer's best friend;

c. Software sorted by subfield: 10:27
- Multism, LTspice, and Arduino (user-friendly) = Electronics engineers;
- Python, C++ = Software engineers;
- C++/C = Electrical engineers;
- MATLAB, Python, C++ = Telecom / signal-processing engineers;
- ANSYS HFSS, Microwave CST, Altair FEKO, Comsol = Antennas / RF engineers;
- Arduino = Embedded Systems engineers;
- VHDL, Verilod = Microelectronics / VLSI engineers;
- ANSYS, Altair FEKO = Photonics;
- Multism, NS-3 = Networking engineers;


3. Soft Skills: 23:33
a. Critical Thinking - Asking Why at all times.
b. Problem Solving - Difficult problems warrant high rewards. Find a problem to solve.
c. Communication - Describe your thoughts and ideas verbally.c
d. Opportunity Detection - Open mindedness, growth mindset, humility, clubs and teams
e. High Pain Tolerance - Resilience

3. Technical Skills Aqcuisition: 27:37
a. Project > Videos
b. Club / Team
c. Internship

4. Soft Skills Acquisition: 29:44
a. Talk to People (Takes integrity, compassion, humility, and courage)
b. Uncomfortable Situations (Takes humility, and courage)
c. Always Ask Why (Takes Critical thinking. Successful people search reason and understanding and filter)

5. Building LinkedIn and Resume: 32:04
a. Resume
b. LinkedIn
- Be brief and show experience
- Explain your projects
- Rely on strengths
- Make Posts on achievements, projects, and activities then explain
- Show Education
- Contact information
c. Outreach
- Be strong and courageous
- Send messages
- Connect with key individuals
- Ask for advice

Lastly promise to take action

[devious_b]

Congrats on graduating with your PhD! Your channel is helping me tremendously with my transition to EE! I'll be starting my math prereqs this summer!

[tarneem]

You explain things that most colleges don't, and unfortunately it's the most important. I was really searching for such a guide. Thank you so much for sharing this!

[therealg]

Trust me most Electrical Engineers claim they know C++, but think it's just C with classes. As a former electrical engineer, I can tell you its not and you probably don't know C++.

[ajantakarmakar]

I was feeling quite down about my academic situation, but then this video popped up on my feed, and I'm so glad it did! I feel so much better now and wanted to extend my gratitude for sharing it. Thank you so much!😁

[samh-smith]

I took in a project to re use a mc2100 circuit board and a 2.5 HP DC motor and make a variable speed workshop belt grinder out of it
It's been the most excruciating and frustrating thing. I've had to learn alot of fundamentals so far and it's still a challenge . The motor does work.. the board seems to work... Learning how to build the pwm generator successfully. The man is correct... A project is the way to go

[mahinrazwan]

I wish YouTube had recommended this video during my sophomore year at university. It seems like a one-stop solution for gaining perspective on different career paths as an electrical engineering undergrad. Thanks for compiling such a concise, yet informative video!

[OmarTheEE]

You can't imagine how much of an inspiration you are to me, Dr. Ali. Every sentence of yours is incredibly helpful. Thank you for your valuable content!

[maquinasproductivass.der.l]

Maybe I'm old (elderly aged 🤣) compared to you all, but when I was newly student the classes that professors emphasizes were geometry and trigonometry, algebra, precalculus and calculus, vectors, matrixes, electromagnetism (all the concepts, meaning and calculations) electrical circuits, electric machinery, from that basics knowledges we derived to more detailed electives of the carreer .
In my experience Ali although Ltspyce is recommended by the automotive industry (because have tools to measure current and tension in the simulation of the circuitry?) it goes more electronics, for electrical simulations I highly rather "Proteus" with it anyone simulate from PLC's, Arduino, transformers, and paralleling of generators, with electrical motors simulations you could measure THD's and calculations to the 13th harmonics😊, pretty good!!

[martinrodriguez]

Not sure why you call it electrical engineering instead of electronic engineering, I would believe electrical is orientated towards power suppling, the electric distribution of a building and the inner distribution of the power cables, but other than that it's pretty accurate and helpful.

[chafeahaddad]

I affirm the video makes my mind clear, because I listen to a lot of videos about electrical engineering and my mind went lost. I have a Master EE, and I have four years PhD in Network control systems and I have a publication on decentralized networks connected nonlinear systems. Then I worked in manufacturing as part time for decade now I am looking for role as an Electrical engineer because EE still bearing with me

[leonidassavvides]

Do you video editing your YouTube projects alone? What video editing software do you use?

[Mulham-Fetna]

The simplicity of the video in comparison to the value is really inspiring

[ItsMeTheUser]

What can we say.
Sharing this with us for free is incredibly generous.
Thanks a lot Ali.
..
You should know that I consider you as my EE mentor.
Hope one day we meet...

[jamesriordan]

I went to UB for a year during Covid, dropped out, went into Software Engineering. Now I need to do EE & ME

[saeedsobhani]

I attempted to study electrical engineering 2 times already. I quit once because it’s been too hard subject for my brain the second time because I had anxiety. I love the subject though. I don’t know maybe i come back to it. Amazing video

[CidoH.]

Thanks so much for all your content! As a software engineer, I am fascinated to learn about electrical engineering. This channel has been great for me! Thank you.

[muhammadNadeem-wpvn]

Sir, I am currently pursuing electrical engineering and i have a question that each year, numerous students got electrical degree with skills in Python, C language, MATLAB, development boards, and IIoT. So how can we distinguish ourselves from other electrical engineers? Everyone is learning these skills, including machine learning. Therefore, during interviews, it becomes challenging to secure a job or prioritize ourselves over others.Please guide and if possible make a video on that topic.Thanks sir❤

[MrNemisis]

Well I'm so happy and fortunate to have gotten your account and this video in my recommendation which i probably never thought to get you in my recommendation, actually i had been searching for this 🤝🏼