Electrical vs Electronics Engineering

Electrical engineering major vs. electronics engineering major, both compared and described.

This video is for electrical engineering students or anyone really interested in the topic of engineering as a whole.

#electricalengineering #electronicsengineering #AlitheDazzling

[stewartdahamman]

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[eliran]

You right, electrical engineering deals with the design of every electical product, including electronic that contained subjects like: digital systems, analog and linear circuts, computer structure and semiconductors. However, when companies write "electronics engineering" I think they want only the subjects I wrote and not other electrical stuff.

[hamzasami]

Thank you for your advice Dear i was also expecting to hear about it

[haziqiqbalhussain]

Electrical engineering is one of the most fun majors. I wanted to be a mechanical engineer because I liked the physics topics related mechanics in high school but I couldn't qualify because of my highschool grades. Opted electrical engineering and it was a blessing in disguise. After joining electrical engineering I found out that the reason why I was bad at high school physics topics related to electricity and magnetism was my teacher was very bad at explaining and I never did any extra effort to understand from other resources.

My university had an electrical engineering and electronics engineering program. In electrical engineering they didn't offer electives and it was very much focused on power systems. I had to take courses like power generation, power transmission, power distribution and utilization, power system analysis and power system protection. I enjoyed power system protection and alternate energy systems and just had to pass rest of the courses. I extremely enjoyed till junior year when I was studying cool stuff like Signals and systems, Digital Signal processing, control systems but in senior year I only enjoyed my senior year project which I opted by myself. Now I am teaching myself stuff in which I am genuinely interested in.

Moral of the story: if you want to pursue STEM, take a flavour of every field and see what you enjoy the most. Don't just rely on your teacher and institute. There are countless resources to learn.

[thesakeofitname]

Ali you are basically correct, however, let me put another perspective here. Physics has the following main branches: Mechanics (Dynamics, Statics, Elasticity, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Gravity), Electricity (Electricity, Magnetism, and Electromagnetic Waves), Quantum Mechanics, and various special fields such as High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Plasma Physics, etc... (Optics is a branch of EMW, and Acoustics belongs to mechanical waves)
*Electrical Engineering* deals with *Electricity* branch of physics. Eventhough the term "electro-magnetics" seems broader than "electricity" (and in fact, may be so in practice), magneticity is actually a special form of electricity (see Special Relativity), and not a separate fundamental department of physics, hence "electricity" is the fundamental branch. And it includes the Electric Field, the Magnetic Field, the Electro-Magnetic Waves, and their applications into electrical-circuits, electrical-machines (transformers and motors), transmission lines, waveguides, and antennas. As such it deals with Maxwell's Equations of the classical electromagnetizm or electrodynamics.
Now, physics has another main branch called *Quantum Mechanics*, which describes probabilistic behaviour of electrons inside atoms. One special instance of QM is called solid-state electronics, which relates external classical electromagnetic behaviour of solidstate matter to QM behaviour of its electrons inside the material's crystal lattice. This branch is, therefore, very different from classical electromagnetic theory. The branch of engineering that deals with this type of solidstate electrical current conduction has been, terefore, called *Electronics Engineering* . In practice, electronics engineering makes heavy use of electrical engineering, as te terminal behaviour of all electronic devices eventually is electromagnetic waves. And also makes use of systems engineering too(another branch of electrical engineering). Practically, it's more likely to be called a "low power" electrical engineering with special focus on analog and digital electronic circuitry performing all sorts of signal processing tasks.

[abraham_]

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[JaviReinaLara]

It is not like you cannot move from one field to another, but the level of specialization on the electricity topics is different.
However, from my point of view after studying it, it would be better if there was only 1 degree of Engineering and the student can choose as many electives as possible, instead of having a very predetermined program.


And I would like to mention that in my country, Spain, it is even more weird, there are like 3 degrees for electrical engineering, and all them with difficult names to understand what they teach, but they essentially are:
-Electrical power engineering
-Automation engineering
-Telecommunications and microelectronics engineering

(about the last one, there're lots of students who confuse it with Telematics, which is more similar to computer science)

[raunaknayak]

wow. just needed this video. great video.

[Viola-iuys]

the creativity in your videos is beyond amazing!

[chito]

Interesting definition even though I guess in the universities that separate Electrical and Electronic Engineering, they really refer to Power Engineering and Electronic Engineering. Both coming from the umbrella of Electromagnetism (theory) or a subset of Applied Physics.

[anyaozioma]

Good evening. So I started watching your videos recently and they have been super helpful. Thanks for that. I am really interested in electronic, If possible I want to be able to make my own resistors and transistors and even make a radio, for a start, from scratch. I am really fascinated by how all of this works. I want to ask, if I take electrical engineering would I be Able to do this? Would I how an understanding of how card readers work and how phones work ? Also at the same time would I be able to make robots, I really am interested in robotics too.

[parhaopakistan]

Commendable job 👍....especially the graphic game is getting stronger

[blueman-zm]

Omg thank you so much Ali! You're right, their definitions are kinda confusing lol

[ahmedmohsen]

In my university we have both majors under one department "department of electeical and electronics engineering", in fact our sections are together most of the times, in the first two years we'll have the same courses, the differences starts with the third and fourth years when we 'electronics' start taking more two digital systems courses and two communication system course and advances electronics and so on, we do take some of courses related to electrical engineering such as electrical machines and power electronics but not as much as who's electrical has, and it's the same for them when we talk about communication and these things

[Petreonvitor]

Can you talk about the work market and what os best to get a job nowadays? I need to choose one of them for my emphasis, i like eletronics but i see the Jobs offers very hard to get. (Sorry for the bad english im Brazilian)

[mauriciotrv]

Thinking of doing double majors in "Physics" and "Telecommunications and Electronic Systems". I feel like that is more complete as im also interested in the mechanical side of things aswell as in programming although my main interest is in design and development of cool electronic devices like VR Headsets. Any suggestions or feedback?

[komrademaks]

I'll be starting a technical college (basically high school but you have a job as well?) in 2 months, having applied for the electronic technician class (with a specialisation in microprocessors). Unfortunately there is little interest in it compared to classes like IT technician, mechatronics technician or electrician technician (focus on intelligent systems in buildings.)

If things dont go to plan, I may need to switch to the electrician, but this video reassured me that both things are part of electrical engineering.

[ugochukwulambert]

A school I registered for split the two of them and said I should pick one it's really though to pick one

[uguratlgan]

hi Ali, I am a 3rd year student of Electrical Engineering at ITU. we have elective courses which one of them Engineering Drawing (autocad). Should I have that? Do you think that good? Another options, Statics/Dynamics/Data Structures & Programming/Python

[skeet_joystick]

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