"The teacher was so bad BUUT the information was pretty cool" summarises my entire college experience until now.

As someone who isn't even in STEM, I still find this interesting. I like seeing what other majors need to do in their degrees.

@pikapool1383

Жыл бұрын

Attend the class and you will lose your interest, I GUARANTEE YOU😅

@pseudolullus

Жыл бұрын

@@pikapool1383 In engineering yeah (been there), in science or math not necessarily

@w花b

Жыл бұрын

​@@pseudolullus hold your horses cowboy, that's a bold claim

@parkers.8748

Жыл бұрын

@@pikapool1383Why are you gatekeeping classes 😭

@MikeHawk-s2g

Жыл бұрын

@@parkers.8748I think he may be misunderstood. Sometimes classes have the tendency to suck the fun out of subjects and make you hate studying them even though you really are interested in it deep down. This has been a common theme for me in my senior year.

As an Electrical Engineer with a PhD in Statistical Signal Processing, I must say I had the biggest smile in my face when I saw your favorite class was DSP. Signal Processing is so cool... you design a filter mathematically using complex numbers and transforms and the designed effect really happens the physical world with the actual signal, it is almost like magic! The frequency domain is like this hidden world, like tapping into an alternate dimension to solve problems in our dimension. I also liked the same classes as you for nearly the same reasons. It is nice to see how people who lean toward one area end up having so much similarities. :)

@Occ881

3 ай бұрын

One day I'll get a phd in electrical engineering,, I'll start my bachelor's this Year in july❤

@a.b3203

Ай бұрын

​@@Occ881starting in September. Best of luck.

I am at Cal Poly taking Digital Design literally right now, and we are still doing the same exact projects you did hahaha. My lecture videos are from 2012, around when you would've taken the class. It is honestly crazy to think that I am literally in your shoes from when you took the class, but in 2023. I have been watching your videos for years now and this is an amazing moment for me. You inspired me and helped me choose my major for college.

@TylerHallHiveTech

9 ай бұрын

CPE 2017. Yay! You’ll make it! Say hi to clay for me.

Let's just confess how much we miss the EE Zach Star.I really hope to see more EE related videos.

I didn’t know I needed this video until I saw it. I’m a Physics major and in a month or two, I’ll be choosing another engineering major. I was always inclined toward Electrical Engineering and now this simplifies my choices further. Thanks a lot for this!

@harshitjuneja9462

Жыл бұрын

Ayy cultured BITSian, I see :)

@jamescollier3

Жыл бұрын

electrical is a good choice

@jonasdaverio9369

Жыл бұрын

It's funny, I did the exact opposite. I got m'y bachelor in microengineering (which is a wierd and rare mix of mechanical and electrical engineering) and I'm now going in physics graduate school.

@pasqualesimonelli1513

Жыл бұрын

Why do you want to switch from Physics to engineering?

@pasqualesimonelli1513

Жыл бұрын

​@@jonasdaverio9369and why do you want to switch from engineering to Physics? (I'm very hesitant on what to choose)

Ranking my classes…0/10 would not do again

@livethefuture2492

Жыл бұрын

4:00 "Killing hopes and dreams"...Basically all my classes.

@maverickmissile801

Жыл бұрын

Lmao

@luisfilipe2023

Жыл бұрын

What did you study

@luisfilipe2023

Жыл бұрын

@@livethefuture2492what did you study

@Paul-fs5xj

Жыл бұрын

same bro

Your university classes covered all aspects of electrical engineering really well.

@jimmyh2137

8 ай бұрын

As one would expect from an Electrical Engineering university course...

@I_am_FRANCO

11 күн бұрын

@@jimmyh2137 you are being a transphobic I will have to report you to the authorities whilst I shout and SCREAM AHHHHHHHH AHHHHHH AHHHHHH GET OUT OF MY CAMPUS AHHHHH I AM A HE

I just graduated with an EE degree, and damn this list just makes me realize there's a lot of classes I wasn't able to take at my school cause they either weren't offered or I didn't have the space. I know EE is broad but man there's so much to learn, I wish I would have been able to take more classes.

Cal Poly Pomona alumni here, nearly 40 year engineer. I remember about 6 classes from my program. Specifics fade but the engineering mindset stays and keeps you in the career. Good luck sir.

I'm quite hyped to learn about digital signals. One of the projects next year is to encode a digital signal into audio and transmit it. One group didn't use all their frequencies so decided to play a rickroll in the rest

This is actually really interesting! i'm now doing my finals in the bachelor of engineering majoring mechanical and minoring electrical, and it's very interesting to see the overlaps and differences between places.

Hot take: My computer organization and assembly language course has been by far my favourite! I'm doing computer engineering at McGill and I loved writing assembly programs. Also the best midterm of my entire education. 106% due to bonus points

Love your vids, keep it up, I have learned so much from you!

Its crazy that I found your videos around about the time I was feeling a little nostalgic for Uni and thought your skits were really relatable, only to now watch this video and realize we were in the same Uni, Major, and year! Guess that explains the why I related to them :P EE really thins out by 4th year, I wonder if we had a class together... Anyway, congratz on all the success man!

“Bro, stop being f****** racist.” “Let’s rank all my college engineering courses!” Two twisted sides of the same coin of Zach Star…

@THEMATT222

Жыл бұрын

LOL

@TheAlison1456

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thanks Zach for bring back all the classes in Electrical Engineering that I took to get my BSEE in 1974. The math hasn't changed nor the ckt design, power, chip design and high level problem solving. What has changed is access to all the real tools you had in the lab to actual make the math real.

wow much respect from a CS major, those classes seem like hell!

As someone studying electronics engineering, I recognized so many of these classes and your rankings are 100% validated

"Getting 50% on the midterm and expecting it to be lower" Yeah same man

I really missed Zach the Electrical Engineering nerd!!! It’s been really fun watching you in the Zach Star Himself channel, but as a fellow EE student I really missed a video where you talked about Electrical Engineering, I used to watch all of your videos as a first year, and now that I’m taking those senior level classes such as DSP, Digital Comms, Electronic Design, etc, it feels awesome to see you talk about them again…

I'm in signals and systems right now as a computer engineering student and im loving it so far. Ive been thinking about taking control systems as an elective or some other signal processing class. Wireless communications also sounds super interesting.

I had a very similar experience in my IT degree, the classes where they just give you a mystery to solve are so much more fun than the classes with theory

I learn Electrical engineering. I really liked Electrical Machines classes (learned that in 2 semesters) , where we learned about transformer, AC machine, DC machine and Synchronous machine. Another subject I liked was Static Converters 1(Power electronics) where I learned about rectifiers and AC/ AC electronics : )

I graduated as a mechanical engineer. However, as luck would have it, I stumbled upon a job as a systems integrator after playing around a lot with the PLC's at the plant I was at. So It's kind of funny to see that even if it's more an EE job, it really only amounted to a single class for you guys. Makes me wish I got a technical degree in control systems instead of a general engineering degree. You touched on it, but this idea of theoretical knowledge vs practical application. I'll tell you my absolute favorite class as an ME though and it was not even an engineering course: Physics 1(2) lecture and lab. They got the formula right on how to make lectures stick with you. You take the lecture for the week, then when you go to lab, directly applying what you've learned in real world applications. My favorite part was the challenges where you are putting a huge chunk of the lab grade on your confidence to demonstrate how well you understood the material. You get one shot and a spring loaded gun. See how close your kinematics gets you to the bullseye, that kind of stuff.

This topic is so essential! It needs to be an active part of (mandatory) curriculum design!

Thank you for letting me know something new 😊

Im currently a senior EE at USF. I think its funny your favorite course is the Signals course, since Im currently in the last week for the coursework. love the tier list by the way

I had no idea you went to SLO! I'm in that area and always hanging around CalPoly kids. Super cool place!

We just had a single Circuit Analysis course (we covered Thevenin, Norton theorems and simple AC circuits in the Basic EE course, which was a required course for everyone.)

That is a fairly good coverage of electrical engineering. It is comparable to what I did 40 years ago. What has improved is that you have better labs and more of them. That is very much a reflection of technology. Doing signal processing with microcomputers was only just starting in industry, and was just too expensive for students.

Really interesting to see how different universities split the EE curriculum. Got my EE degree from ASU after transferring from a local CC and now work in the electric utility industry. Definitely don't use 90% of the material I covered in school but I loved learning it all the same 😂

Your class EE133 Digital Design is taught at my Computer Science major at my University which is in another Continent. And the course is exactly the same. HDL, full adders, 8 segment displays and FPGAs.

Course 16. Ropes on ropes is the best explanation of impedance I've heard. So I hope that was the topic!

aw no way!! I'm doing my bachelor's in EE at Cal Poly! cpe 233 was definitely hell. I'm onto my 3rd year and I'm gonna start taking a lot of these classes. looking forward to them 🤞

@TylerHallHiveTech

9 ай бұрын

I did CPE at cal poly. Go mustangs!

Circuit analysis 1 is my all-time favorite

My program condensed a lot of the circuit analysis into one. We did AC, Op-Amps, RLC, Frequency response, 3 phase, along with all of the DC basics. It was a whirlwind and a lot of people dropped.

God I wish my University did circuits like yours. Linear Circuits 1 is considered a big weedout course at my Uni. There's no such thing as a circuit analysis class with just resistors. Our first circuits class does resistors, capacitors, and inductors so it's DC and AC together for your introductory circuits class. But we don't have a third class in that series, so it's just a lot more condensed and can be a lot to take in in one semester.

Communication Theory and Automatic Controls Systems were my favorite classes in EE. I would do it all again just to better understand those two.

@ricseeds4835

Жыл бұрын

Control Systems?? Yuck!

Bro I'm an electrical engineer too and I agree with the ranking system you put. I really liked discrete time signals but I now see I should have put more effort in it. Also, for all the emotions you felt and shared with us hear this: "you are not alone ma guy"

@a.b3203

11 ай бұрын

What grade did you get in High School math? Physics as well? I am considering chemical engineering but I am worried the math may throw me off even though I, for the most part, enjoy learning it.

@ego5809

11 ай бұрын

@@a.b3203 well if you enjoy it then there's nothing to worry about! My Grade was A in both. Because I enjoyed these subjects and finished their respective books in 1/12th of the total study time of each college year.

@Bubs.

8 ай бұрын

@@a.b3203you can absolutely learn the math needed, don’t let it scare you away from the career you’re interested in. Make sure you have the fundamentals down (Algebra and Trig) and the rest will come a lot easier

I just want to let you know thank you for your videos. I watched your videos almost 4 years ago going to my Junior year of High School and now I’m becoming a 3rd year as a Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly SLO where I met my partner too. Thank you for your support and tips!

Fun fact: most older games were written almost entirely in assembly. Including roller coaster tycoon and many classic NES games like mortal combat

As a Signal Data Analyst with no background in electrical engineering it's cool to see what is involved with Electrical Engineering classes. Thank you

I really liked most of my CS classes - Assembly, algorithms, embedded stuff, and more. My major was image processing and computers(VHDL, VLSI,and all that stuff. )So, Ilearned extensively DSP. It’s fascinated seeing how DSP theory applies to signals . For example in our project - filtering cardiograms to detect heart illnesses was really cool experience. But, oh boy, I hated all those circuit analysis classes and related stuff. No wonder I ended up in the Linux embedded field and work now as SW engineer.

I know some accredited engineering programs where if the student says the word "engineer", they are handed a list of all the engineering classes they need to take regardless of their desired discipline. Whether you wanted to be an Electrical, Mechanical, Civil or even Industrial engineer -- everyone had to take Statics, Dynamics, Strength and Materials, Materials Engineering, Thermodynamics, Heat & Mass Transfer, Mechanical Drawing (i.e. CAD) and several more. There were 2.5 years worth of classes every engineer had to take. By the time the electrical classes appeared in the curriculum, it was payback to all the Mechanical Engineers who made the rest of us suffer through Thermodynamics. We also had to take various Humanities and Social Studies electives. Imagine an engineer sitting through a Philosophy 101 lecture listening to the professor lecture on whether the table in the corner is actually a rectangle, or whether it is really blue. In the real world, I've noticed that engineers who came from those types of schools tended to run circles around those that only took classes in their discipline. Maybe it has to do with the industry I'm in and how interwoven and varied the activities and positions are.

@JS-vj1il

Жыл бұрын

Yeah sure whateve makes you feel better.

We had to do some weird shit in our bsc degree. For some reason we had a proper electrodynamics class, which was almost identical to a physics electrodynamics class and the in depth wave, antenna and applied stuff was in a seperate class. We also had a seperate semiconductor physics class where our professor went way too much indepth. Materials was another type of this classes. We also had to do Photonics, Sensor systems,electrical energy systems and machinse and drives. I am suprised that you did not have to do Measurement and Instrumentation. Our Professors are under the impression that Arudino is for Children so they would never consider teaching with it and we had a lot more programming.

as a 12th grade student taking STEM the program that I would like to take on college is Mechanical Engineering and even though this channel talks about Electrical Engineering it may or may not be involved into the program that I am taking for college. This video also helped me to grasp what's coming next in my life too basically lmao...

Went to GA Tech - EMAG 3 "The focus of this class was killing hopes and dreams". I had a great professor, but it still sucked. I remember the explanation of Synthetic Aperture antennas was cool. Seeing a Smith Chart 30 years later still strikes terror into the depths of my mortal soul.

i'm a current computer engineering student at cal poly and it was so disappointing to see ee 233 as your least favorite class, it's literally my favorite class that i've taken so far :(

@username8644

Жыл бұрын

That was my favorite CS class I ever took, and one of my top 5 classes so far. I'm applied math and CS.

@jamesknapp64

Жыл бұрын

I mean he even says his #3 class is a lot of other people's least fav class. Each person enjoys other parts of things, and keep in mind you are also having different lectures for different course which can greatly affect how one feels about a course.

@quiploo

Жыл бұрын

i took it winter quarter this year. definitely super interesting, but the assembly language made it hell for me (EE btw)

omg everything you had in circuit analysis was in 1 class for us (ac, dc, phasors, complex analysis, rc, rl, rlc, 2 port networks, freq response (resonance). I'm studying CE, first year

Funny. I ranked wireless comms and DSP as my favourite courses as well. I ended up doing a PhD in signal processing for telecommunications. Was a great field for a while.

as a electronics and telecommunications engineer i will agree with this list . Digital Signal Processing course is fking awsome , as engineer you will fall in love with FFT algorithms, this course become more interesting when you program this algorithms and filters by yourself.

Holy shit, did I've been watching you for years, and now I know We went to the same school, were in the same major, and graduated the same year, wtf.

@idkusername2981

Жыл бұрын

now kiss lol /s

@username8644

Жыл бұрын

That's what happens when you go to a big school.

Looking at this as an EE, when he mentioned most people won't agree with some of his top choices being heavy in theory...RELATABLE. I wish I could take more classes like the one with Arduino projects instead of some of the theory-heavy courses.

4:00 yup...Basically all my classes.

Hey this is an old video but in case you see this I think your videos about what engineering is are great like what is structural engineering is and disciplines and curriculums are etc... I would appreciate if you did a video about national security studies, intelligence collection, military science etc... I would appreciate that

i think you should review the gcse and/or a-level electronics courses here in the uk. a lot of the stuff you say is doone in the 3rd or 4th years is taught to 15-18 year olds. i myself took it and i think it's a great thing to do.

I loved digital design!!!❤

Miss the college videos

2 of the classes that I hated at the time were what we called 'Signals and Systems' and 'Continuous and Discrete'. (What was covered in those classes was spread out among 4 or 5 of the ones on this listed in this video.) The biggest thing I hated about them was how they were organized. It was a lot of dry math with no real hints as to how it was going to be used early on. The idea of test functions and what was called signal power and how it fit into a statistical framework just seemed so opaque to me at the time. It wasn't until I started taking my control systems classes that I really saw their advantages.

@diggoran

Жыл бұрын

SigSys is what made me change my EE major to an ECE major because I never wanted to do that level of math again.

@VTdarkangel

Жыл бұрын

@@diggoran I pushed my way through and it paid off in the end. I use a lot of what I learned in that class for creating linear models of systems I'm trying to control, but at the time it was painfully boring. It was presented in a vacuum with little to no reference to the physics I would later learn to use it to model.

@theblinkingbrownie4654

Жыл бұрын

I hope my uni professors will spend some time discussing the motivation behind whatever they show in class, otherwise I fear that I will feel the same as you...

It’s funny having the same degree but seeing how your university ordered some of your classes versus how mine structured the classes, all the same classes but in different orders

There are so many courses to take in EE but not enough time!

I’m majoring in chemistry but I still find all of this quite interesting

Thanks Zach, I needed this video! I'm planning on going into engineering, ad I think this video will help, I'm glad that someone so funny yet so smart is able to keep making my day better, thank you!

It's crazy how I knew this was from Cal Poly just from the formatting of that coursework schedule 😂. Aerospace 18'.

it's funny that a lot of it sounds like army preparation and even explain was in form of missaile

@zachstar You would be intrigued with Photonics and Optical Engineering.

16:20 I did my final on fourier analysis today.. somehow went worst than I thought

My favorite class was Assembly Programming as Electrical Engineer :)

Yoooo Cal Poly! I recognize the flow chart at the beginning

I really enjoyed my signals class. Like way more than I thought I would. Maybe the fact my teacher was great helped, but still I agree not many would probably enjoy it

"Assembly isnt where you code games and apps and stuff" OG rollercoaster tycoon:

Woah, as someone who majored in pure math and physics I kinda wish I had done some of these courses, these look super interesting! Will you consider some of them for future video topics?

@username8644

Жыл бұрын

Why pure math and physics versus applied math and physics.

Assuming CSSLO is on a semester system, and a typical load is 4 classes per semester, that means that at least 22 out of your 32 courses during your college career were STEM, leaving only 10 slots for non-STEM courses. What were your favs among those?

I'm graduating this year, my biggest regret is not taking DSP when I had the chance.

Great weight loss Zack! Now you are a lean engineering machine 😊

HAHA. I saw that class list on the first image and thought “wow that looks a lot like my class list” guess what? Computer Engineering at Cal Poly! Go Mustangs. Small world. I transferred in and ee 255 wrecked me. Rest leveled up though. I liked my time there. Would not do it again. But glad i went.

“It is not what you cover (in a class), But what you discover” (Heard somewhere else)

Signals and Systems should just be one course. Then is you want to dive deeper into the discrete side of things one can take DSP... Also DSP is the most useful/best course in any degree ever.

0:51 What programmers usually do: make games and apps. What assembly programmers do: make calculators run directly on CPUs. Btw, iirc the original Roller Coaster Tycoon was coded in Assembly 😶.

@theblinkingbrownie4654

Жыл бұрын

And iirc it was coded in only 2 years! (with reusing past code)

I was surprised you had such a smaller number of classes until I learned you left out the non-EE classes. I had a total of maybe 50 classes.

@username8644

Жыл бұрын

Ironic because 50 classes is a small number of classes.

@pylchott9864

Жыл бұрын

It's not a competition, toots. I'd have taken fewer if I could, but my curriculum was fixed. Ultimately, everyone got their degree and carried on with their lives.

I would pick Discrete time signals as last. In this semester is the only thing I need to do and I dont like it 😢

when you were talking about fields and said "scariest-looking thing in all of electrical engineering" i immediately said out loud "it's a smith circle" 😭

My antenna professor was the lead guy for the whole electrical engineering phd department. Really brilliant guy but my undergrad head was spinning the whole time. Honestly they should split up antenna theory into the easy parts and the hellish derivations.

Now you have to give us your mechanical and aeronautics engineering classes

Wow I’ve been watching you for years and never knew you went to cal poly. Go mustangs

Watching your videos is categorized as studying time on my conscious. :D

5:33 this looks like what the unit circle has constant, neverending nightmares about…I want to bathe in hydrochloric acid just looking at it

I am suprised digital signal procesing and control are so far appart. Because control is just DSP, only with the added fun of having to deal with physical systems.

I had to study about 52 subjects for my Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering in Nepal

What i'm taking from this video. I should go to a school. The classes ypu talk about seem fun. Tedious but fun. Electrical engineering huh? Yea. If it's either available in my city or i can do most at home i really think it could be for me.

@ristopoho824

Ай бұрын

I enjoy low level programming. And now before taking any of those classes i think the list might be the same for me, but inverted.

Hey, can you maybe explain a little bit about Alan Beckers new video Animation vs Math? Maybe I can understand then what the heck happens...

Oh, man. Assembly was my favourite programming language

Looking back at it bro I’m a dumbass. I switched majors from EE to comp sci after the end of circuit analysis 1 which was basically your circuit analysis 1 and some of your circuit analysis 2. Because I felt I was a failure because I couldn’t take a problem and design a circuit to solve my issue, I thought it was me but it looks like it’s just how the curriculum is supposed to be… Low key kinda regret that decision now in hindsight…

My major was Electronic and Information Engineering, I had the exact same courses.

@pintohoareau579

8 ай бұрын

Sounds like a fake degree.

Knew this was Cal Poly at 0:07 when I saw the flow chart.

I always loved math and programming but I do kind of regret starting computer science... I feel like computer engineering or mechanical engineering would have been a much better fit for me to learn at university. and to just stick with learning the programming on my own even though it's what I'm most likely going to do. I just want that knowledge on how to build those things. I don't know if I should change if it's even possible and or if it's even worth it rather than just finishing up so I can get work and going for a masters in engineering or something instead.

@username8644

Жыл бұрын

Thankfully I realized this and switched to applied math after my first year as a CS major. You really don't ever learn anything of an upper level in CS and only do programming stuff that you could easily learn in your spare time. CS majors at my school don't even take the full calculus sequence and only have to take discrete math and linear algebra on top of that. So essentially you don't even get past basic math, and then you do zero engineering or circuit courses, and almost zero physics. Much better to take applied math, have a better physics understanding too, and then do CS stuff on the side. Or of course electric engineering, computer engineering, or physics or mechanical, etc.

@devon9374

Жыл бұрын

ME here, I agree 1000%. I used to sometimes regret not doing CS. However, after spending much of the last few years learning serious programming and CS topics, I’m extremely grateful of my decision. Engineering school is hard and really teaches you to teach yourself and understand almost any technically complex subject.

As a biomedical engineer who almost take 75% of this courses eectromagnetic and CT signal and systems and DT signal and systems was deadly 💔

Our teacher for "Arduino like class" hates them, so he with help of faculty designed facultie its own develepment board using STM M7 chip line.

@JS-vj1il

Жыл бұрын

Because Arduino is not really proper microntroller programming. Its nice for getting started but you should move away from it to do some serious stuff.

@t0maz.m

Жыл бұрын

@@JS-vj1il yes, shame that they used Arduinos in UNI

@JS-vj1il

Жыл бұрын

@@t0maz.m Our Professor told us it was for children. Because if you program with arduino you have no idea what you programm actually does. One does have no idea how the timers are setup and what they do. There is no control of which buses are activated, or how the pins are setup with, how the peripharals are used and much more. Using Delay or busy waiting loops is an absolute nogo but common with arduino.

I wish my university put half as much effort into the material as yours did. Most every course left me asking "why should I care?" Not to mention, the labs were a complete waste of time. Nothing of value was ever learned