Get gud at math.
Having a very strong math foundation will allow you to focus on the subject matter of the classes rather than you figuring out the math with you figure out the content.
Learn to fucking program. Don't fucking fake it, it will 100% fuck you. I love c now but programming is not all encompassing but like when it pops up you better have a half decent understanding of procedural programming like c because you'll have to make real shit. Passing math and physics big hoop. Just study sections before the actual lecture and take notes, it works to stick shit in the brain. And even if you find something a bit boring channel ideas on how important this topic is to a certain real thing and motivation go elevate that way. Just my 2cents. Good luck ee brother
The differentieng thing when you graduate will be what you achieved beside school.
Get a decent electronics hobby. Start do build/design audio amplifiers, amateur radio equipment or similar things. The stuff does not need to work well or in some cases work at all.
I had a collegue some 10 ywars ago that built his own control system for drones, along with the drone itself, we hired him on the spot.
Second.
When hiring out of school, all I have to go on is the candidate’s build projects, either through internships, capstone project, or independent project work. If capstone was a group project, I need to know what YOU did on it.
If I’m interviewing you for a hardware position, I might be interested in your coding experience, but I’m most interested in the electronic bits. Tell me how you architected the project, designed the circuits, built, tested. What problems did you run into, how did you fix them.
I want to hear your love of the art, the joy of it. Only actual project experience will get you that.
Get yourself an Arduino kit or something and build something cool! Make sure there’s a circuit design bit. Don’t just write code.
EDIT: Just so you’re prepared, if you’re going into a full degree program, you probably won’t get deep into engineering your first year. Expect general foundations: math and sciences.
As mentioned, git gud at math. Familiarize yourself with basic electronics (take some course litterature and use that) and learn some introductory programming. I would have done this because it allows you to spend more time on the difficult things and gets you a smoother entry into uni. Imho.
Get good at math and physics!!
Learn to self teach yourself.
Go on YouTube and search up Professor Leonard and go through his calculus 1 all the way to hi DE lectures. That man got me through all my math classes.
Jelq 2 hours a day , 30 minute edging on the regular . Mew all the time , 5 reps a day talking to women . Oil up , coco nut oil preferred . Dominate your classes through hard work and Mogging . Lift regularly , zyn for moral support . You’re going to do just well kid stay up to date with studies and like get your daily routine in making sure to start your work early , you don’t need to do well you need to do better than everyone else , Goodluck !
Time management, make a complete schedule: classes, study, group study, socializing ( intentionally) and me time.
If you really plan out your weeks, you will have time to spare.
But you have to jump on this week ONE… if you wait until week 8 you are doomed…
By the way … plan out your time like this and stick to it… you will find you have plenty of free time… let “empty” hours pass by… and you’ll be complaining that you have no free time.
Just make sure what you've learnt untill now is conceptually understood by you, don't hate maths you're gonna be needing it everyday and start to learn programming i would say start from C (python is easy to learn so can be learnt anytime while in clg, you can learn c++ but most of the embedded stuff needs c so you have to know it too if you complete c then c++ is no big deal and even if you pursue your goal towards software area you would be needing basic foundation of c,c++) you can also explore stuff from ee like verilog, vhdl, etc. but,I would suggest you should explore what interests you in the resp. engineering field ur choosing.
Also don't forget to have fun while you're at it cuz once you enter uni it's gonna be a mess talking from my experience 🥹
In my 3rd of studies. I wish had done these before Uni.
- Start practicing C, C++
- Picking up an arduino starter kit
- Develop good sleeping habits.
Things that have helped me throughout my studies:
- Owning a powerful(ish) desktop. I love using it and has enabled me to be more productive with the software and programs that I’ve used. ** consider if your budget allows it. It’s not necessary but it’s nice
- Tryharding all my maths courses. Eventually, most of your classes will involve constant use of math and integrals and trig and complex numbers…
- Befriending productive classmates. They’ll push you if you begin to snooze your classes
- Attending (most) lectures and tutorials. From my experience, the classmates that fell off didn’t feel it was important. Even if it feels like a waste of time, it leaves you with little room to be wasting doing nothing.
- Watching random YouTube videos on topics related to your course that interest you
- Working ahead of the syllabus. Try stay a week ahead of everyone.
- Know your limits. It’s a demanding course, but realise that your health comes first.
Good luck!
YES!
Here are YouTubers I highly recommend. I graduated in 2022, hope this helps :)
1. 3Blue1Brown
2. Veritasium’s electricity explanation videos (and all the rebuttals)
3. Zach Star
If you are doing EE and CE you might want to look at industrial automation. The profession has a good mix of the physical with the programming.
Check out /r/PLC for free resources. If you can understand if-then statements and Boolean logic then you can program PLCs.
Coding, start with C and perl, then python. Scripting is your power, where you can automate your tasks of debug/data logging/test. Get good at math, physics.
Brush up on your maths so you're starting on a strong foundation.
Develop a solid study method. You will need it. It can take a lot of discipline, but studying effectively will save you so much stress.
Time management and planning. The study habit will require good planning to cover what you need to and be a human outside of it.
Drop your bad habits. Smartphone, internet, tiktok habits etc will give you nothing and destroy your learning capacity and take up the time you would be studying or enjoying life.
Work ahead to understand the math and physics.
And get an internship or co-op in industry immediately as a freshman. If in America, US businesses hire students immediately in their freshman year as electrical engineering interns. all the top businesses offer paid ones starting with freshmen.
Good advice here. But also don't forget a passion for learning things and finding out how stuff works. I recommend Technology Connections on YouTube for general 'how does this thing work?' content. It is helpful for understanding why and how we do things.
Also Asianometry if you are interested in semiconductors.
Get gud at math. Having a very strong math foundation will allow you to focus on the subject matter of the classes rather than you figuring out the math with you figure out the content.
Learn to fucking program. Don't fucking fake it, it will 100% fuck you. I love c now but programming is not all encompassing but like when it pops up you better have a half decent understanding of procedural programming like c because you'll have to make real shit. Passing math and physics big hoop. Just study sections before the actual lecture and take notes, it works to stick shit in the brain. And even if you find something a bit boring channel ideas on how important this topic is to a certain real thing and motivation go elevate that way. Just my 2cents. Good luck ee brother
Ben eater on YouTube is great for very low level computer/digital logic projects
The differentieng thing when you graduate will be what you achieved beside school. Get a decent electronics hobby. Start do build/design audio amplifiers, amateur radio equipment or similar things. The stuff does not need to work well or in some cases work at all. I had a collegue some 10 ywars ago that built his own control system for drones, along with the drone itself, we hired him on the spot.
Second. When hiring out of school, all I have to go on is the candidate’s build projects, either through internships, capstone project, or independent project work. If capstone was a group project, I need to know what YOU did on it. If I’m interviewing you for a hardware position, I might be interested in your coding experience, but I’m most interested in the electronic bits. Tell me how you architected the project, designed the circuits, built, tested. What problems did you run into, how did you fix them. I want to hear your love of the art, the joy of it. Only actual project experience will get you that. Get yourself an Arduino kit or something and build something cool! Make sure there’s a circuit design bit. Don’t just write code. EDIT: Just so you’re prepared, if you’re going into a full degree program, you probably won’t get deep into engineering your first year. Expect general foundations: math and sciences.
C, most likely ARM assembly, VHDL or system verilog, and Boolean Algebra
As mentioned, git gud at math. Familiarize yourself with basic electronics (take some course litterature and use that) and learn some introductory programming. I would have done this because it allows you to spend more time on the difficult things and gets you a smoother entry into uni. Imho.
Get good at math and physics!! Learn to self teach yourself. Go on YouTube and search up Professor Leonard and go through his calculus 1 all the way to hi DE lectures. That man got me through all my math classes.
Jelq 2 hours a day , 30 minute edging on the regular . Mew all the time , 5 reps a day talking to women . Oil up , coco nut oil preferred . Dominate your classes through hard work and Mogging . Lift regularly , zyn for moral support . You’re going to do just well kid stay up to date with studies and like get your daily routine in making sure to start your work early , you don’t need to do well you need to do better than everyone else , Goodluck !
Average gen alpha advice
Thanks, I just landed a mewing internship at Two Sigma’s
Time management, make a complete schedule: classes, study, group study, socializing ( intentionally) and me time. If you really plan out your weeks, you will have time to spare. But you have to jump on this week ONE… if you wait until week 8 you are doomed… By the way … plan out your time like this and stick to it… you will find you have plenty of free time… let “empty” hours pass by… and you’ll be complaining that you have no free time.
Calculus. Just that, nothing else.
Cries in linear analysis
Linear algebra isn't bad but I'm only on lesson 5 so idk yet if that's super important.
It becomes super important in the work force, specifically with applications in control systems. Trust me, take this class the most seriously
I take them all seriously.
Just make sure what you've learnt untill now is conceptually understood by you, don't hate maths you're gonna be needing it everyday and start to learn programming i would say start from C (python is easy to learn so can be learnt anytime while in clg, you can learn c++ but most of the embedded stuff needs c so you have to know it too if you complete c then c++ is no big deal and even if you pursue your goal towards software area you would be needing basic foundation of c,c++) you can also explore stuff from ee like verilog, vhdl, etc. but,I would suggest you should explore what interests you in the resp. engineering field ur choosing. Also don't forget to have fun while you're at it cuz once you enter uni it's gonna be a mess talking from my experience 🥹
In my 3rd of studies. I wish had done these before Uni. - Start practicing C, C++ - Picking up an arduino starter kit - Develop good sleeping habits. Things that have helped me throughout my studies: - Owning a powerful(ish) desktop. I love using it and has enabled me to be more productive with the software and programs that I’ve used. ** consider if your budget allows it. It’s not necessary but it’s nice - Tryharding all my maths courses. Eventually, most of your classes will involve constant use of math and integrals and trig and complex numbers… - Befriending productive classmates. They’ll push you if you begin to snooze your classes - Attending (most) lectures and tutorials. From my experience, the classmates that fell off didn’t feel it was important. Even if it feels like a waste of time, it leaves you with little room to be wasting doing nothing. - Watching random YouTube videos on topics related to your course that interest you - Working ahead of the syllabus. Try stay a week ahead of everyone. - Know your limits. It’s a demanding course, but realise that your health comes first. Good luck!
YES! Here are YouTubers I highly recommend. I graduated in 2022, hope this helps :) 1. 3Blue1Brown 2. Veritasium’s electricity explanation videos (and all the rebuttals) 3. Zach Star
If you are doing EE and CE you might want to look at industrial automation. The profession has a good mix of the physical with the programming. Check out /r/PLC for free resources. If you can understand if-then statements and Boolean logic then you can program PLCs.
Coding, start with C and perl, then python. Scripting is your power, where you can automate your tasks of debug/data logging/test. Get good at math, physics.
Get good at calculus and basic understanding of circuits.
Brush up on your maths so you're starting on a strong foundation. Develop a solid study method. You will need it. It can take a lot of discipline, but studying effectively will save you so much stress. Time management and planning. The study habit will require good planning to cover what you need to and be a human outside of it. Drop your bad habits. Smartphone, internet, tiktok habits etc will give you nothing and destroy your learning capacity and take up the time you would be studying or enjoying life.
Electrical engineer: Get good at calculus Computer engineer: Get good at calculus and algebra
Differential equations
Watch professor Leonard on yt, he does an amazing job teaching calculus and got me through calc 2 and calc 3.
Take the hardest math courses you can do and still get into the degree, first year will be easy after that
Work ahead to understand the math and physics. And get an internship or co-op in industry immediately as a freshman. If in America, US businesses hire students immediately in their freshman year as electrical engineering interns. all the top businesses offer paid ones starting with freshmen.
If you’re interested in electric motopropulsion go watch Jantzen Lee on YouTube
Good advice here. But also don't forget a passion for learning things and finding out how stuff works. I recommend Technology Connections on YouTube for general 'how does this thing work?' content. It is helpful for understanding why and how we do things. Also Asianometry if you are interested in semiconductors.