The 2 courses you mentioned are mainstream courses. I should say both also very popular courses because high demand after you graduate from Engineering degree.
My opinion is engineering is just a study where you apply the knowledge you learnt from scientific, economic, social etc in order to create, improve, design, maintain the processes, system and etc.

High demand in job doesn't mean that you need to study that too.
Choose what you want, what you like.


Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of engineering, physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems.

Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.

Electronics engineering, or electronic engineering, is an engineering discipline where non-linear and active electrical components such as electron tubes, and semiconductor devices, especially transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, are utilized to design electronic circuits, devices and systems, typically also including passive electrical components and based on printed circuit boards.

What you mean exactly by "stucked"?

You can get a engineering degree in M'sia, then you can further study your phD or master in the oversea like japan or europe etc. Our local degree is recognized worldwide.

But with exception those course degree not accredited by Board of Engineering (BEM).
Check the course/university whether the course you wanted to enter is accredited by BEM or not.
http://www.bem.org.my/v3/listofaccreditedprogrammes.html

If you grad with a Engineering cert with no accreditation from BEM. You will not able to secure your path to professional engineer in the future (Ir.).
You can think it like you taking a "haram" course.

I'm not from petroleum, so can't get you specific input you want.
Please see this link for sample syllabus,
http://umat.edu.gh/petroleum-engineering.html?start=3
There is briefly describe what you will study in the future.

For buying reference book or any book, I recommend Book Depository Online.
It's UK based online store, provide free shipping worldwide, and the price is lower than what you can get in M'sia.

This post has been edited by quovadis123: Jan 17 2014, 11:30 AM

For engineering, the most important you need to improve is the physics in academic during foundation/pre-U equivalent.
If your physics is so-so, you will be very hard to catch up and worst case hard to survive in EEE(Electrical & Electronics Engineering) , EE(Electrical Engineering or Electronics Engineering).

Most of the foundation are fine in private college since most of the famous private college you already heard about.
There are still normal way to get to the Engineering, such as STPM and A-level. These latter path is more cost-saving but you will have to get a good result to enter local University.

For famous University for Engineering in Malaysia are Universiti Sains Malaysia (You can either choose Electrical or Electronics there), UTM for top tiers.

Please be reminded, Engineering of Physics stream is same level as Medicine for biology stream and Accounting.
The difficulty of the course is high, so must be prepared a lot.

This communications engineering?

(Color vision deficiency) Color blindness not an issue to become petroleum engineer. Even visual impaired can become engineer.
There is no discrimination on color vision deficiency, but you have to know your own limit.
But depends on the company whether if they want to hire or not, if the job need perfect eyesight, then you have no chance on that certain job. You may try in another company.

Do you have this issue?

“If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.
You can climb it and cross to the other side.
You can go around it.
You can dig under it.
You can fly over it.
You can blow it up.
You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there.
You can turn around and go back the way you came.
Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.”
― Vera Nazarian

Why give up when you interested in it?
Please take a look in the video below.

What IT thingy you doing now?

What the current education level you're in? Diploma in engineering?
If so, you prefer IPTA or IPTS?

quo vadis (Where are you going?). You may search through google for my name translation.

IPTA
- USM http://mechanical.eng.usm.my
- UTM http://web1.fkm.utm.my

Both are low cost in academic fee and best quality. Both are accredited by BEM (Board of Engineers Malaysia).

It's up to your preferences of which is the best.
By ranking is USM. By my preference, also USM.
You can choose which is nearer to you.
Both degree have very high demand after you grad.

I'm grad from engineering. Already working for quite a time.

I'm entrepreneur, no salary.
As for engineer salary, about 2.9k during I work last time. I forgot 2.4k or 2.5k is my starting pay.
Then less than 1 year increment to 2.9k not included bonuses yet.
My juniors starting pay as RM5k. I think because of different field.

You only need one job. Why you need to worry?

There are no problems as usual, engineering always about survival of the fittest.
If unable to fight for a mech engineering job, then you have to change to other engineering jobs, banking, etc etc.
There are a lot of other jobs out there. Jobs and chances not wait for you, you have to take initiative to grab the chances.

If you already have no interest in engineering because of the math. I would suggest you look for other courses.
There is no reason for you to endure 3 years for something you don't like. Look for what you like.
Since you will never good in engineering if you don't like it.
Only those like engineering can easily get a job, and outperform.

If you really like engineering, you don't care about the obstacles that math is too much for you.
You will feel motivated and excited about engineering, like design, solidworks, machining, etc etc if love engineering.

Very good since you will utilize a lot of thinking of engineering there.
Oracle SQL, you write application for support? Or helping production line get their data by query for them?
Some production support are data crunchers.

Chemical engineering highest population are females.
A lot engineering fields are high risk. Not all, you can choose to work in the more office job after you grad.
Such as banking, semiconductor fields, etc.
From my opinion, engineering is very easy to get a job. There are a lot of jobs related to chemical engineering.
Such as O&G, semicon, process, solar etc etc..

This post has been edited by quovadis123: Feb 5 2014, 11:18 PM

STPM? How about USM?

USM have their Engineering Campus is Nibong Tebal.
What engineering you want to enter?

You can check this website first
http://www.eng.usm.my/v3/

If you not able to get USM during your application, your application will move to UPU.
So, if you skip USM, then you will move to UPU directly.