Do we have any engineers here?

Ezekiel 25:17

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you can but not the way he's saying it.
I had a Associates... I can ONLY be a technician NOT engineer.. My title at the company was electrical engineering technician. I went back for my bachelor's while working BUT ... I WAS NOT an engineer. Mind you this was '93 and'00 respectively per degree but i was not an engineer until after i got the bachelor's .. and even then the EET bachelor's was frowned upon compared to a regular EE.


even applying for the PE .. a regular bachelor's EE needed 4 years of experience while EET needed 6 years... Now, being the best at where I am... the EE/EET argument is irrelevant.


He's talking about EE because I tried to correct him.

EE needs the bachelor's degree to get entry level jobs.
 

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you can but not the way he's saying it.
I had a Associates... I can ONLY be a technician NOT engineer.. My title at the company was electrical engineering technician. I went back for my bachelor's while working BUT ... I WAS NOT an engineer. Mind you this was '93 and'00 respectively per degree but i was not an engineer until after i got the bachelor's .. and even then the EET bachelor's was frowned upon compared to a regular EE.


even applying for the PE .. a regular bachelor's EE needed 4 years of experience while EET needed 6 years... Now, being the best at where I am... the EE/EET argument is irrelevant.
EET or EE won't matter anymore when he is at least 5 years deep in the industry. Only experience and a 4 year degree matters after that point. I never said he would be an engineer with a 2 year degree ...I said he would get a better job with a 2 year degree which will pay for the extra 2 years of schooling.
OP don't let them discourage you...go and talk to your local community college about an online transferable 2 year degree. It will give you some solid hands on exposure.
 

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That’s my current option for getting an Electrical Engineering degree online. That’s excluding financial help, grants and etc.

I would try to cash flow as much as possible. that would include doing the first 2 years at community college for a fraction of the cost :manny:

I wish I knew this when I was 18 tho.
 

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Go to a Community College and get a Physics Associates Degree. That way you can take all the Calculus, Physics, and Chemistry courses you need for the Electrical Engineering Bachelor's degree. And depending on the school, they usually would have 3-4 Electrical Engineering courses that you can take as well. That would save you ALOT of money
 

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EET or EE won't matter anymore when he is at least 5 years deep in the industry. Only experience and a 4 year degree matters after that point. I never said he would be an engineer with a 2 year degree ...I said he would get a better job with a 2 year degree which will pay for the extra 2 years of schooling.
OP don't let them discourage you...go and talk to your local community college about an online transferable 2 year degree. It will give you some solid hands on exposure.
I dont know where you are but the EET vs EE matters. I work for NYC and it matters. Well... it didnt matter to get the job but it mattered when it came time for civil service appointment.. they didnt accept the EET and I appealed with course descriptions and they still said no. So, i got the PE and said F them because once you had the PE the EET vs EE didnt matter anymore.


Im not discouraging the OP.. im encouraging him and said i was here to help since i did the 2 yr EET and then the 4yr EET not EE .. Not all the credits wouldve transferred.... but as i said... this was early 90s. it may be different now.
 

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Go to a Community College and get a Physics Associates Degree. That way you can take all the Calculus, Physics, and Chemistry courses you need for the Electrical Engineering Bachelor's degree. And depending on the school, they usually would have 3-4 Electrical Engineering courses that you can take as well. That would save you ALOT of money
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I dont know where you are but the EET vs EE matters. I work for NYC and it matters. Well... it didnt matter to get the job but it mattered when it came time for civil service appointment.. they didnt accept the EET and I appealed with course descriptions and they still said no. So, i got the PE and said F them because once you had the PE the EET vs EE didnt matter anymore.


Im not discouraging the OP.. im encouraging him and said i was here to help since i did the 2 yr EET and then the 4yr EET not EE .. Not all the credits wouldve transferred.... but as i said... this was early 90s. it may be different now.

What you're saying is exactly what I've read years ago. It's still the same. All the tech degrees are far different from engineer degrees.

That dude doesn't know what he's talking about. Talking about 5 years it's all the same. Techs cannot design like engineers do.
 

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I'd send an email or call those schools and get more information since no one here knows about those schools.

Have you started calling anyone yet? That should be the first step.
 
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