Tech school BASEET v. U BSEE

[ronsimpson]

GeoJoe,

About 30 years ago I asked the question (Bachelor of Science Electronics Engineering Technology) or (Bachelor of Science EE). I went to several large companies, HP and IBM and asked their human resource office the question. (which) They told me that if I had a BS in anything and worked for them as an EE the pay would be the same as if I had a BSEET or a BSEE. “no difference” BUT There are many companies that treat BSEET as technicians.

I took BSEE in the daytime and BSEET at night. (About killed my self) By year 2 in EE we were studding formulas. In EET I bouncing a micro wave beam off a building cross town and back to the lab. Did I mention I built the transmitter. By my senior project there were EEs that had never soldered two wires together. In EET we did projects every semester that were equivalent to the EE final project.

I hired an engineer with a BS-Chemistry. He had 80 patents and was one of the sharpest EE. The BSEE is mainstream! Many managers are looking for BSEE and may not understand BSEET. If your potential boss has a doctorate then he is looking for how many degrees (which degree). When putting together a teem, I look for a mixture of BSEE, BSEET and non degreed-EE. Each have their own strong points.

Newspaper add; “BSEE a must” How many times have you seen that? I feel the BSEE has more respect. I think the BSEET will “build this and have it to me by Monday”. Go to 5 companies that hire EEs and ask the question! Ask for an engineering manager and explain you are looking for his help. (school, job, etc) If you walked in here and asked, I might offer you a job just because you have the balls to walk in the door and because you think years down the road. After 5-10 interviews you will know “BSEET=nothing” or five will say “BSEET=same”. I believe in less than 10 interviews with companies that are not hiring you will have a job offer with a group that believe in EET. Good luck.

[GeoJoe]

Thanks for the words of wisdom and ecouragement. I have seen and read all of the fine print from ITT. I don't feel like it was a waste of time. I wish ITT would make it harder for people to graduate. I also wish I had read the fine print before barfing up all that money to go to ITT. I will continue my path to BSEE. I can test out of many classes for 75 USD per test. That will cover economics, sociology, art history, world history and other periferal 'education enhancement' credits. However, I've found science and engineering departments don't have tests for things like ciruit analysis 201, or power transmission 112. Even the tests that are available for science degrees are unlikely to go well for me, and I'd bet for %99 of post graduates with science degrees. How confident would you feel taking and passing a calc based physics test five years after taking the class?