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Electronics Engineering Technology VS Engineering

You can't take the FE or PE with a EET.
They're not really engineers, so to speak, minimal amounts of theoretical background
 
Cause this sucks. I wanted to be an engineer. Not knowing that there was actually a difference, I signed up for EET, I'm already at the assciates level. I'm not rich enough to start all over.

So I guess I'll be stuck as a wannabe engineer. You wouldn't believe how, just in the associates level, many people died off. .33 - .5 of the beginning of the class died off. It was too hard for them.
 
Originally posted by: VIAN
Cause this sucks. I wanted to be an engineer. Not knowing that there was actually a difference, I signed up for EET, I'm already at the assciates level. I'm not rich enough to start all over.

So I guess I'll be stuck as a wannabe engineer. You wouldn't believe how, just in the associates level, many people died off. .33 - .5 of the beginning of the class died off. It was too hard for them.
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Are you going to DeVry or something?

Anyways, those are legitimate credits you are earning, you can always transfer.
 
Originally posted by: VIAN
Cause this sucks. I wanted to be an engineer. Not knowing that there was actually a difference, I signed up for EET, I'm already at the assciates level. I'm not rich enough to start all over.

So I guess I'll be stuck as a wannabe engineer. You wouldn't believe how, just in the associates level, many people died off. .33 - .5 of the beginning of the class died off. It was too hard for them.
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I, also, did this. Wish I would have just figured out what a 2nd class status degree I was working for before I went to ju-co. My class also had a dropout rate of ~50%. Some of them figured it out and went to a 4-yr, some of them were just too wacked out of their heads, some of them were just doomed from birth.

Get a decent job and go to night school, cause there's nothing more pathetic than an old technician
 
DeVry at North Brunswick.🙂

Get a decent job and go to night school, cause there's nothing more pathetic than an old technician
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I don't plan on just studying that. I have a real thing for programming. Which I interacted during the EET course. I plan on mastering C++ on the side after taking this course on C programming I'm in the middle of. I have the full "C++ for Dummies." Maybe after I get on my feet I'll actually go for a degree on programming.
 
EET has a good name in the industry. Don't let these "real college" guys get you down. I graduated from DeVry Columbus, and I have a decent job. It's all about experience and how well you interview. I know many many CS guys from "real" schools who are still looking for work, whereas me and all my friends from DeVry already have good jobs.

There are some companies who look for DeVry grads first.

I love how "real" engineers talk down about DeVry, because they like to think of themselves as elitists. I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering Technology before I was 21. Devry has more labs and technical classes for your major, than a traditional school.

Morals of the story:
1. DeVry gets a bad wrap.
2. People from traditional schools have no clue.
3. You will get a good job.
 
Originally posted by: edro13
EET has a good name in the industry. Don't let these "real college" guys get you down. I graduated from DeVry Columbus, and I have a decent job. It's all about experience and how well you interview. I know many many CS guys from "real" schools who are still looking for work, whereas me and all my friends from DeVry already have good jobs.

There are some companies who look for DeVry grads first.

I love how "real" engineers talk down about DeVry, because they like to think of themselves as elitists. I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering Technology before I was 21. Devry has more labs and technical classes for your major, than a traditional school.

Morals of the story:
1. DeVry gets a bad wrap.
2. People from traditional schools have no clue.
3. You will get a good job.
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what job do you have?
 
From what I have seen EET actually implements what the EEs make. The same is my degree. I have a degree in computer technology vs. a degree in Computer Engineering. My class focus was on implementing the technology and understanding how it works. CompE's would actually design the hardware. I have also taken EEt classes and again the focus was implementing products and not actually designing them. So, in the EET classes emphasis was on designing circuit boards and how ICs fit into circuits. EE's may end up doing the same thing after graduation but they mainly focus on the theory and logic on how the ICs work rather than how to implement them.
 
All else equal the EE degree is better than EET.

I had an interview not long ago for an unnamed big ass defense/aerospace company. One of the first questions the interviewer asked was, "do you have a full EE degree? We can't offer EETs"

Can you still get by with an EET degree? Probably, but seriously why would you want to knowingly make things harder for yourself?

 
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