Engineering Technologies?

[MikalCarbine257]

Hello, I am curerntly a highschool senior in search of my major. I want to go into Computer or Electrical engineering (I'm still not sure, this sort of helped) but while doing college research I came across "Engineering Technologies" for a major. What is the difference between this and Engineering?

 

[CycloWizard]

I'm not extremely familiar with the various technology programs, but I think it's fair to say that getting a technology degree, you will generally learn how things work. Getting an engineering degree, you will learn more why things work. In other words, engineering tech is more practical, less theoretical.

More concretely, my friends that have switched to tech usually do so because they say it's way easier. Generally, they have less math and science courses and different engineering courses (less theory, more practical). I'm not sure what the pay differences are, though I speculate the techies get paid slightly less.

 

[dmw16]

Go into engineering - dont wimp out and do the tech side.

 

[MikalCarbine257]

Originally posted by: dmw16
dont wimp out and do the tech side.

I wasn't planning on it 😉

 

[santaliqueur]

Originally posted by: dmw16
Go into engineering - dont wimp out and do the tech side.

CJ

 

[onix]

Originally posted by: dmw16
Go into engineering - dont wimp out and do the tech side.

Agreed - you won't get repect from the engineers, and if you want a loosy-goosy know-everything tech degree, go physics.

Note that computer engineering (computer architecture, logic gates, digital electronics, automata) is very different from electrical engineering (signal processing, semiconductor physics, analog electronics), but there is some overlap.