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(OP)
Hello folks,

I've been an engineering tech for about one year now. I have been looking inward and realizing that I want to become more involved with engineering. I work in a test lab and I have enjoyed it, but I want more. The work I am doing has been composed of repetitive tasks in the past few months, and I am starving for a creative outlet at work. I was working toward an associate degree when I was hired into this job, and I think I am going to have to continue formal education.

I am thinking of a few paths right now:
-Finish AAS in electromechanical technology
-Finish AAS in mechanical design technology
-Go to community college and get an associates with an emphasis in engineering (this sets me up to finish BSME)

What do you recommend I do and why? I am looking for other perspectives, but my goal is to work with ideas and remain within this same engine manufacturer. I have considered job shadowing




RE: Technician to Engineer

The last one, without a doubt. If you even think you want to be a design engineer, the minimum acceptable degree is usually a BS. Given that life generally becomes messier as you get older -- wife, kids, etc., getting it done now will be infinitely easier than doing something else, and then realizing 10 yrs from now that you should get a BS.

TTFN
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Lots of shop-bound blowhards like to bloviate about "things you can't learn in school". Going to school doesn't stop you from learning those things.

To start with, the BS degree (ABET accredited!) gives you credentials and credibility to get the job you want. Additionally, there's lots of important stuff to learn in class that you won't get from job-shadowing. There's plenty of engineers out there who brag about not using what they learned in school. They're typically on the left end of the bell curve.

RE: Technician to Engineer

Our county 'community college' has become a full 'college', whatever that means, since our son graduated with an associates degree of some kind. ... and went on to get a bachelor's degree in history at the state college, as part of some hybrid scholarship that he was awarded.

(
He went on to become a successful lawyer.
We should have seen it coming; since he could talk,
that kid would rather argue than eat.
)

I was surprised to learn the the CC actually had two career tracks within; the kids who were going on to a four year college took distinct and more difficult courses along the way.

Make sure that you and the CC are on the same wavelength about your plans, but yes, do get the associates degree that leads into a baccalaureate program, whatever they call it.

Do inquire if your employer will provide a little financial help for you; in days of yore, that was pretty much customary; now, nothing is.

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Technician to Engineer

(OP)
I'm really leaning toward the associate degree that leads to engineering degree, but I am curious as to how employable that degree would make me, and for what kind of work. Technician/analyst? I know that I can't be titled as an engineer without a BS at my company.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

What's acceptable and doable at your company might not travel well, i.e., what you get at your company may be completely unavailable at another company for your AAS. I interviewed one rather sad gentleman with an AA degree who wanted an engineering job, and he carried with him a stack of certificates and awards to "demonstrate" his bonafides, but to no avail. Of course, the fact that he had trouble calculating what a 15% increase from his current salary had something to do with it as well. I'd hate to see you regret your decision later on in life and career. You don't really want to be deciding to go for a BS with wife and baby on the way as distractions or workload.

TTFN
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RE: Technician to Engineer

In all likelihood, the associates degree that leads to a BS engineering degree probably won't make you a whole lot more employable than you are now...but it will put you THAT much closer to getting your BS degree, which will make you much more employable, as an engineer. Most companies are going to require a BS degree in engineering to hire you as an engineer. Most of those companies are going to require that your degree be ABET accredited. There are companies here and there, mostly small companies, who will hire you with the associates degree, and they might even give you a title as an engineer...but your mobility to other engineering jobs will be limited.

Definitely check with your company about tuition assistance, many large companies still offer it, as long as it's towards a degree that will benefit the company. But the longer you wait to finish that BS degree, the harder it will get as life moves in other directions. It is very difficult to work full time, study part time and spend time with your family, especially when you start having kids. Good luck.

RE: Technician to Engineer

If you subscribe to Stalin and view education as something that is thrust upon you, then you may as well stay in the technician trenches. You have already failed as an engineer.

If you have an independent mind and take ownership of knowledge as it comes to you, then welcome aboard.

RE: Technician to Engineer

(OP)
"If you subscribe to Stalin and view education as something that is thrust upon you, then you may as well stay in the technician trenches. You have already failed as an engineer.

If you have an independent mind and take ownership of knowledge as it comes to you, then welcome aboard. "

I hate Stalin and socialism in general, that quote is meant to be food for thought regarding formal education establishments rather than a statement for or against education in general. I don't view education as something that is thrust upon me. I view education as something to chase non stop whether or not you are enrolled at a formal education institution. I also think that it is important to recognize the demonstrated potential for abuse, propaganda, and lies to come through the channels under the guise of public education. Formal education without self education and self-reliance turns you into a useful idiot. We don't have high demand for people who know things but cannot think. We have computers with databases for that now.

Back on subject of this thread :)



"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

I went this same route, AS from community college (CC) then to 4 year university. What the CC did for me was my need for smaller classrooms and more help to get me up to speed for the 4 year university. I would make sure that your CC program can transfer to the university. I know there was additional classes in the CC to get a direct transfer of a two year AS to the university that I noticed in my program. ABET and board of regents agreements are helpful to get your AS in good standing with the university.

I always got the feeling that the first two years at a university was a weeding out process versus more helpful teachers at the AS CC level. Also, your balance of studying versus work life is a conflict that is always there. It was more better to me when I had enough saved up and just went back full time for the university degree. Night classes were really challenging due to how far apart each class built on the other, so having to review a class you had maybe a year or so ago was part of the challenge to make it thru those courses.

Good luck!

RE: Technician to Engineer

(OP)
I'd like to talk to my boss and get his input. I'm at a good company and Id like to stay here.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

(OP)
"IRstuff (Aerospace) 15 Jun 16 14:48

My roommate once took a calculus class at the local CC and the instructor gave not only the problems, but also the answers to the final. I'm sure that's not completely common, as my sons have taken CC classes without that sort of shenanigan. "

I took calc at a community college and that is NOT what happened!! Your roommate was lucky as long as he also learned enough to not be deficient.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

At my CC an associate degree did not make you ready for your junior year at the university. The AS degree required courses that were not needed for a BS degree and lacked some that are required. Sit down with your CC advisor and make sure they understand your long term goals so you don't end up wasting time and money.

RE: Technician to Engineer

I'll ditto what others say about making sure what you do at CC aligns with getting your full bachelors if that's even a moderate likelihood.

My son's CC advisor messed him up royally. Not so much that he didn't take all the classes he needed to transfer but they loaded him up with extras he didn't need - he ended up with like 3 AS degrees or something and could have got a 4th with one extra class.

This sounds fine, until you discover that the state system in CA apparently only gives the in state (or something like that) price for enough units to get your bachelors. As he had extra units from CC he'll be paying a higher rate for his last few classes at his university.

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(OP)
That is a good point. I was looking at the course requirements for the AAS with an emphasis in engineering-- It is basically a cookie cutter associates with some extra math. I think one class pertained to engineering. Id be better off taking University transfer credits at a tech college while getting an AAS in something that matters.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

(OP)
I've confirmed that the tech school I was going to has classes that will transfer directly to a state university engineering program. I'd be able to complete calc 1-3 (I already have completed calc 1 and general physics). I already did a lot of my Gen eds such as psychology, English, anthropology etc. Sadly, a lot of my current tech school credits will not transfer to a 4 year program because they are specialized to technician's tasks. Honestly a lot of the stuff I learned in tech school would've been better off as OTJ.

The best plan I can think of right now is in the following sequence:

- Transfer my current credits into an individualized studies program at the tech school
- Take calc 2, calc 3, and any other classes that will transfer to a state university
- Reach the credit level needed to graduate individualized studies AAS program (Goal is to have a degree for the mean time)
- Work toward promotion to analyst
- Go to engineering school part time
- Get as many credits as possible part time
- Go full time when I can securely do so and finish the degree.




"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

You may be better off not graduating. I had to go back for a second bachelors to get my engineering degree, and there was less financial aid available due to the previous degree. I can't guarantee that will be the case with your situation, but it is worth a check with the financial aid department at the state school you are thinking about transferring to.

RE: Technician to Engineer

(OP)
I know what you're saying SPDL310. I'll look into it, but I am probably ineligible for a lot of help regardless. I'm too young to get the "non traditional student" benefits, and my income disqualifies me regardless. My best bet is dipping into savings and having my company help pay for it.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

@Panther140: Did the tech school tell you the classes would transfer or did someone at the state school? I'd only truly trust the answer you get from an advisor at the state school to make sure you don't waste time/money on classes that won't transfer in the end.

RE: Technician to Engineer

(OP)
zwtipp05, there are a few resources I looked through this with. There are transfer agreements between the schools, and they provide a wizard you can use to look up which of the tech school credits will transfer to a given department at the state school.

Then you can look at articulation agreements to find more details on how each class will roll into the general engineering program, and how it changes the process of going into the mechanical engineering program.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

Howdy Panther140,
I was in the same boat at you are now (albeit a few decades ago). At that time I had been working for a few years after receiving a (2-year) diploma of technology. I loved my job, but I knew that if I wanted to make it into a great career, I would need to go back to school and complete an engineering degree. I enrolled in a 2-year university program that was geared to take a technologist, such as myself in, and turn them into an engineer. I handed in my notice at work, and to my surprise, my employer offered a considerable financial incentive as long as I agreed to work for them after obtaining my engineering degree. I took them up on that offer, and have never looked back. It was the best decision I ever made, other than marrying my wife, who I met at university.

If you're young, as I believe you are, now is the time to do it, before marriage, mortgage and kids take over your life (these are nice problems to have).

Education is something that no one can ever take away from you - it's yours for life.

I told my daughter the same; she is now completing a doctorate in nursing.

Good luck to you!

RE: Technician to Engineer

(OP)
Update: After a lot of investigating on which classes transfer to where, and what prereqs I need, I am back in school. I haven't told anybody that I work with, not even my boss. I already paid for it out of my own pocket. I'm going to mention it in my performance review in 3 weeks. I'll ask him if I can get some financial assistance from the company for the rest of it.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

I attended a Maryland CC first in a "Marine Technology" program then in an "EE Technology" program for three semesters. I switched to EE Tech because my ill-informed advisor told me that it was "electrical engineering". Of course it wasn't but I was too naive then to know the difference. When I called the university about transfer credits and sent them a list of course titles and descriptions. They told me that, while a few would transfer as GURs or electives, the technical classes would not transfer for engineering credit.

I learned much too late that I should have signed up for the "Pre-Engineering" program that gives you the first two years of any BS Engineering program at the university. Things may have changed since then but all BS <insert specialty here> Engineering students in the State of Maryland public university system had to complete the same coursework in the first two years. This coursework was fully transferable from any state CC to any state university in the system. The great advantage I had at the CC was that the instructors there were EDUCATORS not RESEARCHERS. I learned the material much better because the instructors were better and I was deficient in some areas. At the university the attitude of some of the professors, at least in the junior year, was "sink or swim" and "I'll throw everything at you to weed you out of the curriculum". Some were callous about it too because it appeared that they resented having to "teach" classes rather than devote their full efforts to their research. Some of these guys were really crappy teachers.

On another subject, if you like to work with your hands while improving your chances of landing an engineering job, you can always get a BSMET or, say, a BSEET. Some companies will hire your as an engineer, if not as a new grad, but maybe later after you've spent some time in an engineering environment doing low-level engineering work. Some of the best EEs I've ever worked with gained years of experience as technicians before earning their BBEET's or BSEEs. My boss at one job held a BSMET and was a really sharp design engineer!

Good luck in your endeavors regardless of which path you choose!

Bruce




Tunalover

RE: Technician to Engineer

(OP)
Thank you! My only intent is to get a BSME. I know that I won't be satisfied without that.

And yes, you're right to draw attention to advisement. Some advisors are effectively racketeers. You need to know exactly what you are getting into before you even go to a school. Your advisor doesn't care about you as much as you care about yourself, they do not bear the consequences if a wrong decision is made, and there is almost nothing holding them accountable. Most of them are good and want to help, but I'll never enroll in a course without certainty that it will provide what I need.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

I did somewhat similar, tuna... attended the local CC before transferring to U of F. All of my basic classes were done (well, sort of... still had to take a couple of boring history classes and such), and the vast majority of my work was in core classes. Saved me a lot of grief in the long run.

Dan - Owner
http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com

RE: Technician to Engineer

I hope your current employer sees that getting a BS degree adds value. There has been a few threads in the past of techs getting a BS in engineering and complaining that their employer still sees them just as a tech. Sort of like why Jesus couldn't produce miracles in Nazareth because there he was just the son of a carpenter.

RE: Technician to Engineer

(OP)
HamburgerHelper, I hope they feel that way about it. I do fear them holding me into my role. I sense disdain from certain engineers closer to my age. The fresh-out-of school engineers will refuse to believe anything that I say unless it is echoed by a superior of theirs. It is frustrating to be adamantly disbelieved regardless of how objectively correct my idea/observation is. Unless there is a far more experienced engineer in the room who will listen to me objectively, they look at me like I am bat-shit crazy. There isn't even dialogue. There is just the risk-aversive instinct to not believe anything that comes from somebody who doesn't have their pedigree documented as a degree. There are a few subject areas that I have advanced abilities within. I have a job concerned with those subject areas. I don't speak outside of those subject areas unless I am on this forum :p

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

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Quote (Panther140)

The fresh-out-of school engineers will refuse to believe anything that I say unless it is echoed by a superior of theirs.
Sounds like anything I tell my wife.. if her dad doesn't repeat it, I must not know what I'm talking about. Of course, once he says it, then the idea obviously came from him, not me.

Word to the wise... ignorance knows no bounds.

Dan - Owner
http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com

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(OP)
MacGyver that is annoying! I'm sure if you use logical appeals and abstract reasoning, she will aptly be persuaded.

lol

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

Nowadays it usually involves looks of confused disgust, throwing my hands in the air, and leaving the room.

Dan - Owner
http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com

RE: Technician to Engineer

I think you should pursue the ABET accredited degree in the most direct route possible; I do not think the associates degree alone is enough anymore to be in a role with the "engineer" title. Do you know that once you have your BS, you have the opportunity to move into/interview for an engineering role? You may find that your company doesn't have the need/money for another engineer so you may stay working as a tech, but that's between you and your employeer.

I wish you the best of luck!

RE: Technician to Engineer

(OP)
Jari I agree. The associate degree idea was there because I already have 75% of an associate degree.. I am focusing on the BS right now. I hope my employer sees the value in it. I am certain that I can get a co-op/Internship of my choice at this company. If I can't get that there, I've had job offers from the competition and its a closer drive.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

If you go for a Co-op or internship at your current employer, won't you be taking a pay cut and forfeiting your current technician position? I assumed you were going to school part time and still working full time; are you going to to school full time now?

It's good to hear you have some other options already open for you. I think you should go for an internship in a different area if mechanical engineering if you can, it might be fun!

RE: Technician to Engineer

(OP)
Jari001 those are good points. If the Co-ops are making what I think they're making at this company, I won't be taking a very big pay cut! And yeah I might have to leave my technician position at some point, but I plan to go to school full time for the last year (at least) of the degree. I'll probably need to be laser concentrated for some of those classes.

My current plan is to finish all of the prerequisites (calc 1-3, physics, etc) that I can before going into the program full time. I may have to do a certain amount of those pre-engineering classes at the university campus that I want to attend, but I have other bridges to cross before I get to that point.

It would be cool to check out a different area of mechanical engineering. My heart is in engines and it always has been. First and foremost, I am an engines guy. That will always be my biggest credential :) I've learned a little about engineering through engines and working in the lab and I could do a lot with the knowledge and credentials of an engineer.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

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(OP)
I'm revisiting some of the content from classes I've taken in the past and doing my best to re-master it. Does anybody know of a good way to relate calculus to engineering? I'm looking for a source that can help me thoroughly understand the math and not just "know" how to do it based on memorizing instructions.

This is not homework help at this point. I don't have class for another month yet. This is me wanting a source that can help me to look at equations as representations of concepts and ideas. I couldn't make real sense of calculus until I took physics, if that helps you understand my learning style. I limped through algebra by memorizing directions on how to solve equations and never got to take the time to understand what the equations were actually doing. My secret weapon will be understanding what the equations actually do, and being able to figure that out without relying 100% on having a good teacher.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

(OP)
Again, I am not asking for homework help. I am asking for a source that can help in viewing these concepts as they relate to physics/engineering.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

The best book (and prof) I ever had in regards to this is Calculus for Engineers by Donald Trim.

I know you mechies and electrical guys use calculus way more than we structurals. I've promptly forgot most of what I knew then.

RE: Technician to Engineer

I'm not sure that either do THAT much calculus-wise. Nevertheless, any source that has calculus and engineer in the same breath is probably a good start.

That said, however, with the advent of computers, calculus is not typicall something that has to be crunched, as there are mounds of numerical tools like FEA for doing that work. That's particularly true as the complexity of the design increase over time. I doubt that many "thoroughly" understand all the math they use; it's neither necessary nor useful, unless you're doing fundamental mechanics, because most of what people design are derived from existing designs or concepts.

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(OP)
Thank you Jayrod and IRstuff.

I realize that I won't be breaking out those equations on a regular basis. I'm going to look into that book. Another way to look at the question I'm asking is along the lines of "I want to know what question that each equation answers. The equation is not a question in itself, to me. The equation itself is not the problem. It is a part of the process in finding the solution to the problem. If that is handled by a program, then I want to understand the equation like the writers of the program.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

Well, from that perspective, you may be SOL, simply because no single book is likely to cover every possibly useful equation that you might need or come across. And, when doing calculus, you need to kiss a bunch of frogs (unrelated equations) until you get to those gems, simply because you need to be able to crawl before you walk, and walk before you run. You're not going to start with, say, a Kalman smoother/predictor equation without spending a fair bit time doing things that lead up to that, just as you would not expect to solve trig problems without going through the basics.

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(OP)
I understand what you're saying, somewhat. I know that those light-bulb moments come from hard-fought battles. I just want to have more than one way of getting to them.

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

I was simply pointing out that not every equation that you have to learn along the way to the equations you're actually interested in will be solutions to specific problems of interest. We spend a lot of time learning trig identities, but they're not always solutions of problems in of themselves.

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"I want to know what question does each equation answer"

Practically speaking, the equations are the relationships between physical properties. From this view point, the question that an equation can provoke is how are the variables within this equation related? For me, this question is the gateway to thinking about the physcial phenomenon that is taking place.

Math is the language in which scientists/engineers describe reality(phenomena), so for me engineering equations describe some physical truth and I need to have a handle on that physical truth for the math to make sense. If you are focusing specifically on how calculus applies to engineering, then I would say this: Calculus is the study of change and a method on how to describe it. Therefore, engineers use calculus to describe how the variable of interest changes w.r.t. the manipulated variable.

The basics of calculus are the tools needed to perform the analyses that form the language and create dialouge. If your desire is to understand the development of these calculus concepts, then the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and a mathematician are the prescription.

I hope I said something of value to you in this post LOLbigsmile

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(OP)

Quote (jari001)


Practically speaking, the equations are the relationships between physical properties. From this view point, the question that an equation can provoke is how are the variables within this equation related? For me, this question is the gateway to thinking about the physcial phenomenon that is taking place.

Math is the language in which scientists/engineers describe reality(phenomena), so for me engineering equations describe some physical truth and I need to have a handle on that physical truth for the math to make sense. If you are focusing specifically on how calculus applies to engineering, then I would say this: Calculus is the study of change and a method on how to describe it. Therefore, engineers use calculus to describe how the variable of interest changes w.r.t. the manipulated variable.

The basics of calculus are the tools needed to perform the analyses that form the language and create dialouge. If your desire is to understand the development of these calculus concepts, then the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and a mathematician are the prescription.

I hope I said something of value to you in this post LOLbigsmile

Yes I found that helpful. The idea that I bolded shows me that we have similar habits of the mind. I will research the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and try to take something valuable from what I can learn on the pursuit. I am not close to any mathematicians right now, but that suggestion makes me think about reconnecting with an old friend who is one. Thank you!

"Formal education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin

RE: Technician to Engineer

Mathematics only belongs in one place: Hell itself.

RE: Technician to Engineer

There are some online sources for engineering-related calculus:


http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-075-adva...
http://civile.utcb.ro/cmat/cursrt/ma1e.pdf
https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/TheCalculu...

The last site: https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en contains other books that are no longer under copyright, presumably.

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