Does anyone on Veeky Forums have any experience with 2 year engineering degrees? I am interested in opinions...

engineering is double tough.
I couldn't make it, not many can. It's a lot of work.

Assuming you're an engineer, what is the job like? What is the day to day work? Would you say it's somehing worth studying?

well the 2yr is quicker & only requires trig so I dunno

He's not an engineer, the pajeet meme shows it

> ladder diagrams

Kek dude, if you can't program in a real PLC language like SCL most companies won't hire you if they use PLC's.
I've just done an internship at a large company where I had to research the PLC program of a welding factory.
The base structure was divided in FBD (something like ladder) but all the real logic was in SCL (Pascal based language).

You don't need a degree to learn how to program a PLC.

I'm not saying that, I'm just saying you need a little bit more than only ladder knowledge for most EE jobs that are related to PLCs.

The degree only shows what your capable of, if you have a good portfolio/experience and no degree companies will probably still hire you anyway.

In my experience pay is higher if you have more/higher degrees though.

This is what I was trying to figure out, where the opportunities are in terms of engineering technician vs engineer.

I don't know any industrial maintenance people who have a BS in engineering, or even an AAS. Most just got trained internally

The fuck? Industrial maintenance workers are tradesmen, the community college engineering tech diplomas are something different altogether. Engineering tech is a white collar job, think middle management. They do the same kind of shit as engineers, the difference is that they cant work independently because anything they do needs, by law, to be signed off on by a university-educated engineer. The position is less prestigious and arguably more dead-end, but it's still a good job and it's in demand. I'm a big fan of engineering tech desu, in our economy right now I think it's a more sensible choice than university, there's just not that much room at the top for people of our generation and too many engineering degrees are being wasted.

Basically you will be spending 8 hours a day in the office doing design work, which the university-educated engineer will have to sign off on sometime between his golf games.

2 year engineering degrees effectively do not exist. You're either an engineer, which requires a 4 year degree, or you aren't.

This CC has a partnership with a lot of plants to funnel them into maintenance. Seems like you can do the trade aspect with it, or "supposedly" do design work, but I haven't heard of anyone doing anything besides the trade with it.

No shit sherlock, it's called an "engineering technician"

Do you actually have anything worthwhile to contribute to the thread?

Avoid community colleges unless you just want fasfa or transfer after 1 year

2nd year almost never transfers

This guy is a retard

I only finished a 2yr engineering degree and I am the Director of Engineering for a large (800+ employee) company. I was an R&D Engineer for 10 years leading up to that point. I have PEs reporting to me.

Education does not make the individual...

So since you're a big shot can you give me some advice?

Are you American?

I am American.

I was raised by a family who worked hard and had little. I started working when I was 14, paid my own way for everything at that point (rent, food, transportation, etc). Never had anything handed to me. I paid my own way through college while working 40-50hrs a week.

I developed a strong work ethic and spent the majority of my free time learning on my own. While all of my co-workers and colleagues were out drinking, I was at home studying and practicing skills.

Invest in yourself. Education is a scam. You learn 99% of what you need on the job.

what do you think of this bs meme degree

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