What is a better degree to have. electrical engineering or electrical engineering technology?

[the bossman]

this is bad info to give out man.

so a breh pursuing a civil engineering degree should just do the bare minimum in and not pay attention during load bearing, weight distribution etc?

EEs shouldnt take class serious? so they dont need to know how to transfer electricity and stuff?

When you put it that way he should probably just stick to the traditional EE degree

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

the fact you an engineer or aspiring to be one

 

[DLaren]

The 'Electrical Engineering' (EE) degree is the better one of the two...and I say that as someone who graduated with a degree in 'Electrical Engineering Technology' back in 2002.

With a 'Electrical Engineering Technology' degree (2-year) you'll qualify for almost any Technician position in the country; but if you want to be an Engineer, most companies require you to have an 'Electrical Engineering' degree (4-year).

I can't speak for every industry or company, but in the industry I work for (Aerospace), Engineers make on average $20,000 more than Technicians (Techs start at ~55K, Engineers start at ~75K).

 

[KOohbt]

CS

They all good tho

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Pay won’t be that drastic in difference I’d imagine, but if you’re trying to skip all the extra calculus and difficult EE courses, go EET.

Had a buddy at one of my former jobs that couldn’t stand engineering tech majors. Used to call em fake engineers lol

 

[Mastamimd]

Yeah you're better off going for the EE degree because your ceiling is much higher. I do know someone that got a job with Accenture with an EET degree but our career services is beastly. I need to put my ME degree to use

 

[The Solid One]

Over here technician 2, technologist 3, engineer 4

Ontario, Canada

Where you located?

NYC

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Double major. I have an ee degree wish I combined that With cs

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Computer engineering

Yep, if I could do it all over I wouldn't have done mechanical engineering at all

IME it was 90% project administration and 10% spreadsheets. I have more fun and make more money in finance. I'm certain I'd make more money and have more fun in pure IT.

 

[mamba]

Do EE.

Armed with a solid GPA and internship experience, you will eat as a Black male in engineering.

 

[BaldingSoHard]

idk, but most the EEs and other engineers including Mech, Chem etc at my school ended up pursuing pure software jobs anyway and a lot wish they just did CS.

This is me. But it is cool to tell people that I have an engineering degree.

 

[Food Mane]

Engineering deals with more theory. Technology deals with the engineering in action. The former is academic where's the ladder is making it more Hands-On.

If you know how to market yourself, using the technology degree, you can explain on your curriculum vitae that you were not only learning the engineering, you were engaged in it physically giving you a bit more leverage and experience.

 

[Waldo Geraldo Faldo]

None of that shyt matters. Don't focus so much on the type of degree if you're going that route. Just focus on getting in demand skill sets. Coding, power systems, telecommunications/networks, etc.

This.
Whatever gets your foot in the door. From there it is all on you how far you can go.

 

[The Solid One]

Do majority of people who graduated with a computer engineering degree, ends up doing software computers.

Why not just get a computer science degree

 

[Givethanks]

@The Solid One did you ever end up taking the program? I finished a 3 year EET, looking back I should've done the 4 year EE, because it was just another year or done the computer Engineering Technology program, because currently I'm working with a lot of computers (geospatial data and Geographic Information Systems).