An Engineering Technology degree is usually for people who probably won’t go further with their education, i.e. get an associate only and not go on to a bachelors or masters. Engineering Technology tends to be more hands on. For example at Arizona State University the Mechanical Engineering Technology degree has three courses that are different than the Mechanical Engineering degree. In MET you don’t take Differential Equations and Calculus III, but you take an additional materials course and two machine shop courses. So for the most part, they’re the same, but how the information is taught. There’s also a bias in the industry and in higher education against Engineering Technology degrees. A lot of people feel that some one with a MET degree is not as good at engineering then someone with a ME degree. So you might not earn as much money or get a prestigous job.
Also at the community college level, if you think that you might transfer to a four year college, don’t take engineering technolgy or any degree with the word technology at the end of it. It won’t transfer and you’ll have to repeat those two years with different classes, but with the same information.
because it consists of one more word with technology and that is engienering.
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An Engineering Technology degree is usually for people who probably won’t go further with their education, i.e. get an associate only and not go on to a bachelors or masters. Engineering Technology tends to be more hands on. For example at Arizona State University the Mechanical Engineering Technology degree has three courses that are different than the Mechanical Engineering degree. In MET you don’t take Differential Equations and Calculus III, but you take an additional materials course and two machine shop courses. So for the most part, they’re the same, but how the information is taught. There’s also a bias in the industry and in higher education against Engineering Technology degrees. A lot of people feel that some one with a MET degree is not as good at engineering then someone with a ME degree. So you might not earn as much money or get a prestigous job.
Also at the community college level, if you think that you might transfer to a four year college, don’t take engineering technolgy or any degree with the word technology at the end of it. It won’t transfer and you’ll have to repeat those two years with different classes, but with the same information.
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