Engineer Survey: Engineering Vs Engineering Technology

[JesseK]

I graduated in '05 with a Electrical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech (go Yellow Jackets!). We had a very mean joke about the difference between Engineering and Engineering Technology degrees (a scantron) but that's simply because the Engineering Technology students we saw at the university next door got to goof off while we pulled all-nighters on some project or another. My real point here is that while there is a difference in the degrees, there are also differences in the universities that teach the degrees.

There are some hands-on skills that EET's have that I had to learn on-the-fly, like proper soldering, large circuit digram analysis, environmental factors, etc. Yet these days there's a plethora of resources for that type of stuff if one's up for it --like YouTube and cheap books from Amazon.