Engineer Survey: Engineering Vs Engineering Technology

[Steve Shade]

I just graduated form the University of Maryland at College Park (GO TERPS!) last spring with my bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. UMD does not offer and Electrical Engineering Technology program. At my company, we have over 85% Electrical Engineering type people. The people with engineering degrees do more design work than those with Technology degrees.

I also chose an engineering program because of my love for math. Like Chris, I use higher math on a daily basis (advanced calculus and linear algebra) and I also use a significant amount of EM theory beyond the intro physics classes. Most of EE is very math intensive and the combination of systems theory and EM is one of the things I didn't really see until I was out in the real world.

I love my job developing computer models, so it was well worth struggling through the math specifically in the EM classes to have this opportunity. Your choice really depends on what you want to do with your future.