as someone with an engineering degree, yes, it is worth getting - IF you want to do engineering and want to live in an area where the kind of engineering you want to do is done.
Otherwise, you gotta be real careful now deciding if college is really worth it especially with so many good opportunities in trades that don't require any college at all.
I was lucky back in 1970 to have the UK government pay my university fees (and I didn't have tp pay them back). My course was Electronic Engineering but they taught me many other subjects including how a car engine works and economics! Now, 52 years later, I'm fucking brilliant - I know absolutely everything - and I'm modest, too! ;)
what's nice about engineering is you have to learn how to learn because there are some complicated things you have to learn to get a degree. The things you learn in school can become outdated or useless but since you also learn how to learn you'll always be an engineer, solving problems and figuring out new things, thinking logically and recognizing patterns.
lol yeah I'm an ME and have a long resume, I've done mostly design of some sort in various industries but a lot of machine design lately, because - naturally - there's a lot of that around here.
Manufacturing (as in Manufacturing Engineer) and quality just seem so .... boring, but a mechanical degree applies to so many fields you can do a LOT of different things.
as someone with an engineering degree, yes, it is worth getting - IF you want to do engineering and want to live in an area where the kind of engineering you want to do is done.
Otherwise, you gotta be real careful now deciding if college is really worth it especially with so many good opportunities in trades that don't require any college at all.
I was lucky back in 1970 to have the UK government pay my university fees (and I didn't have tp pay them back). My course was Electronic Engineering but they taught me many other subjects including how a car engine works and economics! Now, 52 years later, I'm fucking brilliant - I know absolutely everything - and I'm modest, too! ;)
what's nice about engineering is you have to learn how to learn because there are some complicated things you have to learn to get a degree. The things you learn in school can become outdated or useless but since you also learn how to learn you'll always be an engineer, solving problems and figuring out new things, thinking logically and recognizing patterns.
lol yeah I'm an ME and have a long resume, I've done mostly design of some sort in various industries but a lot of machine design lately, because - naturally - there's a lot of that around here.
Manufacturing (as in Manufacturing Engineer) and quality just seem so .... boring, but a mechanical degree applies to so many fields you can do a LOT of different things.