So, yeah, that algebra test Mike was so worried about?

[Peggyann]

He just checked his online grade thing from his professor.


He got 103! every question right, + the bonus question.

:eyes:

:yay:

:notworthy:

:love:

:devil:

~PA~

[mowse]

He just checked his online grade thing from his professor.


He got 103! every question right, + the bonus question.



~PA~

:congrats:

[indigo]

Congratulations! That's a brainy dude you've got there! Taking trig and algebra at the same time, huh?

[Peggyann]

Yes, I personally thought it was an insane thing to do, but he seems to be able to handle it. Next semester is calculus and chemistry :faint:

~PA~


Congratulations! That's a brainy dude you've got there! Taking trig and algebra at the same time, huh?

[lunita]

I thought he had a degree in Engineering already? nt

[Peggyann]

ETA from Mike: There is a difference between engineering and engineering technology. My degree is BSEET, althought I can perform some engineering jobs in the electrical field the scope of what I'm qualifed to do is limited due to the fact that my degree is so specialized. Originally, people with my degree were called "technologists" and our job was to take the engineers calculations, design a prototype, and then refine it into a marketable product. Now, engineers have all of the practical as well as the theoretical studies and do this themselves, and my job has become mostly obsolite, and "technologist" doesn't even mean the same thing anymore. Getting a full EE, will enormously broaden the types of jobs I can do and make me more useful to my company.


He does. He has a BSEET.

His company is sending him for a full BSEE with an emphasis on electromagnetics.

He's been out of school for 8 years, so the Citadel wanted him to take his maths as a refresher course.

All of his humanites/fillercrap transferred, but he has to redo the course work for the EE degree.

~PA~



I thought he had a degree in Engineering already? nt

[Jengirl]

He just checked his online grade thing from his professor.


He got 103! every question right, + the bonus question.

:eyes:

:yay:

:notworthy:

:love:

:devil:

~PA~

xxx

[indigo]

ETA from Mike: There is a difference between engineering and engineering technology. My degree is BSEET, althought I can perform some engineering jobs in the electrical field the scope of what I'm qualifed to do is limited due to the fact that my degree is so specialized. Originally, people with my degree were called "technologists" and our job was to take the engineers calculations, design a prototype, and then refine it into a marketable product. Now, engineers have all of the practical as well as the theoretical studies and do this themselves, and my job has become mostly obsolite, and "technologist" doesn't even mean the same thing anymore. Getting a full EE, will enormously broaden the types of jobs I can do and make me more useful to my company.


He does. He has a BSEET.

His company is sending him for a full BSEE with an emphasis on electromagnetics.

He's been out of school for 8 years, so the Citadel wanted him to take his maths as a refresher course.

All of his humanites/fillercrap transferred, but he has to redo the course work for the EE degree.

~PA~

As well as he's doing in the math, clearly he remembers more than he thought he did from the last take he took them! That must be really nice to find out, because you (well, I) always figure that you've forgotten everything you learned in high school! I'm really glad it's going so well for him. It's a huge confidence burst to realize that you are as smart (or smarter) than you were in your younger years!

[Tutu]

He's a brainiac (or as my kids would say, "a brainy yak")! :yay:

[lunita]

Ah, okay. I didn't realize they had that kind of degree here. In Chile (where dh went to school) they had ingeniero de ejecucion (which is like technologist, I think) which was a 4 year degree and Ingeniero civil (which is an engineer, and a six year degree... and to confuse things more, that word civil doesn't mean what you think it means... an electrical engineer is an ingeniero civil electrico.)

Anyway, I was surprised to see him start the math at algebra and trig, since usually engineering degrees start with Calculus from the first semester. I'm glad he's getting a chance to get the confidence boost. I think I'd need it too if I were heading into upper division engineering courses after a long time away from school (and oddly enough, if I were to try to retake them at my local community college I'd have to go through a petition process to get PERMISSION because I already have credit for calculus, etc.)

[indigo]

Ah, okay. I didn't realize they had that kind of degree here. In Chile (where dh went to school) they had ingeniero de ejecucion (which is like technologist, I think) which was a 4 year degree and Ingeniero civil (which is an engineer, and a six year degree... and to confuse things more, that word civil doesn't mean what you think it means... an electrical engineer is an ingeniero civil electrico.)

Anyway, I was surprised to see him start the math at algebra and trig, since usually engineering degrees start with Calculus from the first semester. I'm glad he's getting a chance to get the confidence boost. I think I'd need it too if I were heading into upper division engineering courses after a long time away from school (and oddly enough, if I were to try to retake them at my local community college I'd have to go through a petition process to get PERMISSION because I already have credit for calculus, etc.)


I'd need those refreshers too, for sure. K is doing algebra this summer on her own. She's just using a textbook (even though I found some really good homeschool algebra resources that would have probably been better.) Even though I love algebra with all my heart I have to admit that I see some of the test problems and think, "Whoa, WTF?" and have to go back to the textbook to see what they're talking about!