COSC Engineering Studies

[Owen]

Has anyone here done the enginerring studies concentration with COSC? If so, how was your experience and how have you applied it. Thanks, I love this forum.

[UptonSinclair]

I am an Excelsior student, but I am an electrician and looked into various engineering technology programs. If you are considering anything engineering related, you should look for a program that is ABET accredited. Otherwise it might as well be liberal arts.

Just to be clear, I am a liberal arts student.

[Owen]

Thanks for the response. My plan is to go through the engineering studies route( though I understand it's not an engineering degree), apply to grad schools for an MSEE(found some schools that will take non-engineering majors), by taking the bridge courses which I already have(but i'm willing to take them again). I do have 3yrs of electrical engineering classes; I have applied to 2 ABET accredited schools and got accepted(UND and Stony Brook University), but I can't do either of them because Stony Brook is to expensive and UND requires you to come to the main campus for your lab plus the price. I figured with a good GRE score, good recommendations( I work with a bunch of Phd holders in the field from Stanford and MIT), and getting good GPA from the bridge courses will boost my application.

[sanantone]

The bonus is that Excelsior is ABET accredited and has a few degrees in engineering technology where they actually offer the courses you need. COSC does not offer the required engineering courses, so you'd have to find them elsewhere if you don't have them already. TESC has ABET accreditation, but it's only for nuclear energy engineering technology.

[dposborne]

I have applied to 2 ABET accredited schools and got accepted(UND and Stony Brook University), but I can't do either of them because Stony Brook is to expensive and UND requires you to come to the main campus for your lab plus the price.

ASU might be a good option, I don't think you have to go to the campus to do their labs for their BSEE. Not sure how their tuition compares to the other schools you looked at.

Also I believe the BS in Electronics Engineering Technology at TESC is due to be ABET accredited soon. I fellow student in my CALC II class was going for this degree and he was explaining how he was in the pilot program for accreditation. The BS EET Capstone is certainly laid out almost exactly as it was for my BS NEET and isn't the standard "Current Trends and Applications" course the other majors have...