What to Expect in an Online Engineering Degree Program

[MNomadic]

I've been pondering this for a few hours. I get that nursing should be hands-on. You have to deal with people, sick people, on a regular basis. You need a practicum to ensure that you can actually do the job. Fair enough. But what about engineering requires you to be hands on? Isn't most of it computer-aided these days? What's the difference between staring at the computer from home and staring at the computer while in a classroom? Biomedical engineering is the only "engineering" I can think of where you should be in the classroom for most of your major. You need access to things like centrifuges and so on. It'd be kind of impractical to try to set up a DNA lab in your own living room!

"Engineering" is such a broad term now anyways. Sure, lots of projects require a hands-on component but for a software engineer, that means hands-on-the-keyboard, which of course can be done anywhere.