Has anyone done the Online Engineering degree program. I currently have a degree in Business Management but wondered if I could apply some of those credits to getting a degree in engineering. I would only be able to do the online version due to work.

4/9/2006 4:25:00 PM

Somebody has got to have done this.

4/10/2006 7:29:32 PM

Currently, the only degree you can get through engineering online is a Masters, which would require at least some undergraduate math and engineering on campus before you could do it. They also offer some undergraduate classes, but those are through the satellite campuses such as UNCW and UNCA and not a true online program. There is no way to do a full bachelors degree online, but if you talk to the right people and pull some strings with the engineering transfer program people, it is technically possible to complete the first 2 years of a 4 year engineering degree without coming to campus. That's all I know about it. Sorry I can't be more of a help.

4/10/2006 10:22:15 PM

I've been eyeballing it for awhile but can't report any personal experiences. I'd consider going for it if I wasn't out of state at this point. Lectures are recorded in realplayer and are about 200MB in size. Bout all I know.

If you poke around the NCSU enough, you can download entire semesters worth of graduate course lectures. You need a unity login to get them though ... this may not be possible anymore ... was this past December. Doesn't do you much good to have the course lectures without the formal course credit, but if you are self-motivated to learn, might be something to look into.

4/11/2006 6:51:29 AM

an on line undergraduate degree in engineering may be available in the next academic year. Its coming folks. Contact person: Linda Krute.

4/11/2006 8:03:36 AM

I know that ECU has a Construction Management degree and I would really like to see NCSU have that option avalible.

4/11/2006 7:26:42 PM

Hello folks- just checked with the big cheeses in Engineering and the online program is not going to be a general four year engineering degree online available to all undergraduates. It is really more of a special program for folks at a naval/air base down east based on their needs. Sorry about that.

4/12/2006 4:11:32 PM

^^Why would you possibly need a degree in that?

4/12/2006 4:54:14 PM

^^^ Uhh theres Construction Engineering and Management CEM

4/12/2006 5:16:16 PM

the construction management at ECU doesn't have the engineering part, i don't believe.

i think that's what he is talking about

4/13/2006 4:42:24 PM

^ correct. ECU's isn't an engineering degree, its a management degree. They don't take any real engineering courses like we do here. Ours is actually one of the few construction degrees that's offered as engineering, i think.

^^^ Why? Try running a construction company that builds skyscrapers and tell me you don't need a college degree. "Why would you possibly need a degree" in parks n rec?

4/13/2006 5:50:19 PM

^I hear ya brother.

I have a dergee in Bus. Mangement and am interested in getting a job as a construction manager for a home builder. I am led to belive that most home builders do not do very much on site engineering, it's basically an assembly line kind of environment. All of the engineering is subcontracted to the sometimes higher paid smarter NCSU Eng. Grads. Anyway I think that NCSU should come out with a Construction Management Cocentration in the College of Management. I would go back and start this summer if it were offered.

4/13/2006 9:03:53 PM

^ you are dead on. i have family in the industry and have met a ton of people with that degree and companies where that degree is what they normally hire instead of the engineering version.

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"Ours is actually one of the few construction degrees that's offered as engineering, i think."

yup. pretty much all of the people i've talked to that got a construction management degree didn't get it as an engineering degree.

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"Why would you possibly need a degree in that?"

like the guy above me said, home and commercial builders farm out their engineering. that includes all of their site, structural, mechanical, hvac, etc. engineering and architecture. once the planning, pre-construction (this is done by the construction manager along with the architect and the rest), and engineering is done the construction management takes over. they hire and coordinate the trades, make the schedules, deal with the owner, and basically provide all of the management needed to get the project done.

the only difference is if you work for a design builder who does all of those things in house. other construction companies offer what is called design services, which means the owner contacts them and they hire the architect and engineers. and then theres companies that fit anywhere in between.

short answer is that architects design the building, engineers help with the design and do their engineering thing, the trades do the physical work, and the construction managers manage all of that.

[Edited on April 14, 2006 at 3:17 AM. Reason : added a shitton of wordage]

4/14/2006 2:57:40 AM

The advantage of getting it in the Engineering Department is so that you can eventually obtain PE status. Without the engineering background, it would be almost impossible to take and pass the tests to achieve this. Some companies actually want people that are PE certified to run thier management side

4/14/2006 4:46:17 PM