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buffaloslobber:
I'm a former navy nuke mechanic.  I'm going to school to get an engineering degree and have stumbled on ODU's engineering technology degree which would cut my college time in about half.  This one is ABET recognized so it can be used to take the PE/EIT exams...my question is how marketable is this thing, because what i'm worried about is always being second to some frat boy with an engineering degree vs ODU's engineering technology degree.  I've learned that when you are trying to find a job the guy who comes in second doesn't get the job.

Rad Sponge:
Relax dude, you're a navy nuke, therefore you are part of the only fraternity that matter.

You will have no problem getting a job with your background.

Also, new engineers out of college are mostly retarded.

Any HR worth his salt will take you, your degree, and your training over a fresh nub from Theory University, any day.

Unless they want to pay the nub less, then so be it.

Stick to your guns and be well.

jgpwest:
It really depends on where you want to go work.  Most jobs that aren't engineering intensive won't care where you went to school.  There are a great number of companies though that only want top of the line engineers, and may or may not give you an interview.  You really have to decide what you want to do.  I looked at the curriculum for ODU, and to be honest, if you tried to take the EIT based on knowledge from the navy, and this curriculum I don't think you would pass.  They are giving you credit for classes that you should take on the college level, and don't even require you to take differential equations.  Just my $ 0.02.

thenuttyneutron:
I used to think that a person with Navy Nuke experience would have an edge in the NLO positions compared to college kids.  I have since changed my mind after seeing the quality of work, qual progress, classroom performance, and error events of the two groups.  The "college kids" from my NLO class are destroying the navy nukes every measurable way.  The college kids have scored the highest in the tests, qualified faster, passed requals in higher percentages, and made far less errors than the Navy Nukes.

I think the main reason for this is the POSS test.  This tests acts like a filter and gets all those "retarded" college kids out of the running.  Navy nukes sometimes seem to have an entitlement attitude that gets in their way.  I also think most college kids resort back to their college habits and study the hell out of stuff they have never seen/had experience with.  I am just calling it the way I see it.

cincinnatinuke:
First off, a degree is a degree in my mind.  I have never seen any job posting read "only degreed individuals from the following universities apply".  It only gets you in the door.  You still gotta interview well.

The engineering technology degrees tend to serve a different crowd.  You dont attend State University with the intention of working all day and taking classes at night to get your engineering technology degree.  Those folks tend to be bright, young folks who go straight to college to get real engineering degrees.  Those technology degrees serve folks like myself and others who are at different points in their respecitve lives.  I do wish I could have enjoyed all that college life had to offer, but I was that guy who worked during the day and took classes at night.

Do what makes sense for your life and dont get caught up in the Navy Nuke vs Academia side debate here.  If it was as one sided as Nutty or JMK make it sound, then I wouldnt have a job and nor would Nutty.  Just know that he and I are proof that it could work either way.

What you failed to mention is what types of jobs are you considering applying for with this or any degree?  I could be giving you false hope when you all you apply for are site VP or GM jobs. 8)

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