online aerospace engineering degrees

scramjet

scramjet

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I'm going to be transferring out of my current college in a year or so and I was wondering, does anyone know of any legitimate online aerospace engineering degrees? As a current distance learner, I greatly prefer distance learning, especially with something that I will have to concentrate alot on.
If this is the wrong forum, pls move. Apparently I posted my last topic in the wrong forum.
 
I don't think you can do aerospace engineering online due to the lab requirements. However you can do a BSc in Prof. Aeronautics at ERAU.
 
S.T.Aviator said:
I don't think you can do aerospace engineering online due to the lab requirements. However you can do a BSc in Prof. Aeronautics at ERAU.
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True, I'm truly hard pressed to identify any online bachelor programs in engineering. I'm working on my Master's now, and even engineering management universities are few and far between.
 
I cannot speak as to whether or not there are online degrees. (however I know there are online courses at Purdue and I have a friend getting his masters in aero online through Georgia Tech)

However, as an Aeronautical Engineering graduate I will say good luck. It was difficult enough while having the help of other students, T.A.'s, and teachers face to face. I can't imagine not having that kind of help. But more power to ya!
 
Unless you've got a wind tunnel at the apartment for the lab work! :)

I don't know if I'd feel comfortable flying a jet designed by a workgroup of AE engineers who got their degrees thru distance learning!
 
Absolutely not !


I'm about to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering... Aerospace Engineering.

I'm at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. We have state of the art wind tunnels and labs to conduct experiments and do model work.

Now that I'm finishing up my last year (4th year), I can confidently say there is no way you can get an aerospace engineering degree online.

Please do *not* confuse Aerospace engineering with aerospace sciences, aviation sciences, etc.

Those degrees are the types you get if you go to ERAU and go through the full flight training program, 0 time to Comm/Inst/ME/CFI by the end of your 4th year.

Honestly, I hate to put down anyone with an aviation science degree, but it's not worth it. Get a degree in something else.

An engineering degree is one of the few "professional" 4 year degrees. That's the real deal. You take the Enigneering in Training exam, and then if you choose to work as an engineer for about four years, you're eligible to get the Professional Engineer license.

That's my biggest pet peeve about degrees... too many people just group aerospace engineering as the 'equivalent' to aviation science or aerospace sciences.

Do you have to take Calc 1, 2, 3, Diff Eqs, Non Linear Controls, propulsion engineering, among MANY other courses for an aviation science degree?
No.
There are tons of math and physics classes you have to take. There is a lot of work dedicated in wind tunnels and other lab settings.

Aerospace engineers are not limited to Boeing or Lockheed Martin or the likes. Many go to the automotive industry, and many work as mechanical engineers.

My view is that an engineering degree will be a great back up for me in case flying doesn't work out (lose medical, etc).


I honestly don't think you'll find any ABET accredited engineering degrees that are solely done online.


If you have any questions about aerospace engineering, feel free to ask me!
 
I'm an engineering major and was in the lab for 4 hours this morning. No way in heck you'd be able to do it through a distance learning program unless you're a some kind of super genius or something.
 
I'm stuck between Engineering and Computer Science right now as far as choosing a major, I am just exploring my options right now. Like I said, I really like distance learning, I feel the more relaxed environment is in part responsible for my overall GPA of 4.0 . I should have figured about the lab part for engineering, lol.
 
An online engineering degree? What a joke. There's no way to get a real engineering education via the internet. Go to a real school and get a real degree.
 
There's a website there that if you pay a certain amount, they'll give you a diploma. You get an automatic 3.0 GPA and it's a little more the higher you go. You can choose any major as well. They say you need experience and you need to send them a list of previous jobs to see if you qualify.
 
All right, no need to be sarcastic, lol.:insane: I should have thought it through before posting. The reason I was curious was i saw accredited masters degrees in aerospace engineering online so I wondered if there were any undergraduate ones.
 
You can't get a Aero Engineering degree online, you need way too much lab time to actually qualify for your senior project which eventually leads to your graduation with a BS.
I am a fourh year Aero Engineering major at California State University of Northridge (I am pretty sure you can guess that from my screen name!), I just finished the minimum years of lab requirments to go ahead and work on my Senior project next semester.
We are currently designing a Fish hook for the disabled that is activated by blows of air into the system, a project with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
If you have any questions feel free to PM, I'll do my best to answer your questions completely.

Armen
 
"I'm stuck between Engineering and Computer Science right now as far as choosing a major"

The engineering degree will be worth A LOT more.
 
It seems to me that the majority of engineering students are foreign. Are these students graduating here, then going back to their countries and working there, or are they working for the companies here? ( I know it depends on the person, I'm asking about the majority.)
 
BCTAv8r said:
It seems to me that the majority of engineering students are foreign. Are these students graduating here, then going back to their countries and working there, or are they working for the companies here? ( I know it depends on the person, I'm asking about the majority.)
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Majority go back to their country to work.
 
BCTAv8r said:
It seems to me that the majority of engineering students are foreign. Are these students graduating here, then going back to their countries and working there, or are they working for the companies here? ( I know it depends on the person, I'm asking about the majority.)
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Engineering students that are U.S. citizens are becoming rarer and rarer from what I hear. A significant percentage of engineering majors are foreign. I guess people in the US don't want to expend the effort. The US had better watch it, most of the innovative engineers will be India or China in a few years...
 
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