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Re: MA in English or engineering classes?

Subject: Re: MA in English or engineering classes?
From: "John Fleming" <johntwrl -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 02:03:43 +0000


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 13:56:29 -0400, in bit.listserv.techwr-l Christie wrote:

[snip]

$Does anyone have an opinion or suggestion on which option (MA in English or
$Associates in engineering) would be more beneficial? Any input is
$appreciated!!

I kind of went the other way.

I started out with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, and followed that with an Arts degree (Economics major/ English minor).

Even in the tech writing field, my engineering background has proven to be invaluable. The more I think about it, the more I realize how engineering has shaped the way I think about technology and about the world around me.

On the more practical side, that education combination, plus some directly related experience working for a utility company, helped me land one really nice contract with a company that does utility billing.

To toss out my $0.02 on picking up an associates in Engineering as a follow up to your English degree, think carefully about the kinds of companies and the industries you would like to work in. And if you decide to go the associates route, pick an engineering discipline that will be most useful in those industries and companies.

Engineering is a very broad field. Civil engineers do work that is very different from electrical engineers, and both do work that is very different from mechanical engineers.

Even within electrical engineering, there is a lot of breadth--from telecommunications to lasers to microwaves to electromagnetics to electrical machinery to computer hardware to biomedical engineering, and even a bit of nanotech.

Engineering is a challenging field, but very rewarding.

Oh, and if you are going to study engineering, it helps to be very, very good at math.

--
John Fleming
Technical Writer and SAS Programmer
Edmonton, Canada

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