Recent content by caldweab

You can do renewable energy with a mechanical engineering background.

That is an almost certain way to set yourself up for disappointment. Never gage how well or poorly you will do based on the success or failure of others. Just because you haven't seen anyone make less than 80K doesn't mean there aren't people that make less than that or not employed at all...

Is America out?

I doubt they would frown upon it. I mean I know electrical engineers that have a masters in nuclear engineering and work at power plants. I really don't think they care as long as you've covered courses in subjects they are asking. I know the government list courses they look for in evaluating...

The only problem is you may have to take some courses to bring you up to speed. Remember Nuclear Engineering is closely related to mechanical engineering and so is aerospace engineering. Just take a look at the curriculums, I'm a NE major and I've had 24 credit hours worth of mechanical...

No problem man, I can recommend some books if you would like.

Those programs I mentioned have all been around for awhile except the one at American Public University Yeah you certainly have an advantage being that you are already working and have someone willing to give you a chance. Work experience matters more than where you went to school. In fact...

I don't think you researched very well before diving into the degree program. There are multiple schools I know of that offer an online electrical engineering program. Arizona State University offers electrical engineering online (100% online) is abet accredited and you can even specialize in...

You can get better at anything with practice. I wanted to be an engineer but when I first started off in HS my math skills weren't very strong. What did I do? Read, practice, ask for help from tutors and teachers. Eventually by the time college came around my math skills had vastly improved, and...

Is that some sort of joke?

Sounds like you answered your own question. You should be doing a phd in plasma physics or nuclear engineering at school that does fusion research, University of Wisconsin is well known for that actually. If you can get into the computational/theory group there will be plenty of mathematics to...

MATLAB is not a math related topic, it is a tool used to solve problems. I used it in thermodynamics, strength of materials, reactor physics, calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, physics. So you see you can solve a lot of different problems in a lot of different areas with MATLAB...

I went to a leadership conference at SCANA last year and I totally agree with you. One of the speakers went from managing an airport to managing a power plant. He has no technical background at all, a BA in sociology and a MA in sociology and working on a PH.D in organizational leadership. He...

It's only 4 years in SC unless that's some stipulation because you were a physics major

Congrats. I'm from SC as well. Be sure to post back here with the results and good look!