• Question: what degrees do you need to become an engineer?

    Asked by laughingtougnes to Alex, Chris, Harriet, Jed, Ken on 14 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by codyrocksyoursocks.
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      Alexander Zacheshigriva answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      In brief, Engineering.
      The following degrees are quite close to:
      Product design, Naval Architecture, Architecture, Maths, Physics

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      Ken Gibbs answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      You actually don’t need a degree to become an engineer – but it helps. I have worked with a number of engineers who have qualified by using the mature candidate route through the Institution of Civil Engineers, and who did not have a degree. There are a lot of different engineering degrees like BSc (Civil Eng); or BSc (Elec Eng); or BSc (Chem Eng); or BSc (Mech Eng) and so on. Take your pick for the career you would wish to follow. I have even worked with someone who only had a BSc degree in mathematics, and he was a water engineer. So, there are lots of different ways to get there.

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      Jed Ramsay answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      For my job – the best would be civil engineering. But actually most people I work with don’t have that and have worked their way up to be engineers by starting at the bottom in a general office job. In fact this is what I did myself.

      But – it would have been a lot easier if I had an engineering degree to start with!

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