Excelsior: Electronics Engineering Tech specific course ???

Hi everyone,

I want to know where I can find specific courses for Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology at Excelsior College. The only thing that I found the curriculumn, but it doesn't tell specific courses for the major. Is that because student can earn different classes in the same area?

If you are an Excelsior College student, who graduated in B.S Electronics Engineering Tech...please send me the list of courses that you took for this major.

My email is [email protected]

Thank you very much...

Peace,
Tekman

 

Greetings.

First, be advised that I'm not an Excelsior BSEET student; I'm only replying because I think I might be of some help. Of course, I could be wrong. <g>

Here are some tips on locating BSEET course work:
1) Check the "Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning" (see http://www.degree.net/, or your favorite library/bookstore). Virtually all the degree program offerings under Electrical Engineering/Technology are actually BSEET degrees (non-technology, Electrical Engineering degrees are extremely rare by distance). If a school offers a BSEET, then its likely they have BSEET degree courses, too. <g>

N.B. Make sure you only take courses from Regionally Accredited institutions, or you won't be able to transfer them to your college!

2) Ohio university has a slew of EET "College Credit by Exam" offerings in EET subjects (see http://www.ohiou.edu/independent/ for overview, and http://www.ohiou.edu/independent/list1.htm#etch for ET courses). When you enroll for an exam, they will send you a booklet telling you what the exam will cover. You then obtain the specified textbook (if you wish), study for the exam, and take it. If you pass, you get college credit.

N.B.
a) The ET (Electronics Technology) exams are based upon classes given by OU to their Associate Degree students; accordingly, none of the exams award upper level (year 3 & 4) credit.
b) OU uses the "Quarter Hour" system. A 4 Q/H OU course/exam is worth 2.67 S/H credits, meaning that OU offerings actually cost a bit more, and yield a bit less credit than you might initially suppose.

3) Brigham Young University offers a course in "Basic Electricity" (TTE-209, http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/catalog/description.dhtm?subject=19&course=TTE209Basic+Electricity), which they "hide" <g> under the subject of "Technology Teacher Education". You will need access to an assortment of test equipment to conduct the exercises. BYU courses are sort of between CCE tests & traditional courses; like a CCE, they feature minimal student-teacher interaction, but unlike a CCE, there is always the possibility of getting questions answered (before the test <g>).

4) While the University of Idaho offers numerous undergraduate-level correspondence courses, they hide their (few) undergraduate-level Electrical Engineering courses in their "Engineering Outreach" (i.e. graduate-level) section. See http://www.uidaho.edu/eo/. They call their undergraduate EE courses "background study" courses, and they only issue a pass/fail grade. All the courses are "junior" (i.e. 3rd year) level.

5) Technikon SA (http://www.tsa.ac.za/welcome.htm, the SA stands for South Africa) is somewhat unique in that it allows courses with "hands-on" (i.e. lab) components to be taken by distance. You would need to be working in an EET-related field, and have the cooperation of your supervisor. Their offerings would seem to be both good & (relatively) cheap, but I doubt that Excelsior would permit a foreign institution to be included on a degree plan, nor would I think you'd receive tuition assistance for TSA courses. Applicable TSA courses would, most likely (?), be accepted for transfer credit at an American institution, once they were completed.

6) My AF training has been abysmal. If you think that the Army can do better (they surely couldn't do worse!), or if you just want credits, and don't care about quality, you might want to check out the Army's correspondence course offerings. You might want to start looking from https://www.aimsrdl.atsc.army.mil/secured/accp_top.htm. Note that I don't know which (if any) Army correspondence courses award credit, or if they award credit in subjects that will benefit you; you will need to figure this out for yourself. I have a AF (former Army) colleague, who has been taking Army correspondence courses for use towards his college degree, even after he switched to the AF, so there should be an opportunity for you to earn credit, if you're desperate enough.


Finally, although I have sent a copy of this post to your email address, it isn't really cricket to ask for private replies. This is meant to be a public, community forum.

Good luck, and consider posting your findings!


War,
SrA Richard "Kill-Krazy" Kanarek

"Kill a commie for mommie!"

 

TEKMAN,

Old Dominion University also offers EET courses through videostreaming and CD-ROM. The second medium is offered through the Navy College program. Heres the link:


http://www.dl.odu.edu/programs/ugmajors/et-getest/index.html


Best Regards,
Bill