Your opinion please! I am in my late forties and have completed a 2 year college program in Electronic Broadcasting Engineering back in the late 70's. Lately I have felt the urge to continue my education as a personal goal. I had my transcripts and portfolio evaluated by CIE/WC towards the BEET degree and was granted 87 of the needed 139 credits. I have my own business as a design consultant (15 years) already so I won't be looking for a job with this degree. What worries me is, will there be any opportunity to carry on with post-graduate studies after this in the EET field. Should I accept the credits, do some courses and try to transfer to a better DL program to finish off? I can't find a lot of info on the CIE/WC setup and would also like to hear from students currently in this program or who completed the BEET degree. Thanks
I received CIE's AAS in 1983. It was an EXCELLENT course. One of the options I considered before signing up with the University of London was to do WC's BEET. Considerations: 1) Most of the technical stuff is in the AAS part of the program. The upper division material is mostly general education and management. I really didn't need/wasn't interested in this material. 2) Although WC is one of only three DETC accredited pure D/L engineering/engineering tech bachelor programs out there, it isn't ABET accredited, which may limit the usefulness of the degree. 3) My only programmatic reservation is that WC will accept CIE credits no matter when earned. This is unwise I think because the electronics world has changed a LOT since, in my case, 1983. 4) For YOU, there would be great value in acquiring a bachelor's degree in anything so my reservations don't maybe weigh so heavily for you. CIE-WC is a good outfit.
This may be helpful to others. I received this list from a CIE/WC councilor of schools that have accepted their credits in the past. List of Schools that have been known to accept our credits The list below contains names of colleges and universities that have been known to accept our credits in the past. If there is any further information that we can supply you with, please let us know. Remember, this list is not all inclusive. Additional colleges and universities may accept CIE credit. Please check with the school that you are interested in. State University of New York at Utica New York Institute of Technology; Old Westbury, NY Cincinnati Technical College; Cincinnati, OH Corning Community College; Corning, NY Capitol Institute of Technology; Kensington, MD Gannon College; Erie, PA Ashland College; Ashland, OH Eastern New Mexico Univ.; Partales, NM Chabot College; Hayward, CA Northwestern Polytechnical College; Cupertin, CA Cal State University Auburn (Georgia) Koswald Institute of San Francisco; San Francisco, CA Arizona State Liberty University Lynchburg; Lynchburg, VA Barton County Community College; Great Bend, KS American Open Univ. of the New York Institute of Technology; Central Islip, NY National College of Education; Lombard, IL Upper Iowa Univ.; Fayette, GA Regents College, NY National Louis Univ.; Atlanta, GA Vincennes Univ.; Vincennes, IN Regis Univ.; Colorado Springs, CO Austin Bay State University
30 Day trial lessons received I took CIE/WC up on the 30 day evaluation period and received the first course material, starting of with some Calculus work. From first impressions the material seems to be well written and in "auto-programmed" size chunks. The calculus starts of with some introduction to differentiation/integration but quickly move onto the more good stuff, Laplace, Z transforms and a couple of booklets on Transient Analysis. I also appreciate the fact that every concept is explained with an example how it relates to the EE field. This shows the student why it is important to study these and where he will be using it. For me it is a good refresher from my 70's college calculus course and I am enjoying the material.
