Any cheap engineering courses availiable throught online? Maybe independent study courses or ACE reviewed courses?
Engineering covers a wide range of areas – what areas are you interested in? Check your local community colleges – in California there are quite a few online courses (low cost to residents, higher to non-residents). Clovis has Industrial technology courses at low cost http://www.clovis.edu/downloads/Spring2010Schedule.pdf See page 32 for current courses. BYU has several courses at $148 per unit http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/courses/university.cfm?subject=Civil+and+Environmental+Engineering and http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/courses/university.cfm?subject=Chemical+Engineering Excelsior offers engineering courses (Elect, Nuclear, and Tech) but not low cost https://www.excelsior.edu/Excelsior_College/Excelsior_College_Courses/Complete_Undergraduate_Course_Listing?DEPTS=ALL&LEVEL=L,U UND has lots of engineering courses and degrees but probably not low cost http://distance.und.edu/engineering/ Not college courses but you can get various engineering certifications from ASQ (reliability, quality, software quality): http://www.asq.org/certification/right-for-you.html
Look at GetEducated Best Buys - Engineering: http://www.geteducated.com/online-college-ratings-and-rankings/best-buy-lists/best-buy-masters-engineering while these are all masters level, most cases I have looked at (not all but most), the cost for undergraduate courses is similar.
Good field - in my opinion Civil and Chemical engineering are engineering fields that are always in demand. And these degrees can be used in many other engineering fields.