Talk:Engineer's degree

I expect there may well be a biomedical engineering Engineer's degree somewhere, but I couldn't find a Engineer's degree program in an moderately extensive Web search. (E.g. MIT has a biomed program, but only with master's and doctorates).

That being the case, I have no authoritative source for the correct degree initialism, but BM sounds like only part of the name, as with the degree "master's in biomedical engineering" (M.S.Bm.E.) which I did find, but which is not an Engineer's degree.

Note: A degree with "engineering" in the name is not necessarily an Engineer's degree! E.g. an "bachelor's in electrical engineering" (BSEE) is not an Engineer's degree. Similarly with the MSBmE. Noel (talk) 21:35, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Five year degree?

I'm looking at this section:

It might be argued that, because the European high school curriculum covers the topics of the typical U.S. freshman year, the five-year-long Engineer's degree is actually complete equivalent of the U.S. degree.

If someone enters a university having already covered a year's material, and they then complete a 5 year course, they'd have 6 years of university level experience.

Does it take six years to get a degree in an American university?

I ask because most degrees in my country (UK) are three years:- A 6 year course would be more like two degrees than one!

In European countries, one must be a technologist in that specific field (sometimes called "technical engineer, "engineering technician" or "field engineer) before being able to enter the two last years.

Links

I have just removed the external links section. It already was, and was becoming a gradually worse, collection of links to particular courses at particular Unis. They added nothing to the encyclopedic discussion of the differing Engineering degrees and were effectively advertising. -Splash 18:38, 21 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Then remove all the academic links, you conveniently leave MIT's link. That is not the only school offering engineer's degrees. All of the articles on specific institutions (including MIT) are nothing more than advertising written by alumni of those schools promulgating how great is their school, so either let everyone have equal time or remove them all.

A typical bachelor's degree at an American university is 120 credits (that is, semester hours). Engineering is typically more, 130 to 160 credits in 4 years. My alma mater (Stevens Institute of Technology) requires 149-155 credits for the B.Eng. degree. A typical engineering master's degree in the US requires 30 credits, therefore, we took the equivalent of a bacehlor's and master's degree for just the undergraduate course.

I'm not too sure what you mean. I did remove all the external links, and I can't see an internal link to any University in the article at all, as of my last edit. You may be referring to the actual Wikipedia articles on the Universities; they have no impact here. If you think those articles express a point of view, edit them carefully to retain the facts and eliminate the opinion. -Splash 01:33, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, you mean the link on this talk page. That's quite different. I was only interested in removing them from the article; talk pages are a different matter and only very rarely have material removed from them. -Splash 01:33, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]