[Guardsman]

For those of you that may have done this, what's the best way to approach this? I want to do an Electrical Engineering program, but it will be while I am working full time, my job will be 1+ hours each way from home, and I'm in the Air National Guard.

The only schools around me that have BSEE programs are Berkeley, which is about 80 miles away, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, which is about 250 miles away. I'd prefer Cal Poly, because they have a blended BS+MS program, where you can work toward your BS and MS at the same time.

However, the distance is going to be the biggest problem, as the vast majority of the courses are in-residence only.

I will be able to test out of a bunch of the lower-level electronics/electrical courses, as I have been an electronics tech for eleven years, so that should somewhat shorten my total time required.

So, what am I looking at here to do this?

Second question on this subject, is what am I looking at in terms of all the math calsses I will need to take? I know that I will need statistics and calc, but what will I need to take to get there, i.e., algebra, geometry, trig, etc.?

I found out that Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's continuing Ed has online math, from basic to Algebra 2, so I'm going to do those to get my textbook math skills up to where I can test into higher-level math courses.

Thanks again guys.

John

[slowTA]

I can't recommend trying to complete a four year degree while working full time. I was barely able to work my way through 2 classes last semester. At that rate it would take damn near forever to finally finish... and that was with a fairly short commute and no social life at all. My grades weren't too bad, but not what I was fully capable of. Once you get to some of the upper level classes where you have projects to design and build.... we'll you might be looking forward to retirement!! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I would say try taking a few of those math classes and make sure you have time to concentrate on them while working. This should give you a feel for what it is going to be like, maybe you could try taking them at a local college assuming they will transfer.

Ideally I would say you should save up a truckload of money and go to school full time while working part time if you want. That’s probably not possible, but just my $.02