Can a nurse become an engineer?
You would need to start with a bachelor's degree in engineering. You would receive credit for general education classes and some science classes that you have taken. Look on official university websites that you can find on google.com for engineering department websites or the link to the university catalog to find the lists of requirements for the degree. The highest pay goes to aerospace and petroleum engineers, but you might rise more quickly in a career in biological or biomedical engineering.
What courses should you take in high school and college to become a good engineer?
None of them are going to matter.Being a “good engineer” is more than the classes. It’s about your ability to solve problems. Those classes are tools.If I gave a three year old a wrench, and asked him to take apart an internal combustion motor, he’s probably not going to succeed.The same thing goes for this question. You can be the best number cruncher in the world, but if you can’t problem solve, you won’t make for a very good engineer.Instead, apply yourself to a field of engineering and get your hands dirty. Ask “why” often, and then go answer that question for yourself. Develop a desire to learn more, and feed that desire everything you can. Be observant, and learn to communicate with others.These things, more than any class, will help you to become a good engineer.
How to become an engineer with a GED and no college experience?
Apply to a local community college, they will take anyone. You will take a placement test to see where your skills in math and English are, to which you are placed into the appropriate level course. Math is an important subject for engineering students so you will need to have completed an extensive amount of math education in your program. But do not fear, as I mentioned your CC will place you in the apporopriate level math course so you don't end up suffering, although it will take you a while to complete everything. You also will take all your other basic general education courses such as chemistry, physics, history, social sciences, literature, and whatever else is required. Your academic counselor can tell you exactly what courses will be needed. After your first two or possibly three years at the CC, you may apply to a 4 year degree program at a larger university. You will need to have ensured your grades were high enough while in a CC as you would apply directly to an engineering undergrad program. After about 2 years there, you will then be on the way to earning your bachelor's degree in engineering. Good luck, it's not that hard, just takes a while to complete but you'll never finish if you don't at least get started..
How does one become an engineer without a college degree?
There's a big difference between acquiring the skills of a software engineer, and being hired as a software engineer. I'm going to focus on the former.If you're smart and dedicated, it should take a year or less to get the skills of an entry-level software engineer. Book-workIf you live near a university or know someone who's gone to university for CS, get the list of courses specific to computer science, and see what parts of the textbooks they use for each. You can self-study the same portions they covered in the class. University of Washington's got a good program. Of their listed courses I would studyComputer Programming I and IISoftware Design & ImplementationData AbstractionDiscrete MathematicsSoftware Engineering. Make sure you've got math through geometry and trigonometry, including linear algebra. Take several more electives that are interesting, such as Computer Networks, Systems Programming, Intro to HCI, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, Computer Design and Org, and Computer Security.Each of those courses should take 50-100 hours of work. If you want more than the textbook to guide you, some student unions (at least in the US) have course lecture notes you can buy which have entire lectures transcribed.PracticeYou need to build software. Find open source projects you're interested in, and get a copy of the source code. Read over it. Learn how to run it. Learn how to debug it. Figure out how it works. Then start adding to it. Check in code. Contribute to the project. Become a known member of the community. This is good practice, and also good for heading towards a job. You should aim for at least a thousand hours of coding experience. This is four hours a day, five days a week for a year.You'll need a good development environment (IDE), and a preferred language. Picking a good open source project should help you with both of those. For Java I like Intellij IDEA and the JDK. For C++, visual studio or eclipse are both fine.
Can I take Mechanical Engineering in College and become a videogame designer?? Please answer immediately!!?
Game programming is more of a computer science field. Some things go into it that you really won't come even close to touching with a mechanical engineering major. Mechanical engineers do a lot of programming, that's true, but the programming is very different. They program physics models and control systems for machinery, power systems, robotics, and a bunch of other things, but they don't touch on graphics and image processing, artificial intelligence, UI design, or other things related to games. In addition, game programmers usually have to be fluent in several programming languages. If you want to do game design, you should learn C#, Visual Basic, Java, Ruby, and other languages. I've heard that Ruby is one of the most popular game design languages, and many game programmers use Basic, and I've seen a few use C#. The C++ you learn in high school will be helpful only for algorithmic thinking and for syntax, because they don't cover data structures, efficiency, or more complicated algorithms until you get to college. Mechanical engineering involves tons of math - 3 semesters of calculus, one of linear algebra, and at least one of differential equation theory (you may have to take 2 -- ordinary diff-eq and partial diff-eq). Unless you're actually interested in all that math, then to be a game designer you shouldn't spend much time on it because you won't use it in games (and if you do, then your code will probably run slow if you have a large environment). Probably the best major for video game design is software engineering. It covers everything necessary for game design. After your standard core classes, pick classes in image processing, artificial intelligence, and other related classes - many colleges offer courses specific for game programming.
What college classes do I need to take to be a software engineer?
Well you can learn all of this on your own IF you are disciplined, but on the other hand - I recommend courses a number of additional topics:System and software development practices including architecture & designC/C++ including system programming (check out the book called Linux Programming Interfaces)Cross-compiling basicsUnderstanding auto tools in Linux & MakefilesNetwork layer programming, understanding network traffic and tools like Wireshark (people laugh, but when you can't figure out why you are getting a 0x04 when it should be a 0x5 at offset blah.... it helps)English and languages - you may laugh, but if you don't understand technical literature or are not able to communicate effectively, it is a serious setback to you.I also recommend a number of books and topics such as:The pragmatic programmerThe 9 indispensable rules of debugging (such a good read when on transit & cheap)The art of programmingIntroduction to algorithmsIntroduction to cryptographyRapid Development (the Microsoft book)Securing coding practices (Security development lifecycle related books by MS)
I want to become a programmer and software engineer. What course and degree should I take when I get to college?
No matter the place please consider to do the B.Tech/B.E in Core Computer Science and Engineering. That gives a better guidance and variety of opportunity for your goal. If you want to become software engineer please study computer science. And Don't let The Stupid Uncles and Aunties Confuse you (like Take Mech/ECE/Electrical, get into Infosys,TCS etc...) . That is stupid and the Shortest path between two points is the Straight Line. If you want to become Software Engineer take Computer science and Engineering period. And No matter where you are and what you do Please Try HackerRank, SPOJ, TopCoder, CodeForces or CodeChef from the very beginning say From 12th Holidays.This will make your career best of the best.And Remember Failure makes you strong. Do and solve these problems. Study accordingly. Better Please Visit to the nearest IITs and Talk to the Computer science Student who got selected into google/Facebook etc.. They will definitely help you and fix your goals. If you gonna take advice better take advice from the top software engineer from IITs. Not some Stupid neighbourhood Uncles/Aunts. Never ever take advice from Sons of These Stupid Uncles/Aunts (Probably they might work for TCS/Infosys/Wipro/ etc... Indian Service Companies. These maniacs combined with these Uncles has ruined lot of young minds for the sake of Boasting their stupid pride). Sorry but I have to warn you against these people. Just Go into IIT and talk to some random CS Students and Try to contact the Top Engineer. Definitely they will help you a lot.Hope it helps.