<p>Hello everyone</p>
<p>So curently I attend Fresno Pacific University, heading into the beginning semester of my sophmore year and I am majoring in Applied Mathematics. The only reason I am attending Fresno Pacific is because I play baseball there or else I would be attending another college majoring in probably Civil or Chemical Engineering. Well... im not quite sure what to do. Should I try and transfer to get an undergrad degree in engineering. Or should I get my Applied Math Degree from Fresno Pacific and try to get into a Masters Engineering program? I am not sure really what to do. I see people talking about "ABET" and the only way to really get jobs as an engineer is to be accreditied by ABET. And it seems to me that only Bachelors degrees in engineering are accreditied by ABET. So really im just not sure what I should do. I want to be an Engineer but I feel like im stuck at my Liberal Arts school with a degree in Applied Math that isnt going to do anything for me. But I guess my main question is can I get a masters in engineering with an applied math undergrad degree. And can I even get a job as an engineer after that because of the whole ABET accreditation thing.</p>
<p>Civil engineering is the engineering field where Professional Engineer licensing is most useful; getting the license is helped by having an ABET-accredited degree.</p>
<p>For graduate study in engineering, you want to check with some engineering graduate departments for their requirements. It is likely that you will need to take some physics and other science courses to have any reasonable chance of going from a non-engineering undergraduate background to graduate school in engineering.</p>
<p>How important is baseball, and do you have any chance of making into the major leagues? If not, then it may be worth trying to transfer to a school with the desired engineering major.</p>
<p>Ah I see so its hard to get your PE license without an ABET accredited degree? and yeah baseball is becoming less and less important to me as I was injured all last year and it basically was not any fun. I have been looking to transfer just not really sure how. And my current college (fresno pacific) is a private college and a lot of the units do not transfer so I dont even know if I could get into somewhere like Fresno State or if I would have to go to Fresno City or something First. Also is getting a Bachelors in Applied math and a Bachelors in Engineering a dumb idea? and would it basically take 8 years?</p>
<p>How do you know that the courses would not transfer? Have you checked with other colleges that you may transfer to?</p>
<p>Double majoring in applied math and some engineering may be difficult if you do not have a lot of advanced credit. While it would not take 8 years due to overlapping courses, it may take more than 4 years if you do not have a lot of advanced credit.</p>
<p>I dont know I guess I should probably check on that its just hard to transfer from private to a CSU and it wouldnt really be double majoring because I wouldnt be doing both at the same time. I would graduate with a degree in applied mathematics and then apply to get a undergraduate degree in whatever engineering discipline I chose. does that sound like a bad idea? Also do you need to get your PE license to get engineering jobs? like say in mechanical engineering?</p>
<p>The B.A./B.S. in Applied Math to Master’s in Engineering route CAN be done but it really depends on the intended engineering major in graduate school. The only graduate engineering options are really Industrial/Systems Engineering or Computer Science for holders of an undergraduate applied math degree. </p>
<p>Since you mentioned Civil or Chemical Engineering, you may need to transfer (like the previous posts mentioned) because the applied math degree just will not cover enough of either major. Both Civil and Chemical…well might as well add in EE, CompE and MechE have way too many specialized courses in their respective disciplines that a math department cannot cover. An applied math major with an operations research emphasis can get into a graduate I.E./SysE program.</p>