<p>So, I did a search of the only online program I know of for MechE and ChemE (University of North Dakota) on ABET.org. It turns out it's fully accredited. And, according to ABET, 90-95% of the MechE is available online and 86-90% of the ChemE is available online.</p>
<p>I never thought Engineering would be available online. And, since I always hear that the school doesn't matter as much as other majors, would this be a recommended place? Or is the classroom setting that much more important?</p>
<p>Is it “engineering”, or “engineering technology”?</p>
<p>Personally I have a very low opinion of any online engineering programs (or ET for that matter). You would pretty much have to majorly scale back or outright eliminate labs and would miss out on all the social aspects of going to a more traditional program such as group work, which as essential out in the working world.</p>
<p>Probably only Industrial/Systems Engineering and Computer Science are the only engineering programs that can be done online and won’t take away from what you would do on campus. In CS programs, you still would submit software assignments to be compiled. Most online M.S./M.Eng programs in I.E. or SysE consist of: probability course, statistics course, operation research/linear programming course, quality management course and a project management course which do not really require labs. In addition, at least for my online M.S. program, many assignments were done in teams.</p>