<p>bringing back from the dead:</p>
<p>i dont think the information on these sources are accurate. They are refering more to the associates level since there are only a few universities that have it as a 4 year program. I’m a Junior in a Mechanical Engineering Technology major and believe me, we do indeed use math. The difference i see, is that its less calculous based and more real world based problems.</p>
<p>The analogy someone metioned earlier about how Technologists rely on software, where the Engineers understand how the software works… well in most of my classes, they tell us we are the ones that need to understand why the software works. In the real work, most engineers do use software for calculating things simply because they do not make errors and are faster. When they say its more “hands on”, it does not mean you do more physical work. It means you do more calculations that are real world situations. I’ve yet to do any physical hands on, other than my labs in physics. Other than that, all of my classes are basically donig math problems all day.</p>
<p>Some people believe engineering technology isn’t as hard as engineering. I dont know how you can measure this really. You take more calc based classes in engineering and need to know how to use them. If this is what determines that, and if you persoanlly find the calc classes are hard because you don’t have a good solid base, then yes, it wil be harder. But dont think Engineering Technology is easy. Many of the disiplines cross between the two, and still require hours and hours of studying everyday in order to get a good grade.</p>
<p>The analogy that are given to us is that MET engineers existing techology, while ME researches and discovers new technologies. In the real world after school, most of them will end up having the same jobs. After the first job, its purly based on work performance, and diminishes the fine line between the two.</p>
<p>I hope this helps some people out.</p>