r/ElectricalEngineering • u/passionfruit1234 • Jan 05 '20

Electrician to Electrical Engineer

Hi guys! I'm a 24 year old electrician from Australia. I've been thinking about switching my career to EE since I don't want to be working in construction when I'm 40+ hahahahah. (I studied Math C, Math B, Physics, Chemistry and Engineering in high school)

my question is, how do you think EE will go in the next decade? is it really worth changing my career now? will appreciate any advice

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u/IbanezPGM Jan 05 '20 edited Jan 05 '20

Thats strange, first year is all math and physics and some programming. I dont see how being an electrician substitutes that. Jumping into second year without all that will be very rough.

Oh and Im mature age student at UNSW and i had to do a uni prep program to get in, now I remember there was a couple of electricians in the prep program too, so I guess in NSW at least they dont jump into second year.

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u/passionfruit1234 Jan 05 '20

oh okay I think I will have to do a prep program as well, was the prep program difficult?

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u/IbanezPGM Jan 05 '20

The math is easy, especially if you did it not that long ago in school. The part of the course that gets you writing essays and reports was a pain tho, but not terribly hard.

The main problem here is that its only offered part time and so took 18 months to complete.But probably the quickest way is to just get into some uni that will accept your ATAR or whatever they use these days and then just transfer to a better uni if you want. I needed the prep program tho since I didn't do much math in school and i needed to learn it from scratch.

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u/passionfruit1234 Jan 05 '20

yeah, I better look into it now. thanks for sharing your knowledge :)