Q&A: What is the difference in the following engineering degrees?

Question by schoolsam: What is the difference in the following engineering degrees?

What's the difference between a Bachelor of Science in Applied Science and Technology (BSAST) degree in Civil Engineering Technology and a Civil engineering degree? Also what is the difference between a (BSAST) in Nuclear engineering technology and a and a nuclear engineering degree?




Best answer:

Answer by mikeya
I am not an expert in this. But I have some experience with this.

If Engineering is used as a noun, it is perceived as an engineering degree. It Engineering is used as an adjective, then it is not an engineering degree. This is important for accreditation purposes.

It would appear to me that the BSAST focuses more on the technology supporting Civil Engineering applications and would not be considered an engineering degree. A Civil Engineering degree is obviously an engineering degree.

Engineering majors usually have capstone senior design projects that focus on the engineering a building, machine, circuit or power plant. An engineering tech degree will probably have the same upper division core courses as a reg. engineering degree but have a different emphasis.

We would need to look at the curricula to make an appropriate determination.

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