Thinking about doing a B.Eng (Hons)

With the OU for three reasons.
1 - I love engineering, and really wish I had studied it.
2 - I'm fed up with my job, can't see anyway to progress in my industry and fancy a change
3 - I want to build my own bike from scratch and for some ludicrous reason build a scale model of TSR-2

Any advice out there? I've already got a B.Sc in conservation and rural land management, so I hope to use the credits from that towards the first year of the new degree, but any good books, study aids etc?

Ta


Paul

Which field of engineering are you looking at getting into?
Mechanical, Electrical, Aeronautical or another.

[Dave20046]

I'm looking at doing similar (but in IT) but can't work out the OU website...what do I need (qualification wise) to apply? How long will it take? What will the degree consist of. Can't help but feel they don't want you to know the answer to those questions as it would reveal the immence cost!
Infact might ring 'em.
Will watch this thread closely.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Caddy2000

With the OU for three reasons.
1 - I love engineering, and really wish I had studied it.
2 - I'm fed up with my job, can't see anyway to progress in my industry and fancy a change
3 - I want to build my own bike from scratch and for some ludicrous reason build a scale model of TSR-2

Any advice out there? I've already got a B.Sc in conservation and rural land management, so I hope to use the credits from that towards the first year of the new degree, but any good books, study aids etc?

Ta


Paul

I am in last year of B-eng at the moment. I will send you some notes if you like to give you an idea.

Though point 3 is a bit different, you won't use much of the degree materials doing that.

What sort of engineering, I guess mechanical if your wanting to bike build.

Only advice I have is DONT DO CIVIL ENGINEERING! Im doing it and it sucks

Originally Posted by cuffy

Which field of engineering are you looking at getting into?
Mechanical, Electrical, Aeronautical or another.

Well I'm red colour blind so that takes Electrical out of the question, but I'm interested in both mechanical and aeronautical - I'll have a better clue when the OU gets back to me.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

I am in last year of B-eng at the moment. I will send you some notes if you like to give you an idea.

Though point 3 is a bit different, you won't use much of the degree materials doing that.

True, but it should give me a better understanding of hows and whys.

[Dave20046]

Just spoke to OU , today is the last day for registering for courses. until march but apparently only a few start in march. Then it's september.

Originally Posted by leedsmatt7

What sort of engineering, I guess mechanical if your wanting to bike build.

Only advice I have is DONT DO CIVIL ENGINEERING! Im doing it and it sucks

Civils can open doors to a lot of jobs though.

How good are you with mathematics? I wasn't very good or confident with it before I went to uni to study chemistry, but I knew I had to learn; I picked up Foundation Maths by Anthony Croft and Robert Davison (see amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Foundation-M.../dp/0131979213 ). I worked through it steadily, and learnt how to do simple things like rearranging equations to more difficult stuff, like integration by parts and things. I recoommend it, even to refresh yourself on mathematics . Plenty of worked examples and loads of questions to test yourself, with answers in the back

If you really are enthusiastic about doing a university course, then do it. Uni can be expensive and you have to have alot of motivation from within yourself to learn; you get out of what what you put in I think you seem very enthusiastic, so go for it

I think (I might be wrong though) that you can credit some of your existing degree and top it up with OU courses to give you another one? They'll tell you if you speak to them.