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  • 18-08-2008 7:16pm
    #1
    Charlie 22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭


    Well lads i need some sound advice off of ye about an engineering course. I have my heart set on Electrical engineering after working with a company making electrical boards etc but i have been offered electrical engineering in both ucc and cit in the cao today. Which course is better for pure electrical engineering. I know if i go down the cit route it may take longer but that doesn't bother me. Any ideas please? I got a HC2 in honours maths which is barely enough for ucc i am worried that i will struggle in ucc with a very large maths aspect. Help???


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  • #2
    dahamster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭dahamster


    UCC is iei accredited CIT is not. The maths in CIT course is significantly easier, it is the old diploma in elec eng with a year stuck the end. The course in UCC would be light years ahead tbh.


  • #3
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    If I had the choice between a university and an IT it would be the university each time


  • #4
    Darren1o1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭Darren1o1


    kearnsr wrote: »
    If I had the choice between a university and an IT it would be the university each time

    Agreed, we had some CIT guys come into our Uni course (Bio/Mech) and they mentioned the math content is significantly less, more practical based. There are many pro's and con's associated with both ways but I personally would go for UCC.


  • #5
    Pure Cork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Pure Cork


    Charlie 22 wrote: »
    Well lads i need some sound advice off of ye about an engineering course. I have my heart set on Electrical engineering after working with a company making electrical boards etc but i have been offered electrical engineering in both ucc and cit in the cao today. Which course is better for pure electrical engineering. I know if i go down the cit route it may take longer but that doesn't bother me. Any ideas please? I got a HC2 in honours maths which is barely enough for ucc i am worried that i will struggle in ucc with a very large maths aspect. Help???
    In this situation, UCC is better because you can do a BEng (Hons) in Electrical Engineering. In CIT, after 3 years there is a 1 year add-on for a BSc in something, which isn't what you want (I think). The BSc is not accredited by IEI as far as I know.

    Darren1o1 wrote: »
    Agreed, we had some CIT guys come into our Uni course (Bio/Mech) and they mentioned the math content is significantly less, more practical based. There are many pro's and con's associated with both ways but I personally would go for UCC.
    Those guys would have come from a level 7 course, which is for engineering technicians, so the maths content is going to be less than what you'd do in a level 8 course. Hence they would enter 3rd year of a BEng (Hons) in a university or IT after completing the level 7 course.


  • #6
    Charlie 22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭Charlie 22


    Thanks lads it looks like UCC is the best and i got the very same advise today from a third year doing elec eng in UCC. Many thanks. I also found out today that from 2013 you will have to do a one year add on masters in UCC to be iei accredited so our year will be the last under the old system.


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  • #7
    Darren1o1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭Darren1o1


    Pure Cork wrote: »
    Those guys would have come from a level 7 course, which is for engineering technicians, so the maths content is going to be less than what you'd do in a level 8 course. Hence they would enter 3rd year of a BEng (Hons) in a university or IT after completing the level 7 course.
    I assume since his choice is between an IT and a Uni as per the CAO the choice is also between a level 7 and 8 also.


  • #8
    Darren1o1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭Darren1o1


    Charlie 22 wrote: »
    Thanks lads it looks like UCC is the best and i got the very same advise today from a third year doing elec eng in UCC. Many thanks. I also found out today that from 2013 you will have to do a one year add on masters in UCC to be iei accredited so our year will be the last under the old system.

    I think this is pretty typical of what is happening under the bologna process.


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