Mature Students. Electrical engineering

Stinkypinkerton

I'm an electrician and want to do electrical or energy engineering next year. I am studying honours maths and applied maths and will be siting these for 2010 leaving cert. I have also finished a short course on programmable logic controllers and autocad. Is there anything else i can do to increase my chances of getting a place?

Dr. Feelgood

I did this course recently, and with all that you should be well prepared for it. Have you done any physics?

Stinkypinkerton

Yes its been about 6 years since i last did it in secondary school. One of my teachers also gave me a lend of his calculus book. I have to write a personal statement, do you have any tips?

hunnymonster

Too many people rewrite the "personal interests" section of their cv and submit it as their personal statement. That's not a great aproach. You should use the personal statement to demonstrate
1. you have the ability to hand the academic level (your courses and LC should be good for this)
2. you are committed (going back to LC again)
3. you have a demonstrated interest in the area (your career to date).

catiny

Yeah a bit of Physics wouldn't go amiss although you start from "scratch" when you get in. Have a look at the applied electricity part, very handy for the electrical engineering course.

scriba

I did electrical engineering in UCC, graduating nine years ago. The one piece of advice I would give is that your maths (diff. & intgr., and numerical methods) are up to scratch, as it was heavily maths-based in my time, particularly with the subjects I selected later on. Otherwise, they'll start from scratch. You'll be fine! Stay on top of study, and you'll do well. Good luck!