This document discusses electrical engineering education and career paths. It notes that while an associate's degree can allow someone to work as an engineer, a bachelor's degree leads to higher starting pay that is 10% more. Schools like WVU and WV Tech offer ABET-accredited engineering degrees, and an ABET-accredited degree allows one to become a licensed professional engineer. With a bachelor's degree, expected starting salary ranges from $60,000 to $65,000 per year depending on location. Internships and co-ops provide valuable on-the-job training and opportunities to get hired full-time. Potential employers include government agencies, steel companies, utilities, and some may start their own firm. Dut

1. Electrical Engineering
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2. E d u cation R e qu ire m e nts
• You can be an engineer with only 2 years
of school and an associates degree but
the pay isn’t as good.
• If you get your bachelors degree your
starting pay as an engineer increases
about 10%
• If you want to go above that you can get
masters degree and make even more
money

3. Money
• An engineer with an
associates degree will
make anywhere from
30,000 to 50,000 starting
base pay. (depends on
location)
• An engineer with a
bachelor’s degree can
make from 60,000 to
65,000 dollars a year.
(also depending on
location)

4. • ABET stands for Accreditation Board for
Engineering and Technology.
• There are only two school in the state of
West Virginia that offer ABET
accreditation for degrees.

5. Which schools offer ABET?
• One School that Offer ABET Accreditation
is West Virginia University
• The only other school that offers it is West
Virginia institute of technology
• Marshall has also recently opened up an
ABET generalized engineering program.

6. What will ABET do for you?
• ABET accredited progams once
completed will allow you to take a test
once the course is completed.
• This test if passed allows an engineer to
become a professional. (which allows for
setting up your own office and what not)

7. WVU
• WVU is located in
northern West
Virginia in the city
of Morgantown.
• It costs roughly
16,000 dollars to
attend WVU per
year.
• Link to WVU’s website

8. Tech
• You can also go to tech
for engineering.
• They are ABET
accredited and are home
to the golden bears.
• They have a good
student to teacher ratio of
14:1.
• They cost about the same
as WVU.

9. Internship programs
• Internship programs allows
for unpaid on the job
training and preperation
for your job ahead.
• This will also help you get
hired on by the company
that you accept an
internship from allow for
and easier job hunt.

10. Co-op programs
• Co-op programs allow
for on job training like
internship but you will
get paid extremely
well while learning.

11. Companies that will hire
• You can be hired by a variety of
companies.
• The government agencies that will hire
engineers are FBI, NSA, and the CIA.
• You can be hired by companies like
Pittsburg Steel, AEP, and most electrical
companies..
• Also if you have your professional if you
can start your own company

12. What you will be doing.
• You will mostly be
drawing designs and
plans for people and
companies to build to
ensure that lives will
be saved or just
simply make them
easier.

13. Job availability
• There is a lot of people above the age of
50 as electrical engineers meaning that
they will retire soon
• This allows for anyone going into the field
to have a huge chance at getting an
electrical engineering job

14. Benefits
• Your benefits would mostly have to do with your
company that you got hired on to.
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Retirement
• 401k
• Vacation Time

15. My Interests in Engineering
• I plan to go to WVU Tech for electrical
engineering for my bachelor’s degree.
• Then I plan to go on to either work or
further my education at Ohio State
University and get my master degree.