Posted on May 26, 2016
Any Air Force 2A6X6 ever gone into electrical engineering post service? If so, how did your experience help you in school?
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Starting school for electrical engineering this fall, and I'm trying to get advice, how I can apply my knowledge and experience from my time in to this specific program in school.
Edit - I appreciate all the outsider advice, but I feel my point is being completely missed. I'd just hearing a bunch of generic advice, that is possibly useful knowledge, but a far sight from what I'm looking for. I'm really hoping to hear from other people who were military equipment electricians, who took that, and then pursued an electrical engineering degree.
Edit - I appreciate all the outsider advice, but I feel my point is being completely missed. I'd just hearing a bunch of generic advice, that is possibly useful knowledge, but a far sight from what I'm looking for. I'm really hoping to hear from other people who were military equipment electricians, who took that, and then pursued an electrical engineering degree.
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I have done just that. I currently quirk for a company as an electronic engineering technician. From my experience you will be head and shoulders above others. One, they don't know how to troubleshoot. Two I have not met a single one who could use a meter if even know what it is. So don't sweat it your experience will help with about 80 % of the course the other 20% is programming which some people have it and some people don't. Good luck
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Thanks for the reply. I appreciate getting advice from someone who understands what I'm actually asking, and has done what I plan on doing. I will say though, I am planning on going for electrical engineering, not electrical engineering technology. I plan on going straight through into grad school even.
But, even out in practical jobs, I would actually have use for knowledge and experience? Because that would be fantastic then.
But, even out in practical jobs, I would actually have use for knowledge and experience? Because that would be fantastic then.
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While I don't have any experience as a 2A6X6, I do have experience connecting the dots between military service and higher education.
First off, if you are looking to gain credit for your experience, look beyond just what you have on your CCAF transcript. Look at your Verification of Military Experience and Training (VMET) and the military crosswalk for 2A6X6 on O*NET. Most schools will let you submit a portfolio to obtain credit through an experiential learning or prior lifetime learning program. Scrub the VMET, your CCAF transcript, and compare the KSAs of different careers in the O*NET crosswalk to put together the best portfolio you can, and get the most credit possible prior to starting classes with them. Note I said most, not all.
For VMET - https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/tgps/
For O*NET - https://www.onetonline.org/crosswalk/MOC?b=F&s=2A6X6&g=Go
As for using your experience, since you are looking at a related field, you will be able to fall back on real world experiences as you go through your academic career and use them to support ideas and theories in your papers and projects. Once you get into your engineering classes you will have practical experience from your technician days to reinforce the academics as well.
First off, if you are looking to gain credit for your experience, look beyond just what you have on your CCAF transcript. Look at your Verification of Military Experience and Training (VMET) and the military crosswalk for 2A6X6 on O*NET. Most schools will let you submit a portfolio to obtain credit through an experiential learning or prior lifetime learning program. Scrub the VMET, your CCAF transcript, and compare the KSAs of different careers in the O*NET crosswalk to put together the best portfolio you can, and get the most credit possible prior to starting classes with them. Note I said most, not all.
For VMET - https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/tgps/
For O*NET - https://www.onetonline.org/crosswalk/MOC?b=F&s=2A6X6&g=Go
As for using your experience, since you are looking at a related field, you will be able to fall back on real world experiences as you go through your academic career and use them to support ideas and theories in your papers and projects. Once you get into your engineering classes you will have practical experience from your technician days to reinforce the academics as well.
This post-TGPSP evaluation will ask questions specific to each module or track you have completed as well as questions about the overall Transition GPS Program. Some questions are tailored to gauge the knowledge you have gained from specific modules/tracks. There is no negative consequence if you answer incorrectly; this is simply for us to evaluate if the course succeeded in providing the intended information.
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I went directly into working as an electrical engineer with my own startup within months of leaving the service, which was good cause I got screwed by the GI Bill on my education bennies. Fortunately I'd studied engineering in college before dropping out and enlisting, and was raised by an engineer in aerospace/electrical engineering (dad), so I was already pretty well trained. My first startup was successful long enough for me to exit with a quarter million and go into IT consulting.
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