What is the difference between electronic engineering and electronic engineering technology?

Answer 1

Electronic Engineering Technology makes you a technologist engineer.

You are an electronic, technological engineer meaning you are hands on in the design or development of technological equipment invented or advanced by the electronic engineering field.

Do not be mistaken, electronic engineering technology does not make you a technician. Technicians are low level white collar jobs with the most limited requirement in education and often, it can be done on the job with certification issued by the employer.

Technicians are basically maintaining and servicing a specific technology such as audio equipment or networking devices. Their knowledge and skill set will be limited to a specific category of technology. Most people will explain Electronic Engineering Technology degrees incorrectly and lead you to believe you are an underling servant to a real engineer which is complete B.S.

The electronic engineering technologist will have a relative understanding of all current technologies but it is of course superseded by the electronic engineer's knowledge and understanding.

An electronic engineer is educated with a focus on math, theory, development and advancement. For example the technologist or, technological engineer is designing a new amplification system and needs an operational amplifier to perform a task that none is existence can currently perform. It is now the engineer's duty to use his/her superior math and theory knowledge to design that op amp. Much if not all of their work is done on a drawing board and a computer.

At the lowest level, the technician is the repairman that fixes the device if it breaks down because it's a simpler job in regards to knowledge but more demanding and timely so the employer isn't going to waste the technological engineer's resources on said duty.