Any Air Force 2A6X6 ever gone into electrical engineering post service? If so, how did your experience help you in school?

2016-05-26T13:27:08-04:00

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.

Response by SFC Andrew Miller made May 26 at 2016 5:14 PM

2016-05-26T17:14:25-04:00

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.

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Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 27 at 2016 3:20 AM

2016-05-27T03:20:46-04:00

I'd seen what youd mentioned, I wasman electrical engineer (EE), though also trained heavily in physics , math, and a good deal of comp sci (CS) not IT, the two are very very different. I can explain precisely, within reason, exactly what courseowkr you'd encounter, however I obviously don't want to overwhelm you. I also trained clinically, though I'm unfortunately now total perm VA approved disabled. However, i genuinely enjoy trying to help svc mbrs and or vets on here with educ aspects, and do genuinely know much about EE that might genuinely help you , honest. So, if you'd be willing to put up with my freq long winded explanations my wife always gets on me about, I'd be !ost eager to help you, about specific texts, courses, and exactly how to maximize your prior technical training toward EE to try to "morph" it optimally, I think. I'd be most eager to hear from you at anytime, I only would ask you to please realize i can be very very highly and unusually specific, about exactly what youd take, whaynprep you'd need for it, and the best texts, videos, and other sources to try to help you succeed, if you'd want me to be that specific, of course. You'd have to tell me at what point you'd have heard enough, as I can tend to ramble as my wife, family, and friends, often tell me, incl some wjove read my answers on here as well occasionally, lol. However, of your like !e to give it a whirl and try to help you, I'm more than willing, of course , whenever you might care to hear more, hope was of interest, many thanks.

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 27 at 2016 3:25 AM

2016-05-27T03:25:48-04:00

I just read also your edit at the end, trust me pleaseif you want specifics, I can give them to you, I just often tend to overwhelm oncemi get started, as I'd said. I spent years as an electronic tech before going EE, though that was before I'd gone on active. However please do trust me, I very definitely can give you extremely specific info, not mere generalities, im speaking of specific texts subjects, review books, all of ot, promise, though only you can decide how much you'd want to hear, of course, eager to hear from you of interested, hopemismof interest, many thanks.

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 27 at 2016 3:28 AM

2016-05-27T03:28:48-04:00

Believe me, I've been exactly and precisely where you want to go, honest, and cam help you, promise. Explain more, if you can, about your specific coursework thus far, calculus, differential equations, the more specifics you give me the more I might be able to help you, honest.

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 27 at 2016 4:40 AM

2016-05-27T04:40:11-04:00

I've given some more thought as to how I might best be able to help answer your questions, and I think the best place imcan begin would be by explicitly going into exaclt what I can virtually guarantee youre going to need to take in terms of coursework. Specifically, you'll start right with differential and integral calculus, along with basic electrical networks and classical physics, also basic inorganic chem, assuming you're adequately prepared. I can tell you that, right from the outset, represe representative specific texts that you can look at to tell you if you're ready for such material. I'll haepve to break up my answers, as I'm on a temperamental tablet, and don't want to lose what I type, so I'll send my answers in pieces, so as to not lose them as I type them if that'd be alright. I'll send this then keep going, if you think you've heard enough to answer your questions, just tell !e, of course, or, if you want different info, just tell me that, as well, I'll send this piece now, then go on in the next segment.

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 27 at 2016 4:55 AM

2016-05-27T04:55:03-04:00

For basic calculus, get copies of calculus and analytic geometry by Thomas, alternate edition, and or the book by Leithold. For basic classical physics, get Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday and Resnick, a classic used by just about every major engimeering program in all engineering fields. Get the Schaum's outlines on calculus, calc based physics, genl inorganic chem, and basic electrical network theory, you'll need them all. Compare the Schaum's outlines with the REA Problem Solvers, the approaches of both sets of review texts differs markedly . you'll need the REA Problem Solvers also, both the long versions, as well as the condensed pamphlet versions. Look at http://learnerstv.com probably the best video review college level website I've ever seen. Look at the MIT Open Courseware or OCW site, you'll need that also. Get any good, serious, first year genl chem text, you'll need one, find out which is used where you're going and get it, you'll have to have it. I must emphasize, never, ever sell your texts, you'll use them as an engineer your entire career, you'll need a serious,!library, not printouts off of Wikipedia those won't cut it, trust me, been there, done that , I'll sendmthismnow, then add more.

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Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 27 at 2016 5:01 AM

2016-05-27T05:01:53-04:00

Get the text on math methods in physics by Boas , and then one by Aarfken also, you'll find them invaluable, of not now, then shortly, oi assure you, and that's Aarfken, not Arfken, two a's, not one. Get Hayt and Kemmerly , their text on engineering circuit analysis, if it's still out, it's also a classic, if you can't getmtjesemtexts inmambookstoremdiemto cost, borrow them from a library on interlibrary loan trust me you'll be able to find them, promise, I'll send this now.

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 27 at 2016 5:12 AM

2016-05-27T05:12:47-04:00

I'm hoping this is the kind of specific info you're seeking. Get engineering mechanics by beer and Johnston used at all engineering schools in the US trust me, youll minimally be reqd to take that genly first half 2nd yr, all EEs genly do honest. Get the text on linear electronics by schilling and belove, it's a classic. Get the text on wave shaping circuits by Leonard Strauss, the second level of electronics, and also taub and schilling on basic digital electronics. Get Peterson and hill, their text on basic switching theory for digital logic, covering the topic of karnaugh maps and the quine mccluskey algorithm the automated version of karnaugh maps. Look up mealy and moore machines, as it relates to the theory of automata. Get a good text on basic numerical analysis, specifically numerical differentiation and integration. Get Anderson onmquantum mechanics, get Beiser for modern physics , look at Dover press, an excellent source of really cheap older technical texts normally otherwise out of print, very useful publisher, honest, I'll send this now .

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 27 at 2016 5:19 AM

2016-05-27T05:19:15-04:00

Get the classic on automatic control systems by Bernard kuo. Get Oppenheimer and Schaefer on digital signal processing, a classic by two MIT authors. Get signals and systems by athanasios papoulis, also his text probability random variables and sstochastic processes, and his texts signal analysis, and also systems and transforms with applications in optics. Get a good text on lasers and quantum electronics, as well as the text on fiber optics and Gaussian beam propagation by I think haus, that's the author, I believe, I'll send this now.

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made May 27 at 2016 5:28 AM

2016-05-27T05:28:50-04:00

Hopefully, you seen the nature of the specifics I'd mentioned I could go into, hopefully that helps. Believe me when I tell you , the texts I've listed here are standard, they're classics all of them and if you don't use them, you'll use others very comparable I assure you. I'll wait now to give you a chance to go over what I've covered thus far, if you have questions I'm here to help you, of course, so far as I'm able, with more info if you want it, not solely on EE, but mech engrg, chem engrg, materials science which is a very very seriously major topic idmurge you to also consider as a major, it's serious in engineering right now. Look at http://www.ieee.org, an all their student chapter material trust me your school will def have a student chapter for sure. Look also at everything you can find on the EIT andmPE exams for engrg licensure, you'll need to be looking at getting those done also, trust me, hope all that was helpful , eager to know your thoughts, many thanks.

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Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made May 29 at 2016 3:34 AM

2016-05-29T03:34:50-04:00

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

Response by TSgt Eric Lewis made Aug 19 at 2016 7:11 PM

2016-08-19T19:11:13-04:00

Okay, I haven't, BUT several of my airmen have. Having been in the AF, it will aid in the discipline you need for the classes. Being in our AFSC, will give you a great foundation to build on when your in school and when you start your career.

I just started my second job since retiring from the AF as a 2A676. No engineering degree, just 20 years of experience. With a degree (if you start towards a degree, don't give up) and your AF time (no matter the years served) you will do well.

Response by SrA Jason Dysart made Aug 25 at 2016 12:19 PM

2016-08-25T12:19:50-04:00

I was Electrical environmental from 92-96 I am not an electrical engineer by degree but I do a lot of electrical design installation and planning if I was going to get a degree at this point in my life it would have to be an electrical engineering degree. when I was in tech school a guy in my class already had an aa in electrical engineering and he was able to skip 2 or 3 blocks so yes this AFSC will give you plenty of hands on basic electrical knowledge and an engineering degree is a very local step. I became a commercial electrician when I got out went to a 5 year electrical apprenticeship and know work for a defense contractor working on Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance ground stations I plan design and build the electrical system and intgrate it in to the mobile power equipment I also deploy for 90 days at time to garantee power generation.

Response by SrA Jason Dysart made Aug 25 at 2016 12:20 PM

2016-08-25T12:20:33-04:00

what aircraft are you working on and where are you stationed

Response by A1C Mike Lorrey made Mar 23 at 2017 5:49 PM

2017-03-23T17:49:18-04:00

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.