{"id":45303,"date":"2018-02-21T14:53:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=45303"},"modified":"2018-02-26T16:26:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T16:26:53","slug":"so-you-want-to-be-an-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/02\/21\/so-you-want-to-be-an-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Want to be an Engineer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learn about the\u00a0engineering profession from experts in Austin Community College\u2019s Engineering Program. \u00a0\u201cSo You Want to be an Engineer\u201d will be 10 a.m. Friday, February 23, at Highland Campus, Room 2405 (6101 Highland Campus Dr.).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event is free and open to the public. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFifteen of the top 25 paying jobs are in the engineering field, but many students don&#8217;t know what being an engineer really means,\u201d says Jim Heath, chair of the Engineering Department. \u201cWe\u2019ll explore different engineering career choices and the academic pathways that lead to the engineering job you want.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sessions include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Packing Your Bags: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learn how to get yourself calculus-ready and explore strategies for getting workforce certificates and hands-on experience as a student.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Starting the Journey: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Explore degree specialties available to ACC\u2019s engineering students.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Punching Your Ticket: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learn how to prepare for university transfer, including co-enrollment opportunities through the Texas A&amp;M-Chevron Engineering Academy at ACC.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information about ACC\u2019s engineering programs, visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/degrees-and-certificates\/areas-of-study\/science-engineering-and-math\/engineering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">austincc.edu\/accengineering<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about the\u00a0engineering profession from experts in Austin Community College\u2019s Engineering Program. \u00a0\u201cSo You Want to be an Engineer\u201d will be 10 a.m. Friday, February 23, at Highland Campus, Room 2405 (6101 Highland Campus Dr.). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/02\/21\/so-you-want-to-be-an-engineer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":40368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,19],"tags":[1856,1857,273,226,1126,1130],"class_list":["post-45303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-students","category-news-and-announcements","category-students-and-alumni","tag-calculus","tag-degree","tag-engineering","tag-jobs","tag-texas-am","tag-texas-am-chevron-engineering-academy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}