Degree requirements for Engineering positions?

[he11o]

Hello,

I'll be graduating with a master's degree in mathematics in a year or so. I've determined a career in academia is not for me, so am looking at other things to pursue once I finish. There's a few jobs that look of interest to me on the recruiting website - in particular Naval Combat Systems Engineering Officer or Marine Systems Engineering Officer - that I assume would prefer engineering degrees. But I've noticed other engineering positions in on the forces website say other hard science degrees (including math or physics) would receive consideration.

Does anyone have any idea how realistic these sorts of positions are for someone like me, with a non-engineering science degree? I do have some experience with signal processing/programming, and so working in "Electronic Warfare Systems" or "Data Processing Systems" does sound of interest. Of course, my main area of expertise is in a rather esoteric area of pure math no lay person would have heard of. So I'd probably be at a disadvantage to an engineering specialist initially.

Thanks,

he11o

 

[Occam]

CELE officer, and Signals officer are probably within the scope of your education and make you pretty competitive.  The others (EME, AERE, CONSTR ENG, ENGNRS) all list math degrees as acceptable, but I can't vouch for how competitive you'd be.

The recruiting centre would give you a pretty accurate read on it, as well as tell you which ones are open/in demand at the present time.

 

[brihard]

You appear to have a solid grasp on the written English language, and you can do your own research. I hope that right there gets you some consideration.  ;D

 

[Chang]

The CF engineering recruiting CD lists applied math as acceptable for all engineering trades and computer math ideal for CELE, EME, and Signals.

The NCS ENG and MS ENG entry standards both list electrical or computer engineering as ideal and mathematics as acceptable