My boyfriend went back to school for engineering at age 29. It was a hard adjustment for him in the beginning (younger classmates seemed to have a) more stamina for studying and b) a better grasp of the material, since they were continuing to build on it from high school). Despite that, he finished in 2 academic years (which included a summer, fall, and spring semester) with a 3.9 GPA and was admitted to UC Berkeley for mechanical engineering in fall 2015.

This is going to be a problem for you if it's true:

I can say in school I was not the best ever in math only getting past geometry in highschool, but when I do find equations I need solved I can do so or use an excel formula for it.

There is a huge and inescapable amount of math that you will have to do to earn an engineering degree. You will have to go all the way through Calc III, two levels of linear algebra, and Differential Equations. You will also have to go through the second or third level of college Physics (colleges vary on the highest level of Physics that they ask of engineers).

You can definitely use advanced calculators to help you out, but if you are shaky in math, engineering is not a good major for you.

I will recommend to you what my bf did, and you can evaluate where you are at by the end of it.

Summer semester: Pre-Calculus & Trigonometry (if you are not at Pre-Calculus yet, then start with College Algebra).

Fall Semester: Calculus I (or your next level of math), Chemistry I (usually requires College Algebra as a pre-requisite), introduction to engineering, introduction to computer programming

• Here is where it pays to look up the transfer criteria for different schools you are considering going to. In California, you can use assist.org to look at agreements between community colleges and state schools. This is how my bf identified the classes that UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSD had in common, and took those first to see what kinds of grades he was earning and whether to aim more for the top tier of schools or for the middle.

He took pre-calculus and trigonometry, and then moved on to Calc I in the fall. He did not know he wanted to be an engineer when he started, but he did so well in those math classes (and later in Calculus and Chemistry that fall), that he realized he could do a hard math and science degree.

If you are getting high B's to low A's (or higher) through Calc I and Chem I, then you are probably in good shape to proceed forward with an engineering degree. You will figure out as you go whether mechanical or electrical is more your speed.