engineering thread...for engineers

[Gollevainen]

Taken notice that there is lots of engineers and expecially engineering students. Im also studying to be a constructive engineer or better to say civil engineer, building roads and bridges. Im studying in Häme's university of aplicated sience or just HAMK

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Its a four year curse and there is advanced six year curse for so called diplom-engineers who are supposed to be more clever than us...supposedly, any way, i would like to know better which branches our other engineers and engineering students are and how on earth did you end up there...

 

[crazyinsane105]

Well, I go to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is the number three engineering school in the United States (it is behind MIT and Stanford Univeristy). Currently I am studying mechanical engineering but I will most likely switch to electrical engineering next semester (electrical has many more job opportunities plus it is a VERY challenging course; then again, which engineering major is easy?:roll: ). Here is the link:

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I was quite surprised when I got into the program. Many other people I knew had gotten rejected. The college of engineering requires at least a 30 out of 36 on the ACT (for those not in the US, the ACT is a test taken by junior and senior high school students. It contains four categories: English, Math, Reading, and Science. Each section has a max score of 36 and the overall test score is the average of those four scores). I had gotten a 29 on the ACT (it's alright, but not excellent) plus I did OK in high school. Anyway, engineering at UIUC is extremely hard: people who start off with a GPA of 3.8 their freshman year fall to a 2.9 their senior year!!! So it is a challenging course.

I highly recommend this university to all who live in the US and are considering to be an engineer. It is not as difficult to get into like other universities (MIT and Stanford, for example) plus getting an engineering degree from UIUC can get you a job almost anywhere! So I highly recommend it. Plus, it is VERY affordable. I am getting a full ride (well, almost) because of my financial aide.

 

[Red Guard]

McMaster University, First year engineering program.
McMaster is in Hamilton Ontario, of Canada. We were called "MIT of Canada" as we have the best material engineering program in whole North America. That's pretty much i know about my school. i am working hard to get to mechanical engineering. I don't usually go to english military forum, one of my friend asked me to come here, as i speak english and i operate in chinese military forum.
i would like to ask this forum, to make a friend link with my military forum, and we could both exchange people.

 

[vincelee]

don't even start Crazy, University of Michigan Ann Arbor's engineering school is ranked above yours..........******
I'm electrical engineering/computer science and economics.


Making a personal attack against a mod is not very smart at all!!! If you want to argue with me, do so IN A PROFESSIONAL MANNER!!! One more outburst like this and I will report you to DongFeng and the Web Master.

 

[PiSigma]

red guard, how come i have never heard ANYONE else say McMaster as "MIT of canada" you do realize Waterloo i the best engineering school in canada overall right? they are ranked number 1 every year for a long time especially in electrical and computer engineering. just have good materials is not that great, since it's not even a big discipline.

I'm a third year chemical engineeing student at the University of Alberta in the computer process control option. last time i checked, we are ranked 18th in the world for chemical engineering, first was Michigan. in fact, one of the most used equations for hydrocarbons (used in oil industry) is the peng-robinson equation developed right in UofA. we are also the top research university for nanotechnology in Canada. we are currently building the world's largest nano-technolgy lab here at UofA, partially funded by the federal government. since our province produce most of canada's oil, we get a lot of funding from the oil industry for our chemical engineering department. i have professors that taught in MIT and Caltech before, so the quality of learning is definitely high.

here's the website, if anyone want to check it out. although i got to say, Edmonton is not the best city to live in.

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[sumdud]

I thought Stanford majored in business and medicine.
UC Berkeley, which is a few kilometers from my house and a few more from Stanford, also majors in science and engineering, especially in electrical engineering and computer science.

Caltech is also a good school for engineering.
I know UM and UI have good engineering programs.
I thought UC Berkeley was going to be on one of the top.... Afterall, we were ranked 2nd of all universities and it majors in science and engineering....
But my choices: ACME
Aeronautical
Civil
Mechancial
Electrical

 

[rommel]

Well, I know that the Polytechnique of University of Montreal is a very good school in engineering.

 

[vincelee]

Crazy, you DO realize that I'm

1) YueTheMighty
2) I go to the CoE, UM AA
3) Your football team sucks

right?

and let's not start talking about being professional, there is no such thing until the graduate level. You should come up to Ann Arbor and I'll show you around (the premier engineering school in the US, besides MIT and Berkley)

 

[crazyinsane105]

I know who you are vinclee. But that does not give you any right to make personal attacks against me. And yes, our football team does suck.:rofl: Our basketball team is still pretty decent, however. Yes, you do go to UM AA college of engineering and both of our schools are excellent engineering schools. It really makes no difference to me if my school is number three in the country or number eight. As long as I am in the top ten engineering schools in the US, I could care less. Plus the rankings change quite often every year. However, MIT is ALWAYS number 1 (that is a constant) and our schools always make it in the top ten engineering schools rank. So why the big fight?

Also, about the grad school here at U of I, well, let me tell you something about it: people at U of I have an easier time getting into Stanford's grad program than they do at U of I's. Why? Because here at U of I, to get into grad school for engineering, you must have the same qualifications as somebody applying to U of I's PhD program!!! Now that is pretty tough! I was about to apply to Ann Arbor, but once I got accepted into U of I, I decided to go there (it is cheaper for me since I am an Illinois resident and it is not as far away from Chicago). Had I not gotten into U of I, I would have probably ended up going to Michigan Ann Arbor anyway.

 

[PiSigma]

your american kids and your football, up here in Canada it's all about hockey!! now that hockey is back, my GPA can start dropping again. anyone here from other canadian engg schools other than alberta and mcmaster??