engineering thread...for engineers

[ordinary dude]

Wow, there sure are a lot of engineers (engineering students) here at this forum.
I'm doing Electrical Engineering at UBC, can't claim its the best program in the world, but its pretty good. In fact, Canada probably offers a better university education on a per dollars basis. Why? Because I from NYC and go to school in Vancouver

 

[vincelee]

"Over 1/5 of 25000 (slightly more) are Engineering Majors at Iowa State University. And I can claim that Iowa State was the ONLY school that had a nuclear reactor until dismantled during my last year there."

not true, we (University of Michigan) have a breeder reactor on the engineering campus. Of course it got shut down after 9/11. What I can claim is that we have one of the two accustically perfect buildings in the world, one of the most advanced free style fabrication plants for processors, one of the best, the other one in Japan, oceanic labs, and a lot of hot chicks.

that, and all our engineering departments are ranked at least in the top 10 in the nation, except biomechanical, which was 13 last year.

PS, our business school was ranked number 1 last year, and our Econ department is ranked above the London School of Economics...


HAHAHAHAHAHA!

MICHIGAN PRIDE!!!

maybe I'll sing the Michigan fight song.....

 

[JZXT]

The Ames Project:

"Ames produced more than 2 million pounds (1,000 tons) of uranium for the Manhattan Project."

Stand to be corrected. I should said that Iowa State was one of the first to have a nuclear reactor among handful in the country to produced uranium for the 1st A-bomb. U of I Chicago, UC Berkeley, and Columbia being others.

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[vincelee]

Hahahaha, Just Pulled Off Another All Nighter!!!

God Damn I Hate Signal Processing.

 

[Aluka]

I've finished Moscow Power Engineering - MPEI (

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) I had a 6-years course (4-year is possible), and my speciality is called "Specialist in Thermal Power Plants", i've studied stuff like thermodynamics, gas dynamics, mechanics, turbines, steam and gas ones, even turbofans. Studying wasn't too hard, since we didn't have much electrical and electronical stuff, which i hate.

 

[Gollevainen]

Must say this is like forum for engineer students to discuss about china..but anyway just out of curiosity (and no means to boast about) how much does single semester cost to you (all)? In here all education even in the highest level (in real university) is free (no semester tuitions), only books and studing material isen't...So as many here is from USA, is it possiple to study engineerings if you are really poor? Is there any puplic universityes or something alike?

 

[JZXT]

Not free. But scholarships, grants, etc are available if one is determine to seek them and tried to get them.
I got my first 2 years free. But I am still paying off my student loan (and I am going to take the sweet time too). The US govt. will guarantee loans to elgible students.

No matter where you are, dirt poor means that you are screwed either way. Money talks no matter where you are.

But the model for higher education is different in Europe, right? It is much harder to get into University and only the selected can go, right? Anyone know the # of higher learing institutions in Europe?

The universities in the US are opened to anyone that is qualified and able to pay (cash, loans, scholarship, etc..) for it.

 

[Aluka]

Was totally free for me, some students, who didn't pass exams well (but still had pass it in some way) have payed like $2000 per year, i think (not sure). Anyway, it's no match to what american students pay.

 

[PiSigma]

the tuition in UofA is about $5000-6500 CDN per year. it depends on how many labs there are a week. courses with more labs cost more. international student's have double the tuition, because government don't cover for their costs. i was able to get my first two years for free because of scholarships, but after that, got to dish out my own pockets. it's fairly easy to get bursaries from the school if you come from a low-income family, i can't get any of that because just my mom's income alone already passed the bursary limit, that's not even including my dad's income. student loans are really sweet, the interest is dirt low, and if you drag your feet long enough on paying it back, half the time some of the money don't even need to be paid back due to inflation.

 

[ordinary dude]

University education in the US is very expensive if you want to attend the best schools. I was accepted into NYU's dual degree (math and compsci), but the price of $40,000 tuition + living expenses in Manhattan really scared me off. So its off to Canada where a good education is decently priced (even for international students).

I'm not saying Canadian schools are cheap, but they are a lot cheaper to the immediate alternative (US schools)

It seems school pride is slowly take over in this thread. We engineers should not try to "one-up" each other because of some school ranking, just be glad we made it, and pray to God that we will make it out alive.