Good engineering schools

[Mityas]

Alright I'm a senior and majoring in Computer Engineering so I have enough credits and a decent GPA to transfer to probably most schools. Now my question to you guys is what are some good schools that have good engineering programs?

If you can link me to the school that would be great.

So far I'm liking Penn State, Iowa State, OSU, and Virgina Tech

[spin]

i know a guy that went to UC davis and got a degree in CS and now works for lokheed martin making like 120 a year starting salary.

[ALieN]

Like 6 of my friends go to Virginia Tech for various forms of Engineering.

[{DA}silentscope]

Tennessee Technological University
www.tntech.edu

pretty boring up here, but someone on the orientation i went to last summer mentioned it being one of the top 10 engineering schools in the country or maybe this region. It has a good engineering program though. I am majoring in Computer Engineering and am a freshman here.

[RavenndudE]

University Of Pittsburgh is a pretty good engineering school

[SoulEdge]

New Jersey's Institute of Technology, NJIT .... www.njit.edu

[zany]

MIT - http://web.mit.edu/engineering/

Stanford - http://soe.stanford.edu/home/index.html

Cal - http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/

GaTech - http://www.coe.gatech.edu/

Illinois - http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/

edit: here's a list, whether accurate or not - http://www.studentsreview.com/top_engineering_schools_ranking.html

[hawk]

Like 6 of my friends go to Virginia Tech for various forms of Engineering.
Represent! Virginia Tech is a great engineering school, if you have any questions, let me know and I'll get on irc or something. I'm a CS major, but have quite a few friends in ECE (comp engineering). It's pretty tough here.

[Koron]

I'm a junior in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. It's a pretty good program; considering you are a senior, are you just hoping to graduate from a better school than your current one? I'm assuming you intend to stay in Computer Engineering. What kind of timeline are you looking at?

[|RES|arod]

My school's computer engineering program is almost non-existant. I switched to EE instead of ECE this year. I don't know why we offer it since there are so few that actually graduate as ECE. I think there is a total of 1 junior still taking computer engineering and like 2 senior graduating computer engineers. My school only has like 1500 undergrads though.

[W_Thunder]

MIT = Massachusetts oh you know what it means

WPI = Worcester Polytechnical Institute Great but boring

University of Michigan

[Havok]

I go to WPI and it's def a good engineering school but the area is boring as the above person said

[Naufragus]

If you're willing to study your ass off, go to Georgia Tech. Good school.

[Mityas]

I'm a junior in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. It's a pretty good program; considering you are a senior, are you just hoping to graduate from a better school than your current one? I'm assuming you intend to stay in Computer Engineering. What kind of timeline are you looking at?No, I go to UTEP which has an excellent Computer Engineering deptartment, it's just that I'm bored at this school and it is starting to reflect on my grades. I've been slacking it, not doing work, and just want to get C's and get out. I plan on staying in the major and I should be looking to graduate either Fall 06 or May 07.

[Koron]

Well, just be aware that different schools have different requirements. For instance, I assume there is some kind of "core" curriculum at your school. You may have to end up taking non-engineering courses to catch up if the ones from your institution don't match up with the other.

Also, here is a general list that seems fairly reasonable:
http://www.greguide.com/elecs.html

[Mexi]

I think the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology program is one of the better programs...maybe that's undergraduate or something though.

[saut]

Penn State is a great engineering school. They've been very good to me, at least (Civil Engineering) -- there's always tons of career and internship fairs going on, and about twice a year they have a fair for Civil major only, which is really nice. I'm sure they do something similar with Computer Engineering. It is pretty fucking cold here, though.

[Koron]

Yeah, the list I posted was for graduate schools.

Without paying for the US News & World Report rankings, I managed to find the 2004 undergraduate rankings (on a Northwestern site):


The various department rankings in the Computer Engineering
specialization are:

1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. Univ. California, Berkeley
4. Carnegie Mellon
5. Univ. Illinois Urbana Champaign
6. Georgia Tech
6. Univ. Michigan
8. Cornell
9. Caltech
10. Univ. Washington
11. Princeton
12. Univ. Texas- Austin
13. Purdue
14. Univ. Wisconsin- Madison
15. UCLA
16. Univ. California San Diego
17. NORTHWESTERN
18. Duke
18. Johns Hopkins
18. Rice
18. Virginia Tech
22. Rensselaer Polytech

[XciT]

i'd say either Georgia Tech or Viginia Tech, both have really strong engineering programs. UMD (my school) also has a really good engineering school

[NecMo]

No, I go to UTEP which has an excellent Computer Engineering deptartment, it's just that I'm bored at this school and it is starting to reflect on my grades. I've been slacking it, not doing work, and just want to get C's and get out. I plan on staying in the major and I should be looking to graduate either Fall 06 or May 07.
ok I must be totally missing something

You are a senior at UTEP meaning you have 2 semesters left at the most until graduation, but you are wanting to transfer, which will add on a couple more YEARS until you graduate?

[FireWall]

The best computer engineering schools for 2005 (according to the U.S. News "America's Best Colleges"):

1. MIT (www.mit.edu)
2. University of California, Berkeley (www.berkeley.edu)
3. Stanford (www.stanford.edu)
4. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (www.uiuc.edu)
5. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (www.umich.edu)

Other notable schools are Carnegie Mellon, California Institute of Technology, etc.

[Moniker]

I would imagine that if you're smart enough to get into a top 10 engineering school, your GPA at UTEP should be good enough to do grad school essentially anywhere you want.

[bayz]

save yourself, don't go to Georgia Tech

[NecMo]

In addition to that, it's entirely possible that not all of your credits would transfer, and you would have to take even longer to finish.

Since you're a senior already, finish what you started at UTEP. If you want to go further, then you had better start applying to graduate schools now, so you can get a more advanced degree in your field. This will be far more productive than you wasting time.
Exactly my point.

To add even further to what Una said, if you read the student handbooks for each of those universities, you will find that probably all of them have a limit to the number of credit hours that can transfer. Probably around 60-70 hours at the MAX, which means about 2-2.5 extra years of school AFTER you transfer.

I would HIGHLY recommend against transferring to another university at this point. Do the smart thing and finish what you started and apply for graduate school since you say your GPA is high. It will be much more productive as Una said, and will yield better results.

[$hadowgod]

Auburn University is a great Engineering School. It is also very affordable. I do not know how good the Computer Engineering department is however. We are the first school to offer a Wireless Engineering degree. NASA and other big companies take interest in the graduates from here.
http://www.auburn.edu

[Craven]

i know a bunch of kids who went to Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh and loved it and it is a great school

Rochester Institute of Technology is a great engineering school (not sure about the Computer engineering part, but it is probably just as good as the others) but the snow is absolutely ridiculous (i almost went there but they require that you sign over your soul in exchange for being enrolled, plus the expense made it un-reasonable)

and Lehigh University in PA is also a great engineering school (again, not sure about the computer part, but it should be just as good)

but all 3 are over $30,000 a year for out of state

[Sutterkane]

see logo in avatar. rank around 34th in engineering schools(not bad). about 2k a semester. I was in their college of engineering for a little while.

[arKane]

New Jersey's Institute of Technology, NJIT .... www.njit.edu

thats where i go.. majoring in computer engineering.. probally will switch majors by the end of the week though :(

but.. go to MIT.. doesnt get much better than that..

[cherny]

Rochester Institute of Technology is a great engineering school (not sure about the Computer engineering part, but it is probably just as good as the others) but the snow is absolutely ridiculous (i almost went there but they require that you sign over your soul in exchange for being enrolled, plus the expense made it un-reasonable)


I go here for hmm.. one more day. There's lots of new construction going on, and the computer engineering department just moved into brand new facilities. That's all I got since I'm not an engineering major (Nework + Systems Admin).

http://www.ce.rit.edu/

[Mityas]

Thanks for everyones input. I just don't know if I can handle being here any longer. Everything is getting to me: family, friends, fraternity, girlfriend, work. I just want to get away from it all as its stresses me out beyond belief and it is affecting my grades incredibly. I just don't know what to do. :(

[SoulEdge]

ark, i live in newark :eek:

[arKane]

ark, i live in newark :eek:

well, i dorm here, so, i guess you can say i live in newark also.. :confused: .. lol.. from south jersey though.. willingboro...

[NecMo]

Thanks for everyones input. I just don't know if I can handle being here any longer. Everything is getting to me: family, friends, fraternity, girlfriend, work. I just want to get away from it all as its stresses me out beyond belief and it is affecting my grades incredibly. I just don't know what to do. :(
talk to a doctor, maybe get some kind of medication, it helps

sounds like UTEP isn't the main problem

[Mityas]

talk to a doctor, maybe get some kind of medication, it helps

sounds like UTEP isn't the main problemNo it is the problem. UTEP is a commuter school so I'm around these people 24-7.

[XxDaRkKiLLeRxX]

I go to WPI and they have a really good engineering program, and yea it was boring as hell my freshman year but then i joined a fraternity and now im enjoying school a hell of alot more

[Moniker]

No it is the problem. UTEP is a commuter school so I'm around these people 24-7. See, this is what's weird about your situation. You're a senior and you're on the last lap of your undergrad education, and these things are just now starting to affect you. If you transfer, you will lose so much time and money by packing up and moving across the country, and the obvious problem with the equivalency of transfer credits.

I'd suggest you just take a semester off if you need to get your personal life straightened out. But you gotta prioritize, man.

[Repo]

I saw engineering and i got excited. OSU is a great engineering school, though i'm not sure how Prestigious their CS program is, I had virtually a full ride there but chose to come to Cal Poly instead (/gloat) which depending on what ear you hear is one of the best engineering schools in the nation. We have a CS program it is fairly large, the general consensus is-it's great. 'Though there will be a pool of Universities that can offer a great education-see where you get the best deal for you. Weight it all out etc. (advice, apply to imo atleast 5-6)

oops btw im CE, which is more fun and cooler.

[DemoN.cX]

i go to RPI. sorry for this useless post.

[NecMo]

No it is the problem. UTEP is a commuter school so I'm around these people 24-7.
If you still live at home and if you work, maybe look into getting your own apartment or get a few friends and rent a house.

I'm just making these suggestions because transferring at this point will seriously make your situation worse, because I honestly almost went down the same road you're thinking about going down. I might add that I am so glad that I didn't transfer, and I was a 2nd semester Junior, not a Senior.

[SoulEdge]

lets meet and play tfc ark.

[hawk]

lets meet and play "tfc" ark.
The real message

[SoulEdge]

the tfc part was a 'joke' more or less unless ur implying something else.

[CSI_CrackBRain]

OSU for the win.

[Geewhzz]

You could checkout UMR, www.umr.edu

I went there for a year for engineering UG, but decided I didn't like it and came back home.

The school is good, the town sucks balls.

[SenSai]

save yourself, don't go to Georgia Tech

Wrong! Georgia Tech is amazing!

[beast]

wrong again! :-p

ARE YOU READY FOR AN ASS WHOOPING SENSAI?

[SWAT]

Georgia Tech!


they lost to uga =(

[beast]

too bad this isn't the locker room :( however, you're god damned right they lost to uga. closer game than i thought though, it seems tech isn't half bad this year.

[Pug]

Sorry for off topic but I dont want to make a new thread.

Is it hard to get into UMD as out of state, I'm applying early which is about the best thing I can do. I'm also one of the best soccer players in rochester so I hope that helps. Also what are some good private schools in the MD, VA, NC area cause UMD costs almost as much as a private school.

[Moniker]

Something tells me engineering majors and athletics don't exactly mesh well.

[Koron]

Something tells me engineering majors and athletics don't exactly mesh well.
There are very, very few engineers who compete for the major university teams (i.e. not club or intramural). The time commitment for both is generally too much to balance.

[Sid6.7]

education is what you make it anyway. go wherever you want.

[hawk]

Is it hard to get into UMD as out of state, I'm applying early which is about the best thing I can do. I'm also one of the best soccer players in rochester so I hope that helps.
Unless you're being recruited by Maryland, your soccer skills probably won't help you. Maryland has a top 10 soccer team. I don't think Maryland is too difficult to get into out of state, it's like any other major public university.

[SenSai]

beast, its ok, when I get out of tech and end up being your boss, i'll make sure you'll be my custodial engineering man (since that's all a degree from U[sic]GA is good for).

[beast]

lol good times

[StryKuuR]

Go to UGA where beast is and beat his ass.

Honestly, what you are going thru is no worse than any other senior has gone thru, stick it out and finish. The fact is your "problems" will most likely follow you wherever you go so unless you deal withthem, changing schools wont fix it in the end.

[beast]

holy shit it's stryk! do you ever get on irc anymore? i'm kind of hurt that you want my ass beat :(

and i'm not even sure we offer an engineering degree here. we may, but i don't think so.

[StryKuuR]

i stopped idling in irc because..no one talked heh.

and no I would never beat you...cept in game I would wtfpwn your face. :)