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Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:17 pm to DollaChoppa
LSU > La Tech. Duh.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:31 pm to DollaChoppa
Good friend's son from poorest city in America (Lake Providence) turned his 4.0 /36 into full ride B.S/.M.S. in engineering from Clemson.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:33 pm to urinetrouble
I hate georgia tech, but my brother went there and its a dang good school. NASA recruits straight from there. Half the students are Asian or Indian.... they're doing something right
Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:37 pm to DollaChoppa
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Tell him to go to a good ACC school like Ga Tech, UVA, Va Tech, or NC State.
These schools don't necessarily need to be lumped together as engineering powerhouses.
Especially if the OP's brother wants to do something like PE or ChemE. NC State and UVA would be horrible choices. NC State does have Tarek Echekki, but that's a decision for a grad student to make.
Va Tech is good ME. Srinath Ekkad moved from LSU to Va Tech to continue his combustion work. They're solid pretty much all around.
Ga Tech is great Aerospace, ME, and just about all others as well. The "heavy-hitters" in their fields are certainly prominent around Ga Tech's campus; however, pretty much none of those guys are decent teachers. PK Yeung being a prime example.
In the grand scheme of things, your undergrad choice isn't that important unless you have a specific job in mind the day you graduate high school. Otherwise, bust your arse, make good grades, and just about anybody will hire you nowadays.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:46 pm to CFDoc
Jeez.....LSU or Tech? Sure it's LSU over Tech, but if you have theability you should set your sights no lower than aTm.....which is a damn fine engineering program.
either way, there will be plenty of C students from middle tier schools willing to have their Project Managers hire them. Make no mistake nerds don't develop business.......cool kids do. This is fact. But the world needs lab rats too.
eta: of all the advanced experienced level Tech grads I know, ONE is an achiever. I personally know numerous frickoffs who went to Tech after LSU suspended them and graduated. Half have taken the PE 4+ times. Sure they can build a nice concrete canoe.....but, seriously? The achievers are hitting happy hour not building canoes.
either way, there will be plenty of C students from middle tier schools willing to have their Project Managers hire them. Make no mistake nerds don't develop business.......cool kids do. This is fact. But the world needs lab rats too.
eta: of all the advanced experienced level Tech grads I know, ONE is an achiever. I personally know numerous frickoffs who went to Tech after LSU suspended them and graduated. Half have taken the PE 4+ times. Sure they can build a nice concrete canoe.....but, seriously? The achievers are hitting happy hour not building canoes.
This post was edited on 2/17/14 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:49 pm to CFDoc
NC State is a top 30 engineering school in the world. So you clearly dont know waht the frick you are talking about.
I probably shouldve said Maryland instead of UVA. UVA is still an awesome all around school.
I probably shouldve said Maryland instead of UVA. UVA is still an awesome all around school.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:03 pm to DollaChoppa
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NC State is a top 30 engineering school in the world. So you clearly dont know waht the frick you are talking about.
I never said NC State wasn't a good engineering school.
But if the OP wants to end up researching detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms for hydrocarbons, why the frick would he go to NC State? There's top-level and crap-level research going on at just about all the major universities and NC State is no different.
Sorry but you're the one with no fricking clue.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:03 pm to jimbeam
Fair question and I'll add to the PP, he's interested in an ME degree.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:08 pm to CFDoc
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if the OP wants to end up researching detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms for hydrocarbons
Oh, forgive me for allowing you to use specific topics in specific disciplines and sub disciplines of engineering in order to slight my university after you claimed that the four schools I mentioned didn't need to be lumped together as engineering powerhouses.
Not to mention all I said was that they were good ACC schools. Something which you quoted. And yet now you have the nerve to post
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I never said NC State wasn't a good engineering school.
And the OP isn't the one attending the university in question.
Good lord man, literacy much?
I really don't see the purpose of your previous post except as a way to troll. That took some effort to take my original post and twist it into
quote:for a kid that hasn't graduated from high school yet.
esearching detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms for hydrocarbons
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:10 pm to DollaChoppa
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Oh, forgive me for allowing you to use specific topics in specific disciplines and sub disciplines of engineering in order to slight my university after you claimed that the four schools I mentioned didn't need to be lumped together as engineering powerhouses.
The butthurt makes sense now.
Go pack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:12 pm to CFDoc
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:12 pm to lsudat10
Rice
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:13 pm to lsudat10
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LA Tech
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:15 pm to lsudat10
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Fair question and I'll add to the PP, he's interested in an ME degree.
If his interest at this point are nothing more than "ME" then the "best" engineering school for him is still wide open.
Like I said before, there's good and bad at all the major universities. Just tell him to visit some and go with his gut.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:21 pm to DollaChoppa
DollaChoppa - are you in NC?
I'm in Charlotte. Graduated LSU undergrad, Clemson grad. Work in an office full of NC State grads.
I'm in Charlotte. Graduated LSU undergrad, Clemson grad. Work in an office full of NC State grads.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:29 pm to CFDoc
Nerd fight!
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:30 pm to CFDoc
I was surprised Rice was ranked #32. Thought it was almost as big as an engineering school as Ga Tech.
This post was edited on 2/17/14 at 9:19 pm
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:32 pm to wpsnickers
The OP was probably talking about The Mississippi Institute of Technology.
That MIT.
That MIT.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 8:34 pm to CFDoc
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In the grand scheme of things, your undergrad choice isn't that important unless you have a specific job in mind the day you graduate high school
This is solid advice. It's best to go to a school with a solid research program (and culture that pushes high-achieving students to do it) and good recruiting contacts. That way, if he decides to do the grad school route, he can do meaningful research; if he decides not to, he has his pick of jobs.
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