What is thee school in the US for mechanical engineering these days...? Is it Georgia Tech...?
MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley...... http://www.infozee.com/channels/ms/usa/mechanical-engineering-rankings.htm
goes without saying of course, the proverbial heavy hitters.... is there a certain area of ME that intrests ya?
They suck at engineering. MIT is #1 always. I went to Michigan and I think they are #4 or #5 for ME (I was ME, woohoo). But ya, what other said., MIT, Stanford, Berk... [the rest]
Well if they get a Ph.D. program and are compared to more elite schools in those "rankings" we'd know how it really stacks up. But no f-ing way is it better than MIT.
No specific area, just ME in general - but these answers are enough to satisfy me... I gather that if the thread keeps going, more and more people will continue to say MIT... It's not for me, just a sort of opinion poll... I've seen countless other threads where people mention MIT, too... Thanks everyone...
MIT is good if you are a theorist, but the curriculum isn't as practical there as it is at other schools. I'd go to Stanford over MIT. MIT may be the most impressive on a resume.
Carbon, The answer is MIT (And not just because I have a Masters from there-well, yes, exactly because I have a masters from there!!!) Any how MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Cornell, Rennssaeler (sp?), Worcester Poly, Lehigh, Stevens Institute, and many others all offer super educations in the Engineering Arts. But a couple years out of school and into the industry and none of them really matter anymore.
'zactly. An ME degree isn't like a business or law degree. The name of the school you went to isn't that important. More important to make it into Tau Beta Pi ( http://www.tbp.org/pages/whoweare/ ) I know some corporations recruit pretty much only from members. And please note the location of the national headquarters
You can try Uni of Texas. My friend was one of only 6 people around the nation to work for Air Liquide in Paris last summer for an internship. They picked 4 from MIT and 2 from UT. Definately not THEE school, but it is an excellent school for ME. Worthy of sending an application to.
NNO - GT, VT, Maryland, Purdue, MIT, Cal - All have good programs. Our firm hires a lot of Mech E's, Civil's, Structural's etc. The institutional name on the degree may present certain opportunities but the man (or woman) who earned that degree is really all that matters in the end. I can't count how many "elite" schooled engineers I've fired as fast as I possibly could, but it's more than the "non-elite" ones. That isn't to say that the right minded person who has the choice of either couldn't better themselves by attending one of those schools, it just doesn't make a lazy egotistical person a better engineer. DMAX
Went talking honor societies for ME, don't forget Pi Tau Sigma! What the heck is Rose-Hulman? Never heard of it! And the others they mention.... "Following Rose-Hulman on the list of top undergraduate engineering programs were Harvey Mudd College, Cooper Union, the United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, Bucknell University and Swarthmore College." Harvey Mudd College???? Cooper Union??? You're kidding me right? I went to Drexel, pretty darn good school for Engineering and none of these schools were ever mentioned when I was there. We mostly thought MIT, Bucknell, Carnagie-Mellon, RIT, VT, and Lehigh were all good Engineering schools. I've worked with Engineers from everyone of them and they are all very solid. The MIT guy I knew was a flake (personality wise), but no better technically than the others.
Hey, I bought a burger from on Saturday...! They were really nice; it was like buying jewelry... They were very accommodating and apologetic when the burger wasn't ready right away... All I could think was that if they weren't at the show, I would've had to leave and drive just to get something to eat...
Rose Hulman is a damn good school-In Indiana I believe and related to he Hulman family. (Think Indy 500!!) Cooper Union is in NYC and was about the best school in the country, bar none, for a while there. Not sure anymore. What made them good was that school was free--if you got accepted!! Harvey Mudd is part of the Claremont Colleges, out in San Francisco area (or so). Harvey Mudd was (is) known as a killer place to get in-maybe the hardest school in the country to enroll into. Famous for mathematics. (Oh-yes, I was accepted, I say modestly-when I wanted to be a physicist.) Drexel is another type flight school-- The thing about engineering schools (and engineers) is they are not to caught up in the name game-in general-too practical in nature. (Or would that be too nerdy? and yes I am an engineer-so I can say those sort of things!) (Helps that I am in a cool profession though!)
