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> Now their is a pervasive attitude - if you study engineering for example you pay 4X for tuition compared to humanities. What? If you want to be an engineer

by hoopd 11y ago

> Now their is a pervasive attitude - if you study engineering for example you pay 4X for tuition compared to humanities. What? If you want to be an engineer you can go to a state school, work hard and pass the FE/EIT exam your senior year for 1/4 the price of a private school. Half of the top ten engineering schools are public: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/... The top ten liberal arts schools are all private: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/...

avn2109 11y ago
>> "...work hard and pass the FE/EIT exam your senior year..." Mostly agreed, except that as someone who studied drastically, overwhelmingly too much for the FE exam (which turned out to be super easy) that if you have to "work hard" to pass the FE your education has been gravely deficient.
- bsder 11y ago
  > if you have to "work hard" to pass the FE your education has been gravely deficient. Easier for Mechanical and Civil engineering students since more of the sections are a basic part of their curriculum. As an electrical engineer, the EE sections were laughably easy while I had to study quite hard to get enough points in the dynamics, thermodynamics, and materials sections to pass. I did well, but I really had to work my ass off for sections that I never used again. Whereas practically all of the other engineering disciplines simply blow off the EE section as you can pass without getting any points at all in it.
walshemj 11y ago
Depends where do you want to work as an engineer high end RnD (ie real world leading stuff) does place a lot of emphasis on University, grade and who your supervisor was in some cases.
- saiya-jin 11y ago
  yeah but now you talk about academics, thing broken beyond repair on its own
  - walshemj 11y ago
    Err no was thinking of places like CERN, JET, NASA or Research based out of Universities like MIT or CIT
aianus 11y ago
I don't know about the US, but at the same public government-subsidized university in Canada, Engineering/CS costs 3x more than humanities.

by hoopd 11y ago

avn2109 11y ago

>> "...work hard and pass the FE/EIT exam your senior year..." Mostly agreed, except that as someone who studied drastically, overwhelmingly too much for the FE exam (which turned out to be super easy) that if you have to "work hard" to pass the FE your education has been gravely deficient.

bsder 11y ago
> if you have to "work hard" to pass the FE your education has been gravely deficient. Easier for Mechanical and Civil engineering students since more of the sections are a basic part of their curriculum. As an electrical engineer, the EE sections were laughably easy while I had to study quite hard to get enough points in the dynamics, thermodynamics, and materials sections to pass. I did well, but I really had to work my ass off for sections that I never used again. Whereas practically all of the other engineering disciplines simply blow off the EE section as you can pass without getting any points at all in it.

walshemj 11y ago

Depends where do you want to work as an engineer high end RnD (ie real world leading stuff) does place a lot of emphasis on University, grade and who your supervisor was in some cases.

saiya-jin 11y ago
yeah but now you talk about academics, thing broken beyond repair on its own
- walshemj 11y ago
  Err no was thinking of places like CERN, JET, NASA or Research based out of Universities like MIT or CIT

aianus 11y ago

I don't know about the US, but at the same public government-subsidized university in Canada, Engineering/CS costs 3x more than humanities.