<p>I was wondering if the engineering students at UCR could share your experience as an engineering major at UCR. Please give your major and what year you are in. I'm interested in what the profs are like, do you really get any research opportunities as an undergrad, what is the job recruiting scene like for UCR engineers, how does it compare to other UC or Cal Poly programs?</p>
<p>Okay so it looks like 100 viewed this thread and NO ONE can give any info on the Engineering school at UCR? We’re going to visit tomorrow but would be great to hear from students past and current about their experience.</p>
<p>I am a 4th year Electrical Engineering major here. I will be here for a 5th.
Depending on the field, there’s a professor that everyone talks about. Overall, most of them have a good reason for being challenging and are usually pretty good.
Yes you can get research opportunities as an undergrad. You have to be willing to reach out to professors and ask though because they’re not just handing them out to students.
Job recruiting is pretty good. As an engineering major, we have a professional development person who WILL send you multiple daily emails of different job opportunities and club meetings. DO NOT ignore any of these. As a freshmen you will get tired of them, as a junior and senior, they are the best things in the world.
Compared to other UCs we are an up and coming school overall. We do have one of the best Comp Science programs and will teach C++ instead of Java as a programing language. I do believe that Cal Poly would outrank us in engineering, but for the size UCR BCOE is one of the best for your money. All the engineering focuses have their own study rooms. As well, we get an additional quota for printing in the engineering labs.
We also have a lot of different engineering clubs that I would recommend highly to get involved in. There is a club for every focus and all of them can be viewed online.
As for the size, BCOE is pretty small. I honestly love that. Many of the lower div classes that everyone has to take can be pretty big, but upper divs are usually no more than 30 - 60 depending on which class it is. Technical elective classes can be even smaller.
There is various research things going on. If you’re in a tech field, there is even a research opportunity in China where you get to live there over the summer with a UCR professor.
I’m not sure what focus you’re looking to so I don’t want to get too specific, but engineering at UCR is still challenging. But there is also a community within the engineering groups which can be accessed by getting involved with any of the clubs.
Feel free to private message me or just respond if you still have questions. I’m not too sure what else to say about UCR.</p>