<p>I doubt many smaller schools participate in these competitions.</p>
<p>I don't see the point of this thread, except for that non-state engineering schools do not have the same opportunities for competitions? If so, that is a pretty erroneous statement. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/060123_loreal.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/060123_loreal.html</a>
<a href="http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005101002t.htm%5B/url%5D">http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005101002t.htm</a> </p>
<p>25k in parts from General Motors?</p>
<p>Try 2 million from the Defense Department.</p>
<p>Stanford and CMU are hardly small schools--especially in engineering where they are in the elite group. You must have missed all the discussion of small schools vs. the larger ones. That was the point. Kids at big schools get opportunities for direct involvement with faculty on projects too. Many assume it is all classes of 200 and nobody knows your name.</p>
<p>Ah okay then I guess you're right I missed that thread.</p>
<p>Harvard_Berkeley, I must agree with Barrons. All he said is that major Engineering programs offer greater acedemic and research opportunties for Engineers. Stanford and CMU are HUGE.</p>
<p>Stanford:
Undergraduate Engineers: 1,100
Graduate Engineers: 3,000 (2nd largest in the US)
Faculty: 200
Research spending: $130,000,000</p>
<p>CMU:
Undergraduate Engineers: 2,500
Graduate Engineers: 1,500
Faculty: 200
Research spending: $125,000,000</p>
<p>I can only think of 6 or 7 Engineering programs that are larger. MIT, Georgia Tech, Michigan, UIUC, Purdue, Texas A&M and maybe USC.</p>
<p>RHIT is a small school participating in Challenge X. :-$</p>