<p>Does anyone have any insight into Rochester's Mechanical engineering program? Our daughter LOVES Rochester, but I have some reservations about a program that only has about 25 students a year. Is the program solid enough to produce an engineer to compete with other large schools, such as Purdue?? I know they are night and day.</p>
<p>suebinor,</p>
<p>This weekend I am going to meet up with one of my friends who is a U of R mechanical engineering major. Do you have any specific questions? I will post on here after I meet with him. </p>
<p>I never took any engineering courses at the U of R myself, so hopefully I can get some honest answers from this current student.</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/4394/screen/1?school_name=University+of+Rochester]Here[/url”>http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/4394/screen/1?school_name=University+of+Rochester]Here[/url</a>] is the front page for UR’s page on the ASEE.org website. Check it out and check out other school profiles. The links on the left include faculty, degrees awarded, how much each area gets in research $$, etc. Very useful information. Spend some time with it. ASEE is a great resource and is almost entirely unknown to high school kids and parents.</p>
<p>You can see for example that UR gets a really huge amount for optics and lasers. Mechanical engineering gets a fairly substantial amount of research funding - compare it to other schools, including many tech schools, and you’ll see. But of course Purdue is one of the powerhouses in engineering so it gets more money. </p>
<p>One value of the ASEE reports is that they highlight strength. So for example, Penn State has a reasonably high number for research $$ and then you go into it and see it’s in civil and mining engineering. BU gets a large amount and you can see they are one of the biggest biomed programs.</p>