Engineering?

<p>Are there Any current or past EE students that can comment on the program?</p>

<p>I’m a current EE. ask me anything</p>

<p>Awesome. Thanks for your response. Size of lower level classes? Size of upper level classes? Does the school have a senior design project? Career center for internships and how is job recruiting? Safety in and around campus?</p>

<p>One more question, would u choose this school again if u had to do it over?</p>

<p>I think all of my sophomore level and above classes have been around 15-20 students. The largest class might have been 30, and I think I had another one that might have had around 25… but those classes were open to all majors.</p>

<p>ECE101 might have had 30 students, but that was a programming class.</p>

<p>The EE department is a small program… only about 80 students total. </p>

<p>Yes the school requires a senior design project. There seems to a wild variation in the difficulty of the senior projects. Some of the projects seem very difficult, and the others seem unlikely to impress any employer. It depends on which company sponsors the project. There is a career center, but they are incompetent and I wouldn’t expect much from them and recruiting on campus is virtually non-existent. There is a job fair where you can drop off your resume to local companies like Microsoft/Boeing… but companies don’t travel to Seattle University. Companies with virtually no presence in Washington like travel to UW.</p>

<p>Campus is very safe. The most serious problem on campus was a “chronic masturbator” who would just masturbate around Seattle apparently. Supposedly he was eventually caught. Seattle is a pretty safe city, but it isn’t the safest part of town. Every once in a while a person gets robbed/murdered a few blocks off campus… but I wouldn’t worry about that.</p>

<p>The biggest advantage of the EE program here is the easy access to professors. You can just walk in and ask about something if you do not understand. You might not be able to do this at a larger state school.</p>

<p>You also get to take high quality humanities classes at SU. </p>

<p>Some problems are:</p>

<p>-No option to study abroad
-Computer science department fights with ECE department over students so it is hard to take computer science classes at the same time as ECE classes.

  • Some classes here are not as rigorous as they are at UW for example. On the other hand, some professors only award an A to one student. Overall I think it kind of balances out, but I think some classes are too easy and others are too hard.
    -Upper division classes are not offered every year (some public schools also have this problem)</p>

<p>It might be better for you to be a big fish in a small pond at Seattle University, or it might be better for you to be an average student at a large school.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t go to Seattle University if you are interested in computer engineering. If you are interested in analog/power then it is fine. I’m sticking it out here, although I kind of feel deceived by the computer science department. I wouldn’t totally write off Seattle U, I would visit to see if you like the fit.</p>

<p>If I had to do it again, I probably would go to my local state school.</p>

<p>Briangt - I sent you a pm</p>

<p>Do you have to be admitted into the engineering program at SU? If so, is admission competitive like at UW?</p>