<p>Don’t make any decisions until you at least get dollar figures from their financial aid offices.</p>
<p>Even if you’re international, the few hundred dollars for a plane flight to both schools would be a wise investment before putting a hundred thousand dollars into any school. </p>
<p>Would you buy a house or a car that you have never seen?</p>
<p>It is a good point, but I need to wait until I have the admission decisions… I just asked about it because in the case I have to choose one I would not have a lot of time…</p>
<p>Just want to point out Northwestern has a unique freshmen curriculum and a strong emphasis on design. It’s not captured in any ranking but it’s probably where the biggest difference between it and most others lies.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northwestern-university/717644-state-mccormick-2009-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northwestern-university/717644-state-mccormick-2009-a.html</a></p>
<p>That’s a very good thing to hear from NU - I always cringe when I hear about people cutting back on creative arts in favor of “math and science”. The fact is, most engineering equations that a bachelor’s level or master’s level engineer will need are found in a book somewhere: give me a stack of textbooks and a fundamental knowledge of the subject, and I can solve most problems with some time.</p>
<p>Real engineering, however, involves more creativity and problem solving. I think most engineering schools are starting to see that, and while most don’t state it as bluntly as McCormick, they are moving there (thanks to NAE’s Engineer 2020). In fact, if you look at who wrote that report, you’ll see many presidents and faculty from the top engineering programs (and, of course, it was chaired by Georgia Tech president G. Wayne Clough). </p>
<p>So, while NU does seem to have an action-plan for addressing the needs of engineers in the future, I think you’ll find very similar action plans for most of the top schools. Just search for a few.</p>
<p>^Actually, the unique curriculum I mentioned started a decade ago. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.mech.northwestern.edu/peshkin/publications/1998_Belytschko_MechanicsEngineeringFirst.pdf[/url]”>http://www.mech.northwestern.edu/peshkin/publications/1998_Belytschko_MechanicsEngineeringFirst.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://www.mech.northwestern.edu/colgate/Website_Articles/Journals/Hirsch_2001_EngineeringDesignAndCommunication_TheCaseForInterdisciplinaryCollaboration.pdf[/url]”>http://www.mech.northwestern.edu/colgate/Website_Articles/Journals/Hirsch_2001_EngineeringDesignAndCommunication_TheCaseForInterdisciplinaryCollaboration.pdf</a></p>
<p>That action-plan is a continuation and expansion of what they’ve been trying to address.</p>
<p>PurdueEE the shootings your referred to actually happened at two off campus apts, one of which my daughter lives in, so they were technically not on the campus of Tech but a 1/2 mile or so away.Like any big city in the US things happen and Tech is in the big city but while a student there my daughter never had any issues that made her afraid for her safety.</p>