<p>Material Science and Engineering to be specific.... I like the school for me but my dad seems to think that they aren't all that good in eng.... is he correct?</p>
<p>Its good overall in engineering, but it shines mostly in BioE, where its ranked 1st.</p>
<p>My grandfather went there for mechanical engineering a long time ago, and he's an engineer for NASA now. So it must be alright.</p>
<p>Too bad NASA doesn't pay that much. It is only for prestige when you say you're a NASA engineer.</p>
<p>really, NASA doesnt pay much? why cuz its a gov. funded organization?</p>
<p>I know that he's doing alright financially (close to 100k a year I believe), but people in higher positions must make more.</p>
<p>To be fair, there are numerous advantages to working for any government organization that compensate for the (usually) lower salary. For example, the benefits (i.e. health care, retirement package, etc.) tend to be significantly better than what you would get in private industry. The participation in FERS (the Federal defined-benefit pension plan) is a highly notable benefit all by itself, as how many private companies still offer pensions at all, much less a pension that you can actually rely upon to still be there 40 years later when you retire? {Heck, the vast majority of today's private companies probably won't even exist 40 years in the future, and that's not even talking about whether their pension plans will still exist.}</p>
<p>I have a sophmore friend who's doing Materials Eng. right now, and he's on the biomaterials track...which I believe is unique to Hopkins. </p>
<p>I suppose Hopkins Engineering is a little different from other colleges' as it offers alternate concentrations in addition to the usual engineering track -- i.e. Hopkins offers Chemical Engineering, but you can opt to take a concentration in Nanotech or Biomolecular eng. Similar w/ Biomaterials and all the other engineering areas as well. </p>
<p>Although I haven't taken any of the "real" engineering courses such as Thermo/Fluids/Transport -- I am only a freshman after all...but the intro courses are pretty good. Calculus III, which I think is the math part of engineering is extremely challenging, and you'll learn a lot of things. </p>
<p>And undergrad engineering is generally the same across all top engineering colleges...so no worries. You'll do fine in engineering as long as you have the time management skills to study. </p>
<p>(or that's what I hear at least lol)</p>
<p>I like JHU engineering. I really like the CS department (I'm BME with a focus on computational biology, so I get to take CS classes.) I don't know much about Material Science but I have a few friends in it and they really like it.</p>
<p>By the way, it's JohnS Hopkins.</p>
<p>Any kind of engineering from JHU is great.</p>
<p>NASA at Goddard sounds good, but it doesn't pay well, the benefit is not great for young people. It's only good if you're like 50 or older. For software engineering, they don't even have a process for their software life cycle. They just do whatever. The senior ones are golden there. If you're young and you wanna learn, go somewhere else.</p>