<p>What laptop would you recommend for an engineering major?</p>
<p>You wont need 1.</p>
<p>Engineering is pencil/pen and paper.</p>
<p>for your dorm, or for somthing like that.</p>
<p>Go with IBM/</p>
<p>Umm, actually some engineering majors do need a computer. Computer engineering? hello!</p>
<p>I am yet to see this.</p>
<p>You dont learn to program or learn to make curcuits, on a computer.</p>
<p>sorry but you are wrong.</p>
<p>I am a CE major and have never see any student use a Laptop or even a computer, except in english/writing class.</p>
<p>For engineering, more and more schools are looking into or adopting Tablet PCs which allow you to write down or draw notes onto your Tablet screen. </p>
<p>The engineering dept. at the University of West Florida makes it a requirement that all incoming 2005 freshman have a Tablet PC. </p>
<p>There are Tablet PC/Engineering programs running now at MIT, Purdue, The University of Vermont, Seton Hall, Virginia Tech, UVA and a lot more schools around the country and in Canada (The University of Western Ontario). Engineering students are making Tablet PCs the standard at the University of Singapore.</p>
<p>The last couple of years have seen an increase in papers presented at IEEE conferences about the usefulness of Tablet PCs in engineering schools. If you're going into engineering, your professors will recognize and know about Tablets. </p>
<p>And VincentPerricone is right about laptops in engineering classes: because of the nature of the materials presented, a regular laptop is useless.</p>
<p><a href="http://uwf.edu/ece/tabletpc/%5B/url%5D">http://uwf.edu/ece/tabletpc/</a></p>
<p>Yeah, Tablet pcs are the new thing.</p>
<p>I mean when you take a Physics class. How will you draw graphs and stuff on a laptop.</p>
<p>so for the OP I may recommend</p>
<p>Yeah, there is a group of students at my school trying to introduce the Tablet PCs to incoming students. I'll check them out. Thanks.</p>
<p>By the way, Vincent was clearly joking when he said he never saw anyone use a computer except in an english class.</p>
<p>Make sure you get one that won't hose up when you're trying to run Matlab or Maple or Solidworks or whatever you'll need to run as an uppeclassman...</p>
<p>Um no I wasent</p>
<p>for inclase computer usuage. all I have seen is in an english class.</p>
<p>Regardless of what institution Vincent goes to, I most definitely used computers in class for my computer programming lab and in my intor to engineering course so it's definitely possible that you will end up using computers in class.</p>
<p>how do u learn to programm on a Computer.</p>
<p>taking both c++ and java, I ahve yet to use a computer in class.</p>
<p>Yes I had projects which needed to be done on a computer. But never in class.</p>
<p>Tell me how you can draw a graph on a computer fast enogh to keep up with the class.</p>
<p>Its not feasible. so you just use a notebook.</p>
<p>Even in HS we didnt use computers in Programming.</p>
<p>Vincent, what school do you go to?</p>
<p>I'm going to be a CE major at USC and my Intro to Comp Sci class is all in a PC lab.</p>
<p>Our programming class was in a lecture (where one would probably use pad and paper) and a lab (where one uses a computer). It was basically a time to get one-on-one help and work on our weekly assignment.</p>
<p>University at Buffalo.</p>
<p>I didnt have a Lab with my programming classes.</p>
<p>Just pretty much. read the book and the teacher said as an example for java class</p>
<p>This is 5 sections of sorce code. They use this certain methood he went over how the code was assembles and then that was the class. There was no 1 on 1 help, or any this is how you do the specific things. We have the book for that.</p>
<p>we had i think 11 classes and each class we went over a topic on a very broad scale. Just the idea of the subject was given. we never got to anything in depth. so we learn what a methood or a class was throgh source code and we have to learn it ourselves.</p>
<p>I have also attended NYIT, where it was the exact same, we only had a broad leacture. never anything like you gusy are talking about.</p>
<p>you guys seem babied(dont take my spelling), ive never heard of that.</p>
<p>Just a different type of university, I guess. University of Michigan is one of the top computer engineering schools so they dedicate a lot to the department.</p>
<p>sounds better for you then. </p>
<p>It would make the students job alot easier,</p>
<p>I ahve just never heard of it before.</p>
<p>Funny, we used computers in every programming class I have taken...</p>
<p>and engineering students tend to use a lot of computers for many purposes.</p>
<p>Also funny, though you claim to be a CE you dont seem to really grasp what it is you learn in engineering courses when you make your reccomenedation (though you also have a laptop yourself...). I cant remember why...but I thought you were a not too bright high school student (well first a wannabe NYU student and then kept dropping to lower and lower tiers) who liked to come and troll the forums with bad advice and crappy responses.</p>
<p>No I dont own a Laptop.</p>
<p>maybe since you guys go to better schools, they have more resources.</p>
<p>"Even in HS we didnt use computers in Programming."</p>
<p>Weird. In high school, we never had a single lecture. From day one we were on computers for 100% of the class.</p>