<p>Would love to hear any opinions on Ohio State and it's Engineering School in Columbus.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>It’s a good school. I don’t know how to be more descriptive than that since your question was rather vague, haha.</p>
<p>I will one-up boneh3ad and say it’s a great school! Top 25 in engineering in the U.S., if you put faith in a certain college ranking publication. It is no cakewalk either; you will be tested.
I have been impressed by the strength of recruiting as an OSU engineering grad, as well. If you graduate from OSU with a degree in engineering, you will have garnered respect, at least from companies in the Midwest.</p>
<p>meh</p>
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<p>The COE is great. I’m a second year ECE student at OSU. During our first year, all of the engineering students take a set of common courses, the Fundamentals of Engineering courses, which basically gets you oriented and gives you an idea of what type of engineering you might want to do (I was undecided coming in so it was great having this program). The labs in the FE courses are varied and gives you a good idea of where each direction might take you. The FE program has an Advanced Energy Vehicle project to cap off the courses where we designed and built the AEVs using an Arduino. The project was great because you were really able to do what you enjoyed, whether that be the programming, mechanical work, or electrical design.</p>
<p>Now in the ECE department, the entire “sophomore experience” ECE courses have been redesigned recently. I cannot speak for how the courses were before, but I have really enjoyed my first semester in the program and I feel I have learned a great deal. The sophomore experience is a partnership with Texas Instruments and was designed to be “state of the art” and like no other program in the country. Instead of the breadboards and wires that most students use, we instantiate our circuitry through programming an FPGA, which is suppose to be more aligned with industry standards. The labs were very helpful in helping me understand some of the broader aspects of ECE. Right off the bat, we were given access to thousand dollar equipment, which that labs were very useful in teaching me how to use.</p>
<p>Overall, I don’t think you can go wrong with OSU engineering. Its a top 25 program that is only growing and becoming better each year.</p>
<p>Another plus would be that it is not that school up north. Haha, just kidding ThisIsMichigan.</p>
<p>Thank you for the information. My son has been accepted with a very nice scholarship. I have been very concerned because of the size of the school. We are scheduling a visit soon.</p>
<p>The size of the school for me was a worry in the beginning as well, but once I started classes, I realized that it is very easy to form smaller, niche groups with like minded students through classes, student organizations, volunteering, etc. Best of luck to your son!</p>
<p>You’re visiting so you’ll see, but a quick preview, the campus is REALLY nice. U of M’s campus is not bad, but compared to OSU’s it is terrible.</p>
<p>It’s a great program depending on what field you are in. I’ve heard nothing but complaints about the aerospace department, and this all has to do with quality of teaching. I have personal experience with the College of Engineering, the Department of Physics (separate from engineering, but I’m an Engineering Physics major), and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Never heard anything bad about the chem, mech, ece, or other departments. Undergraduate research opportunities abound, internship opportunities are good, and until recently I would have said computer-related internships in-state that are actually interesting are rare, but IBM is about to open a big research thing here, so cool beans. But they hook you up with internships from all over the country and there are twice-a-year career fairs just for eng majors where you can talk to everybody from GE to Intel to Whirlpool.</p>