I guess I made this drift off topic a bit. 
@itsv, his curriculum is already 20 hours longer than the standard UG curriculum (201 vs. 180).
It seems a bit odd, sort of like taking a semester of French, then one of Italian then one of Spanish. They’re all SORT OF related, but they are different. A semester isn’t long enough to get proficient at any of them.
Programming languages are far more similar than spoken languages. Once you know the theory and the programming paradigms, they are all basically the same. Not so with spoken languages.
Then, like you said, seems like Python is logical, plus it’s what Raspberry Pi uses. Thanks!!!
I look for students who I think have the potential to be permanent in my group, so I look for students who have accelerated and are excelling in their classes, who have taken the classes most relevant to my research area, and who have demonstrated some initiative in figuring out that what interests them is what we do. I also look for software skills since those are often rare, but necessary.
I couldn’t care less about their officer positions in their Greek organization or that they play the clarinet, but sometimes I’ve seen volunteer work that draws me to just like them as people and want to take a chance on them.
I took an FEA class senior year and you really begin to appreciate the power of ANSYS after doing just 2D simulations by hand.
ANSYS is IMHO ridiculously powerful and beautiful at the same time. It is like playing the guitar - how good you become is not a function of whether you take a class on it (I find companies selling 1-day courses on a product like CFX pretty ridiculous and disrespectful to the software), but rather how much interest and time you are willing to spend on it.
What is your guys’ takes on ANSYS simulations?
Because we’re off topic, I’m going to start a new thread.