<p>Tulane just announced that it will eliminate 5 of its 7 undergraduate engineering majors. This is a real shame, and a difficult situation for current students (even given the delayed implementation).</p>
<p>Yes, I feel bad for the students and faculty there. I interviewed for an ME faculty position there a few years ago. I am so glad I didn't take it!</p>
<p>To be more specific, the following 5 majors are being cut: Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, and Mechanical. Biomedical and Chemical will be kept. It's just as well, anyway. NRC ranks Tulane dead last in EE - #124 out of 124 programs, #88 out of 110 ME programs, and #83 out of 86 Civil programs.</p>
<p>what is NRC? what is their website?</p>
<p>National Research Council. They rank university programs every 10 years. The next report will be out in 2006.</p>
<p>Please visit this site and sign the petition to Save Tulane Engineering:</p>
<p>One would think that the Tulane engineering departments would want to be involved with the "re-engineering" of the region after Katrina, and would be writing federal and private sector grant requests, in order to be positioned in the middle of every aspect of any renewal projects in the region: Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, and Mechanical.</p>
<p>But then, we are talking about NOLA and the South !!!</p>
<p>Those who can, do. ^Those who can't, teach.</p>
<p>That would be an awesome opportunity for engineering students.. they could have the ability to say they helped rebuild NOLA.. experience....</p>
<p>but you have to consider the financial difficulty that Tulane must be going through, and Engineering programs are very expensive, not to mention it looks like theirs was fairly poorly ranked. If the school has to make drastic cuts it's not surprising that engineering is the thing to go, plus if the school was sub-par to begin with it's a good opportunity for them to cash out on the insurance and invest the insurance money into the rest of the school.</p>
<p>It sucks, but it sounds like the rational decision.</p>
<p>eng_dude, you're wrong. Plenty of people i know choose to teach over making much more in the private sector at various jobs. Please control the uniformed pseudo-witticisms.</p>
<p>Sorry. It's my opinion that there is a very weighty kernel of truth in what you dismiss as a pseudo-witticism. Guess we just have to disagree.</p>
<p>Why do you think so little of the intelligent and/or highly educated? At the very least, you must think that the engineering profs are able to be engineers in whatever field they do research, or business profs doing business, and law profs doing strictly law, as many teach and have practices. Are all of the professors in the world not doing anything? Is teaching and research, in all fields, nothing? How would any of the technology we now have be without technological research, which isn't all in the private sector.</p>