Undergrad Engineering with Sports and Smaller class size

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IIRC, thelioniusmonk went to both a premier engineering school AND a premier sports school. One of the “few,” where you can get both. :smile: I bet his/her experience was a ton of fun, when not studying his/her behind off.

I went there for business school, my undergrad was a different university.

So the amount of work has already been discussed, 8AM tests are not fun, but the bigger surprise was a curve at a private university, meaning that a certain percent got Ds and Fs, Cs the most common grade and about 10-15% As. Then another weed out class in your major, electromagnetism for EEs, switching theory for Computer engineers, thermo for Chem Es, fluid mech for Mech Es and organic chem for pre-meds. I also took a lot of classes that were not relevant and didn’t really start getting into my major till junior year, this may have changed some, I saw the curriculum recently and courses are taken earlier and some of the requirements are now electives.

Another thing with engineering education is that every problem has only one or maybe two solutions and only one way to get to it, and you can only solve that problem on your own.

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This is very schools dependent. Some very easy grading programs are private and some harsh grading programs are public. It’s really a school to school thing.

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I believe WPI has had five suicides since July of this year.

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My daughter is a grad student so not in the dorms, but she was shocked there were two deaths in the dorms (Wyoming) this year. She went to undergrad there too and doesn’t remember any deaths. I don’t know if they were suicides or accidental deaths

It’s not just engineering, and not just the ‘really stressful’ majors.

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I think it’s a sad and important data point. I do think it’s important though to separate pre- and post- COVID. Suicides are up everywhere in all majors. Before COVID, that was not the case.

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Correct, I also have a daughter at Northeastern and they’ve had challenges as well, and not major specific.

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UNC Chapel Hill has also struggled with suicides this year - mental health in general has really been impacted by covid, so not sure one can infer anything about a school’s “grind” on suicides right now.

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Add Washington University to the list of schools that are coping with the tragedy of student suicides. I don’t think it’s necessarily a work demand issue. Mental health issues have been exacerbated during Covid.

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@momofboiler1 What is your daughter’s school? My daughter is also planning on chem e. I’d like to haver her read your post. Thanks!

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Purdue. Happy to answer any questions and my D does outreach to prospective students through SWE. If your D would like to talk to her directly I can PM you her email.

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SWE is a great program and gives women a huge boost if they take advantage. Don’t miss the opportunity for an intro from @momofboiler1’s student.

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Hi there! Relooking at this thread, which of these non tech schools would u consider offer learn by doing? My son is still heavily leaning engineering, but also thinking about a larger university and one with other majors in case he changes his mind. But the learn by doing aspect is something that is really appealing. Is it possible to get that at Oregon or Colorado state? Or Utah perhaps?

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Please start your own thread rather than reopening such an old one.