<p>What is the general stigma associated with this school's engineering program? Have you even heard of it?</p>
<p>I'm going to be an undergrad there next year majoring in either Civil Engi or Aerospace. Being a Florida native, I've known of the school for quite some time. I just wanted to see if people from out of state have heard anything about it.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I would say that UCF has the 2nd best engineering program in the state of Florida behind University of Florida. Obviously not among the best but still pretty good.</p>
<p>That seems to be the general notion around Florida, except that I often hear UCF has a better Aerospace program.</p>
<p>Any other opinions?</p>
<p>I applied to UCF (and was accepted) for the same reason, engineering (CmpE and CompSci).</p>
<p>UCF’s Engineering Program is rising through the ranks (currently ranked 57th by US News & World Report; take it for what you will), and more importantly, it’s in Florida’s “High Tech Corridor,” meaning there’s a excellent job market to be had before (internships, coops) and after graduation. If research is your thing, there’s a plethora of researching opportunities for undergrads. UCF’s engineering school has a lot of ties with local firms such as Harris Corporation, Lockheed, NASA, Disney, etc.</p>
<p>These are a few of the reasons I choose UCF over UF, and the fact that it’s in Orlando, and not in the middle of no where.</p>
<p>Actually UCF’s engineering program was ranked 95th this year by US News. I don’t really know which school has the better aerospace program, neither of them are in the top 20 for aerospace engineering.</p>
<p>^ Not true Pierre. Here are the current UG rankings for programs with PhD.
UF comes in at 15th. That said, UCF still has a pretty solid program, and I know from first-hand experience that they can place students into top grad programs.</p>
<p>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
2 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
3 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
4 Purdue University–West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN
5 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
6 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
7 Stanford University Stanford, CA
8 University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX
9 University of Maryland–College Park College Park, MD
10 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA
11 Cornell University Ithaca, NY
Princeton University Princeton, NJ
Texas A&M University–College Station College Station, TX
14 Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA
15 University of Florida Gainesville, FL
16 University of Colorado–Boulder Boulder, CO
17 University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
19 University of Washington Seattle, WA</p>
<p>those must be the 2008 rankings, here are the ones that I have (plus on the US News website, Maryland is at #6, Illinois at #7, Stanford at #8):</p>
<p>Undergraduate Engineering Specialties: Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
2 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
3 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
4 Purdue University–West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN
5 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
6 University of Maryland–College Park College Park, MD
7 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
8 Stanford University Stanford, CA
9 University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX
10 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA
11 Princeton University Princeton, NJ
12 Texas A&M University–College Station College Station, TX
13 Cornell University Ithaca, NY
13 Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA
15 University of Washington Seattle, WA
16 University of Colorado–Boulder Boulder, CO
17 University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
18 Iowa State University Ames, IA
18 North Carolina State University–Raleigh Raleigh, NC</p>
<p>^ My bad, Pierre, you are correct. Historically, though, UF’s aero program is top-25 (grad program is currently 21st). To the OP…although you are targeting aero, I would suggest you consider ME programs with aero electives as an undergrad…I think you will find yourself somewhat more employable should you not elect to go on to grad school.</p>
<p>Unfortunately I think I’ve come to the conclusion that aerospace engineering may be too difficult for me. I’ve only taken precalculus honors and physics honors in high school, and I looked at the course load for for aerospace engineering and even my brother (who is a mechanical engineer at UF) said it looks incredibly hard.</p>
<p>Is UCF’s civil engineering any good? Anyone know?</p>
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<p>You’ll be fine. You can learn calculus in college. The only real prerequisites to engineering school are knowing the functions e, sin, cos, and log, high school algebra, and a lot of guts.</p>
<p>the University of Florida has the 18th ranked civil engineering program</p>
<p>Both are good schools, and you may want to take into consideration that UCF has a huge student body and is known as a commuter school.</p>
<p>last bump, anyone else care to share their opinion?</p>
<p>I don’t know if these tidbits of information interest you, but…</p>
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<li>The UCF’s Programming Team is one of the few programming teams in the US to do well in international competition (and they usually dominant all FL competitions).</li>
<li>The DARPA/SAE teams usually do in national competition.</li>
<li>The Robotics team just recently won the Autonomous Surface Vehicle Competition.</li>
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<p>I don’t know anything of the schools engineering program but I have heard many negative comments about the school itself from those who have went. UCF=U Cant Finish over here XP</p>