<p>shouldn’t all engineering technology curriculum’s be the same? just like in engineering, or architecture, law, medicine, etc.</p>
<p>All ABET accredited curriculums will look pretty similar.</p>
<p>However, different schools have different levels of caliber for the programs. At Montana State University, the MET program was very rigorous and comparable to an engineering program. I glanced at the one at Wentworth and it doesn’t appear to be the same level of caliber.</p>
<p>how could you tell how rigorus one is though?? or the level of caliber?</p>
<p>Same way you tell if a university is rigorous or not. See what companies recruit. Look at stats of incoming students. Percentage of students who get jobs after college. Visit campus and talk with instructors.</p>
<p>Hi all I found your posts very interesting. My son was accepted into Wentworth for the ElectroMechanical Engineering program. He received a very generous scholarship which will bring our cost to $12000 per year. He was very eager to attend. Now he just received word that he has been accepted off the waitlist into Northeastern’s Mechanical Engineering program. He would receive a $5000 scholarship so our total cost a year would average about $40000+. We will receive no financial aid. Really don’t know what to do here and we have to decide by May 10th.</p>
<p>For students who attend or attended Wentworth are you satisfied with your choice? How does the BELM degree compare to a BSME degree? Thanks for any comments/ opinions on this.</p>
<p>Portway, re your question on choosing Wentworth vs Northeastern, many of the same regional employers appear to recruit at both schools so I am not sure that the school even matters all that much. For instance, below is a “sample” list of co-op employers that can be found on each school’s website (I only listed electrical and mechanical for NEU). Even in this small sampling, many of the same employers are listed for both schools: Becton Dickinson, Bose, EMC, IBM, IRobot, Lockheed Martin, National Grid, Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, Textron Both schools seem to have good placement rates for their co-op students and graduates. So if your son likes Wentworth, that might be the better choice given the financial difference. </p>
<p>Wentworth:
ABCD-Parker Hill/Fenway NSC
The Architectural Team, Inc.
BAE Systems
Becton Dickinson
Biogen Idec
Bond Brothers
Bose Corporation
Boston Red Sox
Bovis Lend Lease
BR&A Consulting Engineers
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
C.E. Floyd Co.
Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc.
Cannon Design
The Charles Playhouse-Blue Man Group
Christopher Chadbourne & Associates
Commodore Builders
Diversified Project Management
Dyer Brown
Egenera
Eleven
EMC
Gale Associates
Gilbane Building Co.
Goodrich Corporation
IBM
Imai Keller Moore Architects
Ingersoll-Rand
Innovative Development
Investors Group Finacial Services
iRobot, Inc.
Juniper Networks
JW Construction
Lockheed Martin
Mass Electric Construction Co.
Meditech
National Grid
New England Controls
PatientKeeper
PC for Everyone
Peabody Office Furniture
Peter Quinn Architects
Pizzagalli Construction
The Plastic Forming Company
Pratt & Whitney
Prodev, Inc
Raytheon
SCA Development International, Inc.
Shawmut Design & Construction
Siemasko Verbridge
Skanska Building USA
Smiths Medical
Sonttai Group
St. Sebastian’s High School
State Street Bank
Sterling Spaces, Inc.
StructureTone, Inc.
Symmetricom
Textron Systems
Turner Construction
UBS Financial Services
Vanecko, Ltd.
WebGen Systems
Wessling Architects
William A. Berry & Son, Inc.
Wilson Butler Architects</p>
<p>Northeastern
Electrical & Computer Engineering:
AMETEK Aerospace
Analog Devices, Incl
Apple
BAE Systems
Bose Corporation
Draper Laboratories
EMC
General Electric
Hasbro
IBM
IRobot
Lockheed Martin
LTX Corporation
MIT Lincoln Laboratories
MITRE
National Grid / Massachusetts Electric
NSTAR
Oracle
Raytheon
Textron Systems
US Department of Transportation Volpe Center
Zoran Corporation</p>
<p>Mechanical & Industrial Engineering:
Analogic Corporation
Becton Dickinson
Bose Corporation
Boston Scientific Corporation
Foster-Miller
General Electric
The Gillette Company
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Pollak - A Stoneridge Company
Pratt & Whitney
Raytheon
United Parcel Service</p>
<p>Thank you, that is very helpful information.</p>
<p>Instead of saying the degree is easier while explaining, just state that it the degree is more hands on and practical rather than theoretical. There never needs to be a mention that one path is easier than another.</p>
<p>Who said that one is easier than the other? I am an mechanical engineering technology major at Wentworth and I have to say it is a challenging major.</p>
<p>My employer hires people with the technology degree as technicians, not engineers.</p>
<p>And welding is a complex process, much more than you would think. We have products where weld characterization and integrity is critical. If you think welding is not worthy to be studied at a university, think again. Try explaining that to the military when a multi-million dollar component fails on a satellite due to a weld failure.</p>
<p>Well, I guess you learn something new every day. Welding. Crazy.</p>
<p>Still, the point that there are a lot of otherwise normal people who look down on overly “technical” subjects being taught at research universities. I like to think I’m a pretty open-minded guy and if I have prejudices like that, I can guarantee that hiring managers who don’t have much experience with “technology” majors are going to as well.</p>
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<p>If this was implied for me, il say that I certainly don’t think ET is easier than E and I dont think E is harder than ET. Both have their place in the world and different employers require different personnel. I consider both equal in integrity.</p>