paragbm

hey flopsy.........as i said earlier.....weather is sumthin tht i will get used 2 once i go to a uni....so it's not an issue.....it's the fees....i mean.......cmu and umich are 32K/ year.....no aid.....ucla is 22K/ year no aid.......

now 4m wat i've heard th poss of gettin aid once u go to any of these three is max at ucla.......0 at cmu nd very less at umich.....

secondly, i've been told tht the job prospects r equally gud at all 3 plcs......

now, if this information tht i have is correct, ( do correct me if i'm wrong ), is it worth goin to cmu or umich just for the sake of the brand name that they have.....i mean it's a bit more thn ucla agreed........but will it make a diff if i finally plan to take up a job nd be in the industry.......or will my work at any univeristy that i go to make a bigger impact on my future........plz do help........others 2 put in ur inputs.....

MadeInChina

Hey flopsy, after my mom and I read this thread..we decided to go to the UCLA open house on the 9th! Hope to see you there, I'll be looking for that flopsy t-shirt.

EDIT:: Oh, and thanks btw =)

j0b0sapi3n

hmm ya i'm going on the 9th as well. are you really going to wear a t-shirt that says flopsy?

flopsy

No, it won't make a difference once you're in industry... according to the UCLA Career Center, once a grad is in the engineering industry past his/her first job, the institution of terminal degree (graduate or undergraduate) will start becoming less significant, and employers will pay more attention to the employment history relative to the educational history. Anyways, it seems you really do value good weather as well as monetary ease, so just pick UCLA which has both in your favor.

flopsy

Yeah, I'll be there as long as I don't have to wake up too early or stick around Engineering Open House for too long. I'll be wearing a T-shirt with a sheet of printer paper with the name "Flopsy" on it taped to my chest.

flopsy

Sort of. By the way, are you really 21 years old?

royrules22

No he is 18 (check his profile for his b-day).

flopsy

Whoops... I misread his post-count as his age.

dehtran

are GE's for engineering majors the same as CL&S and are they the same for other engineering majors (comp science vs bioengineering?)

flopsy

No, all engineering majors have a different, more rigid set of GEs than CL&S majors. For example, there's no Foreign Language requirement for engineering majors (since many engineering students already know a foreign language as their mother tongue). Yes, all engineering majors share the same GEs amongst each other.

yuilife

Hey I have another question to ask. Is there a big difference in Electrical engineering and computer engineering? I was thinking of doing both but if it gets too intense then I'll just end up picking only one of them. Which one of them would be better off in the future?

flopsy

You can't do both majors. At UCLA, Computer Engineering is a specialization track of Electrical Engineering; that's why it's called Electrical Engineering - Computer Engineering (EECE). Even if you could double major, though, both majors are too intense and unit-heavy to pull it off in under four or even five years. Anyways, both majors would leave you equally well off in the future with regards to employment... There are hardly any companies in the technology/engineering business that would hire straight Electrical Engineers but not Computer Engineers, and vice versa.

j0b0sapi3n

ya i'm only 18 haha

flopsy

In case anyone was curious, UCLA Engineering was ranked 15th again in the U.S. News and World Report 2007 "America's Best Graduate Schools" engineering rankings. Here's how the individual departments in UCLA Engineering fared.

http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/20...0Rankings.html

Aerospace Engineering: 15th
Biomedical Engineering: 42nd
Chemical Engineering: 24th
Civil Engineering: 24th
Computer Science: 13th
Electrical Engineering: 13th
Materials Engineering: 19th
Mechanical Engineering: 16th

lexan

Hey, flopsy, I had a quick question about playing in orchestras and such. Do you know any engineers who play in UCLA's orchestra/band/theatre? Do they have time for it? I love playing violin, so I'm hesitant to give it up. What do you think?