CMU v. Caltech (and misc. questions)

bruno123
Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:52:02 +0000

How separated are the schools? For example, is there much collaboration between the engineering school and the school of computer science?



There’s a great degree of collaboration between SCS and the ECE department. In fact, several CS professors have joint appointments in ECE, and many ECE students take CS or robotics classes. There’s considerable interaction also between the Mechanical Engineering department and the Robotics Institute.

Incidentally, interdisciplinarity is one of the pillars of CMU’s research model, so interdepartmental cooperation is encouraged across all CMU schools.