Engineering: Carnegie Mellon or Georgia Tech?

RacinReaver
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:27:34 +0000

What more, CMU doesn’t offer a straight forward EE or CE major, but rather a ECE - Electrical and Computer Engineering, meaning they teach both.



My understanding of the way ECE works at CMU is this:
Freshman Year: All engineering students are required to take two Intro Engineering classes (choices: Chemical, Civil, ECE, Mechanical, Materials, Biomedical, and Public Policy).
Sophomore Year: All ECE students take roughly the same classes. I know one requirement is an “advanced” Intro CE and Intro EE.
Junior Year: You split up into your respective specializations.

Also, CMU isn’t necessarily a giant money sink. It cost less for me to go there than it did for my brother to go to one of our in-state publics (Pitt). I imagine the same thing could happen with GT.