Engineering Programs with Generous Merit Aid for Women?

mom2collegekids
Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:55:55 +0000

@palm715

Punahou guidance counselors came to visit Alabama after their surprise that one of their top students was choosing Alabama. They were so impressed! They now proudly hang an Alabama poster in their offices.

I think Malanai is too modest to mention one of his son’s crowning achievements at Bama. Once his son was at Bama, he decided to add a 2nd major in Film (I don’t believe he intended to have that 2nd major). Well, during his senior year, he participated in a regional film contest; won that. I believe that win is what qualified him to compete in Hollywood. He won Best Picture at the Hollywood Campus MovieFest. UAlabama and the Honors College gave him financial support to cover travel costs. Oh, and his film was also shown at Cannes!

Now, this achievement has nothing to do with eng’g, but it shows how a student can really bloom and achieve at Alabama. I don’t believe that Malanai’s son was even thinking about Film when he applied.

But, as for engineering…I don’t know what discipline interests your D. My son was ChemEng’g at Bama. He’s now a 3rd year med student (can’t believe the time has gone by that fast!) One of his med school housemates was also an Eng’g major at Bama. If they had decided to seek employment straight out of college, they would have had many highly paid opportunities.

I had the pleasure of having dinner with my son and two of his college friends last weekend. One was an eng’g major, who was had his job lined up months before graduation…starting salary $85k. He’s now making just under $100k. The other friend wasn’t an E major, but he also was immediately employed, makes a very good salary, and travels extensively with his job.

As you probably already know, Bama has recently added over 900,000 square feet of new STEM state of the art academic space ~ The Science and Engineering Complex (SEC). This was largely funded by the federal gov’t under the guidance of Senator Shelby who wanted UA to “have what MIT has”.

Here is an aerial view of the SEC ~ http://eng.ua.edu/buildings/

3-D Printing Lab Available to all E students
http://3dlab.eng.ua.edu

7 different 3-D printers having different capabilities.
http://3dlab.eng.ua.edu/equipment/

UA Eng’g students recently won this competition…
http://uanews.ua.edu/2015/05/ua-engineering-students-win-national-contest/

For MechE and EE majors, there is this opportunity…

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Students in the program will first complete two years of engineering and German language course work at The University of Alabama, as well as an internship the summer before their sophomore year with Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Vance, Alabama.

The students will then travel to Hochschule Esslingen for one semester of course work and one semester of professional practice during their  junior year.

Mercedes-Benz is not the only consumer in the program. Other industries in the Esslingen area include Daimler, Bosch and Behr.

Balasubramanian said the mission of the exchange program is to prepare students for the variety of German and multinational companies in the southeastern United States.

“The students work as interns in a German automotive company or supplier,” he said. “They get a deep insight into how a German company works, and we hope that when the students come back from their year abroad that they then go to work for a German multinational in Alabama or the Southeastern region.”

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Your D may be an excellent candidate for UA’s STEM to MBA program where she’d earn her E degree along with an MBA.

Lastly…here is a video by drone of the campus…