Engineering Undergrad Help (URGENT!)

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I wanted a collaborative engineering environment with good access to professors, etc.

Have you looked at Olin? A friend’s kid recently turned down MIT for it, mainly for the reasons you cite. Collaboration is basically its reason for existence.

For somewhere like Mudd that doesn’t have PhD programs, shouldn’t there be ample research opportunities still?

Of course there are. Pro is you don’t compete with grad students to work on them, cons is they won’t be the ginormous things possible at large Us. My kid’s LAC has an official summer research program, paid - many schools do.

Mudd’s - https://www.hmc.edu/research/

We offer undergraduates unique, hands-on laboratory and field experience usually reserved for graduate students. Anchored by a research-supportive curriculum, our students pursue research during their entire time at Harvey Mudd. They collaborate with faculty both during the academic year and in the summer through the Harvey Mudd Summer Research Program. In addition, several academic majors require senior research.