<p>How does duke handle engineering? Is it as hands off and old fashioned as vanderbilt?</p>
<p>oh, it’s very hands on.</p>
<p>Hm…interesting.</p>
<p>Over the last few years, each department was worked to increase the amount of hands-on experiences students have and also to have more available in the first and second years. The computational methods course I teach has several data acquisition labs to teach the basics of…acquiring data among other things - that course is taken by all students, generally in the first semester. Follow-on courses in the departments (BME 8, CEE 24/25, ECE 27, and EGR 20 for MEs) are geared towards giving students a better overview of the department as well as experience in the lab.</p>
<p>how hard is it? well thats a stupid question, i’m sure its very hard, but how much time do you put into it and what kind of GPA does a middle of the class student usually end up with?</p>
<p>I’ll let students answer the time part - I think when I was an undergrad I spent about 3-4 hours outside of class for each hour of class on average, though there were definite peaks and valleys with that.</p>
<p>For GPA, my experience has been that the median grade tends to be somewhere in the B- to B+ range.</p>