Help-Best school for mechanical engineering on list

fauxmaven
Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:42:53 +0000

From my son who I ask to help me up my posting score: "I’m a MechE/AeroE junior undergrad at Case and I would recommend it. The department is fairly well run and I’ve been hearing about the improvements they’re making in terms of faculty and course changes that will make things even better. (For example, there is currently a required class for all engineers in thermo, fluids and heat transfer that is getting split up into 3 different classes for MechEs.) Case is really good about financial aid and even better about merit aid and there opportunities for even more scholarships after you enter. Also, the application is free and there are no essays so it’s worth the application. Case’s social life and gender ratio leave a lot to be desired if you’re a guy, and the quality of eligible bachelors leaves a lot to be desired if you’re a girl, myself excepted. However, this is pretty much what you’re looking at if you’re getting into engineering. Case’s career office is really top notch, they do a great job marketing their students, and have a strong co-op program. The people in my co-op class are working at Nasa, GE, and Philips to name a few. I was given interviews from companies who Case had sent my resume to and called on my behalf. The workload at case is hard, as far as I hear, one of the harder in the country in terms of volume, but if you stick with it, the engineering education is pretty top notch. Once you get into mechE classes, all the classes are very small, and the department is small enough that you can pretty easily make a relationship with all the professors if you try, I got two internships from just talking to professors. All in all, if you can handle going to a school where a lot of people are particularly stressed then you should definitely consider case western.