@Gator88NE @Engineer80 @eyemgh @boneh3ad All of you have given some very good points about schools and their perceived values asan engineering institute. SO Thanks A lot for that. I have eliminated UC boulder and Worcester for various reasons as there program is no better than any other schools mentioned, since they are all very good. I think Top 20-30 engineering school in the US is very good considering how many engineering schools there are.
@Engineer80 @boneh3ad @eyemgh I talked to the associate dean yesterday of Iowa State, since after reading so many comment on this thread and others that Iowa State was a very good school and due to state policies it accepts students and only the weak students who cant study engineering get weeded out, I felt better and wanted to know a bit more. Incidentally he talked about the National Labs and Centers of Excellence on Campus. which is exactly what you guys have been talking about here. They talked about the engineering program and that the college hosts the Largest career fair in the country with almost 460+ companies attending every fall and 350 companies in spring.
It turns out that Iowa State has about 7 Centers of Excellence, Four Federal Research programs , and a National Laboratory Named as the Ames Laboratory ( From what they told me it was one of the most important Laboratories in the US in 1940-50’s because of the Research they did in Manhattan Project. and these days work with Material Science, High Computing and many other fields. They have 3 Nobel Prize winners on Campus two of them are on faculty who also conduct research at lab and one of them is a scientist at the LAB.)
Iowa State also has the worlds highest resolution virtual reality machine? ( If that’s what they called it, don’t remember) Its named as the C6 and there are only 6 in the entire world, and this is the only one in the US. It is used by some of the biggest companies in the US and Europe to do research. They also have a National Tornado Simulator lab, which is the most advanced lab for tornado research in the world. They also talked about the 2 super computers that have on campus. and they were the top 100 fastest in the world when they got them in 2009 or something.
The thing they were most proud of was the Center of Non Destructive Evaluation, which is an Aerospace research facility that is sponsored by Rolls Royce, Space X, NASA and many other big companies to do research on that helps them fly planes and rockets throughout the world.
Your comments have given me so much knowledge about the schools and how important they are for this countries research. @boneh3ad @eyemgh @Engineer80 do you guys know what AAU is ? they kept on telling me that this is a huge thing for research schools and Iowa State is one of only 62 universities in the entire continent that is part of the organization. These are the members for it https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members
they all are huge universities. only UIUC, UC boulder is part of it, I don’t see Stevens and Worcester in them either.
is that something as prestigious and important as they are talking about ?