UIUC Aerospace vs. Stony Brook University Mechanical?

crazed
Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:07:52 +0000

Son had two summer internships: One at a company in Buffalo (and UB let him move into his on campus apartment for the summer) and one in Pennsylvania (they flew him down for an interview just after Thanksgiving, gave him a hotel, wined and dined him). The internship came with a housing stipend and he and another intern (from VaTech) rented a summer apt together. Both internships were mechanical engineering related. Both employers loved him. Pa internship offered him employment for when he graduated, job Buffalo kept him on while he was in school.

If you google, some schools post the companies that are coming to the fall engineering job fair and you can get an idea from that.

Before our college engineering search, we had no idea that UB was so highly regarded in engineering (science and health science as well.) Son also did unpaid research with the Masters PhD students and then they decided to give him a paid position. He was also on the “board” of his campuses AAIA- the Aerospace Engineering Association. They built a plane and competed in a competition in Tuscon with other students from around the world. Awesome experience. You can google that too.