Union Engineering/ Student Life

modernmomclaire
Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:59:35 +0000

Hoping someone who knows about the engineering program at Union can reply. S would like information about the profs, the workload, the level of competition among students. Do the engineering students form study groups and work together? Unlike other schools he is considering, the trimester schedule concerns him in terms of completing rigorous engineering classes in a short time span. Yes, there are less classes per semester, but engineering students take 10 per year, whereas others take 9.

S knows 2 students who were in Union’s engineering program and switched out, (he doesn’t feel like he can ask them for details because it did not work out for them, and they are “acquaintances” - not friends). He does however know that they are very bright and did very well academically in high school. From what he heard, they were doing poorly so they had to switch majors.

The other schools he is considering are pretty much on par with Union in many ways - however they have traditional semesters. Is there a way to get in touch with students at Union? (When we toured he asked the tour guide about this but he was not an engineering student, so he was taking 9 classes/year).