USC Engineering Approach Theory vs. Hands On

Hawkwings
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:20:46 +0000

Even in schools with heavy theoretical emphasis, you can still get hands on experience by participating in outside of classroom projects. The USC engineering school has quite a few of these projects, some of the more well known ones are the Aerodesign team, the Rocket Lab, and the Formula SAE team.

Anyways, to answer your question, without having taken courses at different schools I really couldn’t tell you. However, there is this dreaded junior year class called mechoptronics which is basically a yearlong “hands on” lab course with horrible long lab reports and very tough grading.