engineering

[Isabelle07]

Hi,

I've got a few questions about engineering. I'm good at Math and Physics, I've wanted to study architecture for several years, but now I'm leaning towards engineering. I've read many uni's sites about it, but still I've got no specific idea of what I want to study, baecause most of the fileds of study are infamiliar to me. I don't know if I want to design engines or if I want to build robots or cars, because I haven't done any of these things in my life... And I have to decide what I want to do even not knowing what I'm choosing...

My questions are very general:

1.Is there a uni which offers "just engineering" and is good? Which one?

2. What do you do after engineering in uni? How does it look like? (unis write : "a graduate can....." and "our alumni find job in companies of good renome" . but it is an abstraction for me. can you explain?)

3. What are general fields of study? How can I try them out befere choosing one?

4. What are best unis for future engineers? (my grades can get me anywhere I want, I'm thinking of applying to MIT, but they are expensive - I'm afraid I'll never pay back the studentt loan)

[ak18]

Hey, I'm going to be studying engineering, computer science to be precise, this fall.

1. This question that you asked is a bit vague. But no uni will offer 'just engineering.' And as you know, there's different branches in engineering so you need to decide what you're leaning towards. I'm going to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign this fall which is #4 for computer science so it's a good school for engineering I'd say. But it depends in which country you want to pursue your uni degree, but since you said MIT, i'd say the states. Just google in top 10 engineering schools in the US and you'll get a good list

2. Again, it depends on what type of engineering you're gonna be pursuing but generally companies do hire you for their different departments. Since you start interning in companies your junior/senior year in college you'll already have a job by the time you graduate. Since I'm pursuing Comp Sci, I can write programs, or develop software for companies.

3. You can enter into the engineering department of most unis as an undecided engineering major. During the second year you should be switching to a specific major; so you can use the first year trying out what interests you the most.

4. Lol, yes MIT is the best, but it's not just grades that get you into MIT. Most often, it's also your extra curriculars that do matter. So you need to focus on that as well. They look for someone who has an innovative mind basically. The best unis for engineering are MIT, CalTech, Berkeley, Urbana-Champaign, Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon. These are basically some of the Top 10 colleges.

Hope this helped a little

[ChocolateDrop]

1. Lots of unis offer an "engineering" or "general engineering" course. It first starts out with the engineering priniciples that apply to the all the engineering disciplines then you specialise in the later years. In some unis you specialise in final year. Oxford for example has an "engineering science" course where you specialise the discipline in the final year.

2. You can go straight into your respective engineering discipline, the one your degree has on it or you can dable in almost anything. It's more the transferable skills from your degree that matters most of the time, apart from uber specialist disciplines such as being a brain surgeon and a lot of medicine. Some jobs offer training that will teach you from scratch.

3. Chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering. Mechanical is the broadest branch. If you're lucky enough to get into MIT or a similar American university, they make it easy for you to try different even unrelated courses. First year is kind of broad where you learn the sciences, maths, some humanities options, english/ writing etc and this can set the platform for what you want to major in. So one can start off thinking they want to major in biology and end up as a civil engineer major. From what I've read and been told it's easy to switch around. Alternatively you could do some research and visit lectures at a local uni.

4. Rankings tables. http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2013/engineering-mechanical

Edited June 16, 2013 by ChocolateDrop

[Isabelle07]

Thank you Helped, of course