----------------------------------- Catalyst Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:23 pm Engineering ----------------------------------- Anyone in any university engineering programs? Looking for some general thoughts and comments, since I'm very undecided and time is catching up with me. ----------------------------------- Tony Wed Dec 01, 2004 10:17 pm ----------------------------------- Well everybody knows that I'm in [url=http://www.mechatronics.uwaterloo.ca/home.shtml]Mechatronics Engineering. 8) Some thoughts - there are a lot of different engineering programs. So pick a secondary area of interest that you like and combine the two. ----------------------------------- Martin Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:48 am ----------------------------------- Come to math at Waterloo...you know you want to. ----------------------------------- Dan Thu Dec 02, 2004 1:45 am ----------------------------------- Come to Lakehead......it is just as good and there are aucatl females and noraml poleop here :p ----------------------------------- Martin Thu Dec 02, 2004 6:08 am ----------------------------------- On the other side of things, MIT has a pretty nice engineering department... ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:14 am ----------------------------------- Come to Lakehead......it is just as good and there are aucatl females and noraml poleop here :p I whould normal let that one go tony and debate u but u pushed it to far for a public fourm. What u side was ether unfactual or whould just hurt me in my persoanl life, so i think we are best not seeing it. ----------------------------------- md Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:19 pm ----------------------------------- Waterloo. Math. Need I say more? ----------------------------------- Acid Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:36 pm ----------------------------------- The program I'm in is called "Wireless Telecommunications Engineering Technology." We do lots of engineering stuff. ----------------------------------- Dan Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:56 pm ----------------------------------- Adminty Lakehead is in the midel of no where, but that does not relflect the quelatity of education that it has. Ture the admision avg is lower then the progames at u of w (tho it is a hell of alot higher then the avg u side tony) but this is b/c lakehead blives that u should see poleop not numbers, what is the point of going to univierity if u all ready know everyhing u are going to learn there? Also u can not comaper u of w and lakehead direcertly in way u guys love to do b/c they are not the same kind of univierity, lakehead is an undergated based univiisty while u of w is compershive. This means that Lakehead will never get the repuatuion of u of w simple b/c they offer very few if any phd or masters progames but rather focuse soley on undergraduate progames. If i was going for a phd or masters at lakehead then u whould be right in your jugements but i am not. I plan on chaging unis if i whont to go for higher then a batchalers. But b/c lakehead dose not do many graduate progames at all, this means they foucs there recosres in to the undergrade rather the graduate progames witch get u the good rep. Also due to lakeheads realtivey small size it makes for a difrent kind of excipence, my clases are no bigger and some times smaller then the ones i had in high shcool and every one is on first name basies with the prof that teaches them. Also this makes for a very frendely comunity at lakehead witch is nice when living in rez. Also i whould say that lakehead tends to put more effort in to taking care of there students then alot of the biger unis out there witch are just looking for profits and maxizing there stats. in adtion for undergatuate education, all the unis in canada are about the same unless they do not have the progame or there is somting very wrong. So u should go more where u are happy then the uni that says or others say is the best. P.S. i am offected by your post tony, it immpley that i coudl not get in to any other uni witch is untrue. i applyed to every uni in ont that had compsci (witch cost alot) and got acpedcted to all of them with scoalr ships excepted for one witch i was not acpected to for unstated reasons that do not have to do with my avg. Also the fact that u whould bring up some persoanl maters that i intursted u to kepe quite about hurts a bit ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:42 pm ----------------------------------- I don't remember what I posted... am really wired on caffene, lack of sleep, stress... 22 hours 50 minutes untill the my final project is due, still have a lot to complete :? yeah, sorry... Dan did get into 17/18 universities. Waterloo just lost his application. And I enjoy making fun of lakehead, so anything I say about it is biast. Sorry Dan :P ----------------------------------- Cervantes Thu Dec 02, 2004 6:24 pm ----------------------------------- If you think you can handle it, [url=http://www.engsci.utoronto.ca/]Engineering Science @ UofT is an excellent program that will give you a broad knowledge of engineering. It is, however, one of the most difficult courses in the Canada, perhaps the world. ----------------------------------- Pickles Thu Dec 02, 2004 6:24 pm la la la ----------------------------------- If i go to Lakehead, will you protect me from the bears Dan ;) Yep the time is soon upon us to apply, I myself am applying to Mcmaster, Waterloo, and Western for Civil Engineering. Although it will be close for Waterloo, im confident in Mcmaster. and even if i do get into waterloo, it'll be a hard choice between it and Mac i think. But thats just me personally.. And Dan, applied to 18.. silly guy ----------------------------------- Dan Thu Dec 02, 2004 6:48 pm Re: la la la ----------------------------------- If i go to Lakehead, will you protect me from the bears Dan You don't have to be able to run faster then the bear, just faster then the slowesed guy ;) Tho bears are not the bigest issues here, last night it was -19C and acoding to poleop who are in 3rd year here it gets down to -40. Makes runing to class all the more fun :p ----------------------------------- Pickles Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:04 pm ----------------------------------- heh, wear a hawaiian shirt. It'll keep you warm. ill testify to that ----------------------------------- Dan Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:14 pm ----------------------------------- heh, wear a hawaiian shirt. It'll keep you warm. ill testify to that Ok, now u are just scraing me....go to u of w :twisted: ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:06 pm ----------------------------------- Ok, now u are just scraing me....go to u of w :twisted: Western is a fine choice :D I just don't let my friends go there :lol: On a more serious note: Visit some universities and see what kind of fasilities they offer to undergrad. Here at Waterloo among other things we have a student machine shop that is open most of the time. I plan on usinig it when I start a mechanical project for myself (have some ideas, but we'll see..) Also clubs. There are a lot of interesting organizations here. SAE and WARG amongs more outstanding ones, but also a lot of smaller organizations and an opportunity to start your own. I'm thinking of starting another robotics club next term (spring). Checkout [url=http://engsoc.uwaterloo.ca/www/]EngSoc ----------------------------------- Neo Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:37 pm ----------------------------------- Ok, now u are just scraing me....go to u of w :twisted: Western is a fine choice :D I just don't let my friends go there :lol: U of W is waterloo, UWO is western. And I've seen that "Friends don't let friends go to Western" t-shirt, my brother has one. :lol: ----------------------------------- MyPistolsIn3D Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:16 pm ----------------------------------- heh, wear a hawaiian shirt. It'll keep you warm. ill testify to that Haha, It's funny cause its true. Noone can wear a hawiaan shirt like pickles. ----------------------------------- MyPistolsIn3D Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:27 pm ----------------------------------- Does neone know nething about any college programs for engineering? do they exist? Are they worth looking into? going to? ----------------------------------- MihaiG Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:16 pm ----------------------------------- he he he my parents are engineers they say they would kill me if i become one...hehehe...my dad works with Delphi 5 while my mom works with Java....probably become a doctor, lawyer, win the lottery or evil genius :twisted: -edit- im only 14 so i got 4 years to decide muwuhahaha by that time programming wilol become obsolete muwuwuwahahah :twisted: ----------------------------------- Drakain Zeil Wed Dec 22, 2004 1:37 pm ----------------------------------- Waterloo sounds like a lot of fun when I read up on it at their website. They have a different way of admissions however... they take in factors outside of marks heavly. ----------------------------------- Andy Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:19 pm ----------------------------------- yea like if u goto my school or not ----------------------------------- Martin Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:19 am ----------------------------------- Haha, that is so true. ----------------------------------- Hikaru79 Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:21 am ----------------------------------- Haha, that is so true. Thank god 8) There's hope for me yet. ----------------------------------- Jonny Tight Lips Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:39 pm ----------------------------------- yea like if u goto my school or not What school might that be? Waterloo Oxford?? =P haha hick school all the way. ----------------------------------- Andy Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:50 pm ----------------------------------- nope vincent massey secondary