An engineer, good friend of mine I worked with years ago graduated with an MSEE from MIT. We worked in RF for Scientific-Atlanta at the time and got to talking about educations, etc. He said, MIT was great, theory out the ying-yang, etc. But.....
He asked me about waveguides for RF. He said I know the formulas to show how an RF wave propagates down the guide...couldn’t for the life of him figure out how it’s done... how did they get that RF wave in there in the first place?
I explained it to him and showed him with real hardware....he said, they never taught any of this. This from the pre- and post-war lab (Lincoln)who pioneered radar in this country using British hardware (magnetron).....
UCLA made the list? Unbelievable!
Harvard....their motto is “TRUTH”.....proven by Paleface Dizzy Lizzy Warren. Their motto should be “EXCRETUM”. What a laugh.
Rejected from #9.
Accepted by 14, 20, 27, 84
Went to #14 from 1979-1983. Cornell. Beautiful setting. They taught me how to build oil refineries and chemical plants, just before no one wanted to build them anymore. Outside of engineering it was uber-liberal.
Should’ve gone to the University of Minnesota. Same quality of education for a lot less money.
Yay! I graduated from number 1, while my brother graduated from number 3 and my sister from number 15. I’ll tease them about it.
Here’s a better way to choose a college, best colleges for free speech.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/06/southern-schools-dominate-list-best-colleges-for-free-speech/
I would rate this number one. I am being treated by their graduates. They really learn their fields. The other school graduates seem to be idiots.
Accepted by 1, 10, 49
Went to 10 instead of 1 for multiple reasons:
* Excellence of education in Physics and Engineering: even
* Number of undergrads: 10 - ~1,000, 1 - ~4,300
* Cost, with financial aid: 10 - $, 1 - $$$
* Weather: So Cal > Mass
* City: Pasadena > Cambridge
Hmm, my alma mater, Emory, is consistently ranked in the top twenty-five in the US, has been as high as 16, and is consistently ranked higher than Carnegie-Mellon, where my brother went. Yet Carnegie-Mellon is at 49 and Emory failed to make the list. University of Pittsburgh makes the list, but Emory doesn’t? I’m not buying it.
Bump