engineering, towards auotmotive...

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

Yes, I figured the courses leading up would be tough, but I think if I work at it, and do what needs to be done, I can get those cleared out of the way.

 

[cpierce 5,000+ posts]

Yes, I figured the courses leading up would be tough, but I think if I work at it, and do what needs to be done, I can get those cleared out of the way.

Call an advisor at the Engineering Department at MSU...they should be able to help, possibly send you some information.

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

i plan on it monday morning. my father is a mississippi state alumni, and says they get money from TI and different Oil Companies and shit to help their programs along, and that they are rated as one of the best in the nation for engineering schools.

 

[andar 10+ year member]

how do you like MTU greymatter?

 

[jujumantb 10+ year member]

$10 you change your major atleast once...

 

[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

Im actually going to Kettering University for Mechanical Engineering, they used to be called General Motors Institute. The only way to go to this school is through their co-op program, so right now I am actually working full time at a company called Inergy Automotive Systems. They make plastic gas tanks using blow-molding for several different vehicles, at my plant we make the CTS tanks, Escalade, Silverado, Liberty, and the Caravan tanks. I am learning a lot on the design process and the adjustments that need to be made on the tanks. We have to alter the molds and do all kinds of stuff, its really sweet actually, but my boss went to the same school as me and graduated in 04, but he majored in Industrial Engineering.

 

[PatFitz9 10+ year member]

i just graduated from Bradley University, Manufacturing Engineering. Engineers are cool //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[GrayMatter4tw 10+ year member]

how do you like MTU greymatter?

I love it.

I may have changed my major 4 times but...

Don't let school get in the way of your education!

Perfect place for nerds, profs know their shit, only time you will have a TA rather than a professor is for labs.

Theres always beer to drink somewhere.

Theres Mount Ripley right across the river, its not much but its enough for my n00bx snowboarding abilities.

Theres Mount Bohemia about 20-30 miles north of here, know about it.

The guy to girl ratio is rather scary but I get mine.

Its a smaller school, about 6000 students, I like it like that.

The moral of the story is, if I had to choose again, I'd stick with MTU.

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[.::DuD3::. 10+ year member]

Go with Mech Engineering if that what you want its a great field. Be for warned that it is a very hard curriculum. You will most likly have to take Calc 1-4, Physics 1-4, Thermo, possibly some chem/bio and a few other real intense calc and physics based courses.
Its a tough program depending on which school you look at.

yeah the curriculum is very tough, i'm in for calc1-3, differintial equations, bunch of physics and chemistry. but if you can get through it, hopefully your salary will make it worth it.

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

$10 you change your major atleast once...

probably so, but hopefully i keep it within engineering. i dont know which "sub-field" inside of mechanical engineering i want to do.

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

yeah the curriculum is very tough, i'm in for calc1-3, differintial equations, bunch of physics and chemistry. but if you can get through it, hopefully your salary will make it worth it.

i was looking through jobs yesterday just to see whats available and seems you dont NEED more than a BS, and experience to get the pay up above 80 grand. 45 is about the lowest you would get payed from the entry level jobs I saw posting 25-30 an hour, but more is available with a little experience...