I infiltrated Cookeville today

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Yep, my son got his Master's by taking on the Solar Decathlon. That was it. I saved a few bucks. He's actually
getting paid well to do the Doctorate. Good opportunities abound to the well motivated young 'ens.

[peejman]

[quote name='MacGyver' timestamp='1354304195' post='852964']
In 1992, I came to Nashville to look at Vanderbilt's engineering program. As an afterthought, I visited Lipscomb while I was here. One of their professors, Ralph Nance took a couple of hours out of his day to sit down with me, answer my questions about engineering in general and offer me some guidance on finding an appropriate program. During that time, I watched him interact with multiple students on a first name basis, both in and out of the department. I hadn't seen that elsewhere, and looking back, I can say that he talked me into going there - whether he realized it or not. [/quote]

TTU is pretty similar. Most of my professors knew my name. Upper level classes typically had 20-25 students. 10-15 in grad school. On the odd occasion I've been back to visit, they remember me (or fake it pretty well).

[quote] ... As a general rule, if you're working with a good engineering faculty at the undergrad level, [b]you shouldn't have to pay a dime to go to grad school[/b] as an American engineering student. Vanderbilt is even having a hard time filling graduate fellowships due to the fact that so many of them have ITAR restrictions associated with them, yet they can't find American students to fill them. [/quote]

Yep. I got paid to go to grad school. It wasn't much, but I lived on it. There was a high percentage of foreign nationals in grad school. Some of them were really nice, others barely spoke English.

[quote]I'm always happy to talk with any perspective engineering students. We need more good ones in this country.
[/quote]

Ditto.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

[quote name='6.8 AR' timestamp='1354302741' post='852948']
LINKS2K, take him around to the bunch of good schools here, first. My son graduated from UTK with a mechanical
engineering BS, then MS in the same. He is going to the Fraunhofer Institute in Freiburg, Germany, for his Doctorate,
in January. I know you're proud of yours as I am of mine.
[/quote]

You and son should be proud. Fraunhofer is quite "prestigious".

[Links2k]

Thanks everyone. I'm going to let him read this post and see what he thinks.

[Tedro2022]

[quote name='10-Ring' timestamp='1354280369' post='852785']But, if you son thinks that anywhere is better than Memphis then he needs to visit Detroit, or in my opinion most of Arkansas.[/quote]

As someone who grew up in Arkansas (Ft Smith) after my parents decided to move me there at 5 yrs old, Memphis is the arm pit of that and almost every state, save Mississippi. Memphis is just dirty.




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