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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:42 pm
Post subject: PhD at eng mechanics (EMS) Virginia tech |
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Hello everybody,
I am an Italian mech engineer and I got the admisson for a phd at the
above mentioned dept. (fall 05 term).
I don't know anything about this univ, I mean things such as rank in
the nation, medium wage level for the graduated and whatever...
Do you know anything about them?
I would to go to the Uni of IL at Urbana-Champaign, but unfortunatelly
they aren't happy with my Toefl results. For V tech they are alright.
Thank you for your useful info.
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Randy
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:22 am
Post subject: Re: PhD at eng mechanics (EMS) Virginia tech |
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edogoal@libero.it wrote:
| Quote: | Hello everybody,
I am an Italian mech engineer and I got the admisson for a phd at the
above mentioned dept. (fall 05 term).
I don't know anything about this univ, I mean things such as rank in
the nation, medium wage level for the graduated and whatever...
Do you know anything about them?
I would to go to the Uni of IL at Urbana-Champaign, but unfortunatelly
they aren't happy with my Toefl results. For V tech they are alright.
Thank you for your useful info.
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Tech is an above average state university in a rural part of Virginia.
Their strongest departments are probably in engineering. If you intend
to work as a professional engineer, Tech would be a good choice. If you
intend to teach at a major research university in America, it's not as
good as Illinois but it's still good. Tech's graduate engineering
college is ranked at 31 by US News; Illinois's is ranked at 4. In
general, rankings matter more among academics than professionals. Among
the latter, Tech is widely respected.
Here's the US News ranking of graduate engineering programs:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/brief/engrank_brief.php
The town of Blacksburg is very small. Roanoke (a town of 50,000) is
about 45 minutes away. The geography is hilly. You're in the foothills
of the Piedmont. The area is rather pretty, especially in autumn. It
snows there maybe six times each winter but probably melts away in less
than a week.
You should visit the Virginia Tech web site: http://www.vt.edu.
From VT's mechanical engineering web site:
http://www.me.vt.edu/overview/index.html
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The Department of Mechanical Engineering is one of the largest
departments within Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, awarding
approximately 220 undergraduate, 60 masters of Science, and 10 Doctoral
degrees annually. Virginia Tech's programs in Mechanical Engineering are
consistently ranked in the top 10-15% of Mechanical Engineering
Departments in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. Currently
(according to 2002 U.S. News & World Report rankings), our graduate
program is ranked 20th in the nation, and our undergraduate program is
ranked 17th nationally.
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Randy
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:48 pm
Post subject: Re: PhD at eng mechanics (EMS) Virginia tech |
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Randy <joe@burgershack.com> wrote in message news:<d46h6q$m93$1@joe.rice.edu>...
| Quote: | edogoal@libero.it wrote:
Hello everybody,
I am an Italian mech engineer and I got the admisson for a phd at the
above mentioned dept. (fall 05 term).
I don't know anything about this univ, I mean things such as rank in
the nation, medium wage level for the graduated and whatever...
Do you know anything about them?
I would to go to the Uni of IL at Urbana-Champaign, but unfortunatelly
they aren't happy with my Toefl results. For V tech they are alright.
Thank you for your useful info.
Tech is an above average state university in a rural part of Virginia.
Their strongest departments are probably in engineering. If you intend
to work as a professional engineer, Tech would be a good choice. If you
intend to teach at a major research university in America, it's not as
good as Illinois but it's still good. Tech's graduate engineering
college is ranked at 31 by US News; Illinois's is ranked at 4. In
general, rankings matter more among academics than professionals. Among
the latter, Tech is widely respected.
Here's the US News ranking of graduate engineering programs:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/brief/engrank_brief.php
The town of Blacksburg is very small. Roanoke (a town of 50,000) is
about 45 minutes away. The geography is hilly. You're in the foothills
of the Piedmont. The area is rather pretty, especially in autumn. It
snows there maybe six times each winter but probably melts away in less
than a week.
You should visit the Virginia Tech web site: http://www.vt.edu.
From VT's mechanical engineering web site:
http://www.me.vt.edu/overview/index.html
"
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is one of the largest
departments within Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, awarding
approximately 220 undergraduate, 60 masters of Science, and 10 Doctoral
degrees annually. Virginia Tech's programs in Mechanical Engineering are
consistently ranked in the top 10-15% of Mechanical Engineering
Departments in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. Currently
(according to 2002 U.S. News & World Report rankings), our graduate
program is ranked 20th in the nation, and our undergraduate program is
ranked 17th nationally.
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Randy
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Thank you Randy, you have been kind in answering.
Anyway, the dept. I am interested in is Engineering & Science
Mechanics, not Mech. Engineering.
I think that EMS is rather smaller than ME, but there are few info
about EMS on the web.
Thanks bye
edo
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