OT - New engineering building
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What engineering disciplines will be in this building? MSU engineer here, but was not even aware of this new building.
Primarily civil & environmental. https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/ar...-richard-rula-engineering-and-science-complex
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looking at the video-The health center would be across the street to the left. It looks like the camera is on top of either the library or Hand Chemical Lab
looking at the video-The health center would be across the street to the left. It looks like the camera is on top of either the library or Hand Chemical Lab
Question for all you long time MSU engineers and I don't want this to deteriorate into a boomer vs millennial ya ya. Is the engineering curriculum at State as difficult as it was back in the 60's, 70's and 80's ? I was in awe of how hard you guys had to work when I was there...yall were very identifiable by you slide rules on your belts. By far the brightest and most serious students on campus.
I don't know. It's a totally different world now in engineering school, with calculators and personal computers abounding. Just a guess, but there was probably a greater understanding of engineering principles in the old days, but more opportunity for running options nowadays.
I graduated engineering in 89. Son in 18. There is certainly more opportunity for distractions. But he seems to have maintain the knowledge he gained at MSU and built upon it
As a mechanical engineer (graduated in '96) who has/had two sons that started at State in engineering (only one finished/will finish with an eng. degree), I think the material is equally hard, just presented differently. The two big problems I see: (1) many, many high schools aren't preparing kids to successfully and consistently manage an engineering curriculum due to the ability to re-take tests, get your "feel good" 80%, dump all the material online, not use textbooks, not push deadlines, etc.; and (2) there are way too many foreign professors these days compared to years ago, many of whom are challenged in their English and conveyance of the material (and I had plenty of these types back during my college days).
I graduated in 13 and it was extremely difficult for me and my fellow engineering classmates. I dedicated many a late nights to getting my engineering degree. It definitely prepared me for the workplace.
My dad always talked about having to use his slide rule and whatnot in the olden days. From what I can tell the tools have changed but it is as hard as it used to be.
I graduated well before you and the requirement was 144 hours, and labs didn't count much if any. I graduated in 5 years with 5 co-op semesters, which meant 18-20 hours most semesters. That kept a person busy.
I finished in 2012 and it was difficult for me. I agree with the previous poster that public high school and even my time at JUCO didn't prepare me at all for my time at MSU.
When I finished my bachelor's in ChE, I was done. There was no incentive to live in the building any longer. I dont regret not getting a PhD.
When I graduated in 07 it was nearly impossible to graduate in 4 years with a BS in Civil Engineering. The difficult part was the amount of time spent in labs and only receiving 1 hour credit. They would take some of the harder classes and call them a “lab” if you ever took Cole’s (I think it was called) “Fundamentals of Structural Analysis” you know what I’m talking about. I spent more time working on that class than any other class my whole time at state.
As for the new building, McCain used to house the CE department and is named for a CE Alum. When it was renovated in the early 2000s the department had outgrown the building and labs in walker so Industrial Engineering was given the option to move into the building under the assumption Civil would get their own complex with new labs and such. Or at least this is what I was told as a student.
As for the new building, McCain used to house the CE department and is named for a CE Alum. When it was renovated in the early 2000s the department had outgrown the building and labs in walker so Industrial Engineering was given the option to move into the building under the assumption Civil would get their own complex with new labs and such. Or at least this is what I was told as a student.
I can vouch for this. Dr. Cole's class was a mother17er. I took him in summer school and he gave his tests at night so that we wouldn't lose any lecture time.....that guy skipped his mother-in-law's funeral that summer because he said we couldn't afford to lose the day.