On Jun 3, 8:57*pm, cincy...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jun 3, 8:48*pm, zwsdot...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > On Jun 2, 12:45*pm, Tim Wescott <t...@seemywebsite.com> wrote:
>
> > > Getting the heck out of engineering school while he's still young!
>
> > Well, I can certainly relate to that sentiment. How are senior
> > projects typically assigned, anyway? Does the student get to pick a
> > project and work on it, or is it "stock"?
>
> At my school, we were presented with a list of available projects at
> the beginning of the year and were asked to pick the three that we
> were most interested in and rank them. Our professors then did their
> best to accommodate everyone's top choices in forming groups. This was
> feasible at the institution I attended, where there were 80-100
> students in the EE department.
>
> Jason

I'm envious! When I was a senior, they had just changed the
curriculum to add the senior design class. And everybody had
to do the same project. Hence I was lost since it required
experience from many classes that I just never took. And thus
I found comp.dsp. That was at Purdue.

Nowadays at MIT there are projects in almost each course,
so the students get really good at project-oriented work from
an early age. Of course, this makes ABET nervous because
I think they currently require a capstone senior design class
for EE.

Julius