92SiHB

hey

i'm thinking about going into mechanical engineering at either u of t or some other ontario university......has anyone here taken it or is taking it now...how is it/was it?....is there many job opurtuinities?

thanks in advance

bbarbulo

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My brother and my sister in law are both mech-eng grads... my dad is a mech eng too. Bro did his undergrad at U of Waterloo, and sis in law did her masters at U of Waterloo... now my bro is doing his masters at U of Erlangen in Germany, and his wife is doing her PhD there. I did my Economics at U of Waterloo, but next Sept I'll most likely be doing Elec Eng at U of Windsor.

kwikb16a2

all i gotta say is that its fookin hard, my buddy is first year and complains everyday, but none the less if u work at it, its totally possible

kwikb16a2

by the way, he's going to windsor and its very close to gm, he plans to work there

imported_gatherer

I'd recommend Mcmaster

imported_Cablerat

my bro is doing elec engineering now too..

imported_loudsubz

Im in electrical engineering now and its a tough course, I might switch out to Technician then when Im done and dont feel I like what Im doing go back 2 more semesters for engineer course. Its hard and its alot of work, but all depends on what your arfter.

92SiHB

thanks guys....i remember someone on here saying the they went to u of t for mech eng and just wanted to know if it was worth it and how many opportunities there are in this field

punkindrublic

i took two years of mechanical engineering in college... it was ok... i didn't like how the course was taught and such though.... and the pay wasnt that great out of college either... maybe its different for university though....

imported_gatherer

if you need help you have my number ...

bbarbulo

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GM isn't even anywhere close to U of W. GM HQ is in fact over in Detroit, and there is a plant all they way across town.

silentkill03

Prepare to have no life during the school semester, because unless your a genius, it's non-stop studying (and thats just at Ryerson), but otherwise there's lots of job opportunities. Good luck.

bbarbulo

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not true... my first degree wasn't hard at all

imported_loudsubz

well depends what course your taking, if its soemthing thats hard and you dont understand well than yes plan to be up studying alot, or you can slack off and fail.

So far this year in our class our mid terms have sucked, a couple of them out of 75 students only like 15 passed, and instead of saying how well you did, most compare how crappy they did.

Its hard material, specially when your teachers cant properly teach a class and just read out a god damn text book.

kwikb16a2

is it chrysler thats near U of W than?

92SiHB

yes i think that the chrysler research lab is at windsor university

bbarbulo

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chrysler is sprinkled throughout the city so is Ford more or less

Notorious

Id recommend going to U of T for that degree.

xenon_194

I have couple of buddies doing Eng, and let me just say this, if your in Science of Eng, either one, be prepared to do a shizit load of work. Eng students here (U of Windsor) have 6 classes first semester along with a nice load of 3 labs and 2 tutorials. Thats like taking 10 classes (3 hours each). Then the stuff they do isn't easy. The same goes for Sciences. I have so much work and labs are what waste a lot of your time. For some reason, Business students have it really easy.

As for why to come to University of Windsor, well we have the Big Three affiliated with the U, so if you keep your marks high, and get to know the right people, there are great chances u'll land a job with one of them. Chrylser dumps millions of dollars into the U and they have some real interesting projects always going on. If you want a list of profs to talk to for certain interests you may have, ask me and I can help you out. For Eng, Windsor's not a bad place.

xenon_194

Why you wanna come back to do more work, your done...lol