UChicago Should Develop an Engineering Program

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Anonymous wrote:Is this post a joke, they already have an impressive molecular engineering major that is extremely popular with a quantum bent, no ABET needed because it's so high level. These kids work at Fermi and Argonne. The anti UChicago poster is at it again. $100 mil in investment, $50mil for AI already this year.

UChicago's Molecular Engineering (PME) program differs from traditional engineering by replacing rigid, discipline-specific departments (like mechanical or civil) with an interdisciplinary focus on designing technologies at the atomic/molecular level. It targets grand challenges—cancer immunotherapy, quantum technology, and sustainability—through a, flexible curriculum grounded in fundamental science within a liberal arts environment.

The entire second paragraph is AI

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Emory mom’s busy at it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this post a joke, they already have an impressive molecular engineering major that is extremely popular with a quantum bent, no ABET needed because it's so high level. These kids work at Fermi and Argonne. The anti UChicago poster is at it again. $100 mil in investment, $50mil for AI already this year.

UChicago's Molecular Engineering (PME) program differs from traditional engineering by replacing rigid, discipline-specific departments (like mechanical or civil) with an interdisciplinary focus on designing technologies at the atomic/molecular level. It targets grand challenges—cancer immunotherapy, quantum technology, and sustainability—through a, flexible curriculum grounded in fundamental science within a liberal arts environment.

lol

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Anonymous wrote:Emory mom’s busy at it.

His name is Professor Marinovic. Try to keep up.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory mom’s busy at it.

His name is Professor Marinovic. Try to keep up.

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Anonymous wrote:No. What UChicago really needs is a strong bio, life sciences, and medical program, like the ones Hopkins, WashU, Vanderbilt, and Emory have.

If UChicago had even half of Hopkins’ biomedical strength, it would attract a lot more top students, just like Northwestern does.

They do have strong programs in those areas.

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Anonymous wrote:Should we just rename this Forum the "University of Chicago Discussion"? Because it's starting to feel that way.

Right? Every 3rd post is about Chicago

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. What UChicago really needs is a strong bio, life sciences, and medical program, like the ones Hopkins, WashU, Vanderbilt, and Emory have.

If UChicago had even half of Hopkins’ biomedical strength, it would attract a lot more top students, just like Northwestern does.

They do have strong programs in those areas.

Very limited careers for careers with an undergraduate biology or chemistry or life sciences degree etc. unless you want to apply to med school or work in a lab. So, it is not a selling point which is the point made by the OP which is valid.

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Anonymous wrote:Engineering is antithetical to their love of theory

Satire here can be sondry.

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Anonymous wrote:No. What UChicago really needs is a strong bio, life sciences, and medical program, like the ones Hopkins, WashU, Vanderbilt, and Emory have.

If UChicago had even half of Hopkins’ biomedical strength, it would attract a lot more top students, just like Northwestern does.

They do have strong programs in those areas.

Very limited careers for careers with an undergraduate biology or chemistry or life sciences degree etc. unless you want to apply to med school or work in a lab. So, it is not a selling point which is the point made by the OP which is valid.

Maybe if you go to a trash college

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this post a joke, they already have an impressive molecular engineering major that is extremely popular with a quantum bent, no ABET needed because it's so high level. These kids work at Fermi and Argonne. The anti UChicago poster is at it again. $100 mil in investment, $50mil for AI already this year.

UChicago's Molecular Engineering (PME) program differs from traditional engineering by replacing rigid, discipline-specific departments (like mechanical or civil) with an interdisciplinary focus on designing technologies at the atomic/molecular level. It targets grand challenges—cancer immunotherapy, quantum technology, and sustainability—through a, flexible curriculum grounded in fundamental science within a liberal arts environment.

This.
Chicago has engineering!
They have excellent engineering in the bio molecular and quantum space, undergrad and phD. They have an affiliation with two national labs as well as multiple private industries.

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Anonymous wrote:No. What UChicago really needs is a strong bio, life sciences, and medical program, like the ones Hopkins, WashU, Vanderbilt, and Emory have.

If UChicago had even half of Hopkins’ biomedical strength, it would attract a lot more top students, just like Northwestern does.

They do have strong programs in those areas.

Very limited careers for careers with an undergraduate biology or chemistry or life sciences degree etc. unless you want to apply to med school or work in a lab. So, it is not a selling point which is the point made by the OP which is valid.

Maybe if you go to a trash college

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Yale is moving in the right direction: New professors in the sciences said it is a particularly exciting time to work at Yale, as the University is expanding and strengthening its departments in the sciences. Computer science professor Dragomir Radev said his course “Natural Language Processing” this spring attracted 155 shoppers, prompting him to move to a room three times bigger than the original.

Radev, who previously taught at Columbia University and the University of Michigan, added that so far he has been impressed with the quality of undergraduate students and the conveniently small size of the campus.

Yale didn’t have NLP before? They’re really lagging in AI big time.

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UChicago and Yale nowhere to be found for NLP according to CSrankings:
1 Carnegie Mellon University
2 Stanford University
3 University of Washington
4 UC Berkeley
5 University of Toronto
6 Columbia University
7 Georgia Institute of Technology
8 New York University
9 University of Pennsylvania
10 Johns Hopkins University
11 UMass Amherst
12 Cornell University
13 University of Southern California
14 UC San Diego
15 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
16 University of Texas at Austin
17 University of Maryland
18 Northeastern University
19 UC Los Angeles
20 University of Michigan

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, Harvard and Yale don't have major engineering programs either and are doing fine.

You can't create a good engineering school out of magic

As long as programs are ABET accredited (with the exception of Stanford), Harvard and Yale engineering undergraduates go through similarly challenging curriculums.