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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended a small school for engineering, and two of my kids currently are studying engineering at a large state school.  My kids are lucky enough to live in an engineering LLC where they are surrounded by other engineering majors.  They’ve never had a TA teach their classes, or one of these huge lectures someone keeps insisting all freshmen have to take.

The opportunities available to them at a large school far exceed those available at a small one - I know this because I attended a small engineering school which was limited not only in depth and breadth of classes but also in decent faculty to teach them.  Larger schools attract better faculty and offer so much more opportunity for everyone.[/quote]
You went to a small school for engineering, not a small engineering school.  That's totally different.  Arguing that a small or medium sized engineering school doesn't offer enough engineering electives is akin to arguing that liberal arts colleges don't offer enough humanities electives.  It's just not true.

Many small engineering schools have the same number of engineering students as much larger schools, as you're just missing the humanities and arts majors.  So the engineering and science class selection is often the same or better.[/quote]

I have a PhD in engineering and taught classes as a PhD student. The myth around professors is pretty comical. Their team of graduate students usually do the work with the professor getting PI status on research for their name, not their actual work on anything. In many ways, I think graduate students are better at teaching because they are more familiar with new research and are more open to helping students. [/quote]

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