College...

32vofFury · 09-17-2007, 08:30 PM

So today i went and looked at University of North Carolina Charlotte as a serious college choice. It looks like a really nice school, and one of the girls i was touring the place with wasn't bad looking either. They have a really cool motorsports engineering program. They have 2 legends cars, 2 formula cars, 1 dragcar, 2 baja cars, a dirtbike and a 4 wheeler. Seems really interesting. We'll see what happens.

FordSVTFan · 09-17-2007, 08:51 PM

Errr, okay

Condor21 · 09-17-2007, 09:19 PM

I'm a Junior/Senior at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, majoring in Mechanical Engineering Technology . if you got questions feel free to ask.

mineralgrey01gt · 09-17-2007, 09:21 PM

sounds like my kind of school

HandoZiZle · 09-17-2007, 09:39 PM

is motorsport engineering as hard as mechanical engineering? what's the requirement to get in that motorsport thing?

Condor21 · 09-17-2007, 09:47 PM

motorsports seems to be a little more challenging. When I went in as a freshmen, they said by our junior yr they would have a engineering program for mechanical Engineering Technology. So that's why I (and bunch of others) decided to do it. They are now saying they don't enough teachers to do it, pissed ALOT of us off.

HandoZiZle · 09-17-2007, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Condor21

motorsports seems to be a little more challenging. When I went in as a freshmen, they said by our junior yr they would have a engineering program for mechanical Engineering Technology. So that's why I (and bunch of others) decided to do it. They are now saying they don't enough teachers to do it, pissed ALOT of us off.

sucks dude ,hopefully you can get that degree in the end

SVO Ryan · 09-17-2007, 10:04 PM

I would totally base my choice in college on the way chicks look....wait a minute, I go to an online school...

SilverELEX · 09-17-2007, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by FordSVTFan

Errr, okay

Wow, youre a jag. Can always count on ya for a rude comment. Im pretty sure he just wanted to tell people about his experience.

Condor21 · 09-17-2007, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by HandoZiZle

sucks dude ,hopefully you can get that degree in the end

yea man i'm working on it

SVO Ryan · 09-17-2007, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by SilverELEX

Wow, youre a jag. Can always count on ya for a rude comment. Im pretty sure he just wanted to tell people about his experience.

I reacted the same way Adam did. Its kind of like asking a question you already know the answer too...

aaandht · 09-17-2007, 10:20 PM

And now look he is getting responses and advice from people at that school. Its a relevant topic that I think could have gone with out that comment....

I'm currently going to a community college for Engineering(still on the fence of civil and mechanical). Hoping to go out of state I really like U of Maine I have a friend who is there and it has a great engineering program, but I may look into this too...

sunburned · 09-18-2007, 12:48 PM

Baja rocks. I was on the UMD baja team last year. Got 25th out of 141 teams at the competition in Rochester, NY. I got to drive in comp and was 18/141 in the suspension and traction event.

If you like cars at all, take all the car classes you can. Our school sucked in that respect so the only related classes I could take were 'vehicle dynamics' and baja or formula SAE. I think Baja was the only class in all 4 years that I actually learned something that I cared about and will remember for a long time. Hands on stuff is so much better than taking notes and remembering formulas that will always be in books for you to look at.

Condor21 · 09-18-2007, 12:49 PM

yea thats what technology is, its more hands on type stuff then all the math.