szy
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congrats bro.
who's going to be your supervisor here at U of I
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quick question people, how long do you think it would take to complete your PhD ?
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wait? there's something called a double masters ?
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nice. we're back at no. 1
congrats to guishediaz. scoring UCB is pretty damn big.
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interesting. I thought that FEA would have utility in construction, but as you said, maybe not.
Thanks anyways. btw, if you don't mind me asking, you doin PhD ???
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oh well, wish someone knew about it.
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Congrats on your acceptances! I'm leaning towards Stanford too (got into MIT but waiting for Berkeley)! Have any of the schools offered fellowships to you? I think that would probably be the deciding factor for me =)
Mate I hope you don't mind me askin, could you give us a look at your stats. And congrats for nailing the schools. It's really inspiring.
cheers.
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Out of curiosity, you mentioned MIT and Berkeley, why would you put MIT over Stanford for structural given the rankings?
I am actually leaning towards Stanford because of their strong program and great location. Anyone have thoughts on why others are better?
I didn't know that, but then I'm an undergrad. All the rankings that I saw regarding CEE put MIT on no. 1 for PhD programs. I guess it's also because I would like to go into computational structural mechanics or Finite element analysis ( which of course is a bit on the mechanical side ) rather than geotetch, as you and a lot of others are. I just didn't really know that there were any 'structural' specific rankings out there.
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So the title is pretty self explanatory, but let me really explain what I'm trying to understand.
As a prospective structural engineer, I wanted to know the difference between FEA and C.M. To be more specific, computational 'structural' mechanics, as opposed to comp. fluid mech.
I have heard that FEA is fairly interdisciplinary, i.e. something that draws a lot from applied math and even computer science. So the question is - how is computational structural mechanics different.
And is FEA really employed a lot in construction. I know that it's very useful in aerospace, but how about good ol buildings.
cheers.
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I'm kinda taken aback by the stanford results. Not to say it's not a good school ( of course not ) but I have heard some not so appreciable things about their MS programs ( cough cash cows cough ).
And I'm not surprised by Caltech at all, they are pretty.......what's the technical term ....... badass.
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congrats to structeng. that's inspiring man, it really is.
I'm gonna assume that it's between MIT and Berkeley ( or maybe not
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more reasons to research then i guess
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Well I guess the title really says it all.
I'm an undergrad at the moment, just scored research position for next semester with a prof.
Like a lot of other kids I've seen a lot written about 'doing research as an undergrad' in order to have a better chance of getting in to good Masters/phd programs.
Let me put it this way, is research really considered a 'game changer' as far as masters/Phd programs applications are concerned? I guess it's kinda hard for me think that a kid who, say had a 3.3 GPA and research (of course, in something that's related to your field) will be preferred over someone who had 3.7 and no research.
I know the above scenario is a bit of an exaggeration, but does it hold true ?
Structural Engineering Admission's Process Fall 2012
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I always thought that people get to know who they'll be researching under. But then again I'm a sophomore so I probably don't know much.