M9arg3 Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 Hi all, I am pretty torn between these three schools. Which would you choose if your were in my situation? I would like to work in industry after the PhD. Thanks in advance for your answers. M9arg3 1
matrix Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 Similar dilemma - UT Austin vs U Mich for MS in Mechanical Engineering (in Manufacturing): Plan to continue for PhD after that. UT Austin is great and much more cheap, but U Mich has such varied research and is very very renowned in Mechanical engineering. How much does reputation matter? i.e. degree from UMich vs UT when applying for R&D jobs or postdocs?
Jessengineer Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 Similar dilemma - UT Austin vs U Mich for MS in Mechanical Engineering (in Manufacturing): Plan to continue for PhD after that. UT Austin is great and much more cheap, but U Mich has such varied research and is very very renowned in Mechanical engineering. How much does reputation matter? i.e. degree from UMich vs UT when applying for R&D jobs or postdocs? I am not sure what your ultimate goal will be (career wise); regardless, UT is an amazing school, especially for manufacturing research. I am actually going to UT Austin for manufacturing starting in the Fall (program is MS to PhD), and I know they received a large chunk of the Obama DMDI research grant. So, there is no reason to worry about lack of funded projects, as I believe each professor I have talked to wants to nearly double the projects they will be working on. UMich is obviously an amazing school, and is ranked slightly higher than UT. I guess it really just comes down to what specific research you want to work on. I cannot comment on UMich, as I never applied there, but I know for a fact that UT will be widely expanding their manufacturing research in the next few years! Good luck! matrix 1
matrix Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 I am not sure what your ultimate goal will be (career wise); regardless, UT is an amazing school, especially for manufacturing research. I am actually going to UT Austin for manufacturing starting in the Fall (program is MS to PhD), and I know they received a large chunk of the Obama DMDI research grant. So, there is no reason to worry about lack of funded projects, as I believe each professor I have talked to wants to nearly double the projects they will be working on. UMich is obviously an amazing school, and is ranked slightly higher than UT. I guess it really just comes down to what specific research you want to work on. I cannot comment on UMich, as I never applied there, but I know for a fact that UT will be widely expanding their manufacturing research in the next few years! Good luck! This is great advice! I'm an international student so understanding the extent of research etc is only limited to what I can find on the web. I did read about the DMDI research grant Thanks a lot!
ndie_sosu Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 So I went to the UMich visitation weekend and it looked pretty sweet. I got the impression the department was rolling in funding, seemed like everyone had a sweet hook-up and just about all of the PhD students I met had pretty good outcomes. Also their building is new and nice if that matters to you
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