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Re: Consolidated list of colleges with FRC teams?

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
Why mentor FIRST FRC in college when you can pour your time into building your own robots for your own competition?
Or compete in one (or more) of the many other design/engineering competitions out there? SAE Aero Design, Baja, Formula, Clean Snowmobile, and Supermileage; NASA's Lunabotics competition, IEEE robotics, ASCE concrete canoe and steel bridge, ASME's competitions...

You get the picture.

While we're all in the "plug your own college" mode, I'm currently sitting at home on break from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. We have 15 established engineering competition teams (give or take a few in senior design courses), quite a bit of undergraduate research in new methods and materials that those design teams test out, and a rather large career fair twice a year. Internships and co-ops aren't required, but they are heavily encouraged (MEs get to replace a senior elective with a co-op, if they so choose). FRC teams in the area: Zero at this time. FLL teams in the area: Multiple.

Oh, and at least in the ME department, there are 4 courses that require hands-on before you even get to senior design: Intro to Mechanical Engineering, Sophomore Design, Product Development (taken with Sophomore Design), and Mechatronics (two projects).

The best part is, even though we do do a lot of research into various things, the professors still enjoy teaching (not something that always happens at research schools, or so I hear).
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