Top 50 Engineering Schools Involvement

[Matt Adams]

Originally Posted by Stephen Kowski

I am trying to make a point that most if not all of these top fifty are, or have at some time been involved with FIRST (be it a scholarship offering, involvement with a regional, involvement with a team, or anything else that might be remote that I have not listed here)

Any incite any specific college (especially the University of Illinois I can't find anything on them) would be greatly appreciated and when/if this project get's finish I will be glad to share this with any/all people that would like this....

Purdue University is heavily involved in FIRST.

The student organization, Purdue FIRST Programs, does the following to support FIRST:

• Mentors 5 local FLL teams
• Manages and provides all technical support for team 461
• Is in the process of getting the go ahead to host a regional in 2005.

In addition, Purdue University offers one $30,000(?) scholarship, distributed over 4 years, for 1 high school student involved in FIRST that attends Purdue University.

I could ramble, but that's the concise list. Let me know if you need anything else.


Matt

[RMiller]

I can help a bit with two schools: Iowa St. and MIT.
Iowa St. as far as I know gives no support at this time to any program. However, there are a number of former students from teams 167, 525, and 967 that attend. Some of these students are attempting to get a team started at the local high school with support from ISU. As far as I know, they are in the process of getting funds for registration. However, I have not got a chance to talk with any of them in depth recently, so I am not 100% sure. The only thing that I know of from MIT is that they have an IvenTeam thing. This is not related to FIRST at all though. Basically, a high school applies for a grant to invent something that will benefit a community or a person. A $10000 grant is given to 10 schools across the nation to build this. Our team applied and recieved one of these grants (that is how I know of it). For more info the following is a link with this year's schools and their projects: http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/InvenT...eam_04_pr.html
Hope this helped some,
Ryan Miller

[RogerR]

Originally Posted by RMiller

The only thing that I know of from MIT is that they have an IvenTeam thing. This is not related to FIRST at all though.

MIT is a sponsor of team 97, though i'm not sure how involved they are.

http://web.mit.edu/first/www/

[Waynep]

Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has an underground FIRST program completely run by students supporting several FIRST and FLL Teams. We're still working on getting recognition and offering scholarships to FIRST students.

[ahecht]

Well, I know for a fact that WPI, which was ranked as the #51 Undergraduate Engineering Program, directly sponsors one team, and has been responsable for starting over a half-dozen others.

WPI also offers two full-tuition scholarships every year, each valued at over $100,000.

[kevin.li.rit]

One of our Mentors went to MIT.

[Liz*599]

UCSD mentors team 812......btw yes there is another list of undergraduate engineering programs without phd's for u.s.......i believe it is also put out by us news and world report.

For 2003 engineering(overall) rankings were:
#1 Rose-Hulman
#2 Harvey Mudd
#3 Cooper Union
#4 us air force acad.
#5 us military acad.

Also for mechanical engineering:
#1 Rose-Hulman
#2 Harvey Mudd
#3 Cooper Union
#4 Kettering
#5 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
RIT
us military acad.

[tiskippy]

Originally Posted by RMiller

I can help a bit with two schools: Iowa St. and MIT.
Iowa St. as far as I know gives no support at this time to any program. However, there are a number of former students from teams 167, 525, and 967 that attend. Some of these students are attempting to get a team started at the local high school with support from ISU. As far as I know, they are in the process of getting funds for registration. However, I have not got a chance to talk with any of them in depth recently, so I am not 100% sure.
Hope this helped some,
Ryan Miller

I can elaborate a bit more on this. Iowa State is very heavily involved with FLL. In fact, we host the Iowa regional here at ISU. This last regional we had 42 FLL teams joining us here for the competition. We expect that number to increase next year. As far as a robotics team, we do not have a team from Ames at this time, but I am working to correct that, partially because I miss it so much and want to mentor a team. I am a former member of 525 and have several other teammates that are working with me to see if we can get a team started soon.