Top 50 Engineering Schools Involvement

[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.