I heard that you can get work experience counted as a course elective (in this case, ME for a tech elective). I was wondering if anyone had done this and what are the criteria for having it count?


Thanks!

2/7/2008 10:15:32 PM

I have never heard of this / wish it were true

2/8/2008 12:53:26 AM

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"I have never heard of this / wish it were true"

agreed. a ton of people in ME all had internships or coops when i was in school (Grad less than a year ago) and we were never offered this.

so its either not true, or new this semester. besides, the tech electives are the best ME classes youll take probably.

2/8/2008 8:04:11 AM

maybe i just got the bad tech electives (like klang's automotive engineering class), but some of the required courses were much more useful.

but if this is a new thing they've started, i say it's a pretty good idea

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2/8/2008 9:55:00 AM

i think its a bad idea. you should be trying to get a coop or internship in addition to taking all your classes. if anything the tech electives (yea maybe minus the automotive which is a joke) are much more applicable to job fields than your core classes.

2/8/2008 10:09:46 AM

Find something solid to do for 496 Undergraduate Research. I like the way mine is going and we're(my team/other teams) working fairly closely with several HVAC Design firms in the area.

2/8/2008 3:38:06 PM

^ yes that is a great option.

2/8/2008 6:28:54 PM

Well after emailing an adviser, it turns out the university doesn't allow 'paid' internships to be counted for credit. Oh well, looks like Internal Combustion for me.


I found it on the Academic Curricula Webpage:

http://www.ncsu.edu/uap/academic-standards/courses/crsguidetail.html
Scroll to the bottom under '1/4 time internship'

[Edited on February 12, 2008 at 8:19 PM. Reason : ]

2/12/2008 8:18:40 PM

or you can join ASME or ASHRAE and do the design project and get credit for 496

or just find a professor that is looking for undergrads to do research. I think Ram normally has a couple and Tu sometimes has some over in the Laser Lab.

2/13/2008 2:41:48 PM

yea thats what im doing. ASHRAE design project w/ Dr. Terry.

self-paced, meet twice a week for less than an hour with group, meet once a week w/ Terry for like 15min, could win like 1500$ and a trip to Chicago

2/13/2008 7:44:25 PM

^ are you doing any of your work at West Key Consulting?

2/25/2008 12:22:32 AM