A little blurb on Engineering....the Right Way

Okay, so before I got accepted to the school of engineering at UT, I didn't really have an idea of what engineering was. In fact my idea of engineering was taking things that weren't supposed to go together, and rigging them to fit serving a purpose. Which I guess technically IS engineering, but my view of "RED-neck engineering" was a little different then what I expected. I mean my former athletic coach used to "engineer" our hurdles from PVC Pipe....thats REAL engineering there!




Anyways, I though that I would say that engineering school, was much more computationally extensive than hands on. My last semester I had some design classes where we "designed" an unmanned aerial vehicle system, and then I had a design class where we got to actually fabricate some parts, made of wood, and break them!

There ARE some really cool clubs you can join. like the Design, Build Fly Team - which is a club where you Design, Build and Fly (imagine that- the name is SOOO misleading!) a remote controlled airplane. There was also the Longhorn Rocket Association, which build and launched rockets (about 6 feet tall ones).

So there ARE hands on groups, but you have gotta have alot of free time on your hands.