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Originally Posted by orestis
What Uni is the best option ? My highest options at the moment are UNSW, USYD and then Macquarie university(No Aerospace).
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First of all I gather you have just received your HSC and ATAR results.
Congratulations!
With regards your choice of university, I cannot overemphasize the advice to
attend the engineering open days at both Sydney and UNSW.
Chat to the staff and lab assistants. Are they excited about what they are doing?
Eager to show off some cool stuff? Keen to recruit in their ranks?
Look at each school's respective infrastructure, labs and equipment.
For example, does one possibly have a new state-of-the-art wind tunnel or
supercomputer? Better student computing facilities? Something that gives
it that edge?
Does one have better industry connections?
Does one have a stronger space engineering department?
Many years ago when I was at the point you are now I wanted to become
an Electrical Engineer with a strong emphasis on digital electronics and
computing.
Since Sydney Uni was the older and more famous, I at first naturally
assumed I would prefer to attend there.
But after going to both the open days at Sydney Uni and UNSW, my mind
was made up that UNSW was the better place. So that's where I ended
up and I never regretted it.
For example, whereas at Sydney Uni the computing department had this
historical legacy of being a part of the School of Mathematics, at UNSW
it was part of the School of Elec. Eng. Whereas at Sydney students were
still using punch cards which they submitted as batch jobs, at UNSW the
electrical engineering and computer science students had their own DEC
mini-computer with labs filled with terminals and a brand new operating system
that many of the staff were actively contributing to called UNIX.
But things can change over time so you
must go and visit both for yourself.
Best of luck!
Gary Kopff
Mt Kuring-Gai NSW
Phone 02 9457 9049