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Thanks, that's interesting. I didn't realize GA Tech had a formal co-op program.
I can understand getting bored with IE. Doing time studies and line balancing isn't the most enjoyable way of earning a living.
In all honesty, I think the courses were less the problem -- the co-op job opened his eyes wide. He just couldn't see himself in that kind of environment.
In all honesty, I think the courses were less the problem -- the co-op job opened his eyes wide. He just couldn't see himself in that kind of environment.
I'm not sure how GE "structures" their engineering operations. At GM, we had "manufacturing" engineers and "industrial" engineers. The IEs were mostly concerned with human factors, basically what operations does each operator have to do, and balancing the workload over all operators. And then how to adjust those loads as production increased/decreased. Manufacturing engineers were focused on the equipment design and function. What tooling and equipment was required to make a new product, what needed to be added or adapted due to increases in production, making that equipment function better/faster/more reliably and keeping it all running.
"Eye opening" is one of the most important functions of a co-op program. At least you'll have an idea what you will actually be doing after investing the effort and money in a degree.
Thanks, that's interesting. I didn't realize GA Tech had a formal co-op program.
I can understand getting bored with IE. Doing time studies and line balancing isn't the most enjoyable way of earning a living.
GA Tech is one of the shining stars in the New South ...it shows up in the top 10, which is a real rarity (in general) of Southern Schools (outside of Texas or VA.)
GA Tech is one of the shining stars in the New South ...it shows up in the top 10, which is a real rarity (in general) of Southern Schools (outside of Texas or VA.)
I know-they are a highly respected university in their engineering and sciences programs. We sell a fair amount of equipment to them, I've worked with several customers from their in their physics and materials science programs. U of Florida has a good program as well, as does Loyola and Clemson.
The south is pretty much the new manufacturing mecca of the US. I grew up in the "rust belt"-which was well named. Buffalo, Rochester, Detroit, Cleveland, most of NJ...mile after mile of abandoned, rusted out and collapsing factories and warehouses. Travel most anywhere in the SE and factories are being built and expanding seemingly everywhere. Most international automakers have plants in the SE. Many aerospace companies do. As well as a lot of other diverse manufacturing. FL, GA, AL and most of the east coast up to the Carolinas are booming (relatively speaking at least) these days. Not at all like the rust belt.
GA Tech is one of the shining stars in the New South ...it shows up in the top 10, which is a real rarity (in general) of Southern Schools (outside of Texas or VA.)
So Duke, Vanderbilt, UVA, Virginia Tech, NC State, Wake Forest, UNC, etc aren't good schools?
I know-they are a highly respected university in their engineering and sciences programs. We sell a fair amount of equipment to them, I've worked with several customers from their in their physics and materials science programs. U of Florida has a good program as well, as does Loyola and Clemson.
The south is pretty much the new manufacturing mecca of the US. I grew up in the "rust belt"-which was well named. Buffalo, Rochester, Detroit, Cleveland, most of NJ...mile after mile of abandoned, rusted out and collapsing factories and warehouses. Travel most anywhere in the SE and factories are being built and expanding seemingly everywhere. Most international automakers have plants in the SE. Many aerospace companies do. As well as a lot of other diverse manufacturing. FL, GA, AL and most of the east coast up to the Carolinas are booming (relatively speaking at least) these days. Not at all like the rust belt.
Manufacturers go to wherever they can rape Labor without restriction: China, Mexico, the Third World parts of America, etc.
The Rust Belt is the way it is because too many ordinary people expect to be treated like actual human beings at work. And that’s probably going to be true until a new generation of willing slaves is born in the Rust Belt.
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