NUS (Engineering) vs NTU (Engineering)

[shoh0ku]

Most prob nus. Why nus ? Are u from nus? How isit inside?

On the most superficial level, NUS branding is just better. SMU also.

 

[light84]

I suggest that you guys don't go for the niche engineering majors such as materials, bio, environmental, aerospace etc.

These majors are too narrow and that's not a lot of jobs that require these major specifically. That is assuming if you wana work in engineering industry sectors.

Unless you know these majors are easy to score first class and you are hoping to use the first class to join anything but engineering sectors, say general jobs that don't require a professional engineering degree such as civil service, MNCs or finance, den it's okay to go for it

Go for the traditional majors i.e. mech, EEE, civil & computer.

If you have any further interest in these niche areas at a later time, you can take the traditional majors coupled with a minor or specialization such as mech with aerospace minor etc.

 

[shoh0ku]

I suggest that you guys don't go for the niche engineering majors such as materials, bio, environmental, aerospace etc.

These majors are too narrow and that's not a lot of jobs that require these major specifically. That is assuming if you wana work in engineering industry sectors.

Unless you know these majors are easy to score first class and you are hoping to use the first class to join anything but engineering sectors, say general jobs that don't require a professional engineering degree such as civil service, MNCs or finance, den it's okay to go for it

Go for the traditional majors i.e. mech, EEE, civil & computer.

If you have any further interest in these niche areas at a later time, you can take the traditional majors coupled with a minor or specialization such as mech with aerospace minor etc.

 

[Kyoji83]

Mechanical engineering develop into specialize fields such as aerospace, automotive & etc.

I used to work as HR in aerospace industry & I recruit ITE graduates for the post of Technician if they are major in Mechanical or Aerospace but never Automotive & etc because they do not have the related basic skill & knowledge to kick start their OJT.

With a general engineering degree like Mechanical allow you to work in a lot of industry such as Construction, Marine, Facility Management & etc but a specialize engineering degree like Automotive will only limited you to work in Automotive related industry.

So I do not agree that 'If you want to work in an engineering sector, most companies hire a variety of degrees cause ALL these engineers have to be retrained anyway'.

I would like to beg to differ. Most engineerings are quite specialised, even mech and EEE so just do what you think you will like. If you want to work in an engineering sector, most companies hire a variety of degrees cause ALL these engineers have to be retrained anyway. You really think what you learn in school is that useful to your job? lol

 

[light84]

To illustrate my point, one can flip the recruit section on sat. You can do a count of the jobs that require these niche engineering majors. Most of these engineering positions ask for majors in the traditional fields. Those that require those niche majors are far and few in between.

 

[sujun93]

Any opinions between NUS and NTU chemical engineering?

Got both offer but not sure which to choose. I graduated from poly

 

[shoh0ku]

Mechanical engineering develop into specialize fields such as aerospace, automotive & etc.

I used to work as HR in aerospace industry & I recruit ITE graduates for the post of Technician if they are major in Mechanical or Aerospace but never Automotive & etc because they do not have the related basic skill & knowledge to kick start their OJT.

With a general engineering degree like Mechanical allow you to work in a lot of industry such as Construction, Marine, Facility Management & etc but a specialize engineering degree like Automotive will only limited you to work in Automotive related industry.

So I do not agree that 'If you want to work in an engineering sector, most companies hire a variety of degrees cause ALL these engineers have to be retrained anyway'.




Good to know that there are many even more specialised degrees out there.

 

[shoh0ku]

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[tellaella]

I graduated from NUS Faculty of Engineering, Bioengineering. Feel free to contact me if interested in taking the course.

Overall, I love the course. They teach you basic engineering design principles and design projects related to medical devices. Also teach you a lot of modules that can help with the design projects, eg. electrical engineering, physiology, basic programming. And i like the fact that it isn't a competitive course, relatively a small class.

 

[ixoraa]

Why did you choose nus instead of ntu? Do you know what is the difference between them? Im in a dilemma of making a decision between nus and ntu for bioengineering.

I graduated from NUS Faculty of Engineering, Bioengineering. Feel free to contact me if interested in taking the course.

Overall, I love the course. They teach you basic engineering design principles and design projects related to medical devices. Also teach you a lot of modules that can help with the design projects, eg. electrical engineering, physiology, basic programming. And i like the fact that it isn't a competitive course, relatively a small class.

 

[KoonZui]

Why did you choose nus instead of ntu? Do you know what is the difference between them? Im in a dilemma of making a decision between nus and ntu for bioengineering.

Im a NTU MSE student, so here are some of my understanding of things.
Engineering courses on a whole are, generally, equally difficult in NTU and NUS. But because of the grading system (bell curve), NUS has a slightly better talent pool and hence, is slightly more competitive. Comparing MSE's curriculum between NTU and NUS, the one in NUS is more in depth and is therefore usually more difficult. I can't say if that's will be the case for bioengi, but I think the trend is that NUS's curriculum has a deeper depth.

NTU
+direct honors (4 years; NUS is you choose in your 3rd year)
+generally, easier to score
-Pulau NTU (its frigging far)

NUS
+prestige of NUS, easily recognised that is from Singapore
+relatively near (there's Kent Ridge MRT that brings you to campus)
-National University of "Stairs", campus not as well concentrated as in NTU; takes maybe 30mins to get from tutorial to lecture venues

 

[MoxLotus]

Why did you choose nus instead of ntu? Do you know what is the difference between them? Im in a dilemma of making a decision between nus and ntu for bioengineering.

anything to do with bio has no hope in singapore now.

 

[kiddykong]

Im a NTU MSE student, so here are some of my understanding of things.
Engineering courses on a whole are, generally, equally difficult in NTU and NUS. But because of the grading system (bell curve), NUS has a slightly better talent pool and hence, is slightly more competitive. Comparing MSE's curriculum between NTU and NUS, the one in NUS is more in depth and is therefore usually more difficult. I can't say if that's will be the case for bioengi, but I think the trend is that NUS's curriculum has a deeper depth.

NTU
+direct honors (4 years; NUS is you choose in your 3rd year)
+generally, easier to score
-Pulau NTU (its frigging far)

NUS
+prestige of NUS, easily recognised that is from Singapore
+relatively near (there's Kent Ridge MRT that brings you to campus)
-National University of "Stairs", campus not as well concentrated as in NTU; takes maybe 30mins to get from tutorial to lecture venues

Is it still valid? The easier to score in NTU.

 

[mypillowtalks]

Is it still valid? The easier to score in NTU.

Second year ntu eee student here.
You really Must understand the module inside out to score well, the quizzes (for year 2), which contribute certain percentages to the overall marks, are generally easy to score almost full marks.

Final paper is not so straight forward and have a lot of concepts embedded in a single Question.

 

[socket_athlon]

I graduated from NUS Faculty of Engineering, Bioengineering. Feel free to contact me if interested in taking the course.

Overall, I love the course. They teach you basic engineering design principles and design projects related to medical devices. Also teach you a lot of modules that can help with the design projects, eg. electrical engineering, physiology, basic programming. And i like the fact that it isn't a competitive course, relatively a small class.

Any course won't be competitive if you're no.1.

 

[iceberserker]

is ntu civil engineering stress?
considering between nus civil and ntu civil. having a hard time making a decision.

Yes you will deal with a lot of stress....principal stress....von mises stress

 

[seianko]

What you said is very true. I also heard about the cheena culture. There are many china or other FTs who have no commitments who mug all day and they pose as a huge challenge to attain our honours. that was what i heard, is it true? The part about NTU being easier to score makes lots of sense, thanks for your suggestion!

those tiong students mug whole day. but they are the ones who are more than willing to share knowledge if u didnt understand the classes. >> just saying

my bro just grad from NTU engineering. he regretted and say shud hv went NUS instead. basically his days in NTU is self study degree and hang ard the tiong kias to score.