Proposed engineering school at Purdue faces opposition

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2. Probably should stay as part of the Civil Engineering school for now

but why would Civil Engineering be down? That seems weird.


From a strictly personal view I often wonder about undergraduate specializations for majors. There is an advantage to having a more generic major (for example Mechanical Engineering instead of Agricultural Engineering or Aerospace Engineering). It turns out that for particular specializations in the last two majors you can cover most of it with just a careful selection of electives. You can save the specialization for graduate school. A lot more companies are willing to talk to a Mechanical Engineer than an Aerospace Engineer.