Harvard Hockey - Trouble in Paradise?

[Josh '99]

[quote Dpperk29]All that being said, I am a firm believer that the quality of an engineer has a lot more to do with the person than the school. I am sure there are a lot of bad engineers from Cornell (and Clarkson for that matter) out there building bridges, elevators, airplanes, cars, and other things we trust our lives to everyday.[/quote]That's certainly a fair point, and true about engineers as much as it is about any other background.

[KeithK]

[quote Dpperk29]I am sure there are a lot of bad engineers from Cornell (and Clarkson for that matter) out there building bridges, elevators, airplanes, cars, and other things we trust our lives to everyday.[/quote]

That's your pleasant thought for the day.  Knowing some of the people I work with (I'm an engineer) I have to agree with you.  I'm almost surprised that those bridges aren't collapsing, elevators plummeting and airplanes falling out of the sky every day. Massive factor of safety ftw!

On a serious note, my company in the SF Bay Area is loaded with engineers from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.  Has anyone ever heard fo this school in the northeast?  I certainly hadn't.  But it's well known as a decent engineering school in California. I'm sure Clarkson has the same regional status in the NE like Dpperk29 says.

[kaelistus]

Here in Boston, I've certainly heard of Clarkson professionally. In my experience it has a pretty good reputation, and the Clarkson software engineer's I've worked with have all been excellent.

Harvard software engineers, however, have not. So there.

[Dpperk29]

[quote KeithK]
On a serious note, my company in the SF Bay Area is loaded with engineers from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.  Has anyone ever heard fo this school in the northeast?  I certainly hadn't.  But it's well known as a decent engineering school in California. I'm sure Clarkson has the same regional status in the NE like Dpperk29 says.[/quote]

That makes me think of another reason as to why cornell (and other big engineering schools) has a more widespread reputation as clarkson does. I would wager that more engineers with graduate from cornell or some of the other big engineering schools come from a more widespread area, and probably tend to go farther away from their respective schools for work. the vast majority of clarkson students are from New York or New England, and most of them I know either want to stay in the northeast, or already have jobs and are staying in the northeast.

hell, for all we know Vladivostok Polytechic Institute(not even sure if such a school exists) has the best engineering program in the world, but the world will never know if they all stay in Vladivostok...

[profudge]

Kieth,
 
I heard of  Cal Poly and almost applied there years ago 1968 - wound up at Swarthmore College instead.   My first office-mate when I started at IBM in '87 was a Cal Poly grad also and a good  SW engineer;  so although HS in Suburban Detroit (prep) and living and working in NE most of time  - definitely have a good opinion of Cal Poly.   :-)

fwiw REPUTATION CHANGES OVER THE YEARS;   but I have ALWAYS thought very highly of CORNELL throughout this time period.

[Josh '99]

[quote KeithK]On a serious note, my company in the SF Bay Area is loaded with engineers from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.  Has anyone ever heard fo this school in the northeast?[/quote]I'm pretty sure Weird Al Yankovic went there, but I'm not sure what that says about the school's efficacy at training engineers.

[ugarte]

[quote Dpperk29]I am doing a Co-op with General Electric this semester, and it seems that half the engineers here are Clarkson grads (it might not be half, but at least the dept I am in it is). Talking to other friends who have interned (or have fulltime jobs) with large companies (Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, IBM, Raytheon, Siemens, etc) I get the impression that those who are located in the Northeast work with a lot of Clarkson Engineers.[/quote]
That sounds a lot like "Older Clarkson guys hiring younger Clarkson guys." That isn't a knock by any means - I'm sure that something similar goes on with Cornell alums too. If your placement and alumni relations offices are worth anything, that's exactly how it should work.

[Swampy]

[quote kaelistus]Here in Boston, I've certainly heard of Clarkson professionally. In my experience it has a pretty good reputation, and the Clarkson software engineer's I've worked with have all been excellent.

Harvard software engineers, however, have not. So there.[/quote]

Sorry, this post is an error.

[Rich S]

[quote Swampy][quote kaelistus]Here in Boston, I've certainly heard of Clarkson professionally. In my experience it has a pretty good reputation, and the Clarkson software engineer's I've worked with have all been excellent.

Harvard software engineers, however, have not. So there.[/quote]

Sorry, this post is an error.[/quote]

Of course it's an error.  It doesn't slam Clarkson's hockey team or its academics and grads it turns out.  ::rolleyes::

[Dpperk29]

[quote Rich S][quote Swampy][quote kaelistus]Here in Boston, I've certainly heard of Clarkson professionally. In my experience it has a pretty good reputation, and the Clarkson software engineer's I've worked with have all been excellent.

Harvard software engineers, however, have not. So there.[/quote]

Sorry, this post is an error.[/quote]

Of course it's an error.  It doesn't slam Clarkson's hockey team or its academics and grads it turns out.  ::rolleyes::[/quote]

Dude, that wasn't even funny, let it go... Let this thread die...

[Beeeej]

[quote Rich S][quote Swampy][quote kaelistus]Here in Boston, I've certainly heard of Clarkson professionally. In my experience it has a pretty good reputation, and the Clarkson software engineer's I've worked with have all been excellent.

Harvard software engineers, however, have not. So there.[/quote]

Sorry, this post is an error.[/quote]

Of course it's an error.  It doesn't slam Clarkson's hockey team or its academics and grads it turns out.  ::rolleyes::[/quote]

Rich, you misunderstood.  Swampy's post clearly indicated he had edited it.  When he said "this post is an error," he actually meant "this post is an error"  He posted something in error, then edited to remove whatever it was he'd said in error.

But please feel free to continue appearing paranoid.

[Rich S]

Beeeeej,

Guess I misinterpreted Swampy's post.

I was with you until that "paranoid" comment.

Me thinks it's y'all who are constantly slamming Harvard who are "paranoid."  But keep it up if it makes you feel better.

[Beeeej]

[quote Rich S]Beeeeej,

Guess I misinterpreted Swampy's post.

I was with you until that "paranoid" comment.

Me thinks it's y'all who are constantly slamming Harvard who are "paranoid."  But keep it up if it makes you feel better.[/quote]

Funny, I don't recall slamming Harvard at all.

But feel free to keep overgeneralizing, too.

[ugarte]

[quote Rich S]Me thinks it's y'all who are constantly slamming Harvard who are "paranoid."  But keep it up if it makes you feel better.[/quote]
Slamming Harvard isn't paranoid, it is petty.

Slamming Clarkson is neither paranoid nor petty; it is cheap fun. A few of us have a pool where we bet on how long it will take you to respond, how angry you sound and how many rolleyes your response contains (to ensure that we realize that you are being sarcastic, I guess).

[Rich S]

[quote ugarte][quote Rich S]Me thinks it's y'all who are constantly slamming Harvard who are "paranoid."  But keep it up if it makes you feel better.[/quote]
Slamming Harvard isn't paranoid, it is petty.

Slamming Clarkson is neither paranoid nor petty; it is cheap fun. A few of us have a pool where we bet on how long it will take you to respond, how angry you sound and how many rolleyes your response contains (to ensure that we realize that you are being sarcastic, I guess).[/quote]

If you think I sound angry, clearly you do not know me at all.  "Angry" is an adjective that has rarely if ever been used to describe me, except perhaps when I was playing hockey.

"Cheap" is the operative word in your post.  Glad you can get "cheap" thrills from your "cheap" fun.  As Beeeeeej would say, feel free to keep slamming, criticizing and making fun of Harvard.  It may be petty but it's also "cheap."  Fits your MO very nicely.