Just wondering how I would go about transferring to another university? Specifically Western.

Please don't go crazy or judge me. I believe the Mechatronics Engineering program at Western is better for me than Mac. I've heard a lot of bad things about Mechatronics at Mac, so I'm thinking about transfering. Also, I live in London.



I will give you guys the opportunity to try and change my mind though:

I came to McMaster interested in Mechatronics and only Mechatronics. Now that's its time to decide what second year program to choose, I don't want to choose tron anymore because of what I hear. The only other program's I'm kinda interested in is Electrical and Biomedical, and Electrical.

What I love doing it building program, installing it, hooking up wires and machinery and watching the final robot respond to my build. That's what I want to do, and that's why I want to go into tron. I hear tron at Western is more Mechanical based and here it's basically all programming.

So please try to prove me wrong with facts! Otherwise I'll continue looking into a transfer to Western!

You can get what you're looking for, out of Mechatronics or Elec, here at Mac. It's not like Western is going to have 6 courses per term where you sit down in a lecture room, program something, upload it to a robot, and watch the robot respond.

If you went out to the Elec capstone presentation day, you'd have noticed some of the projects they did, which would be right up your alley... You get to do exactly what you want, for 2 whole terms --- but not until you build a serious foundation of the theory behind the circuitry and all that jazz.

If you really want that hands on experience, you either do extra-curriculars (which, again, will give you the exact opportunity you want) and a B.Eng. program, OR you go into the appropriate Bachelor of Technology program. Don't go crazy or judge that latter suggestion either It's a serious pathway with excellent job opportunities on the other side.

Good luck

I am trying not to convince you since if you don't like Mac's program, I don't know enough about it to say much. However, my friend just graduated from Western in Mechatronics and he spent a lot of time complaining how it was a mash of programs and it was not what he expected (in a bad way). After year 2 he said he wished to gone to Mac.

If you do want to play with robots, look at extra-curriculars or join competitions. That will probably be a lot better for you then what you'd learn in school.

Originally Posted by Snowman

I am trying not to convince you since if you don't like Mac's program, I don't know enough about it to say much. However, my friend just graduated from Western in Mechatronics and he spent a lot of time complaining how it was a mash of programs and it was not what he expected (in a bad way). After year 2 he said he wished to gone to Mac.

If you do want to play with robots, look at extra-curriculars or join competitions. That will probably be a lot better for you then what you'd learn in school.

No don't scare him from going away. Tron in McMaster suffers a lot due to being part of half baked Software Department. The fact that in 2007 the courses for the Program were randomly picked out of the basket just to get accredited doesn't help either.

Altho, I feel like programming is important part of Tron (there's a lot more to code and digital systems than just basic Arduino crap), suffering thru courses that weren't worked out in the past 8 years is just too much, especially seeing how they make up over half of the program. There's also irrelevant shit like thermo 2H03 that doesn't even come close to being as useful as Mechanical Engineering thermo, and Engineering 3N03.

While engineering itself is a very hands on field, University itself is based on understanding a lot of theory, which is something you will get at any school. I'm in McMaster Mechatronics, and while some of the courses could use some tweaking, overall it's a good experience. Like others have said, ECE's and Co-op experience are where you really get that hands on experience. I just secured a co-op as a Electro-Mechanical techincian but the interviewers were very impressed with the programming knowledge I had, a lot of which was gained from the software engineering courses here. Whether you decide to stay or go is up to you, but either way you should be focused on doing projects in your spare time just like what you described. These are what employers always like talking to me the most about in interviews.

Lol, jeez.. I could understand transferring to MIT or Princeton, even Waterloo, but are you seriously re******? Damn dawg, that sh*t is cray...

Originally Posted by ralts40(2)

are you seriously re******? Damn dawg, that sh*t is cray...

I'm effectively certain your sole existence on this forum is for the purpose of trolling --- what saddens me most though, is that you might actually be in engineering... And given demonstrations of maturity like this, "that sh*t is cray"...

Originally Posted by mike_302

I'm effectively certain your sole existence on this forum is for the purpose of trolling --- what saddens me most though, is that you might actually be in engineering... And given demonstrations of maturity like this, "that sh*t is cray"...

It actually scares me that he might be able to actually get a degree here and work on something that could endanger public lives...