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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy View Post
Any/every accredited school in the USA. Accredited means it meets certain standards and norms, which are in many way responsible for the theory first approach.
Wow. I guess my school didn't deserve accreditation, then. Every engineering class I took (other than math) had a practical element to it. My intro EE class included a boxful of parts from which we were required to make a vehicle that followed a reflective line taped on a tabletop. My CS classes all (well, except one) included a practicum of some sort, from playing blackjack to building a 3D rendering system. I won't even go into the applications of operations research...My wife studied mech/aero eng at the same school and not only learned to weld but also how to build a glider from balsa and trim it for maximum time aloft.

Top that off with internships I did on Wall Street and in an Indonesian ceramics factory and I am forced to come to the conclusion that either I am incredibly ambitious (hah!) or my school is extraordinarily atypical...
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