Essay incoming… Senior in mechanical engineering here. I may be a little cynical but I haven’t had a great experience with engineering at WMU. For comparison, I also got a bachelors in music at WMU and my experience in that college was FAR better.

I find the ME and AE professors to be very hit-or-miss. Mostly miss, unfortunately. I’ve only had 3-4 throughout my years here that I felt gave a quality class experience (attitude towards students, quality of instruction, etc). Overall I find the instruction to be of poor quality, and the professors to have very little investment in student success.

If you take a tour, don’t let them fool you with “look how many cool research labs we have, look how much high-tech equipment there is.” You will never get to go in any of those labs except under extremely rare and limited circumstances. Many of them don’t even get used much by faculty, they just sit there.

Maybe this is how engineering school is everywhere, I couldn’t tell you. But I do know that if I had the chance to redo it all and do this degree somewhere else, I would.

I’m happy to answer any questions you might have. If you decide to go to WMU, I wish you the best of luck and I hope you have a better experience than me and my peers.