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Study Abroad Limited for Engineering Students
On Nov. 30, freshman engineering students received an email from Dean of Engineering Samer Madanat, detailing a change in their prospective major’s ...
Dec 5, 2015
On Nov. 30, freshman engineering students received an email from Dean of Engineering Samer Madanat, detailing a change in their prospective major’s study away policy.
Previously, engineering students could expect to study away for the entirety of their junior year at NYU New York at the Tandon School of Engineering.
The new policy restricts the number of semesters spent at NYUNY to one, the spring semester of junior year, and allows for a semester spent at NYU Shanghai in the fall semester of sophomore year, to be granted on a competitive basis. The perceived abruptness of this change has caused controversy among the Class of 2019.
The change will go into effect for engineering students entering NYU Abu Dhabi in the fall of 2015 and later.
Prior to studying away as sophomores, engineering majors must complete Foundations of Science 1 to 4, Calculus and Multivariable Calculus. This means that any student enrolling in FOS 1 and 2 in their second semester will only be able to complete one semester abroad.
Engineers studying away at NYUSH their sophomore year are required to enroll in Ordinary Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics and Introduction to Computer Science as well as a Mandarin Chinese class.
The application due date for study away in Shanghai is the same for upperclassmen and freshman engineering majors: Jan. 4 2016.
The timeline of the policy change has raised concerns among some freshmen, who believe they have not had timely notice to plan their academic schedule for study away, said freshman engineering student Hani Hasani.
“The decision infuriated — or at the very least confused — countless freshman engineers," wrote Hasani.
Additionally, a number of students feel that this limited study away will diminish the global aspect of the education they were promised upon applying to NYUAD.
“Current engineering challenges are global, and so should be an engineering student’s education,” said freshman Tayla McHardie.
While the motivations behind this change are unclear at present, representatives of the class of 2019 hope to receive answers as they meet with the Dean of Engineering later this week.
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