I graduated almost 30 years ago, so my experience ...

I graduated almost 30 years ago, so my experience is far from recent, but I can speak to how the school prepared me for a career. I have constantly been surprised at how "poorly educated" my peers in industry have been, starting in graduate school, and continuing throughout my career. The truth is: UMR (as it was known then) demanded more, and taught more, to its students than the vast majority of engineering schools out there. Some of my grad-school peers had no exposure to math skills and analysis methods we were taught in our *junior* level courses!