For Power and Mechanical engineering, Strathclyde's probably your best bet. Don't believe any of that shite they tell you about all the practical work you'll be doing though, thats a load of pish. You'll be memorising close to 40 formulae an exam, and you'll spend half your time at Uni writing reports on shite you may never understand. A good half of your lecturers will be complete arseholes, and you'll be shocked at the amount of posh, overly-sheltered, useless cunts you'll find on your course (although Glasgow Uni is admittedly worse for this). You'll be forced into a shit-tonne of group work with people who have no intention of pulling their weight, and you'll dread being the sorry dickhead who gets to "put it all together" at 4am of the day of the hand-in. 4 hours of sleep will be considered the norm during your exam period, and during that time you'll learn to hate every other prick who lives in the same house as you, because they're making far too much noise for you to fucking concentrate. The beer at the unions quite cheap though, so it's not all bad.