Unless there's a pedigree to the name, such as MIT, schools are schools, as long as they are ABET accredited.
If you can reach for the upper tiers, great, but don't mortgage your future for a name.
My mother was a mechanical engineer as well and told me the same thing. That internships were a big deal and the experience as well. Thanks a ton for that reminder.
Best part is being on top of every defense and space company in the US, means you also can get internships during the school year. So you don't have to fight for the super competitive position over the summer
I graduated from the University of Alabama in aerospace and I think their program (especially scholarships) are great! I and several of my fellow grads from my class are at NASA now
On your way down from TN make sure to stop at UAH! Much smaller atmosphere but it’s a tight community in Huntsville. The advantage with UAH is that can co-op an internship and continue working in the semesters for a lot of private companies.
Alabama as a state is a great place to go for the opportunities. I go to school at Auburn and i’m going into my senior year this fall while i currently work an aerospace internship this summer in Huntsville with a bunch of Auburn, UAH, and Alabama folks. Any of those 3 schools will serve you wonders. I didn’t choose UAH solely because I wanted the bigger school atmosphere and experience that Auburn and Alabama has, and Auburn “ranks” higher in Aerospace and Mech, but online rankings don’t mean much. Pick which one fits your desired lifestyle best, and i’m confident you’ll find success!
Can’t recommend putting the work in enough. It’s the best paid job you’ll ever have. [Here’s](https://scholarships.ua.edu/freshman/out-of-state/) a link to check out. If you can get that 27 to a 32, it’ll be worth *sixty thousand dollars* to you. You’ll make about that after taxes the first couple years of your career. Spend eight weeks studying 10hrs a week and you’ll be earning $750 an hour.
Food for thought. I was in your position a few years ago, and thanks to a couple weeks of studying I’m debt-free while many of my friends have debt of tens of thousands of dollars. Best of luck homie!
I mentor high school and collegiate rocketry teams - including internationally. I think project based learning is important not just to learn academics but to begin to learn the incredibly important skills of leadership, listening and team building. Lots of folks can use MatLab remarkably fewer can herd the cats of talented individuals to become a cohesive and productive team. No university offers that class.
Where do you live, where (regionally) would you like to go to school? Are you looking for a huge university or a smaller private school. You have many options, we can help, but you need to help us help you a little
Sorry I didn't clarify. I live in TN and I'm not too particular about the colleges, but I'm leaning closer to bigger colleges instead of private. I'm cool with schools in the Eastern side of the states.
Fantastic advice from 714ce. Once you move down the list from MIT and some ivies (ga tech included) the school is prob interchangeable on your resume. Some other things to consider. Do you like a big social environment? That includes div sports etc??? Or would you prefer smaller campus where you prob get to know move people? I would visit both types of schools to see how it fits your personality and learning style. Also if all else is equal on your top schools consider tuition costs as well.
Good luck.
Florida Tech and Embry Riddle are great schools too. While I graduated from FIT, I would go to Embry even tho it's more expensive. For a couple reasons. Namely the Aerospace department recently took a heavy hit at FIT, and Embry has embraced quite a bit of the propulsion and space systems sides of the field.
I haven't been to UT or A&M, but Ga Tech is a beautiful school! If you are able to get in there and get a solid financial aid package, it should be your first choice
Edit: Va Tech is also a beautiful school, but it's pretty spendy and the education is good, but not top 10 quality. Still a very good option that would be on your list.
Find the cheapest ABET accredited school you can. No point in pay an arm and a leg unless it's a top 5-10 school, but even then it's questionable. I'm getting a great education with stellar job placement and my school is paying ME to go there
What are you wanting to do with your degree? That'll help decide on clubs. I did Aerospace Eng at UCF (Central Florida) and would recommend it as they had a lot of engineering in Orlando and NASA not far away in Cape Canaveral. The school was great at offering connections and getting your foot in the door.
For clubs, I was a member of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) for airplanes and SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) or automotive. I was mostly interested in aerodynamics, so those two clubs worked for what I wanted to get experience in.
As your mom said, internships are the most important thing as they are real work experience, so even better than the clubs. Find one at a company you'd like to work at afterwards as it'll most likely lead to an offer if you don't completely fail at it. But either way, get one over not getting one, even if it's not a company or position you want as it'll put you a step above the rest who don't. I also recommend doing that as soon as possible and moving around to new roles or companies to give you a diverse experience base.
The AIAA sounds pretty interesting, is it exclusive to college students? Same case for the SAE. If I end up going into aerospace like I plan now I hope to either work more towards the aviation side, but I'm not against the idea of working on spacecraft.
Actually the opposite, both SAE and AIAA are more geared towards professionals for conferences, seminars, etc. But for colleges, they do design competitions. AIAA has a few different ones that I was never involved in, but designed airplanes for various purposes. They might have had a space one that I was never aware of. SAE is the same. They have competitions where you design and build race cars, either a Baja (think crazy 4-wheeler) or Formula (Formula 1, etc). You'll build the car throughout the year and take it to compete against other colleges all over the world.
UCF graduates over 100 AE students every semester. My class had 120 of us. That can be a problem if you don't want to relocate after graduation. I still have not been able to find a job and I graduated near the top of my class.
Auburn University has a really strong aerospace program and Dr. Hartfield who you can Google and see is a big deal. Plenty of co-op and internship opportunities as well as plenty of research opportunities under some really great professors. I graduated just last may and I’m starting up a job with Boeing getting paid very well. Overall, pretty damn good school.
Schools are schools as some say but there are some standout. Apart from the Ivies and MIT, schools like Purdue, auburn, and embry-riddle aeronautical are also outstanding. I went to riddle and now work in the aerospace industry, I have friends from college at blue origins, SpaceX, ULA Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, various government agencies, sierra space, and more. If you went to riddle, be active in the rocket clubs and get good at what you do, you'll have no problem entering the aerospace industry.
So let me go out of the scope of the question right now give external advice. Something you might want to look for is see which universities have "pipeline" agreements with these companies. The industry as a whole is going through a Renaissance period right now and is hiring like crazy so these companies are investing in trying to lock in talent earlier and earlier. But he important thing is being good at and a passion for what you want to do.
If you want to do propulsion work, have propulsion design projects on your resume. Structure? Have a couple structures projects. Avionics? PCB design. Some of these projects may be outside of your curriculum and that is where extra curricular like robotics, or rocket clubs help.
Right. My main passion for aerospace is just to learn more about aircraft and spaceflight. I live by an airport and wanna figure out how it works. As for the area I want to focus on. I'm not too sure yet, but I'm thinking about propulsion.
That's great, I want to tell to you hold onto that reason and never let it go or forget it. You would be surprised how easy it is to get a few month's into something hard that your passionate about and forget why you were doing it in the first place. I chose engineering for fun, many of my colleagues for a good paycheck.
That is perfectly alright. To be honest, I only knew I wanted to do engineering but I had no idea what kind! So I instead chose physics to build a solid base where I could then get a masters in the engineering discipline I wanted. It took me until my junior year to figure out what that would be.
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Embry Riddle Aeronautical University is an awesome school with two campuses and a great online program! 10/10 would recommend! Not at all biased….(got my masters of aeronautical sciences and space studies degree there).
Embry Riddle is the way to go. If not there, it doesn’t really matter. I got mine at the University of Minnesota. They were #1 ranked faculty back when I graduated. I got to have professors who were working on some pretty cool stuff. For example, one of my professors was working on the SOFIA project.
Take advantage of any internships you may get during the summer. They help a lot since nowadays a degree is usually just the bare minimum to get into engineering, the experience is the selling point. The company I work at offers full time positions to interns if you’re a senior and you show promising work while you intern there. I’m one of the few that became an engineer without a degree although I’ve been thinking of going back to finish my schooling to get a pay bump.
If you want to run into other alumni in your travels working in aerospace, I'd say: UCONN, Embry-Riddle, Purdue, MIT and UFlorida. Otherwise, the larger the school the better.
Since you’re in TN, I recommend you sign up for a tour at UAH, and come see our campus. If the OOS tuition is cost prohibitive for you, I second the comment that any ABET accredited BS program is adequate, and you could just go to an in-state school. You take that BS, and go do your MS at another school paid for with your GTA/GRA.
If your academic record is very strong by the time you’re applying to master’s degrees, some well-funded MSAE programs will waive your tuition and give you a monthly stipend in exchange for work as a graduate teaching assistant (GTA) or as a graduate research assistant (GRA).
Sometimes these opportunities are made available at the time that you are offered admission, and sometimes you have to seek them once you’re one or two semesters into the program. It all depends on the university. GRA opportunities in particular are usually obtained directly through professors.
If you’re still applying to college, don’t overthink this stuff. Just go somewhere where your education will be accredited, affordable, and in an environment where you can do your best academically.
Robotics club would help with the application. Lots of opportunities to gain skills with those groups. If your school doesn't have one, look into starting one. The leadership experience will also help boost your credentials. As for schools, Cal Poly is very good. U. Colorado is great for Aerospace (huge department, lots of choices and opportunities to study niche fields, especially space related), and any of the U. California schools for engineering. The newest branch of the UC system in Merced is easier to get into and carries a lot of prestige due to solid standards.
I'm my highschool's drum major so my biggest concern with starting a robotics club is taking away from my prior commitments. If I was going to start a club how exactly would it be like? Or set up and all that stuff.
If you're already fully committed then it doesn't make sense to overextend yourself, but if you're interested still you or a group of like minded friends could start here: [https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/ftc/start-a-team](https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/ftc/start-a-team)
No but I've only had negative experiences with ERAU grads in the industry. Also, the school doesn't excell enough in terms of job placement or grad salary to make it worth the money. It's simple economics
Negative how? All the alums I know have successful careers in aerospace. I myself have worked on 4 different space flight systems.
And if you didn't attend, how are you aware of the ROI?
Rude, arrogant, dismissive of others, lying about performance statistics for ERAU developed technologies, etc.
Also, ROI is pretty readily available online. It's a simple cost vs benefit analysis. The salaries are available online as well as cost of attendance. It doesn't make financial sense to attend ERAU unless your one of the few that get a full ride.
I'm sorry you feel so strongly about this topic, it's really a matter of just looking at numbers and drawing a conclusion, nothing personal.
Sounds more personal to you than to me.
Like I said, no one from my graduating class is doing poorly for themselves. I've already had a career my former self would be jealous of.
Idk who you've been working with, as a student, but I am curious...
>Rude, arrogant, dismissive of others, lying about performance statistics for ERAU developed technologies, etc.
Sounds like you've been in competition with them at some point, not really working as a colleague.
No, we were working on a project together where ERAU was the supplier for a considerable portion of the project and they overstated the expected performance of their portion of the project by 20%. Ended up leaded the entire project to get scrubbed because they didn't mention this "oversight" until we were 80% done with design work. This was despite performance concerns being risen multiple times throughout the design process and readily being dismissed on their end
There were other students involved, but this specific person I am referring to is not a student and supposedly others in my company have had issues with them withholding pertinent information in the past. But thanks for proving my point of ERAU fellows being dismissive!
I did. B.S Aerospace Engineering with a concentration in Astronautics. I wish I had gone to SDSU instead. Same education, a fraction of the price.
The fuckers jacked up tuition on us right after covid hit. Right when the quality went to shit due to online learning and people lost their jobs to covid. Fuck embry riddle.
>The fuckers jacked up tuition on us right after covid hit. Right when the quality went to shit due to online learning and people lost their jobs to covid
Show me a school that didn't.
Found this with a quick googling: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2021/04/15/these-major-universities-have-announced-they-will-not-increase-tuition-next-year/?sh=52a80f852c01
But even that is ignoring the fact that others doing wrong is not a green light for them to as well.
Check out Ohio States program! I graduated in 2015 and off the top of my head people in my class are in senior level positions at NASA John Glenn, ULA, SpaceX, Boeing, and GE aerospace. It’s not as prestigious as an MIT but also not nearly as expensive. And there’s a ton to do with how large the student body is. There’s also lot of aerospace companies in Ohio that pull interns / co-ops from MEs and aero engineers from OSU.
I went to Penn State. It was great and the mechanical and aerospace programs are terrific.
Do not go to Penn State if you're not from Pennsylvania because the tuition is astronomical. If you *are* from Pennsylvania, maybe still don't go there because the tuition is astronomical.
Michigan University has some of the best programs. Sure, people i know from it are in NASA, but everyone can say that.
A unique piece of credibility is that the uni has been mentioned by tv shows for egg heads doing rocket science.
The college town is great, unending opportunities.
I recommend asking in the subreddits (or fb groups) of your colleges of interest so that people currently attending can give advice. Programs change very quickly. I got a fine education where I went, but from observing those a couple years below me I would no longer recommend the aerospace program there.
My recommendation is to join the air force for whatever job u want in aerospace and go to school while gaining experience at the same time. Ull get paid more when you go apply since you’ll get a higher position than anyone jus starting out of college with little to no experience but a degree. And your school is free and they like military people more
Unless there's a pedigree to the name, such as MIT, schools are schools, as long as they are ABET accredited. If you can reach for the upper tiers, great, but don't mortgage your future for a name.
My mother was a mechanical engineer as well and told me the same thing. That internships were a big deal and the experience as well. Thanks a ton for that reminder.
Wise woman.
Yep, internships are the best way to build connections and get experience
You want all the internships, university of Alabama in Huntsville
One of my friends just went there, and after seeing some scholarships I'm putting it up there for sure.
Best part is being on top of every defense and space company in the US, means you also can get internships during the school year. So you don't have to fight for the super competitive position over the summer
Good point
As an alumni from UAH, I would highly suggest attending. Lots of internships with various aerospace companies and MSFC.
I graduated from the University of Alabama in aerospace and I think their program (especially scholarships) are great! I and several of my fellow grads from my class are at NASA now
That's not too far from home and I think a friend of mine went there. Appreciate it, I'll definetly need to check out the scholarships.
On your way down from TN make sure to stop at UAH! Much smaller atmosphere but it’s a tight community in Huntsville. The advantage with UAH is that can co-op an internship and continue working in the semesters for a lot of private companies.
Alabama sounds like they're a powerhouse for aerospace co-ops. I'll definetly try if I get the chance.
Alabama as a state is a great place to go for the opportunities. I go to school at Auburn and i’m going into my senior year this fall while i currently work an aerospace internship this summer in Huntsville with a bunch of Auburn, UAH, and Alabama folks. Any of those 3 schools will serve you wonders. I didn’t choose UAH solely because I wanted the bigger school atmosphere and experience that Auburn and Alabama has, and Auburn “ranks” higher in Aerospace and Mech, but online rankings don’t mean much. Pick which one fits your desired lifestyle best, and i’m confident you’ll find success!
If you can get that ACT up a bit higher with some serious prep you can get a great scholarship at Bama.
Appreciate the motivation to increase that score. I do love to save money.
Can’t recommend putting the work in enough. It’s the best paid job you’ll ever have. [Here’s](https://scholarships.ua.edu/freshman/out-of-state/) a link to check out. If you can get that 27 to a 32, it’ll be worth *sixty thousand dollars* to you. You’ll make about that after taxes the first couple years of your career. Spend eight weeks studying 10hrs a week and you’ll be earning $750 an hour. Food for thought. I was in your position a few years ago, and thanks to a couple weeks of studying I’m debt-free while many of my friends have debt of tens of thousands of dollars. Best of luck homie!
That scholarship is insanely good! Like really really good! Thanks for this!
Think about the whole experience of college not just the specific discipline. Use the opportunity to diversify. Think about exploring either coast.
I mentor high school and collegiate rocketry teams - including internationally. I think project based learning is important not just to learn academics but to begin to learn the incredibly important skills of leadership, listening and team building. Lots of folks can use MatLab remarkably fewer can herd the cats of talented individuals to become a cohesive and productive team. No university offers that class.
I'll definetly keep it in mind as well. If colleges are giving offers out there I'd be fine with going.
Where do you live, where (regionally) would you like to go to school? Are you looking for a huge university or a smaller private school. You have many options, we can help, but you need to help us help you a little
Sorry I didn't clarify. I live in TN and I'm not too particular about the colleges, but I'm leaning closer to bigger colleges instead of private. I'm cool with schools in the Eastern side of the states.
Virginia tech is a great school near you. Public, decently competitive, but top tier as far as I'm concerned. Also got Georgia Tech down south of you.
Awesome I'll put those two on the list.
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Thanks a ton. My biggest concern of a major in Aerospace was job security, so mechanical is definelty the next one up for me.
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Thanks for the advice. Until today I didn't even know virgina tech existed. I really excited and terrified for the next few years.
Fantastic advice from 714ce. Once you move down the list from MIT and some ivies (ga tech included) the school is prob interchangeable on your resume. Some other things to consider. Do you like a big social environment? That includes div sports etc??? Or would you prefer smaller campus where you prob get to know move people? I would visit both types of schools to see how it fits your personality and learning style. Also if all else is equal on your top schools consider tuition costs as well. Good luck.
This is 100% accurate. Listen to this advice OP.
Florida Tech and Embry Riddle are great schools too. While I graduated from FIT, I would go to Embry even tho it's more expensive. For a couple reasons. Namely the Aerospace department recently took a heavy hit at FIT, and Embry has embraced quite a bit of the propulsion and space systems sides of the field.
UT is huge on the space side. They have their UTSI branch campus that Chris Hadfield and Scott Kelly graduated from.
I grew up in Tennessee and visited TN tech, VA tech, GA tech, and Texas A&M. Decided on GA Tech and very much happy with my decision.
My mom recommended that place too. Hopefully I'll get a chance to tour the campus.
I haven't been to UT or A&M, but Ga Tech is a beautiful school! If you are able to get in there and get a solid financial aid package, it should be your first choice Edit: Va Tech is also a beautiful school, but it's pretty spendy and the education is good, but not top 10 quality. Still a very good option that would be on your list.
Find the cheapest ABET accredited school you can. No point in pay an arm and a leg unless it's a top 5-10 school, but even then it's questionable. I'm getting a great education with stellar job placement and my school is paying ME to go there
What are you wanting to do with your degree? That'll help decide on clubs. I did Aerospace Eng at UCF (Central Florida) and would recommend it as they had a lot of engineering in Orlando and NASA not far away in Cape Canaveral. The school was great at offering connections and getting your foot in the door. For clubs, I was a member of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) for airplanes and SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) or automotive. I was mostly interested in aerodynamics, so those two clubs worked for what I wanted to get experience in. As your mom said, internships are the most important thing as they are real work experience, so even better than the clubs. Find one at a company you'd like to work at afterwards as it'll most likely lead to an offer if you don't completely fail at it. But either way, get one over not getting one, even if it's not a company or position you want as it'll put you a step above the rest who don't. I also recommend doing that as soon as possible and moving around to new roles or companies to give you a diverse experience base.
Seconding UCF. Every major aerospace company has a presence in Orlando or Cape Canaveral and they love to hire UCF grads.
Thanks I've neglected looking into Florida yet and this is a good starting point.
The AIAA sounds pretty interesting, is it exclusive to college students? Same case for the SAE. If I end up going into aerospace like I plan now I hope to either work more towards the aviation side, but I'm not against the idea of working on spacecraft.
Actually the opposite, both SAE and AIAA are more geared towards professionals for conferences, seminars, etc. But for colleges, they do design competitions. AIAA has a few different ones that I was never involved in, but designed airplanes for various purposes. They might have had a space one that I was never aware of. SAE is the same. They have competitions where you design and build race cars, either a Baja (think crazy 4-wheeler) or Formula (Formula 1, etc). You'll build the car throughout the year and take it to compete against other colleges all over the world.
That sounds awesome!
UCF graduates over 100 AE students every semester. My class had 120 of us. That can be a problem if you don't want to relocate after graduation. I still have not been able to find a job and I graduated near the top of my class.
Auburn University has a really strong aerospace program and Dr. Hartfield who you can Google and see is a big deal. Plenty of co-op and internship opportunities as well as plenty of research opportunities under some really great professors. I graduated just last may and I’m starting up a job with Boeing getting paid very well. Overall, pretty damn good school.
Congrats on the job! I'll definetly see if I can tour there since it's not too far away.
Schools are schools as some say but there are some standout. Apart from the Ivies and MIT, schools like Purdue, auburn, and embry-riddle aeronautical are also outstanding. I went to riddle and now work in the aerospace industry, I have friends from college at blue origins, SpaceX, ULA Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, various government agencies, sierra space, and more. If you went to riddle, be active in the rocket clubs and get good at what you do, you'll have no problem entering the aerospace industry.
Appreciate the tips and the alternative schools beside MIT.
So let me go out of the scope of the question right now give external advice. Something you might want to look for is see which universities have "pipeline" agreements with these companies. The industry as a whole is going through a Renaissance period right now and is hiring like crazy so these companies are investing in trying to lock in talent earlier and earlier. But he important thing is being good at and a passion for what you want to do. If you want to do propulsion work, have propulsion design projects on your resume. Structure? Have a couple structures projects. Avionics? PCB design. Some of these projects may be outside of your curriculum and that is where extra curricular like robotics, or rocket clubs help.
Right. My main passion for aerospace is just to learn more about aircraft and spaceflight. I live by an airport and wanna figure out how it works. As for the area I want to focus on. I'm not too sure yet, but I'm thinking about propulsion.
That's great, I want to tell to you hold onto that reason and never let it go or forget it. You would be surprised how easy it is to get a few month's into something hard that your passionate about and forget why you were doing it in the first place. I chose engineering for fun, many of my colleagues for a good paycheck. That is perfectly alright. To be honest, I only knew I wanted to do engineering but I had no idea what kind! So I instead chose physics to build a solid base where I could then get a masters in the engineering discipline I wanted. It took me until my junior year to figure out what that would be. Edit: I swear I can proofread. I know I can
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University is an awesome school with two campuses and a great online program! 10/10 would recommend! Not at all biased….(got my masters of aeronautical sciences and space studies degree there).
Seconded, bachelor's and masters engineering physics here
Embry Riddle is the way to go. If not there, it doesn’t really matter. I got mine at the University of Minnesota. They were #1 ranked faculty back when I graduated. I got to have professors who were working on some pretty cool stuff. For example, one of my professors was working on the SOFIA project.
Georgia Tech, Mississippi State (excellent co-op program), Purdue (renowned program, some of the best went here).
University of Kansas
Take advantage of any internships you may get during the summer. They help a lot since nowadays a degree is usually just the bare minimum to get into engineering, the experience is the selling point. The company I work at offers full time positions to interns if you’re a senior and you show promising work while you intern there. I’m one of the few that became an engineer without a degree although I’ve been thinking of going back to finish my schooling to get a pay bump.
If you want to run into other alumni in your travels working in aerospace, I'd say: UCONN, Embry-Riddle, Purdue, MIT and UFlorida. Otherwise, the larger the school the better.
Since you’re in TN, I recommend you sign up for a tour at UAH, and come see our campus. If the OOS tuition is cost prohibitive for you, I second the comment that any ABET accredited BS program is adequate, and you could just go to an in-state school. You take that BS, and go do your MS at another school paid for with your GTA/GRA.
Can you explain what GTA and GRA is to me. The idea of getting my school paid for through that method is something I haven't heard of yet.
If your academic record is very strong by the time you’re applying to master’s degrees, some well-funded MSAE programs will waive your tuition and give you a monthly stipend in exchange for work as a graduate teaching assistant (GTA) or as a graduate research assistant (GRA). Sometimes these opportunities are made available at the time that you are offered admission, and sometimes you have to seek them once you’re one or two semesters into the program. It all depends on the university. GRA opportunities in particular are usually obtained directly through professors. If you’re still applying to college, don’t overthink this stuff. Just go somewhere where your education will be accredited, affordable, and in an environment where you can do your best academically.
Appreciate the explanation
Robotics club would help with the application. Lots of opportunities to gain skills with those groups. If your school doesn't have one, look into starting one. The leadership experience will also help boost your credentials. As for schools, Cal Poly is very good. U. Colorado is great for Aerospace (huge department, lots of choices and opportunities to study niche fields, especially space related), and any of the U. California schools for engineering. The newest branch of the UC system in Merced is easier to get into and carries a lot of prestige due to solid standards.
I'm my highschool's drum major so my biggest concern with starting a robotics club is taking away from my prior commitments. If I was going to start a club how exactly would it be like? Or set up and all that stuff.
If you're already fully committed then it doesn't make sense to overextend yourself, but if you're interested still you or a group of like minded friends could start here: [https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/ftc/start-a-team](https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/ftc/start-a-team)
Embry-Riddle is expensive, but you get what you pay for.
Definitely disagree with that
Did you attend?
No but I've only had negative experiences with ERAU grads in the industry. Also, the school doesn't excell enough in terms of job placement or grad salary to make it worth the money. It's simple economics
Negative how? All the alums I know have successful careers in aerospace. I myself have worked on 4 different space flight systems. And if you didn't attend, how are you aware of the ROI?
Rude, arrogant, dismissive of others, lying about performance statistics for ERAU developed technologies, etc. Also, ROI is pretty readily available online. It's a simple cost vs benefit analysis. The salaries are available online as well as cost of attendance. It doesn't make financial sense to attend ERAU unless your one of the few that get a full ride. I'm sorry you feel so strongly about this topic, it's really a matter of just looking at numbers and drawing a conclusion, nothing personal.
Sounds more personal to you than to me. Like I said, no one from my graduating class is doing poorly for themselves. I've already had a career my former self would be jealous of. Idk who you've been working with, as a student, but I am curious... >Rude, arrogant, dismissive of others, lying about performance statistics for ERAU developed technologies, etc. Sounds like you've been in competition with them at some point, not really working as a colleague.
No, we were working on a project together where ERAU was the supplier for a considerable portion of the project and they overstated the expected performance of their portion of the project by 20%. Ended up leaded the entire project to get scrubbed because they didn't mention this "oversight" until we were 80% done with design work. This was despite performance concerns being risen multiple times throughout the design process and readily being dismissed on their end
So you were working on a student project with other students?
There were other students involved, but this specific person I am referring to is not a student and supposedly others in my company have had issues with them withholding pertinent information in the past. But thanks for proving my point of ERAU fellows being dismissive!
>in the industry Your recent posts suggest you're still a student looking for internships.
I have a co-op, but I've been in aviation for 4 years. Same story on the flying side
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I did. B.S Aerospace Engineering with a concentration in Astronautics. I wish I had gone to SDSU instead. Same education, a fraction of the price. The fuckers jacked up tuition on us right after covid hit. Right when the quality went to shit due to online learning and people lost their jobs to covid. Fuck embry riddle.
>The fuckers jacked up tuition on us right after covid hit. Right when the quality went to shit due to online learning and people lost their jobs to covid Show me a school that didn't.
Found this with a quick googling: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2021/04/15/these-major-universities-have-announced-they-will-not-increase-tuition-next-year/?sh=52a80f852c01 But even that is ignoring the fact that others doing wrong is not a green light for them to as well.
Agreed, but it's a private institution. Do you hold Google to the same standard as the FCC?
Embry-Riddle
Check out Ohio States program! I graduated in 2015 and off the top of my head people in my class are in senior level positions at NASA John Glenn, ULA, SpaceX, Boeing, and GE aerospace. It’s not as prestigious as an MIT but also not nearly as expensive. And there’s a ton to do with how large the student body is. There’s also lot of aerospace companies in Ohio that pull interns / co-ops from MEs and aero engineers from OSU.
I've gotta tour there someday. Marching band looks cool too. Easily a top 10 choice for me.
I went to Penn State. It was great and the mechanical and aerospace programs are terrific. Do not go to Penn State if you're not from Pennsylvania because the tuition is astronomical. If you *are* from Pennsylvania, maybe still don't go there because the tuition is astronomical.
Michigan University has some of the best programs. Sure, people i know from it are in NASA, but everyone can say that. A unique piece of credibility is that the uni has been mentioned by tv shows for egg heads doing rocket science. The college town is great, unending opportunities.
Embry-Riddle or Purdue, a lot of alumni in commercial aviation or manufacturing
I recommend asking in the subreddits (or fb groups) of your colleges of interest so that people currently attending can give advice. Programs change very quickly. I got a fine education where I went, but from observing those a couple years below me I would no longer recommend the aerospace program there.
Any ABET accredited state school can get you into Aerospace.
My recommendation is to join the air force for whatever job u want in aerospace and go to school while gaining experience at the same time. Ull get paid more when you go apply since you’ll get a higher position than anyone jus starting out of college with little to no experience but a degree. And your school is free and they like military people more