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Question for ME grads
Posted on 4/22/14 at 11:38 am
Posted on 4/22/14 at 11:38 am
Suppose you are headed into your senior year as a ME major who wants to work in the aerospace industry and plans to get a masters in aerospace. Which scenario would be most advantageous:
1. Stay in college a fifth year and get an aerospace minor plus a chance to do another summer internship, or
2. Graduate after four years with some aerospace-related electives but no minor and one so-so internship in a different engineering field.
1. Stay in college a fifth year and get an aerospace minor plus a chance to do another summer internship, or
2. Graduate after four years with some aerospace-related electives but no minor and one so-so internship in a different engineering field.
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Posted on 4/22/14 at 11:40 am to LSUBFA83
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1. Stay in college a fifth year and get an aerospace minor plus a chance to do another summer internship, or
if it is financially viable for you/family, do this
Posted on 4/22/14 at 11:43 am to LSUBFA83
Good work experience always trumps educational accolades in the real world.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 11:46 am to Carson123987
Why can't you graduate in 4 years, then start your Masters program in aerospace? Most aerospace graduate schools don't require a minor in aerospace from your B.S.
I did grad school in combustion and literally had zero combustion experience (other than general thermodynamics) in undergrad.
I did grad school in combustion and literally had zero combustion experience (other than general thermodynamics) in undergrad.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 11:48 am to weagle99
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Good work experience always trumps educational accolades in the real world.
True. Until you decide you want to break into the research level.
There's a lot of research level aerospace problems only being studied by academic and research lab institutions.
This post was edited on 4/22/14 at 11:50 am
Posted on 4/22/14 at 11:51 am to CFDoc
If at LSU, your ME senior year is gonna suck dick because of senior design.
Take a 5th year to spread out those electives and get another internship.
Take a 5th year to spread out those electives and get another internship.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 12:09 pm to LSUBFA83
I'd either concentrate on materials, obviously aerospace ones, or fluids and try to graduate and get into a AE masters program upon graduation.
Tough to get into NASA without an internship here since there are more of them than jobs that will be opened (at least where I'm at).
Test engineers, design engineers, systems engineers. I see more AE in the latter, ME in the first two. Just my knothole though.
Tough to get into NASA without an internship here since there are more of them than jobs that will be opened (at least where I'm at).
Test engineers, design engineers, systems engineers. I see more AE in the latter, ME in the first two. Just my knothole though.
This post was edited on 4/22/14 at 1:24 pm
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