I am about to start my undergraduate college years, and I am deciding between 3 colleges (Embry Riddle in Daytona, Arizona State, and Rutgers). I am majoring I'm aerospace and plan to specialize in astronautics.

I know ERAU's program is very highly ranked in the aerospace field, and they are known for their industry connections, but are internships and job opportunities as easy to obtain as they make it out to be in this school? I think I would rather go to a larger school, but if it's really that worth it to go to ERAU, then I would definitely go there over the other two schools.

How is the reputation for aerospace and the industry connections in these colleges and how do they compare to one another?

Hey all,

So I work for a medium sized aerospace company. Fairly well known around the industry but not a big player just yet.

Anyway, I was hired on as a Senior Mechanical Engineer. Now when I think of a Mech E I think CAD, design, analysis, etc. However none of these are what I do on a day to day basis.

I primarily work on as a project manager keeping schedules, doing cost, man plans, ultimately removing road blocks and keeping things moving along.

I also do a lot of operations related tasks as my group has a lot of overlap with the OPs team.

I also do significant amounts of Systems Engineering work by owning requirements and making sure our products meet NASA compliance for example.

In addition I fill in gaps in regards to logistics of moving large components between ware houses, and owning the system that tracks these components as my group owns them.

I know some folks don't care about titles but for me they've always been rather important to me and my career development. I feel given the above responsibilities I should be considered a Project Engineer ot Technical Project Manager but when I asked my boss about it, it was kind of Hand waived away. It seems the company is trying to consolidate job titles.

Anyway, my question is, do you think it would be ethical to say Project Engineer on my resume and/LinkedIn since that more accurately aligns with my role, rather than the given title of Mech E?

Thanks.

My question is what position within the aviation industry are the most lucrative. My background consists of having a B.B.A in Operations Management, work experience at the airport, sales internship and a ASEL/AMEL and CFII. For me what comes to mind is either aviation tech sales or a captain at a legacy carrier.

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please share your opinions and background!

It would make them lighter while still being strong enough to my knowledge.

Is this because of machining reason ? Or something else ?

I am currently graduating college with a degree in aerospace engineering, and i know i want to go back to school for a masters. I just cannot decide between a masters in aerospace or mechanical engineering. I also work as a material test engineer, which is very mechanical engineering focused but i don't know yet if i want to commit down the materials sciences path (i might want to change careers later).

Also i am thinking of getting a master of business administration instead of engineering because later on down the line i want to take on more managerial roles. I don't want me getting a masters in engineering to hurt my chances of getting more manager jobs. I'm just really confused and getting overwhelmed with the different options

I mainly just don't want to lock myself down a narrow path and regret choosing one masters program over another. Any input or advice would be very helpful. Thank you so much for your help!

Edit: Thank you guys so much for the responses and advice! It has been great to read. I am currently going to choose a mechanical engineering masters, but I still have 2 months before having to make a concrete decision.

Also people have been saying to get some work experience in so i can figure out if it something I actually enjoy. I actually work full-time as a materials engineer for NASA, and have been for 4 years now. I love my job and love doing it everyday, and i am not worried about getting a job later because i will still be in this one for the time being. I just don't know if it's something i want to do forever, which is where my choice of masters has been weighing down on me. Once i leave the materials engineering world i don't know if a mechanical or aerospace masters will help me more.

Thank you all again so much! It makes me really happy to get this much support.

I’ll be interning at a major defense contractor this summer and I’m worried I might be bothering my manager by messaging him before I’ve even gotten all of my onboarding documents processed.

I’ve emailed him once before in a thankful manner, stating that I look forward to working with his team this summer, but I got no response. I’ve messaged my HR recruiter a few times asking questions and got answers rather quickly.

I know he’s probably busy and doesn’t have time to respond to “unimportant” emails, but I also don’t want to give the impression I’m not eager to begin my internship there. Whats the best move here?

How's it going, I'm going in for a aerospace for tig Welding. Anyone who works in the field of aerospace welding. Could you tell me your day to day? I'm going in for a filtration job. Obviously, it will be a bit different, but is there a common practice? I'm guessing clean shops. Are most climate controlled? If the a common QC practice. Is there a certain thing common in this field? Is there anything I should look out for? Is this a specific line of work I can get into, as I'm a young welder Just doing stainless tig fab. Is this something go from aerospace to aerospace or a 1 off job? I have a job offer. The offer they gave was studying under there master welder who's been there for a while. My tig fab matched, the employer said. Is it a lot of fab? What Procedures. And what are the common things I might get certified in? Any information will be great.

I am writing an introduction for a paper on metal fatigue, and I want to make a very strong beginning stating that fatigue is a bitch and kills a lot of components and people. That fatigue is due to (i) lack of maintenance, (ii) poor use, and (iii) poor design choices.

Lastly, I want to say that to prevent poor design choices (which, unfortunately, are common; we engineers are really dumb), standards require fail-safe design (redundancy, leak before break) and trial acceptance tests.

What are the standards for fail-safe design or trial acceptance in aviation? :) I have a deadline for this paper in a couple of days and I cannot access the American or ISO standards so I really appreciate any help <3<3

(also if you know which standards require the leak before failure for pressure vessels)

Currently working in A&D consulting and looking to leave for industry. I’d love to move to NYC if possible.

Are there any startups or even larger companies with an nyc presence you’d recommend looking into? Alternatively remote friendly?

Even adjacent industries would be fine!

#aerospacejobs #nyc

I’m considering looking into getting a Phd in aerospace & I’d like to hear from other experienced people.

I graduated with a bachelor’s in aerospace engineering last May. I had an internship with LM my senior year & got hired on full-time upon graduation. I’m approaching a year being full-time & 2 years with the company. Although I get to see, learn, & work on some amazing programs…I don’t find it as fulfilling as I thought I would. Working at such a big company, it feels like I only have my hand in the bucket. I’m very passionate about space & I love school. I’ve thought about becoming a professor due to teaching college students about stuff that I enjoy & the research aspect. Or finding a job that’s researched base or a smaller company to learn faster.

What makes me weary is I have decent job security & work life balance. I’ve heard working at smaller companies, they can take advantage and pile on a lot of work.

What’s some advice or personal experience?

Good afternoon all. I am a maths graduate working towards becoming an airline pilot and I would like to study an aerospace engineering masters at some point in the future (probably part-time). My end goal is to leverage my flying experience and masters education to work towards becoming a test pilot or an astronaut. The issue is that no university seems to take on STEM students who aren't engineers for a aerospace masters.

I have looked into some of the programs at Cranfield university and they offer a pre-masters degree before studying engineering. Whilst this seems interesting, I was wondering if you guys know of any more direct routes? As you can imagine, flying is expensive and I don't want to spend money on a pre-masters if there are other alternatives! I have studied a fair bit of applied maths but in the UK it is your degree title rather than the modules you have studied that determine if your eligible for certain courses. If the advice you guys have is relevant to the UK that would be brilliant. Thank you in advance!

So soon I'll be attending Mines which has Mechanical engineering where you can focus on Aerospace engineering and of course the have Electrical engineering.

My question is if I want to work in the defense sector preferably aerospace which area would be more beneficial to major in ?

Of course ultimately I have to see what I enjoy the most in terms of major course work but just trying to get a general idea of how the fields are represented in the industry.

I’m a 17 year old junior in high school who is a) having trouble with finding a great school and b) having doubts about this whole thing. My dream consists of being able to work on rockets and even knowing how to build little at home projects. I wish to be able to have enough leisure time to tend to these dreams as well as being able to support a family. I have been really trying to educate myself on the future of my career but man it sucks it really sucks to see other aerospace engineers struggling. I’ve also heard a lot of people talking about mechanical engineering as an alternative as it’s a lot better and more broad than aerospace. I don’t know, that’s what I think my biggest dilemma is right now. Someone help

I’ve worked for a major OEM for 8 years in India and the UK, now graduating with an MBA from Canada. I would love to get some referrals for jobs in aerospace firms in the country or just build my network if you’re up for a chat. Please let me know if you are and I’ll DM you my profile/resume. If you think I’m a good fit maybe we can take it from there? Thank you for being here! :)

this is a quote from the book " The frequency of this structural mode is typically between 8 and 15 Hz for a fighter/strike aircraft and 2 to 4 Hz for a large transport aircraft. There are also second and third harmonic modes at twice and three times the first body mode frequency and possibly significant even higher modes. "

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