If Embry-Riddle offered a brand new exciting degree with great job opportunites would you go?

JordanD said:
I like having both arms and both legs, so no. Also, I enjoy the company of women.
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ktsai91 said:
A bachelor's degree in commercial space operations, would this be exciting enough for you to go to ERAU? The commercial space industry is rapidly expanding and it looks like job opportunities in this growing field is great.
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A non-engineering or science degree in space technology is going to be about as useful as a basket weaving in space degree.

If you want to be a rocket scientist - studying real science is a good start...
 
rframe said:
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Add about two overweight and very cognizant of their social advantages of simply being a female in a festering den of geeky testosterone townies and we'll call it a "day in the life".

Trust me.

I know.
 
I think it's a great idea. My goal, like most, is intergalactic long-haul, but I know I'll have to start out at a regional doing short-haul to the moon and back. I'd like to be based on Earth, but a Mars or a Venus base would be pretty sweet, too. I just don't want to waste too much time buzzing around the traffic orbit in a Spacehawk with a kid who doesn't know how to talk to mission control. Basically I'm looking for the quickest path with the least experience and if that means taking out two mortgages for a Bachelor of Kerbal Space Program, I'll do it.
 
FAYEV said:
I think it's a great idea. My goal, like most, is intergalactic long-haul, but I know I'll have to start out at a regional doing short-haul to the moon and back. I'd like to be based on Earth, but a Mars or a Venus base would be pretty sweet, too. I just don't want to waste too much time buzzing around the traffic orbit in a Spacehawk with a kid who doesn't know how to talk to mission control. Basically I'm looking for the quickest path with the least experience and if that means taking out two mortgages for a Bachelor of Kerbal Space Program, I'll do it.
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LOL, great joke!
 
Geez... Riddle is trying pretty hard these days. I was there last month visiting some friends and it's amazing how much has changed at the Daytona campus.
 
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I must say I did enjoy my tenure at ERAU, however if I had to do it all over again I would have gone to a HBCU school like Hampton and did their aviation program. I met a lot of great friends and had a good time there, it's just not worth the money and I wish I realized that when I was a stupid 17 and 18 year old applying for schools.
 
Trying hard not to be cynical, trying hard not to be cynical...

I spent a lot of money on my piece of paper from that school. Should you do the same? No.
 
Hawks said:
Trying hard not to be cynical, trying hard not to be cynical...

I spent a lot of money on my piece of paper from that school. Should you do the same? No.
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Yup. If you are dead set on going to ERAU, follow these steps. Do everything you can at a local community college while your either in high school or spend a year or two. Knock out every math, English, history, anything of that type to get it done. Pay your local community college rates for those classes, not the stupid credit hour cost for the same class at riddle. While you're doing that, find a part 61 school and get as much done as you can.

Then, transfer to ERAU and spend 4-5 semesters there and graduate.
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
Yup. If you are dead set on going to ERAU, follow these steps. Do everything you can at a local community college while your either in high school or spend a year or two. Knock out every math, English, history, anything of that type to get it done. Pay your local community college rates for those classes, not the stupid credit hour cost for the same class at riddle. While you're doing that, find a part 61 school and get as much done as you can.

Then, transfer to ERAU and spend 4-5 semesters there and graduate.
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Yup.
 
I'll play the devil's advocate here. While I don't think that Riddle is the way to do it, a degree or experience (the Air Force has a few space MOSs) in the space industry is going to be worth it's weight in gold. The trends are all there for the space industry to takeoff - if you had a degree that made it possible for you to manage space operations, or at least work in space ops (other than an engineering degree) then I suspect you have a bright future.

Look at all of the private space companies blowing up. Look at the new "asteroid mining" ventures. Just look at the current satellite infrastructure and chaos on orbit! While this stuff is rocket science, the education required to be a "Space Traffic Controller" is a bit different than the education required to build satellites. In the near future I'd bet money that the same is true for flying the space vehicles. You can't make the barrier to entry "PHD in Astrophysics with a Minor in Mechanical Engineering, and 5,000hrs jet time," to fly in space and expect to be able to find people forever - similarly in operations you can't expect the guys controlling satellites to even have complicated math or engineering degrees when that's not really what's required for the position. Realistically, the most useful Space related degree will probably be computer science (last night on reddit I read an AMA about some guys from SpaceX and they said there were several hundred thousand lines of code in their vehicles).

Personally, I think a Commercial Space Operations degree is valuable - but I think there are a lot of nay-sayers - especially in the engineering and science communities who think that this stuff is so complicated that only they can do it. It's complicated, yes, but you don't need to be an aeronautical or mechanical engineer to fly an airplane, and flying is highly complicated - about the only thing I could see that should be required is Math through Calc 2 and maybe differential equations, but I suspect that in day to day operations those classes probably wouldn't even be remotely useful.
 
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