online aerospace engineering degrees
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Aero_Engineer
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BCTAv8r said:
And that is why a simple engineering job for a fresh graduate is paying 70K per year with full benefits.
One of my friends who just graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree got hired at a very famous defense company for 72K a year, he is just starting so imagine what he will make 10 years later when he is just 32.
Cherokee_Cruiser
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bwade210 said:
yup, that's why it's becoming harder and harder to find good engineers to work here...all the businesses i know here in phx are having a heck of a time just finding engineers!!pullup said:
we're on such short supply that we're (my company) is actually calling folks that are overseas and performing telephone interviews for people that want to come work over here. the problem is that we're such a "work" based society (you could easily be asked to work 50-60 hrs a week) that even for civil, the going rate for a beginner engineer is starting out at $20K above what the normal company will pay!
Civil, i guarantee, doesn't make as much as mechanical, electrical or aerospace.
Kristie, is civil as hard of a major to acquire such as a mechanical, aerospace, electrical...? I'd like to major engineering but after getting a D in high school algebra II, it'd be no use to go to engineering and not be a good one. I've been considering civil engineering. I'm not sure but I think you said you hate it.
Bussiness is not something I wanna do. It is interesting but there are too many people doing it already. Nothing in the arts are good, nothing in health, nothing in education. Maybe I'll do something computer related.
What kind of degree does one need to work on avionics?
Bussiness is not something I wanna do. It is interesting but there are too many people doing it already. Nothing in the arts are good, nothing in health, nothing in education. Maybe I'll do something computer related.
What kind of degree does one need to work on avionics?
scramjet
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Electronics or a specialized degree from a technical college such as the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics. My Dad is an AMT and Avionics Tech and he has a AAS in Aircraft Maintenance.BCTAv8r said:
One of the reasons I'm thinking about Computer Science is the reliance of flight control more and more on computers, so if my flying career didn't work out (or maybe as part of it), I could be come a self styled "flight systems engineer"BCTAv8r said:
Maximilian_Jenius
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Kristie said:
When I was young dumb & delusional my freshman year of college at Tuskegee University I declared a Aerospace Engineering major.
I remember that my academic advisor told me that there was no future in Aerospace Engineering because no one was hiring for it that field and companies like Boeing, Douglas and GE etc were laying off AE's in record numbers due to down sizing. But that was in 1995.
He said if I wanted to have a good paying job and a good 20-30 year career with excellent pay and benefits to think about changing my degree to mechanical,electrical to computer/software engineering. Because that is where the industry was going in terms of jobs. He said that barring those fields I could always go into civil engineering because there always hiring because a new freeway or building or expansion project is always going up somewhere in this world. He said civil engineering was the safe bet to always have job security.
At least here in the US there is the freedom to change your major as many times as you want.
I don't know about other countries, but in Brazil, when you are in high school you take an extremely difficult test called the "Vestibular", which is like a national exam. It is like an SAT plus ASVAB fused together plus some questions about the major your yet gonna learn about. So when you take this college entrance exam, it is specified for a certain major you declared. If you change your mind later, you have to take this test again and start over.
I don't know about other countries, but in Brazil, when you are in high school you take an extremely difficult test called the "Vestibular", which is like a national exam. It is like an SAT plus ASVAB fused together plus some questions about the major your yet gonna learn about. So when you take this college entrance exam, it is specified for a certain major you declared. If you change your mind later, you have to take this test again and start over.