What are the top schools for astro space engineering in the US? ?
January 11th, 2009
Astro, not areo
Yrah im 100% sure its a major (embrie riddle has it but i wan to get out of state) I want to maybe get into NASA.
Probably MIT and CAL Tech
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I'm not even sure that's a course. What do you want to do exactly?
EDIT: 'Get into NASA' is very vague. NASA hires everyone from biologists to astrophysicists to engineers. I'm guessing you want to do some sort of engineering, but what? Design spacecraft? NASA has people to do that. Build the spacecraft? That's usually done by contractors (electrical engineering would help you there – a friend of mine is doing just that with a BS in EE). Run the spacecraft? That's usually the astronomers.
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Probably MIT and CAL Tech
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Well, first you should probably get sufficiently familiar with the field that you understand what you are looking for. The folks at Embry Riddle would be surprised to find that they are offering such a degree (see link below).
http://www.embry-riddle.com/er/degrees/index.html
If you are looking for aerospace engineering, then you should perhaps consider the following: Purdue, Michigan, Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, and several others. Of course, you could find this yourself fairly easily. Are you sure this is what you want?
As far as NASA is concerned, what you see on TV is not what most of the jobs at NASA are like. You should get immersed in the field before you decide specifically which job you want. Good Luck.
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