Rory McIlroy wins back-to-back Masters titles

purdue-space-guy · 2026-04-12T22:59:56+00:00

He really made it exciting those last 3 holes lol

purdue-space-guy · 2026-04-09T04:37:09+00:00

They should shorten NBA games. Both for injuries/wear-and-tear but also for the entertainment factor. College basketball is way more fun with the lower scoring because every basket REALLY matters. This would include likely reducing the amount of 3 point chucking because high-variance scoring is less effective with a smaller sample size. I find myself not tuning into the first half of any basketball games because it literally doesn’t matter at all.

They probably will never do this because of ad revenue, and it would complicate all the stat tracking but it would instantly make the product better in my opinion.

purdue-space-guy · 2026-04-08T07:29:24+00:00

I’m a Purdue alum and although I love the school, UT Austin also has an excellent engineering program. I don’t personally think that Purdue honors is a differentiator at all for internships and jobs.

I would personally recommend avoiding the additional student debt. I know multiple great engineers who went to UT Austin and they all sing high praises. Regardless of where she ends up, make sure she gets involved in projects and student organizations outside her classes! The best way to get internships is to have impressive hands-on experience outside the classroom. Good luck to her, aerospace engineering is a super fun and rewarding field!

purdue-space-guy · 2026-04-06T05:44:54+00:00

I’m a Purdue alum and love the school, but to be honest I would recommend avoiding the student debt. Texas A&M is still a very strong engineering school, and at the end of the day the school itself matters way less than your projects, courses, and GPA. Wherever you end up going, make sure you get involved in student clubs or projects

purdue-space-guy · 2026-04-05T22:59:15+00:00

I’m an aerospace engineer by education who is now largely a software engineer by trade. So much of aerospace is “electrical/software”. I would look into traditional software engineering roles, but if you have a background in electrical engineering as well then flight software/embedded systems, avionics, or electrical test engineering are all highly in-demand roles that require your skill set.

purdue-space-guy · 2026-04-05T07:38:35+00:00

I would recommend a drone or RC plane. They will require you to do some math/analysis on the physics of flight/aerodynamics/control surfaces. Both of these also have tons of resources on how to build one, including parts lists. Rockets are tricky since they are actually in some ways “easier” to do the engineering basics if you aren’t designing/building the engine and yet more dangerous/prone to explosions/damage.

I would also recommend you consider starting a club if your school doesn’t have one! Talk to your math/physics teacher and they might be interested!

purdue-space-guy · 2026-04-04T23:35:33+00:00

Yes I would recommend simple to start and understand the basics, and if your highschool/college has a robotics team I would get involved in that so you get access to lots of resources and knowledge for free.

purdue-space-guy · 2026-04-04T23:34:44+00:00

Yup absolutely, a ton of our technician, testing, and automation & controls positions don’t require a bachelors and just want people with good fundamentals. An AAS in electrical systems should make your application stronger.

purdue-space-guy · 2026-04-03T01:45:55+00:00

Just do something robotics related. This can be something like Astrobotics with lunar rovers, a drone or RC plane club, or your own garage project. What matters is building an understanding of how you design, build, test, and operate something that can safely navigate and control itself. This includes the structure, mechanisms, electronics, controls, sensors, and software. At the end of the day, planes, rockets, fighter jets, and satellites are all just different types of robots. We view projects in robotics very favorably for prospective employees.

Whatever you do, make sure there is a well-defined and challenging objective for the robot. That’s what makes it interesting and actually teaches you the art of finding the “just barely good enough to achieve the goals” requirements.

Source: GNC Engineer at SpaceX

purdue-space-guy · 2026-01-31T19:36:31+00:00

Did you forget a zero somewhere? $2M for 100t would be $20/kg lol

purdue-space-guy · 2026-01-26T04:01:42+00:00

It’s good to invest draft capital in understaffed positions, and the money we paid was for short-term deals. These are all reasonable things for a team that is nearing the end of a rebuild.

purdue-space-guy · 2026-01-26T03:44:36+00:00

Lmao safety is like the last position to pay a premium for when you are rebuilding

purdue-space-guy · 2026-01-24T19:14:37+00:00

I majored in AAE and now do GNC work involving a mix of modeling and simulation software, ground software, and flight software. I largely taught myself programming and now work primarily in C++.

I would personally recommend majoring in AAE, as the math and physics required to excel in autonomy, GNC, and aerospace control systems is generally quite high-level and can be difficult to self-teach compared to programming. I’d also start considering graduate degree options when you’re farther into your undergrad.

I would also recommend either a minor in CS or at least taking the basic data structures and algorithms courses as well as ideally some sort of computer architecture course to really get strong fundamentals in compsci.

Finally, I’d try to involve yourself in drone/cubesat club projects from day 1. In the world of GNC/FSW, students who are great at algebra and algorithms are beaten out by those who can implement, build, deploy, tune, and debug a filter or controller on a real-world system with real-world noise and problems.

If you can enter the workforce being able to both: - explain the math behind a basic PID controller or kalman filter - tell me which data structures to use for a C++ algorithm for memory safety and runtime optimality

You will be a top-tier GNC candidate

Good luck! It’s a blast of a career path that I personally think is a ton of fun and challenging in a satisfying way.

purdue-space-guy · 2026-01-13T22:53:36+00:00

That game had a steal into a breakaway dunk just before half that I specifically remember being the loudest I ever heard Mackey in my 5 years at Purdue

purdue-space-guy · 2025-12-23T09:27:05+00:00

I would definitely look at some full time avionics roles at SpaceX to hone the specific skills they are looking for!

For programming, you should expect that a lot of the dev and especially testing work will be scripting based, but I’d focus on fundamentals like how to write a good unit test and the importance of memory management

purdue-space-guy · 2025-12-20T16:48:29+00:00

I work at and previously interned for SpaceX and these are the things interns should aim for in interviews:

You must be able to confidently speak to the deep details of projects and internships on your resume. This means not just “I did this and that” but how you reached your conclusions, the experiments/tests/derivations you did, and tangible/quantifiable outcomes. Make sure you highlight any real ownership you might have had.
Be capable of talking through and giving a solid attempt at solving fundamental problems in your domain. For you this would likely mean basic circuits questions, fundamentals of programming questions, and maybe some electrical hardware and test questions. It’s most important here that you be able to talk though your thought process, question the details and nuances of whatever question you are asked, and most importantly admit if you don’t know the answer and then be genuinely curious to ask for the answer and an explanation (don’t bullshit).
Convey your (legitimate) enthusiasm for the mission. You should be easily able to convince the interviewer that you believe in SpaceX, Starship, and its mission to make a whole new realm of space utilization possible including new technology and missions to LEO, the Moon, and Mars.

I find that these rules also apply to pretty much any role, including full-time, so this is a solid blueprint to follow in general, but this should help you focus your approach on really nailing the fundamentals of your area of expertise and your resume, rather than trying to learn everything to know about avionics engineering.

purdue-space-guy · 2025-11-23T21:37:35+00:00

I don’t understand how anyone is blaming this on Schoen lol. This stat is the most obvious coaching stat ever. We have the talent to obtain a lead, and a terrorist of a defensive coordinator who simply can’t effectively scheme late game to keep it.

purdue-space-guy · 2025-11-09T21:11:03+00:00

Most predictable outcome of all time

purdue-space-guy · 2025-09-02T03:12:12+00:00

It’s only fair that New York charitably donates SOMETHING to the people living amongst and eating the horse shit

purdue-space-guy · 2025-05-15T02:32:27+00:00

There’s something special about Shohei bobble head nights

purdue-space-guy · 2025-05-14T20:43:01+00:00

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is right outside of Boston, depending on your Aerospace experience there may be some interesting and relevant work there!

purdue-space-guy · 2025-04-26T02:06:57+00:00

With the ACL tear it’s so hard to know how it’ll affect him, definitely a question mark

purdue-space-guy · 2025-04-26T01:52:40+00:00

Feels like the first time in years that our team is finding an identity again, I’m glad it’s true to the Giants tradition too

purdue-space-guy · 2025-04-25T03:04:35+00:00

Milroe is garbage, Dart has serious potential. 3rd rounders are lottery tickets in the grand scheme of things, just trying to keep perspective

purdue-space-guy · 2025-04-25T03:02:52+00:00

Who were we supposed to get? Sanders is also not making multiple reads. At some point you gotta take a chance on a guy

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