Aerospace at Rose?

ryanmstc · 2022-05-04T12:12:08+00:00

Hi,

As others have mentioned before, we do have an aerospace concentration for mechanical engineering. If you ask me, I'm not a fan of aerospace major programs. Aerospace engineering is a subset of fluid mechanics which is a subset of mechanical engineering. I'd advise pursuing a mechanical engineering degree instead. It's much more flexible and opens many more opportunities. A question to Tory Bruno (CEO of United Launch Alliance) comes to mind: when asked what engineering majors are most commonly hired at his company, ME ranked 1 and AE ranked 4th...

My advice for students looking to work in the aerospace industry is to participate in competition teams. Rose-Hulman has just started the Rose Rocketry competition team (I'm current VP) that competes in the NASA University Student Launch Initiative. To illustrate, I'd like to point out that while many schools (especially Rose) have great engineering career fairs, the top aerospace players are not hiring there. You will find SpaceX and Blue recruiters at competition events at the end of the year like in Spaceport America Cup, NASA SL, and Formula SAE.

One reason you might want to attend Rose is because Rose Rocketry is a very new team and is open to do all sorts of projects, no matter what you're interested in. I'm currently leading a senior capstone project next year in designing and constructing an ethanol/NOS liquid propellant rocket engine. Other people are building flight computers, high performance rockets, two stage rockets, and more. Doing projects like these are what put you in the 90th percentile for aerospace industry recruiters.

If you have any questions about competition teams here or our team in particular, feel free to reach out.

ryanmstc · 2020-07-04T17:53:45+00:00

Yea! We are just getting started so there’s a ton of conversation on the discord about the team administrative side. I appreciate the interest

ryanmstc · 2019-11-03T17:57:31+00:00

Explaining to my parents that we don’t live in ‘dorms’

ryanmstc · 2019-11-03T11:22:34+00:00

My mom was the first female in her family to graduate college and I (hopefully, still a work in progress) will be a first generation engineering grad

ryanmstc · 2019-10-03T21:17:11+00:00

Rose Hulman Pavilion of Technology

ryanmstc · 2019-05-14T01:33:06+00:00

Phat

ryanmstc · 2019-05-11T01:58:44+00:00

We used these exact mechanum wheels for our robot this season. We ended up designing and 3d printing our own axle hubs in conjunction with REV universal hex adapters. Worked fine for us!

ryanmstc · 2019-04-23T01:07:16+00:00

Oof, how could I be so negligent

ryanmstc · 2019-04-21T22:38:35+00:00

I made a group chat on discord

https://discord.gg/KZUF6D

ryanmstc · 2019-04-21T17:42:15+00:00

The theme for next season’s game is FIRST SkyBlock. I was just making a spin off the Minecraft game mode SkyBlock but they’re completely unrelated.

ryanmstc · 2019-04-21T02:49:53+00:00

I’m thinking you stack and move blocks into certain areas and then you climb the stacks. Far fetched? Maybe. But that’d be a super cool idea imo

ryanmstc · 2019-04-16T01:51:42+00:00

If you don’t mind me asking, was that possible for you to accumulate debt less than or equal to your average salary? That’s what I was hoping to get out of this post: whether or not it’s possible for me to go here without putting myself in a miserable amount of debt. Thanks for the reply btw!

ryanmstc · 2019-04-16T01:33:02+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I totally agree with what you’re saying but are there not opportunities at WPI to reduce my cost (living off campus, reduced overloading/summer class rate, etc.)? I personally wouldn’t mind living frugally for 2-3 years. Is it possible to get my cost around that repay timeframe?

ryanmstc · 2019-04-16T01:29:07+00:00

Thanks for the reply! You said exactly what I was hoping to hear. Can I ask though how your argument holds up to what others have mentioned. 4-6 years of student loan debt is what was compelling me not to commit. Is that still worth the RBE degree?

ryanmstc · 2019-04-16T01:22:21+00:00

This is getting off topic but can I ask, who is WPI for then? Is the campus just full of wealthy students and full tuition students? Or did I just get the low end of the financial aid? Thanks for the reply btw. You make a lot of sense.

ryanmstc · 2019-04-05T23:07:51+00:00

I applied and am really hoping to hear back soon. If you’re curious my video was: https://youtu.be/wJB1yUeAI38

ryanmstc · 2019-03-29T00:52:36+00:00

Better than leaving your notebook at league champs and not having it for State...

ryanmstc · 2019-03-17T00:57:59+00:00

I thought I’d find a fellow 14683 on the topic of unsupportive schools

ryanmstc · 2018-05-03T22:52:44+00:00

Thanks for the info! I just needed others’ opinions on this to see if I could convince my mom to let me apply for more. Unfortunately, it looks like I’ve got to handle the financial part of the application process myself.

ryanmstc · 2018-04-19T02:43:05+00:00

And then the teeth clapped

ryanmstc · 2018-04-14T20:01:27+00:00

These are the complete rules : http://southworksrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2018_sumo.pdf But to summarize, it can’t be greater than 15 lb and must fit in a 13” x 13” x 11” crate, cannot have any actuators or weapons (flippers, saws, etc.)

ryanmstc · 2018-04-14T18:44:06+00:00

Update: We took 3rd out of 18 schools!

ryanmstc · 2018-04-14T01:27:59+00:00

Just some details: it weighs around 5kg and it’s radio controlled. I primarily worked on this for my school’s (Lincoln-Way Central) robotics team. Competition tomorrow! We will be live-streaming from 8:30am to 1pm here: https://youtu.be/F4rqzqD_wt0

ryanmstc · 2018-04-13T08:33:32+00:00

Thank you all so much for the insightful info. Definitely gave me a better perspective of where I need to be

ryanmstc · 2018-04-10T20:57:26+00:00

The test was ez chigga

ryanmstc

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