Best Aeronautical Engineering Schools

boneh3ad
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 18:40:44 +0000

@anonemuss‌ I have a few comments on this:

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[li]This is only one of the two career fairs at UT in any given year. There is no telling who shows up to the other one, as I didn’t see a list on their site. It appears to be equally large, however. [/li]
[li]Airbus does not have much of an engineering presence in the United States. They therefore don’t spend the money that would be required to recruit heavily over here because the proportion of students interested in heading back overseas for that sort of career is fairly small so their return on investment would be small. I am not sure that I have seen them recruiting actively at the career fairs of any school on this side of the pond. The reverse is true in that Lockheed, Boeing and Northrop don’t recruit all that heavily over in Europe for the same reasons. [/li]
[li]So it appears that at this particular fair, two of the big three gas turbine manufacturers were absent. I can’t really say if that is a trend or not or if they instead go to the other fair there. What I can say is that plenty of other major aerospace companies clearly recruit there at this particular career fair: BAE Systems, General Electric, L3, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Northrup Grumman, Raytheon, Sandia National Laboratories, and Boeing. I left off the space-only companies since you aren’t interested. That is clearly an impressive list and only represents one of the two career fairs. [/li]
[li]UT has a strong brand name and engineers would get plenty of consideration even at companies that don’t actively recruit the UT career fairs. If we assume that Rolls-Royce or Pratt & Whitney actually don’t show up to the other fair, either, you could still get a job by applying directly (though having some face-to-face contact is always preferable). [/li]
[li]Also check the student chapter of AIAA for each school. They often have lists of recent meetings, and those meetings often have companies that participate in part for recruiting purposes. Browsing the UT AIAA chapter’s site says that JPL has been there recently as well. Their AIAA site is admittedly pretty sparse, though. [/li]
[li]The same statements apply to Texas A&M.[/li][/ul]