itsjustschool:
Of course those companies recruit at UA Huntsville. They are all local employers there. Most companies interview at schools local to their operations. Headquarters of Space and Missile Defense Command (US Army) is in Huntsville, and there is a lot of support activity there from defense contractors. LockMart also has a major center for IR sensors in Orlando, so of course they would recruit at UCF. UCF also has the well-respected Center for Research in Electro-Optics and Lasers (CREOL), which has excellent faculty (including emeritus Michael Bass, author of the seminal text “Lasers”). None of this is hugely surprising.
??? Was that directed toward me??
It isn’t surprising to me. What you wrote is exactly what I have been posting. Apparently it is surprising to TopTier who stated
toptier:
@ucbalumnus: FYI, the LM site you cited (how’s that for convoluted wording) is for general recruiting (including such specialties as accounting, IT, computer security, contracting, marketing, finance, etc.), not for the Aero Sector engineering and program management . While I probably didn’t make this sufficiently clear, I was only discussing our practices in LM Aero for engineers, scientists, operations researchers, and other degreed technical professionals, since that was the focus of an earlier post (#2 ) to the thread.
the implication is that STEM degrees would not be hired from UCF. My point is simply that LHM recruits engineers from lower ranked schools. (They also recruit engineers from schools not on their backdoor like UA.)
Which all goes back to the OP’s question.