<p>Is there hope for a large availability of jobs for aerospace or environmental engineers in Ohio? Preferrably northern Ohio? I would not really like to have to go far away to find a good job</p>
<p>Today, there isn’t a hope of a large availability of jobs in any state.</p>
<p>Job prospects and Ohio in the same sentence? Now that’s funny.</p>
<p>My bad. I should’ve phrased it a little better. What would one say the job outlook is into the future?</p>
<p>It’s Ohio what do you expect?</p>
<p>Job prospects for Ohio in general are bleak. If I were you, I would think about leaving the state permanently after college.</p>
<p>4 to 5 year from now the economy should make at least some progress and job outlook shouldn’t be nearly as bad as it is now. Environmental engineers are needed all over the place, but how good the job market in Ohio specifically is, I don’t know. I know there are various CH2M Hill locations in Ohio, and they like environmental engineers. As for aerospace, you won’t have much of a chance at all. The only company that does aerospace in Ohio that I can think of is GE Aerospace. They design jet engines there. GE is notoriously difficult to get into though and the work environment is not for everyone. Other than that, I can’t think of much that goes on in aerospace in Ohio. My advice is to expand your search area. With aerospace engineering in general, jobs are going to be tied strongly to geography.</p>
<p>The only thing that is holding up the Ohio economy right now is the fact that LeBron James still plays for the Cavaliers. If he leaves, the entire state is going to sag into a depression.</p>
<p>All kidding aside, job prospects aren’t very good anywhere right now, and they are even worse for the Rust Belt.</p>
<p>However, in the next decade, the economy should start improving and jobs will come back (cross your fingers!). Hopefully part of this comeback will include a shift towards more investment in sustainability across all sectors. This could open up the doors for a lot of jobs in EnviroE, as well as the traditional degrees (ME, EE, ChemE). </p>
<p>However, I don’t really see Aero as being part of the Ohio industry. GE had an aerospace company in my hometown, but the focus there was on control systems for the airplanes. This meant that most of the people working there were in EE. That being said, I’m not very familiar with the concentrations of AeroE. But I do know that many AeroE’s are concentrated in certain regions of the country (Colorado, Southwest, Pacific NW, etc), and Ohio isn’t one that comes to mind.</p>
<p>If you want a good job then you will have to expand your search radius by atleast 1,000 miles. Maryland, Washington ects…</p>
<p>That’s not true, alchemist. St. Louis, for example, has a HUGE Boeing presence. Philadelphia has stuff too.</p>
<p>I know that Ohio has an aerospace presence and so do many surrounding states but just as a recommendation to the OP it is important not to constrict yourself to just one or two states. Keep your mind open to new possibilities. There is no harm in considering a job in other parts of the country, especially if that job offer may have better future career opportunities.</p>
<p>Over the past couple of days i have decided to change my mind. However I stil have its limits. Lets say I i increase my range to anything south of the mississippi but no more southern than north carolina? also which industry seems more promising in the future? aero or astro?</p>
<p>South of the Mississippi? You know that the Mississippi starts in Minnesota and runs almost due south through Louisiana to the ocean, right? “South of the Mississippi” has no meaning. Assuming you mean East of the Mississippi, then you open up a lot of good schools and jobs. I would still urge you to make an exception for St. Louis, though. It is right on the west side of the Mississippi and has one of the 3 main Boeing facilities (the others being Seattle and Los Angeles). Other than that, you now have Philly and DC in your scope of places to look for aerospace jobs, and between those three places plus the smaller places like Indianapolis (Rolls-Royce) or Cincinnati (GE Aerospace), you ought to be able to find something you like.</p>
<p>okay okay so i wasnt looking at what i was typing. I did mean east. And st louis is definitely somewhere im considering. I forgot it was on the west side but i knew it was close. So the STL location is a highly regarded facility?</p>
<p>Well there are a ton of facilities in St. Louis for Boeing (and various small support companies, though I don’t know much about them). Boeing’s Defense, Space & Security (BDS) branch is based in St. Louis, so I would say it is a pretty “highly regarded” facility. BDS is one of the two main business units in Boeing, along with Commercial Airplanes. I know that a lot of the Phantom Works (advanced development) stuff is based in St. Louis as well. It doesn’t have the same sheer volume of people as the Los Angeles or Seattle locations, but it is still a very significant facility.</p>
<p>If you want to work in technology, you’re better off moving to one of the nation’s tech centers. NC, Texas, Washington, etc.</p>
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<p>Not true. Not true at all.</p>
<p>Of course it’s true.</p>
<p>And why is it true? You completely left out a ton of places with huge technology sectors. Technology careers are not limited to those 3 areas… at all. What about LA? Silicon Valley? Any NASA facility? Boeing, Lockheed and Northrop facilities not in your 3 places? It is absolutely ludicrous to say that you need to live in one of those three places for a technology career.</p>
<p>Totally agree with boneh3ad on this. There are actually many job opportunities for engineers throughout the midwest or other places that are not near those three areas. The OP asked specifically about aerospace in Ohio. There are definitely opportunities as others have mentioned such as GE aviaition in Cincinatti or NASA Glenn in Cleveland. I think there is even a Lockheed facility near Akron.</p>
<p>Some people just have the attitude that there are no jobs outside of the East or West coast. This is a huge misconception.</p>