Penn State - Schreyer Honors, Georgia Tech, Purdue or Alabama for Aerospace Engineering

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@ucbalumnus

Re: job security

Aerospace engineering has relatively narrow job and career directions, but those same employers also hire mechanical and other engineers. She may want to consider whether studying mechanical engineering (or other engineering relevant to her interests in aerospace) with aerospace electives could allow her to pursue her interests in aerospace but allow for more other options if the aerospace industry has a downturn when she looks for jobs.

I agree that aerospace is a very narrow major and it’s usually recommended to add mechanical or electrical minor if one can.

The flip side of that is that many ‘aerospace’ jobs are with private companies that contract with dept of defense and many to most of those companies are working at their regular pace today.