PhD Aerospace and double major

DoubleD
Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:55:50 +0000

I like TAMU, they have several world class faculty in the aero department. It’s definitely very different though. Princeton’s small, very small. You will probably find a higher percentage of arrogant people here than elsewhere. It’s probably not the best place social-wise.

I do not believe there’s any space propulsion research other than EP, at least not for the MAE dpt.
[Princeton Plasma Physics Lab | A Collaborative National Center for Fusion & Plasma Research](http://www.pppl.gov/) Check this out though. There’s several faculty members in this group and Choueieri is one of them. The EP group has their own website as well.

I think graduate schools will not pick one over the other if they are open minded and they should be open minded. For me, I’ve done research in a lot of areas: EP, controls, experimental and computational fluids. So you can see I switched around quite a bit. I think it’s important to explain why you tried different fields. If you stuck with one lab, then great, explain why you did.