PhD Aerospace and double major

64lakers
Wed, 09 Oct 2013 08:04:28 +0000

I don’t think stanford has an EP program either, If i did go to stanford or GaTech, it would be for space systems. Actually i was considering CalTech too, but when you look up their website, you feel the department in heavily concentrated on fluid dynamics. I couldn’t find someone who was doing propulsion (advanced tech not chemical) or space systems or orbital dynamics. Maybe RacinReaver could talk about that more, if there are people getting their PhD in either of these fields. Also, how would you apply for a co-adviser at JPL? DO you just apply and the department finds you one? Also how does it affect your chances of acceptance there?

As for MIT, from what I have read online they seem to put a lot of weight on grades, at least the gradute students that I looked into. A 3.7-3.8 doesn’t seem enough.

Also I am an international student at a US institution. It is a top 10 in aerospace too, but we concentrate a lot on aerodynamics, airplane dynamics, materials and structures. But we do have a few people in propulsion but no one that I know is concentrating on advanced propulsion or space system/dynamics. There is 1 graduate student who is doing EP but its computational. The mech dept has a professor from Princeton who has developed a really good lab for experimental EP and plasma.