PhD Aerospace and double major

DoubleD
Wed, 09 Oct 2013 18:32:27 +0000

I’m guessing that you go to TAMU?
I actually visited the aero-dpt and Staack’s (I think that’s who you’re referring to) lab this summer.
I heard the main guy in the aero-department doing propulsion field is a giant *******. Cismas or something. I think I may also know the grad student you’re referring to. Small world.

Fluids is actually my concentration, but propulsion and fluids are really intertwined. That’s why you see many labs that do both. Caltech’s aero department only has like 12 profs, and like half of them are profs in multiple departments. That program is extremely small. I think they only accept like 10-20 grad students per year. I haven’t looked into their MECH department though, but I assume it’s much bigger and more varied in research areas.

I’m actually surprised there aren’t more computational guys in EP than experimental given how expensive it is to run those experiments accurately and the price costs associated with xenon .