Recent content by rustin03

Here's Dr. Griffin's bio if anyone's interested... http://academy.gsfc.nasa.gov/1998/html/michael_griffin.html Personally, I don't think that NASA administrator is an ideal post. You have to take all the heat when things go wrong, and you also don't have much political pull with Congress in...

I found this kind of funny in light of the above discussion... As you may have heard, the pres picked the new NASA Administrator today, and this guy has FIVE masters degrees in addition to his PhD in Aero: physics, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, civil engineering and business...

Hi Kenalex, Definitely check out the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. They are an up and coming EE program, and are quite reasonable to get into right now. I think you would probably get in there with your GPA. Here is a link to their webpage...

Slugger, Yeah, the MSCSE at OSU looks like a very focused program. This is exactly what I'm after. Gracias.

Hi kenalex, Masters degree program admissions are usually based almost entirely on your grade point average and the reputation of your undergraduate institution. Approximately what is your GPA? If I know that, I can probably give you some good schools to consider. Good luck!

Eddy, Good tip! I was just browsing around and found a bunch of classes through ASME. That sounds like a good way to go.

Hi Steven, That is encouraging to know about the vendor based training. Yeah, in grad school they tend to teach you how to do things from scratch on the lowest levels, but I am excited to see how they do things in industry. For instance, why write your own simulator if there are commercial...

Hi IRstuff, I think you're onto something... tuition assistance might be the optimal solution (bad pun). I think that if I took the classes but didn't do it for credit, part of me would feel cheated for not having anything tangible to show for all of my efforts. On the other hand, if I...

Hi All, Thanks for your replies! Let me clarify my question a bit, since maybe I didn't phrase it as I should have. I'm looking to go into the field of optimal/modern control. In the degree program I just got out of, I was able to take a few classes in this area, but wasn't able to do enough...

If you're interested in defense work, there's a third option besides just being a contractor or civil servant... become an officer and go active duty military. The Air Force "developmental engineer" career field is probably the most accessible if you want to do straight up engineering work as a...

Hi all, I just finished my MS in Aero Astro at Stanford, and was recently accepted to study for a second masters degree in the EE department at USC. The original point of getting the 2nd masters degree was to become really specialized in modern control theory, and then go off to be a...

Thanks so much for the reply! You're right, that is a huge hole! I actually just made up that number to approximate the area of the actual hole, which is quite asymmetric. The actual hole is long and thin, and oriented in the axial direction. It appears to have been caused by immediate...

Hi everyone, I am helping analyze a ruptured 16" diameter pipe that was carrying gasoline. There is a roughly 10" diameter hole in the side of the pipe. The internal operating pressure was around 1400 psi, and the pressure outside the pipe was standard atmospheric pressure, 14.7 psi. Someone...