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Entry levels in my group can do everything the senior engineers can do in general, like staff and plan wind tunnel testing, do various studies on new airfoil technologies, new and innovative control surface types and configuration, airplane derivatives, new airplane studies, and more. Entry...

I would love to see a dedicated aerospace engineering section. The easy solution is to move the current ME/Aero forum into its own archive so we don't have to retroactively move hundreds of threads to a new forum. Then we can decide on a standard with which to identify a thread as Aero or ME...

Congratulations! You work in Exton?

How much foundation do you need before attending a 4-year university? I looked at your CC and it offers some direct transfer credits to PSU. If you're able to take, for example, a freshman composition course or calculus I (the only two I looked up) at your CC, you could transfer those to PSU. If...

Since nuclear engineering is basically the same as other engineering majors during the first two years, you can go to a branch campus to complete your pre-engineering/gen ed courses. The Nuc E classes, however, are only offered at main campus (State College).

Penn State isn't just a party school. You want to know if it's at the top, but you didn't specify which program you're interested in. For example, it's the top school in PA for aerospace engineering because it's the only one!

No need to pity yourself. If you really want the degree, you'll work for it.

I was always one of the younger in my class. I was 17 when I graduated high school while most of my friends were 18. My birthday is in July.

Hi everyone. :) I'm z-component: Ever since I was young, I loved airplanes and flying. During middle school, I wanted to be a commercial airline pilot. In my junior year of high school (2004), I joined PF and stayed ever since. Around the same time, I realized that I wanted to become an...

You can change the max/min values right on the open dialog box in your image. See the minimum and maximum fields? Nice curve, by the way.

Hey, I want to talk to Astronuc via live chat! :biggrin:

Also, the current staff list: https://www.physicsforums.com/help/mentorforums/

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The B.S. in Aerospace Engineering covers 27 of a required 45 credits in general education classes. Like other schools, you don't really get into aerospace engineering classes until junior year, and your engineering curriculum is much like all the other engineering ones for the first two years...

Unfortunately, US News now only shows the top three schools in each category without buying a subscription. A list of the US News 2008 engineering rankings can be found here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/382751-usnews-2008-engineering-ranking-compilation.html. For...