Which Graduate Programs Should I Consider for a Career in Weapons Design?

[sociophysipath]

Hi all,

I am rather new to the forum and am a second year mathematics and physics student if that has any relevancy to the question I have.

My passions involve studying things like ballistic trajectories, missiles/drones, explosives, and other sort of weapons with possible military/defense applications. I have a decent amount experience with firearms, ballistics study, and home-made explosives, and I would like to know if anyone knowledgeable about graduate study programs in the US has any sort of recommendations about what type of program I should look for, or at the very least, any sort of resource for searching different graduate programs that is better than a google search (surely there must be one, but I can't seem to find anything).

Any sort of response is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance to anyone who can point me in the right direction

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I'm sorry you are not finding help at the moment. Is there any additional information you can share with us?

 

[Travis_King]

Aeronautical and Mechanical would be the first ones that come to mind as far as designing ballistics and the weapons themselves go. Then I'd have to say Electrical Engineering / Computer Science (not really comp sci, but more the general study of controls and programming, an EE degree with a controls focus would be a decent start). Chemical engineering and Materials Science engineering would be useful for casings/housings/incendiary charges, etc.

There's no one path to get there. But I would say it would help to have a military background; though it's certainly not necessary.