JPL/NASA Anyone want to work there?

[cvhsrobotics]

I just wanted to see the amount of people that plan on Working at JPL or NASA, I for one plan on working there

[Swan217]

My career choice plans after college (In order):

DEKA engineer
NASA engineer
FANUC engineer
Other robotics field engineer

[cvhsrobotics]

Same here just a little different

JPL Engineer
Private Company Engineer
Anything that pays a lot for engineering

[Erin Rapacki]

Already was a:

DEKA Test Technician
NASA subcontractor - Space Suit Quality/Project Intern
JSF F135 Project Intern

Dave, may I work at JPL for next year's coop... pleeeeease?



ByE


erin

p.s. For all of those of whom I consulted... my Mom pounded the most sense into me. No, I'm not switching majors. Thanks to all of you!

[RogerR]

i'd like to work for (frst one is the one i'd like most...)

JPL
Trek, cannondale, specialized, etc...
Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, etc...
as a fabricator in a chopper shop
harley-davidson

[suneel112]

I have a friend and fellow HS senior team member (his name is Vivek) who is going to Pasadena. He is studying at Caltech this fall (an amazing thing considering he had the time to do FIRST and get a 4.0 in all honors classes and score above a 1500 in SAT). He may do an internship at JPL (If he continues a 4.0 and if I convince him enough [he doesn't like "Government Agencies"]).

I am only a junior but I have some Ideas of where I want to work

1. Start my own Engineering Firm (I have a plan, a name, and some pretty cool $-making Ideas)

2. Motorola (Yea Chicago, yea Wildstang!)
3. NASA (Preferrably JPL, but Cape Canaveral will work too)
4. Mercenary (Any company that will pay me a good, six-figure salary [after my masters] )

So to finally answer your question, YES, I want to work at JPL, but don't expect to see me any time soon.

[Ashley Weed]

hehe *evil grin* NASA looks nice, I have thought about it but it's not "conveniently located" for me.

... I have several connections to the FBI, and would deffinately like the benefits of a federal job. I know the government would love to utilize my IST degree and Albany's field office isn't that far from home. :shhhhh:don't tell Greg

I'm still just uterly disappointed in myself about that FIRST job listing that came up last week... what an opportunity that passed me buy just a little too soon.

[JVN]

All this other stuff sounds really exciting.
But... I hear they are doing incredible things in the shelving world. Maybe I'll become a shelving engineer.

Or cardboard boxes, I hear those are pretty cool also. I could be a box designer!

I mean... everyone needs shelves and boxes!

Ohh the possibilities are endless!


engineering isn't just spaceships folks...

[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by JVN

All this other stuff sounds really exciting.
But... I hear they are doing incredible things in the shelving world. Maybe I'll become a shelving engineer.

Or cardboard boxes, I hear those are pretty cool also. I could be a box designer!

I mean... everyone needs shelves and boxes!

Ohh the possibilities are endless!


engineering isn't just spaceships folks...

Personally, I plan on re-inventing the wheel.

I'd like to work with JPL or Lockheed or something similar as either a Software or Electrical Engineer, although i'm thinking about architecture.

[indieFan]

Originally Posted by JVN

But... I hear they are doing incredible things in the shelving world. Maybe I'll become a shelving engineer.

Or cardboard boxes, I hear those are pretty cool also. I could be a box designer!

I mean... everyone needs shelves and boxes!

Don't mock things before you check them out. One of the stories I heard from a professor at my school is that a senior design project involved going to a company that made pallets. There was only this one company anywhere in the Los Angeles vacinity that was making them at the time. One of the students realized this and started his own company making pallets.

Think about how many companies use pallets. Think about how the Port of Los Angeles uses pallets. Think about the fact that each pallet costs $10. Now think about how well that company must be doing.

Just some food for thought,
indieFan

[JVN]

Originally Posted by indieFan

Don't mock things before you check them out.

Who says I'm mocking them?

Lot's of cool stuff out there.

[miketwalker]

I personally really want to work for NASA or JPL. I'm interested in working with the manned flight rockets and components (i.e. processing of International Space Station items). I'm also interested in doing work similar to Lavery because automated robots interest me.

However, my long term goals are that I want to become an astronaut. That's my life-long dream, so I'm working towards it... even if I'm a really tall guy, I'll just have to be even better to make them want me more :-P

[Joe Matt]

A good, good, good friend of mine (he's on CD too) wants to get into the aeronautical engineering field, and hopes to work with NASA some day.

As for me, my dream job is with Walt Disney Imagineering. But hey, I'm weird like that. Why just be an astronaut when you could make other people feel like they are? It's the idea of creating a story for other people to marvel and appreciate seems really cool. Also, I've never been a huge fan of going to DEKA. I don't know why, maybe it's just not my style of company.

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by JVN

All this other stuff sounds really exciting.
But... I hear they are doing incredible things in the shelving world. Maybe I'll become a shelving engineer.

Or cardboard boxes, I hear those are pretty cool also. I could be a box designer!

I mean... everyone needs shelves and boxes!

Ohh the possibilities are endless!


engineering isn't just spaceships folks...

I always thought going into packaging engineering would be really cool. (http://www.uwstout.edu/programs/bsp/) And my dad used to work for a company that made correugated boxes ... now he works for a company that makes plastic totes, pallets and the like. It's actually all pretty neat. Unfortunately, I'm not too good with math, and the whole engineering thing wouldn't really work for me.

Anyway, I'd love to work for JPL/NASA. Not as an engineer, but as doing what I'm going to school for (scientific and technical communications)

That would be sweet.

[dez250]

Originally Posted by Ashley Weed

hehe *evil grin* NASA looks nice, I have thought about it but it's not "conveniently located" for me.

... I have several connections to the FBI, and would deffinately like the benefits of a federal job. I know the government would love to utilize my IST degree and Albany's field office isn't that far from home. :shhhhh:don't tell Greg

I'm still just uterly disappointed in myself about that FIRST job listing that came up last week... what an opportunity that passed me buy just a little too soon.

Hey Ashley, the Albany field office for the FBI is only like 10 mins from one FIRST tea, 15 from another and about 30 mins from a 3rd team...