I just wanted to see the amount of people that plan on Working at JPL or NASA, I for one plan on working there 
My career choice plans after college (In order):
DEKA engineer
NASA engineer
FANUC engineer
Other robotics field engineer
Same here just a little different
JPL Engineer
Private Company Engineer
Anything that pays a lot for engineering 
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!
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
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
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Start my own Engineering Firm (I have a plan, a name, and some pretty cool $-making Ideas)
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Motorola (Yea Chicago, yea Wildstang!)
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NASA (Preferrably JPL, but Cape Canaveral will work too)
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Mercenary (Any company that will pay me a good, six-figure salary :D[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. :yikes:
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:yikes:
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. 
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.
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…
FANUC!? :ahh: go KAWASAKI ROBOTICS! 
(my dads company)
well, what i wish to do is… invent something, get a patent. make LOTSA LOTSA money, get rich, and have plenty of money to tinker around with many fun stuff. like a segway. maybe even go for the x-prize 
… come on. it MIGHT happen
ultimate goal: own R&D engineering/industrial design firm
other places that interest me: IDEO, DEKA, General Dynamics, and a few choice large companies with R&D (delphi, xerox, bausch and lomb)
already worked:
APL/NASA :Contour satellite: subsystem design (yes my design got on there)
Direct Dimentions Inc - private engineering firm
Center of Marine Biotechnology: worked on new ways to improve aquadic enviorments
One of the cool things about JPL is that it is managed by Cal Tech (California Institute of Technology - http://www.caltech.edu/) for NASA, so I think that it has probably has a more academic feel to it than some NASA centers. (My son Robert works there, although he is on a sabatical at the moment.)
I can’t speak for JPL but APL is managed by Johns Hopkins university and having worked there it is really not an academic environment. I am actually not sure about the university partnership beyond faculty and grad students.
For a long time I have wanted to work for the LEGO corporation as some kind of model maker… LEGO’s were definately an inspiration for my career path as I grew up. So was architecture for that matter.
Now, I just want to work somewhere close to home. I worked for a place where the commute everyday was a nightmare. Ughh…
Anyways, I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
It would be great if I were independently wealthy to back up some of my eccentric ideas I have at times.
How did Dean do that again??
Oh yeah… that hard work thing… Hmm… Well, there goes that plan… lol j/k
Anyways… I don’t know where I would like to work.
I do like doing things with my hands, and I also like seeing a project from concept to prototype to final stage. So, I don’t know…
I guess my current studies at college for CAD are good for now, and then I will go from there.
I think I will always be in school. As much as I hate structured learning, it’s the only way I actually do learn stuff. Actually, that is false, I learn a lot from side projects I do, like being involved in FIRST and also restoring an older vehicle.
The only thing that I do know is that I never want my career to take up my whole life.
If I have to devote more than say 40-50 hours a week to work, I don’t want to spend all my time making money for somone else. I’d rather devote myself to my career if it were for me and my ideas - no matter how eccentric they may be. I know that may seem kind of selfish, but… Oh well.
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
Who says I’m mocking them?
Lot’s of cool stuff out there.
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.
Hey Dan,
Read “Code Name Ginger” …
I do love the guy … but I could NEVER work for Dean. :ahh:
I’ve still not gotten that book, I want it but not bought it. I guess It attributed to getting info offline and spending my money to make lotsa buttons with mico LEDs. In season 2005 look for the guy/team with buttons with 30 of the small (surface mount) LEDs.
I think I’d like to work for DEKA, I’m kinda having troubles with school and stuff but really good with hands on, I would definatly like to work for NASA in some way shape or form, one of my friends wants to be an astronaut (sp?). I wouldnt mind having to design the new shuttles and wire them, I’m attempting to get an electrical engineering degree in addition to my electrical lisence, heck you think college is hard? try college and 8 years or more of electrical work rewiring houses! the attic I was in last week was 100+ and EXTREMELY dusty, cramped and I had to be careful NOT to fall through the ceiling!