 
 
Few disciplines have inspired generations as much as
aerospace engineering. Today
aerospace engineers are helping us reach
the outer edges about our universe
while helping to improve our lives on
earth.
The Department of Aerospace Engineering
at Texas A&M University
is leading the next generation of Aggies to
create technological advances
that will shape the 21st century and
beyond.
You're going to be a student for four years
but what you do after this is your
career,
and if you really love what you're doing
its not even a job.
And I love aerospace engineering, I love
this department, I love what I've learned
it's not only fascinating but I feel
like I'm going to be able to contribute
to society in an incredible way.
With an Applied Science where we take everything that we know about
up fluids and materials and we have
make a
heavy hunk of metal full of flammable
liquid
hurtling through the air into one of the
safest forms of transportation that
has ever been known to man.
We are one of the top aerospace
engineering programs in the country
providing unique cutting-edge
educational and research opportunities
for more than 75 years, including space
exploration,
air transportation, national defense,
communications,
and sustainable energy. The thing I enjoy
most about the aerospace engineering
department here at Texas A&M
is AggieSat lab where I work. It gives
undergraduate and graduate students
an opportunity like nowhere else or any
other university
in the United States. We get to work on
actual spacecraft in space missions in
conjunction with NASA and another partners.
We have flight simulators, we have 
world-renowned faculty
and international competitions in
anything you could possibly want to do,
it's there. You just have to go for it. In the
Department of Aerospace Engineering
state-of-the-art technologies are
applied every day
in our world-class labs and centers. 
Students from around the world choose to
learn from and work with our
award-winning distinguished faculty
who are dedicated to student success. As
graduate students we work hard but we
see our professors delight in our success and our progress and this is
very motivating and very inspirational.
What I love about the
aerospace engineering department is that you
get to
build and fly your own planes or build and fly your own rockets.
And that's a pretty amazing opportunity
to have as an undergraduate.
Being an international student, I didn't
originally have the opportunity to study
aerospace engineering.
So I studied physics and astronomy and
then I applied
to the US study aerospace engineering and I picked
Texas A&M.
Our students have won numerous airplane and 
design competitions
and lead the nation in the number of
Sigma Gamma Tau National Aerospace
Honors Society national winners. Aerospace
Engineering offers numerous
opportunities
in a variety of industries from working
on future spacecraft and satellites
to UAVs and aircraft.  In addition
graduates can choose to work on the next
generation of ground transportation
including boats, trains and cars, as well
as pursuing careers in robotics
or software. I think some considering
aerospace engineering should
really know that by choosing it, you're
not necessarily limiting yourself
to designing airplanes. I have friends
who
work on designing spacecraft and others
who have gone into totally different
industries
and build electronic systems or help design
cars or even
work in petroleum engineering. If you come to
Texas A&M University to study aerospace
engineering you can go anywhere with
it
but you have to advocate for yourself
and be ambitious.
But if you do that, the opportunities are
endless.
Our alumni are highly sought after by
recruiters
and include astronauts, lead engineers on
commercial and military aerospace
systems,
as well as owners and CEOs of companies.
Six days after I graduated I moved to Mojave, California to work for
Scaled Composites
and I've been there nine years and have
done six new airplanes.
I did the mothership for the
Virgin Galactic
program, and then now I'm in
charge of the wing
for Paul Allen's Stratolaunch, which will
be the world's largest airplane.
You know the thing I remember about
being at A&M was
being up late in the computer lab studying 
real hard with my buddies, and it's the
same thing at work. There's always a
deadline, there's always a crisis and we
kind of get to be heroes together.
And we get to play with giant awesome airplanes.
Reach for the future,
choose aerospace engineering.
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