Category: Career & Interviews
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Why I Fell in Love With Dynamics & Controls
I remember taking linear algebra and differential equations and thinking, when and for what will I ever need to know all of this? Many engineers I had chatted with up to that point had told me they didn’t really use advanced math, physics, or complex engineering concepts in their actual jobs. Most of them mainly…
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Politics & Friendships at work
My first job was doing production support at an aerospace prime. This group was riddled with politics, people threw each other under the bus at any time and there were clear underqualified favorite children that moved up the ladder fast. My instinct was to run from this group and in 6 months I took a…
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What Degree Should You Get for Controls Engineering?
If you Google or ChatGPT this question, you will most likely get an answer along the lines of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Mechatronics as the most common backgrounds for controls engineers. And while that’s not wrong, in my experience it doesn’t paint the full picture of how things actually work in the aerospace industry,…
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Career Pyramids
and the rising need for generalists What Is a Career Pyramid? A career pyramid is like a career ladder, except it is wide. Instead of only moving up, you can move up or across. Moving up the pyramid signifies depth in a specific field—say, power electronics—while moving across signifies breadth, such as hardware product development,…
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