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Hi,

I'm looking to study aerospace engineering at uni later this year. 2 questions:

1) Will I be able to get a job in the space industry after? I am prepared to travel but idk if you need country citizenship to work on their space programmes (espc NASA/ SpaceX)

2) Can I work in the energy sector with this degree? By that I mean building sustinable energy e.g. nuclear reactors or wind turbines
Original post by Terablitz259
Hi,

I'm looking to study aerospace engineering at uni later this year. 2 questions:

1) Will I be able to get a job in the space industry after? I am prepared to travel but idk if you need country citizenship to work on their space programmes (espc NASA/ SpaceX)

2) Can I work in the energy sector with this degree? By that I mean building sustinable energy e.g. nuclear reactors or wind turbines

1. Maybe, space industry is pretty niche tbh, their is European space agency, Reaction engines, UK space agency which operate here I believe,.
I suspect most opportunities lie abroad, I think without a US citizenship you may struggle to get into NASA or anything that is defence related abroad. The other problem is you may need the right to work in another country although some companies do visa sponsorship but you’ll need to check if any you are interested in do.

2. Yes, may be a little more limited then say mechanical which has a slightly wider footprint but I don’t see why you cannot, wind turbines (how much is their left to engineer with these?, I imagine the fins are pretty efficient and most CFD has been done already, which leaves the generator which I imagine is mostly power electronics so you would probably need an electrical engineering degree for that bit.). For Nuclear reactors, I guess it depends which part of this you want to do, I think this would almost certainly involve a specialist masters. I know a couple nuclear energy engineer PhDs (one had a mechanical & nuclear engineering masters from Imperial & the other had a physics masters).

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