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Buff_Em

Aerospace Engineering at UT Austin: any experiences and thoughts about the program?

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Hi!

I am looking to gather opinions from graduate and undergraduate students (preferably the former group, but everyone is welcome to comment!) regarding the aerospace engineering department/program at UT Austin.

What do you think of the program? What have been the positives and negatives from your experience? If you’ve had cool internship/project/research experiences, what have consisted on? If you’re now a professional in industry, where has your UT education led you? And so on :)

Seeking for general opinions on the various experiences of people in the sub (which is what the mods approved my post for).

Posted Dec 14, 2023, 11:56 PM UTC

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hicroissant•

Current senior. It’s good

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Buff_EmOP•

Great to know! Can you expand on your experiences with the department? With coursework, professors, research, internships, etc?

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SaltySpark101Premed ASE/Math '26•

It’s cool, department is great and nice

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Buff_EmOP•

Great to know! Can you expand on your experiences with the department? With coursework, professors, research, internships, etc?

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SaltySpark101Premed ASE/Math '26•

Sure! Professors are very kind, and I guess more importantly, it is really easy to talk to them/get an audience with them. The ASE department is rather small so it’s easy to get to know people. Research will depend on lab more than the department, but support is good in general. There’s some very interesting research going on in the department. Coursework wise, my experience is was pretty good in the classes I’ve taken thus far. Grading is not super harsh and professors don’t assign obscene amounts of work.

As someone who isn’t looking to go into industry, my answer to this part is mostly anecdotal from friends. I see lots of people working for big ASE companies (Lockheed, NASA, SpaceX, BlueOrigin) and there’s definetly a network here.

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