Diving during grad. school

[ThatsSomeBadHatHarry]

I can speak for the university of Rhode Island. The diving is a blast and there are some great people to dive with. and the area is awesome. Don't be scared of all the New Jersey kids, they mean well...sort of.

 

[TheHobster]

There is a prof. at Cal State Fullerton

BS 1978 - there's aschool not often heard of except for baseball and Costner

 

[Gilldiver]

Before you pick a Grad school, let me make a proposition. I work for Sikorsky Aircraft, Div of United Technologies Corp (UTC, ticker UTX).

If you get a job at any UTC division you will be encouraged to go on to further your education. Here is the deal, UTC will:
1) Pay up front for all classes and books for 6 credits per semester at any school you want, be it local or distance learning. The course of study doesn’t have to have any relation to your work, just be an accredited program, i.e. an engineer can get a degree in art if they so wish.
2) Give you ½ hour paid time off per each class hour to study. You may use your desk computer and the companies library for research
3) At completion of your degree you get A) $5,000 in stock for an associates or B) $10,000 in stock for a BS/BA or higher

Only down side is that if a course is not job related, you will have to take the value of that course as salary for Tax purposes in the year you take the course.

So, go two years to grad school at say $40,000 per year = -$80,000 plus living expenses

Or

4 years employed for $45,000-$50,000+ = +$180,000 to $200,000+
Degree bonus = $10,000
A Masters plus 4 years at a Fortune 500 company on you resume.

You pick, I’m on my 2nd MS degree.

Finally, if you want to try for Sikorsky (Plenty of work on composite airframe and computer engineering right now - Blackhawk, Seahawk, CH-53K) let me know, we have a bounty out for new engineering meat. If you stay for 9 months, I get $3,000.

Pete

 

[Gilldiver]

One other thing, if you move to CT (Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky) you are 1 hour from the dive boats in RI, 1.5 to 2 hours from the NY/NJ boats, and 2-4 hours from the VT/NH ski slopes.

I'm also 1.5 hours by train from downtown NY city (Grand Central Station on 42nd St.)and 2 hours from downtown Boston.

 

[TheHobster]

Before you pick a Grad school, let me make a proposition. I work for Sikorsky Aircraft, Div of United Technologies Corp (UTC, ticker UTX).

My dad who worked for Piasecki, which became VERTOL and became Boeing Helicopters called Sikorsky Brand X

But, a great way to go if nea the right school - my MS from Univ of AZ and worked with a Hall of Fame swim coach and studied with 3 members of the Olympic Sporte Med committee at the time - quite an experience, and got published as well - an awesome experience

 

[Gilldiver]

My dad who worked for Piasecki, which became VERTOL and became Boeing Helicopters called Sikorsky Brand X

But, a great way to go if nea the right school - my MS from Univ of AZ and worked with a Hall of Fame swim coach and studied with 3 members of the Olympic Sporte Med committee at the time - quite an experience, and got published as well - an awesome experience

The company in Philli is the "Other" company. We were partnered with them for the Comanche and just lost out to them for the new Air Force combat search and rescue (CSARX) aircraft. But, the GAO smelled a rat and is making them redo the bid.

As for grad schools, the fact is being near a school no longer matters. We have gone into the distance learning (closed circuit TV and web based) real big. The paper says the same if you have feet on campus or just see electrons. I been a mentor to 4 new employees and they have or are taking degrees in cities such as Boston, Troy, and Chicago but never going more then 30 miles from the plant in Stratford, CT. The big name schools don't talk all that much about it, but it is all a cash cow to them. They get the same tuition with almost no expenses (facilities, student aid, or any of the other problems grad students bring with them).

But there are a number of schools near by, Yale, Trinity, University of New Haven, Weslyan, Univ of Fairfield, etc. Getting a MBA or Masters in this area of Ct is just about expected. I went to the Univ of Bridgeport for my first MS (it is close and the main reason I went, this was before the distance learning was established) and am doing my second at BU. It was amazing how little I had to do to enrole at both schools as soon as they learned that I was on the UTC plan.

If anyone wants to learn more, here it is.
http://careers.utc.com/esp_benefits.asp

As before, If anyone does want to do it, let me know. I want the head bounty.