<p>what is your dream company? top 5?</p>
<p>Scaled Composites. Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works. Boeing's Phantom Works. NASA. Mikoyan-Gurevich (;)).</p>
<p>In no particular order.</p>
<p>For which field?</p>
<p>Structural eng:
1) Wiss Janney Elstner (I start mid-June!! yay!)
2) Magnusson-Klemencic
3) Walter P Moore
4) Skidmore Owings Merrill
5) Thornton-Tomasetti or Leslie E Robertson & Assoc.</p>
<p>Well, they're not Google or Microsoft or Texas Instruments... I was looking for either failure analysis or structural engineering of very cool buildings. If anybody's looking to apply to companies of that ilk, let me know... I've got a massive list of addresses and names that I compiled during my job search, and I did a bajillion phone interviews and flew a bunch of places for six different face-to-face interviews, so if you're looking to start a structural eng job hunt, I now consider myself an ol' pro, and would be more than happy to help out.</p>
<p>Scaled Composites (but not SC specifically), SpaceX, XCore, Lockheed Skunk Works, Rocket Development Association (my company), Harvey Mudd College (teaching).</p>
<p>I don't like big companies. I like small-medium companies with a family feel. I'm tired of bureaucratic "professional" bullpoop. Of course...Lockheed is a pretty big company...</p>
<p>Well, skunk/phantom works tend to have a bit of autonomy, which keeps it somewhat sheltered from the the BS.</p>
<p>NASA seems to be revelling in it recently, though...:-/</p>
<p>1) Skywalker Sound/THX
2) Dolby
3) DTS
4) Creative
5) Harman/JBL</p>
<p>notice the sound connection...music and sound are my first loves (ok...lets say love=interest :rolleyes: ). besides my first choice, everything's really my dream choices if i couldn't get a job in music recording (which i'm going to minor in).</p>
<p>what are good companies that take mechanical engineers?</p>
<p>if it moves, it requires a mechanical engineer. (and sometimes if it doesn't move)</p>
<p>I'll follow with the scaled composites trend. They send people into space more often then NASA now.</p>
<p>What is scaled composites exactly. Does it have anything to do with Materials engineering, or is that something involved with mech and Aero engineering.</p>
<p>Scaled Composites is Burt Rutan's aerospace company in Mojave, NM. Though most famous for SpaceShipOne, the first privatly funded and operated spacecraft and currently on display at the Air and Space Museum in DC along with the Wright Flyer, the Spirit of Saint Louis, the X-1, and the X-15, it also built the Raytheon Starship and many other innovative aircraft.</p>