<p>research facilities?</p>
<p>Which is the best to get into this?</p>
<p>I know physics will require a PhD.</p>
<p>Does this feild require expereicne?</p>
<p>Research centers employ both engineers and physicists, and it highly depends upon what YOU want to focus in, since the national labs employ engineers and physicists both. Several guys I know started in civil, got their masters and PhDs in structural engineering studying crack propagation, and are now at Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos. You’ll need a PhD from a top-notch grad program with your research focus being something applicable to the studies pursued at one of the national labs. </p>
<p>Your “experience” will be your research done during your graduate studies… It’s not like you’re going to need to rack up a bunch of summer internships with various companies. Best bet is to try to get some research experience with professors during the summer through an undergrad research program.</p>
<p>And the people that I know that work there, are Very, very good. They also have layoffs and firings.</p>
<p>i heard that its easy to get a fellowship at those govt labs with a phD in physics, but very hard to find a permanent position. is that also true with a phD in engineering?</p>