Co-ops, Internships, Employment, and Graduate School Opportunities
Students from the Physical Sciences Department graduate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with knowledge and experience desired by academia, government agencies, and industry. Alumni of the Astronomy & Astrophysics, Engineering Physics, and Space Science degrees achieve careers as engineers, faculty, physicists, researchers, and scientists in numerous industries.
Current Physical Sciences students often obtain internships and research-intensive experiences at:
- Arecibo Observatory
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- MIT-Haystack Observatory
- NASA Johnson Space Flight Center
- National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory
- Stony Brook University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- University of Indiana, Department of Physics
- University of Michigan, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences
Graduates are selected for highly competitive graduate and doctoral programs at:
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- University of Alaska at Fairbanks
- University of California Santa Barbara
- University of Florida
- University of Oklahoma
- Western Ontario University
Recent graduates are pursuing careers at:
- Lockheed Martin
- NASA Centers
- National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC)
- Northrop Grumman
- Rockwell Collins
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Swales Aerospace
- The Boeing Company
- Various military organizations