If one wanted to really work on this type of project

[Heath_h49008]

If you were a Mechanical Engineering student and really wanted to work on this, or a similar project, what would you do to make that happen?

Would you stay at a school such as Western Michigan University, complete your degree, and attempt to sell yourself cheap to get your foot in the door?

Switch programs or schools completely? (If so to what?)

Would you pursue a grad school option in New Mexico and hope to network into the Sandia world?

Avoid the entire subject like the plague until the tech pans out and maybe not enjoy working on production problems in an auto parts plant, but enjoy a paycheck.

Yes, every adviser I know of says... "You want to work on what?" I'm only half joking here.

[DeltaV]

The trend in industry over the last few decades has been for math majors to be assigned physics work, for physics majors to be assigned engineering work, for engineering majors to be assigned accounting or sales work, and for accountants/salespeople to be the executives running the show. If you want to work on Polywell physics, you should get something like an applied math degree.