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Propulsion Engineer Interview Questions
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What hands-on experience do you have?
Staged combustion cycle explained with pressures
Tell me about a project you worked on and what were passionate about it?
Why are you interested in the company and position? Describe how a strain gauge functions. Describe how a pressure transducer functions. How would you design a pressure transducer that doesn't rely on resistance changes? Why is it undesirable to use a strain gauge in a simple voltage divider? What advantage does the wheatstone bridge setup yield? Draw a Rankine or Brayton cycle on a T-S diagram, how would you extract additional work from the cycle without raising the max temperature? Design a plumbing and instrumentation system to pump 1000 gallons of water from one tank to another tank which is elevated 30 meters above the first. Others.
What is the application for this design? Why can't it be XYZ? What does the rest of the system look like? etc
They asked about simple fluid dynamics problems that focused on hydrostatics, pressure differentials, and a basic understanding of the assumptions made for fluids
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Why do you want to leave current employer for SpaceX? What makes you better than other candidates?
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