I am taking pre-engineering at highschool. For our second semester project..we get to...design rollercoasters and build a model to see if we can design a coaster that will succesfully make it through its course(without testing) and have it be rideable(aka not to many G-Forces). Fun...and I plan on becoming an engineer and possibly designing coasters! I already have conceptual drawing of possible layouts and prototype trains!
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It's usually fun to be me, but sometimes I need a little love too. --Jeff
I am sure that it is hard, but if you can believe in yourself and you have the will to do it, you can do anything. I hate it when people try to damper on other people's dreams.
I would love to work for B&M, but they might not be around in 8 years, I am thinking Setpoint will be the big one in a few years. Some-ones gotta do it, why can't it be some of us?
Also, Setpoint is a good example, it was two guys that were working for a diff. comp. that decided to start their own, same with B&M, the came from Intamin. It's not all family.
One more thing, these companies usually have alot of diff. things to them, you may not own a comp. but you may be able to work for them. Look at the guy who designed SD2K. He works for Morgan, but he did most of the work, I wouldn't be suprised if he opened his own comp. with a ride like that under his belt.
P.S.-He's gotta do something about the trains first!;)
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"Villain-Once You Drop, The Fun Don't Stop!"~SFWoA Rules In 2001~X Marks The Spot In 2001(SFWoA)~With SFWoA ANYTHING Is Possible!
Actually, Since I'm only 15, I've started constructing a letter to send to Intamin asking them what they recommend someone like myself to do to in the future get hired by a coaster company. If I ever got my own firm, it would be SDL, Supercell Designs Ltd.
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Vekoma: Hey! we finally got SFoG's Deja Vu open!
I would like to do the same, but also own my own chain of parks, too. Then, I could design all the coasters for my parks so I wouldn't have to pay other companies to do it.
Here's a better job than designing coasters: Make lots of money in some unrelated field, then BUY or CREATE a theme park! That way, you get to tell the designers exactly what you want, and you get to ride it at your whim!
Being an upcoming high school senior, I'm planning on working toward doing it. I'll probably major in mechanaical engineering. I know the odds are against me. If it works out great, if not oh well.
I actually have pursued my passion to design, I have written many reports in school about it, I have contacted people such as Ron Toomer, B&M, CCI, and Vekoma. Ron Toomer told me that he has a degree in mechanical engineering, and that that is the best way to go. I might do this, but i am still young and i have many ideads. Right now i just keep a notebook of ideas and designs that i actually have made. Some of them have actucally been made, like TA2K. A while ago i drew a ride the took the space shot ride, and it shot up, turned over and turned into a normal coaster. It is a long way from TA2K, but very much the same idea. I also have and idea, to use the 1st generation intamin freefall, (Demon Drop, CP) and then do a very large freefall, curve like it does and then hydroliclly turn the seat so it is a normal ride. I have researched a lot about designing and i am still very interested.
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Neil, "Boy Genius, Hope of Mankind"
http://kmlaser81.tripod.com/RockinCoasterSite/
After I graduate high school, i plan on going to college for an engeneering degree. I then plan on working for Arrow, since they are the only big steel coaster designer in the US (am I right about this?). I then on planning on either interning for a year or two then getting a job there.
If this doesnt work and i dont get a job there, anyone want to help me start a coaster company? Either way, I am going to design coasters for a living.
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http://www.islandguide.8m.com all about PKI
the Beasts` Den
There's also being the CEO of any Amusement Park Chain. Somebody could go to Bill Gates with a plan and ask for 2 billion to start their own park. He could get 75% of all profits.
X
I wanna make em when I get older. It's been a dream of mine for like ever
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I love Ceadr Point!!! M. Force is G R E A T!
PKI is cool too!!!!!
That sounds very cool Neil...let me know if it happens so I can have the first ride, and good luck to you!
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Life is a roller coaster...ride it!
X Marks The Spot said:
"There's also being the CEO of any Amusement Park Chain. Somebody could go to Bill Gates with a plan and ask for 2 billion to start their own park. He could get 75% of all profits.
X"
Or buy Six Flags :)
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Rollercoasters are the secret of life!
http://www.woodencoaster.com
I want to become a coaster builder but if does back fire or they stop making them I'm goign to get a engineer degree to build other things as well
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Cedar Point, doesn't get any better then that:)
I just wanna stick to riding everyone elses designs. Maybe one day I'll be raving about one that someone on this forum created...
I may only be 16, but I already plan to college and get an engineer's degree to become an architectual engineer, from there I hope I can help design B&M inspired coasters and hopefully make my own, just like X Marks The Spot!
I'd always thought about what I wanted to do for the rest of my life for a job. As I grew up and was asked the question more often, I tried to think of something I would be comfortable with.
At the age of 14 I decided that since I loved coasters and knew wany things about them already that I would strive to become a roller coaster designer.
I'm now 16 years old, and I have a GPA of 4.0 (which I hope doesn't go down any :)) I'm going to be a junior this year so I have a couple years until I go off to college. Something that made me realize how very hard it is to enter into the coaster field is the GPA that you must have. (I wish I could find the past threads like these, but the current condition of the search function makes that impossible) Anyway, someone that was pursuing a career in coaster design said that if you don't have a GPA of 3.8 or higher, the companies won't even look at your resume. :(
I plan on getting a mechanical engineering degree. I don't know if I want to go to Purdue in West Lafayette or my local Purdue branch.
CCI is the closest coaster company to me, which is cool because of the awesome creations they have built. It would be awesome to get a job there. I hope to intern or co-op there some day. Anymway, I'm in the same pool as most of you...just a guy hoping to get his foot in the door so he can blow it right open for others. ;)
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Cya on the midways
I'm planning on being somewhere in the amusement/designing/building/managing in the coaster industry.
I want Kinzels house!!
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...A natural force simply known as, Millennium Force...
If I can't design coasters, I'll design buildings such as skyscrapers and High Rise Condos. But I'm sure I'll be a coaster designer
X
I know you all will probaly laugh at me, but I am going to start off as an "Imagineer" for disney, Yeah yeah laugh it up, but the pay is great. all they require is a bachelors degree, and the pay starts at around or about 50k. Then after a few years i will get my masters and get a higher job with at good company!!!
If you become really desperate, you could always flirt with Denise Dinn Larrick lol.
