Master's in Ice Cream

I like aerospace. Most of the time, I feel like I've chosen a pretty cool profession. But then, things like this come along and make me realize just how much more awesome my life could be if I had gone into a different field.

From an email I received today:

Hello,

Prof. ----, of Mechanical Engineering, has an RA available starting in February for a master's level student. The funding will go for a year and for the first part of the RA the student will located in Western Europe. Please see description below.

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Novel Ice Cream Production

The research assistantship on the Masters level will entail the production and characterization of ice cream product using a technique originally developed here at [our university]. The method uses the direct expansion of a cream and CO2 through an expansion nozzle. The process generates a unique product unlike that generated using standard ice cream manufacturing processes.

The research will be a combination of further developing the process as well as understanding and characterizing the properties, lifetimes and microstructure of the ice cream.

The student will be expected to travel to and stay in Western Europe to work in the sponsor's laboratory from early February 07 to late August 07 as part of the project. On return, the RA will continue here at [our university] in concert with a PhD to further research on the project here at [our university].

Ice cream? Traveling in Europe? Who would say no??