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Paul
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I love aerospace engineering ?
What are the different things y’all do in aerospace engineering.
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Craig Usswald
Retired Supply Chain Specialist
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Hello Paul,
The field of Aerospace Engineering is truly thrilling, brimming with endless possibilities and sparking a sense of awe.
It appears that your innate curiosity is yearning for some in-depth exploration. Lucky for you, a wealth of information is readily available, setting the stage for your enlightening journey.
Outlined below are some recommended actions that should guide you towards engaging discussions and help you to start honing your focus.
As you embark on your career, the knowledge you gain from these initial steps will serve as invaluable tools, regardless of where your path may lead. Rest assured, shifting your focus once you've grasped the basics will be a breeze.
Best of luck as you delve into the steps outlined below.
Look at the various aerospace sectors, like commercial aircraft, private aircraft, space exploration, military aircraft, see what fascinates you the most.
Take those fewer interests and see if you can find manufacturers that make these aircraft and Engines (Boeing, Airbus, Rolls Royce to name a few)
Go to one or more of those company websites and look at their careers section - Find the qualifications they expect an aerospace engineer to have.
Do a web search of the best Colleges for aerospace qualifications and ask them what aptitudes are essential to get a degree in one of the areas you found.
When you find out how long a degree takes and how much it costs, see if you can do an aptitude test to verify your suitability.
The field of Aerospace Engineering is truly thrilling, brimming with endless possibilities and sparking a sense of awe.
It appears that your innate curiosity is yearning for some in-depth exploration. Lucky for you, a wealth of information is readily available, setting the stage for your enlightening journey.
Outlined below are some recommended actions that should guide you towards engaging discussions and help you to start honing your focus.
As you embark on your career, the knowledge you gain from these initial steps will serve as invaluable tools, regardless of where your path may lead. Rest assured, shifting your focus once you've grasped the basics will be a breeze.
Best of luck as you delve into the steps outlined below.
Craig recommends the following next steps:
Jennifer Lu
Aerospace Engineer
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There are so many subsets, divisions, and departments that fall under Aerospace Engineering. I will list the areas where I have co-workers working in those fields.
- Analysis: This is my area of study and under this we perform analysis on launch trajectory, aerodynamics, flight mechanics, accelerations, vibration (random, sine, low-frequency, and high-frequency), coupled-loads, shock, and acoustic analysis.
- Design: This is where most of my co-workers want to go toward as its a common goals to want to make the airplane, space vehicles, and space craft.
- Systems: There are SO many aerospace systems engineers as we need people who understand the individual systems that can integrate them together.
- Propulsion: I would put fluid dynamics and thermodynamics in here as well as all three areas are intertwined and these groups work very closely together.
- Materials: This is our composites, metals, fatigue, fracture, gels, Chem-Es, etc.
- Avionics: Guidance, navigation, control, communication, display, human factors, radar, sensors, embedded systems, software, there are so many sub-fields of avionics and the Elec-Es/Spark-Es groups keep growing super fast.
- Aerospace for manufacturing, purchasing, integration, business, human interface, recovery, ocean engineering, parachutes, and areas don't tend associate Aerospace Engineering with, but need AEs in order to function smoothly.
- Analysis: This is my area of study and under this we perform analysis on launch trajectory, aerodynamics, flight mechanics, accelerations, vibration (random, sine, low-frequency, and high-frequency), coupled-loads, shock, and acoustic analysis.
- Design: This is where most of my co-workers want to go toward as its a common goals to want to make the airplane, space vehicles, and space craft.
- Systems: There are SO many aerospace systems engineers as we need people who understand the individual systems that can integrate them together.
- Propulsion: I would put fluid dynamics and thermodynamics in here as well as all three areas are intertwined and these groups work very closely together.
- Materials: This is our composites, metals, fatigue, fracture, gels, Chem-Es, etc.
- Avionics: Guidance, navigation, control, communication, display, human factors, radar, sensors, embedded systems, software, there are so many sub-fields of avionics and the Elec-Es/Spark-Es groups keep growing super fast.
- Aerospace for manufacturing, purchasing, integration, business, human interface, recovery, ocean engineering, parachutes, and areas don't tend associate Aerospace Engineering with, but need AEs in order to function smoothly.