Career Exploration: A look At Aerospace Engineering

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Aerospace Engineering is engineering things that can fly like planes, rockets, jets, and so much more but that is not all that they do. They study how fluids flow, about control systems, how strong things are, how to make things strong, how to design things so they can be reliably built and maintained.

Aerospace Engineers develop and test air craft, space craft, and missiles, and supervise their manufacturing. The ones who work with air craft are called Aeronautical Engineers, and the ones that work specifically with space craft are called Astronautical Engineers.

Aerospace Engineers develop new technology for use in innovation, defense systems, and space exploration, often specializing in areas such as structures, propulsion systems, vehicle movement and control, communications, and overall vehicle design.

They also specialize in a particular type of Aerospace product, such as commercial air craft, military fighter jets, helicopters, space craft, or missiles, and rockets. You may become experts in Aerodynamic, Thermodynamics, Celestial mechanics, propulsion, acoustics, or guidance and control systems.

You have to have technical knowledge, management skills, and more. But you need a bachelor’s degree which is the minimum degree for this job. Good curriculum to study in school are chemistry, physics, computer science, algebra, geometry, calculus, English, applied technology, and statistics.

Government economists expect jobs for Aerospace Engineers to grow slower than the average for all occupations through 2020. All of the work in this field is related to national defense or the design of nonmilitary air craft. These workers will be needed to design safer and more efficient aircraft and to rebuild existing aircraft to be quitter and more fuel efficient. But many of these engineers are deployed in industries that will likely decline. You’ll have an edge if you can use software and online tools to work with others on projects, create models, and analyze data.  

Blog Submission by Jaden Petrusak