Within the broad category of “aerospace engineer“, there are structural analysts, thermal analysts, mechanical designers, electrical designers, environmental test engineers, orbital mechanics engineers, loads analysts, and probably half a dozen other specialties that I haven’t listed. There are software engineers, who write the software that either makes the space instrument take its measurements and return data to earth, or make control surfaces on planes respond to the pilots commands.
There are a lot of Aeronautical And Aerospace Engineering Colleges in the Us and abroad. Many have graduate programs. Where are all of these students going to get jobs?
Aerospace industry employment increased in 2005 after reaching a 50-year low a year earlier.
Aerospace Engineers work at places like Boeing, Rockwell Collins, and others
A high-strength aluminium alloy prepared by researchers in the US could significantly improve the performance of next-generation fighter aircraft, specifically the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Developed at AMES, the US Department of Defence laboratory run by Iowa State University, the aluminium-yttrium-nickel-cobalt alloy has the potential to replace heavier and costlier components of ‘cool’ sections of jet engines, such as in fan blades.
GE Transportation Aircraft Engines is the world’s leading manufacturer of large jet aircraft engines.
Today, Pratt & Whitney engines power nearly half of the world’s commercial fleet. Every few seconds – more than 20,000 times a day – a Pratt & Whitney-powered airliner takes flight somewhere in the world.
More Rolls-Royce engines [are] built in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world
100 Years of Flight
National Air and Space Museum
NASA Technical Reports Server
Calculators at Martindale’s Center
