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Aerospace engineers design, develop, and test aircraft, spacecraft, and missiles and supervise the production of these products. Those who work with aircraft are called aeronautical engineers, and those working specifically with spacecraft are astronautical engineers. Aerospace engineers develop new technologies for use in aviation, defense systems, and space exploration, often specializing in areas such as structural design, guidance, navigation and control, instrumentation and communication, or production methods. They also may specialize in a particular type of aerospace product, such as commercial aircraft, military fighter jets, helicopters, spacecraft, or missiles and rockets, and may become experts in aerodynamics, thermodynamics, celestial mechanics, propulsion, acoustics, or guidance and control systems. | Aerospace engineers design, develop, and test aircraft, spacecraft, and missiles and supervise the production of these products. Those who work with aircraft are called aeronautical engineers, and those working specifically with spacecraft are astronautical engineers. Aerospace engineers develop new technologies for use in aviation, defense systems, and space exploration, often specializing in areas such as structural design, guidance, navigation and control, instrumentation and communication, or production methods. They also may specialize in a particular type of aerospace product, such as commercial aircraft, military fighter jets, helicopters, spacecraft, or missiles and rockets, and may become experts in aerodynamics, thermodynamics, celestial mechanics, propulsion, acoustics, or guidance and control systems. | ||
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Revision as of 08:03, 30 December 2008
Welcome to the Department of Aerospace Engineering.
Aerospace engineering deals with aircraft and spacecraft, and any other types of machine that can fly. Topics within aerospace engineering include, but are not limited to: aerodynamics', structural dynamics, fluid mechanics, orbital mechanics, flight dynamics, propulsion, and control systems. These topics can be applied to missiles, space structures, satellites, and all aspects related to atmosphere and space flight.
Aerospace engineers design, develop, and test aircraft, spacecraft, and missiles and supervise the production of these products. Those who work with aircraft are called aeronautical engineers, and those working specifically with spacecraft are astronautical engineers. Aerospace engineers develop new technologies for use in aviation, defense systems, and space exploration, often specializing in areas such as structural design, guidance, navigation and control, instrumentation and communication, or production methods. They also may specialize in a particular type of aerospace product, such as commercial aircraft, military fighter jets, helicopters, spacecraft, or missiles and rockets, and may become experts in aerodynamics, thermodynamics, celestial mechanics, propulsion, acoustics, or guidance and control systems.
Additional readings
Topics
- Topic:Fluid mechanics
- Topic:Aerodynamics
- Topic:Aeronautics
- Topic:Astrodynamics
- Topic:Orbital mechanics
- Topic:Statics
- Topic:Engineering mechanics
- School:Mathematics
- Topic:Electrotechnology
- Topic:Turbomachinery
- Topic:Control engineering
- Topic:Aircraft flight control systems
- Topic:Aircraft structures
- Topic:Materials science
- Topic:Solid mechanics
- Topic:Aeroelasticity
- Topic:Avionics
- Topic:Reliability engineering
- Topic:Noise control
- Topic:Flight testing
External links
- Personal Air Vehicle Page at Cafe Foundation (in affiliation with NASA)
- Open avionics
- Aerospace Engineering - Students
- Boeing's electric plane using fuelcells.
- OpenAvionics
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Projects at Standford's Aerodynamics Design Group
- A Project to create a supersonic homebrew rocket
- U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Regulatory and Guidance Library
Books
Videos
- MIT 16.01 Unified Engineering - Video Lecture
- MIT 16.885J Aircraft Systems Engineering - Video Lecture
Pictures
- Pictures of the HyCAUSE Mach 10 test flight - Collaboration between Australia and DARPA, 6/20/07
Related news
- September 2008 Micro honeycomb materials enable new physics in aicraft sound reduction
- August 2008 Sikorsky X2 Helicopter: At 288mph Is World's Fastest
- April 2008 Avoiding wind tunnels, computer simulations pave way for hypersonic flight
- April 2007 Paper on hyperdrive system wins award at conference and is examined by US Government researchers...[1]
- March 2007 NASA seeks research proposals.
- March 2007 Private company to launch rocket.