What is an Aerospace Engineer?
Aerospace engineers are primarily focused on the design and creation of both aircraft and spacecraft. They are employed by companies like Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Cessna, Airbus and NASA in order to create,design, maintain or improve current or upcoming aircraft or spacecraft. The field used to be known as Aeronautical engineering, though in modern times space has become more and more of a realistic frontier, which has led to the renaming of the field as Aerospace engineering.
Aerospace engineers are also focused on the study and analysis of aerodynamic behaviours and characteristics, as well as studying the forces of lift and thrust in creating or advancing current technologies.
Aerospace engineers must balance cost, efficiency, speed, weight, power and safety when designing aircraft, and there are many other factors to take into consideration when an aircraft is created from scratch.
Aerospace engineers are also focused on the study and analysis of aerodynamic behaviours and characteristics, as well as studying the forces of lift and thrust in creating or advancing current technologies.
Aerospace engineers must balance cost, efficiency, speed, weight, power and safety when designing aircraft, and there are many other factors to take into consideration when an aircraft is created from scratch.