Overview for Aerospace Engineering

Aerospace engineers design, develop, and test spacecraft, aircraft, and missiles. They supervise the manufacturing of these products. If you are an aircraft engineer, you are called an aeronautical engineers, and spacecraft engineers are called astronautical engineers.

Aerospace engineers develop new technologies and improve current technological systems for such industries as aviation, defense, and space. Some specializations include structural design, guidance systems, navigation and control systems, instrumentation and communication systems, or production methods.

Specializations can cut across other verticals 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.

Employment Situation

Currently there are about 90,000 engineers employed in the United States. They are expected to have about a 10 percent growth rate in employment over the next decade. That is about average for almost all occupations. The employment outlook for aerospace engineers does appear favorable.

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Education Outlook

Unfortunately, the number of degrees granted in aerospace engineering has declined for many years because there is a perceived lack of opportunities in the field.

Many new graduates continue to be needed to replace those aerospace engineers who retire or leave the occupation for other reasons.

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Salary Expectations Aerospace Engineers

Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineers make about $53,408 with a Bachelor Degree, $62,459 with a Master’s Degree, and $73,814 with a Ph.D degree. Find all Engineering Jobs.

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