Career in Aerospace Engineering

Aerospace Engineering Course Details, Eligibility, Duration, Scope, Level of courses in aerospace Engineering, Top  colleges for Aerospace Engineering, Admission 2021”

 

Let’s first have a look at what is Aerospace Engineering?

Aerospace Engineering is a very fascinating branch of engineering which deals with the design, manufacturing, testing, the science of flight vehicles such as aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, rockets, and their performance inside and outside the earth’s atmosphere. The focus of Aerospace Engineering today revolves around the advancement of aircraft, UAVs, space exploration, aviation, and defence systems. Aerospace Engineering offers specialization in the following four major areas at Postgraduate and Doctoral levels: Aircraft Structure, Aerodynamics, Flight Mechanics, and Aircraft Propulsion.  

What does Aerospace Engineering do?     

Aerospace Engineers are responsible for the research, design, development, manufacturing, and maintenance of systems and vehicles that fly within the atmosphere or beyond, to space. Not only do they build the next generation Aircraft, but also work on the development of systems and equipment used for weather forecasting, signal broadcasting, and space flights.

Roles and Responsibilities of Aerospace Engineers

• Designing aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, and missiles.
• Testing of aircraft and aerospace products.
• Test prototypes and ensure they function according to design.
• Evaluate designs so that products meet engineering principles, customer requirements, environmental regulations, and quality standards.
• Inspect malfunctioning/damaged products to identify sources of problems and possible solutions.
• Development of new technologies, commercial and military aero and space 
• vehicles

Skills Required to Become an Aerospace Engineer?

• Strong mathematics and Mechanics
• Communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Creative and able to see alternative ways of things
• Concern about safety
• Sense of Responsibility
• Interested in aviation and science
• Speed and accuracy
• Technical Expertise
• Work under pressure to meet the deadlines

Scope of Aerospace Engineering

Increased demand of Aerospace Engineering - Aerospace engineering has gathered a lot of attention as a future career for the students due to many techno-economic advances in the aviation field like increased aircraft manufacturing due to high demand in the aviation sector, wide use of Artificial Intelligence and robotics in the security and flight systems and emerging market of UAVs and drones. Also, with the advent of space tourism, and modern satellites, there is a revolution in the Aerospace sector and there is a plethora of opportunities for Aerospace engineers. Due to increased air traffic, the maintenance and repair organizations are also flourishing along with the manufacturing sectors. All these developments in the past few years have made Aerospace engineering as the sought-after career among the youth.

There is a huge rush of Aerospace Engineers towards the UAV and Drone industries, where the option of entrepreneurship is tremendous. Pandemic has also stressed upon contactless delivery, automatic traffic control systems, and monitoring of traffic violations through UAVs. Disaster management and the agricultural sector are widely using Drones and UAVs for their reaches in those areas where human reach is limited. The healthcare sector and Defense sectors are expected to generate huge demand for Unmanned flying vehicles.

List of Courses in Aerospace Engineering

• B.Tech. (Aerospace Engineering)
• B.Tech + M.Tech. (Aerospace Engineering)Integrated
• M.Tech in Aeronautical Engineering

Duration of Aerospace Engineering courses

• B.Tech. (Aerospace Engineering)  duration is 4 Years
• B.Tech + M.Tech. (Aerospace Engineering)Integrated  duration is  5 Years
• M.Tech in Aeronautical Engineering duration is 2 Years

Eligibility Requirements to Become an Aerospace Engineer

• To take admission in Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, basic eligibility criteria are 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry, and Maths

• To take admission in M.Tech in Aeronautical Engineering one should have completed B. Tech In Aerospace Engineering with a valid GATE score.

Career Opportunities after completing Aerospace Engineering

Aerospace Engineers have many opportunities in various reputed research organizations, manufacturing Industries, Airlines, Armed forces, Maintenance and Overhauling Organisations, and IT companies such as Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) Labs, National Aeronautical Laboratories (NAL), DGCA, Indian Air Force, Indian Navy, Indian Army, Indian Coast Guards, Air India, Private Airlines like Indigo, Spice Jet, Air Asia, Air Vistara, Airbus, Honeywell, Rockwell Collins, Axes Cades / QuEST Aero, Space-India, G.E., Wipro, Accenture, TCS, etc.

Salary in Aerospace Engineering

Fresh Aerospace Engineers' Salary in India may get starting salary packages ranging from 5 lakhs to 12 lakhs per annum.

Opportunity for Aerospace Engineers

Aerospace Engineers can work as a

• Astronautical engineers
• Aircraft designers
• Aircraft engineers
• Aerodynamic engineers
• Aircraft design engineers
• Flight test engineers
• Rocket engineers
• Flight test engineers
• Flight systems test engineers
• Wind tunnel engineers
• Professors
• Researcher

Basic Aerospace Engineering syllabus

Some aerospace engineering subjects are as follows:

• introduction to Aerospace Engineering
• Aerodynamics
• Flight Mechanics
• Incompressible Fluid Mechanics
• Aerospace Propulsion
• Thermodynamics and Propulsion
• Aircraft Propulsion
• Aircraft Design
• Spaceflight Mechanics
• Aerospace Structural Mechanics
   

Top 10 Colleges / Universities for Aerospace Engineering

1. IIT Bombay - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

2. MIT Manipal - Manipal Institute of Technology

3. SRM University Chennai - SRM Institute of Science and Technology

4. IIST Thiruvananthapuram - Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology

5. RVCE Bangalore

6. IIT Madras - Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

7. IIEST Shibpur

8. IIT Kharagpur - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

9. IIT Kanpur - Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

10. Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai

Top Aerospace Engineering colleges in Delhi or Delhi NCR

• SOA - School of Aeronautics
• Faculty of Engineering and Technology
• Amity University, Noida
• Lovely Professional University

Top Aerospace Engineering colleges in Bengaluru

• MVJ College of Engineering, Bangalore
• Alliance College of Engineering and Design, Bangalore
• ACS College of Engineering, Bangalore
• Dayananda Sagar University, Bangalore
•  Jain University, Bangalore.

Top reputed private institutions/universities and foreign universities for Aerospace Engineering  are as follows 

• TUDelft University, Netherlands
• Cranfield University, England
• ISAE, SUPAERO, FRANCE
• Virginia Tech University, USA
• Purdue University, USA
• Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Victoria University, Melbourne Australia
• NTU Singapore