Aerospace engineering

Aerospace engineering is a field of engineering that specializes in vehicles that move in fluids or in a vacuum. This usually means working with airplanes, satellites, rockets or spacecraft.

NASA engineers, seen here in mission control during Apollo 13, worked diligently to protect the lives of the astronauts on the mission.

Suggested Readings

• w: Astronautics
• w: Spacecraft design

External links

‘Blended wing’ craft prototype

• Aerospace jobs in West Virginia
• Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering Information Source
• Personal Air Vehicle Page at Cafe Foundation (in affiliation with NASA)
• Open avionics
• Boeing's electric plane using fuelcells.
• OpenAvionics
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Projects at Stanford's Aerodynamics Design Group
• A Project to create a supersonic homebrew rocket
• U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Regulatory and Guidance Library
• TruPath: Aeronautical Engineer Career Interview
• Analysis Calculations with Unit Handler for technical computations

Textbooks

• Research opportunities in advanced aerospace concepts
• Astrodynamics
• Jet Propulsion

Videos

• MIT 16.01 Unified Engineering - Video Lecture
• MIT 16.885J Aircraft Systems Engineering - Video Lecture
• Career Video: Aeronautics Engineer
• Video Aerospace Engineering Career

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.

Related Topics

• Fluid mechanics
• Aerodynamics
• Aeronautics
• Astrodynamics
• Orbital mechanics
• Statics
• Engineering mechanics
• Mathematics
• Electrotechnology
• Propulsion
• Control engineering
• Aircraft flight control systems
• Aircraft structures
• Materials science
• Solid mechanics
• Aeroelasticity
• Avionics
• Reliability engineering
• Noise control
• Flight testing