Aerospace !

Some space organization (India)

 Who should look for it:   Any person who enjoys science, math, and flight could look forward to a career as an aerospace engineer.  Aerospace engineers do design flying craft, but also design vehicles to be used in space. The newest and most quickly growing branch of this industry is headed in this direction.

 What they do: Aerospace engineers are responsible for developing extraordinary machines, from airplanes that weigh over a half a million pounds to spacecraft that travel over 17,000 miles an hour. They design, develop, and test aircraft, spacecraft, and missiles and supervise the manufacturing of these products. Aerospace engineers who work with aircraft are considered aeronautical engineers, and those working specifically with spacecraft are considered astronautical engineers. Aerospace engineering majors learn how to use math and science to design and develop aircraft and spacecraft. They also study such topics as aerodynamics, launch, structures, flight controls, and engines.

“There is something incredibly fascinating about how airplanes remain stable in flight and how satellites move around the earth.”

 

College Checklist:

• Is the program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology?
• Does the program focus more on aircraft or spacecraft?
• Are there hands-on building and flying opportunities, or do students mostly use computer simulations?
• What are the labs like? Are there wind tunnels? Are the computer and design labs big enough to serve all students?
•  In India: IISc, IIT kanpur, IIT Bomabay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIST(by ISRO) and there are few  more universities as well.

• COURSES:
• Aerodynamics (Low speed, High speed)
• Aircraft structure and advance structure course
• flight stability and control
• computational fluid dynamics, FEM
• Numerical analysis
• propulsion, Thermodynamics
• avionics
• Aero elasticity, composite structure

SCOPE: In India scope of Aerospace engineer is very limited. The number of aerospace organization is very limited. This is a field in which big organization cannot run without government support. So, there is only very few main companies in this field. In India ISRO,HAL, NAL, DRDO,ADA..... Some foreign companies like Boeing, Airbus, Honeywell have opened their branch in India but they have very limited requirements and they prefer students with specialization and big experience. So, It is always advisable to do B.Tech from broad field (like Mechanical or Civil) and then to do specialization in Aerospace. So, that you have more opportunities with you. There is scope in computational field but again you face competition in those field from other department student as well. USA, UK and France provide bigger opportunity in this field. This field has some constrain due to national security problem (due to involvement with defense) so there is less chance of getting job opportunity in foreign companies.

FUTURE IN INDIA: Development of a new Air-plane takes almost 25 year .It ia very slow process so there is a very little chance that there will be a outburst of companies in this field in India but Some foreign companies like Boeing, Airbus, Honeywell have opened their branch in India. They will extend their major offices in India. In future may be India will develop such good organization which can produce complete indigenous aircraft. Till now India have no such complete indigenous aircraft.

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