How will aerospace engineering change in the future.
Aerospace engineering is a career that I deeply consider trying and I would like to know how this career could possibly change in the future specifically ten years from now. #engineering #career #aerospace #future
3 answers
Shuvom’s Answer
Aerospace engineering has always been about a few things: math, physics, and systems engineering. Those won't change, so make sure to be solid on that.
What will change is the tools used to solve math, physics and engineering problems. When I was in college, software to analyze fluid flow was only for PhDs. Now I work at a company that sells CFD software to working level engineers, and I can teach you how to use it well in 2 days. So if you want to work on airfoil shapes, keep up with the latest in CFD software. Also math programs like MathCAD or Mathematica. No one does hand calcs past the brainstorming stage anymore.
The industry is also changing. As government contracts get more insider, there are fewer and fewer big aerospace companies left to fill them. Now it is basically Lockheed, Boeing, and a few others that make military and space weapons for the government. Even NASA outsources all the actual design, usually. Everyone else has been bought up or gone belly up.
On the other side, there are small private companies like SpaceX that are trying to make a go of it without government money, which is honorable, but risky if the government programs feel threatened. So decide if you're okay working for one of the bureacratic big guys, one of the few elite little guys, or switching fields. I've done 2 out of those 3 in my career.
Aerospace engineering has always been a niche. A demanding but small niche. So figure out why you love the field (for me it was putting things into space) and if you're okay adapting or morphing 2-3 times to keep in the field, you will be okay.
Always be ready to adapt and get better at the new tools that the old timers are afraid to learn.
Ives’s Answer
Compared with the transportation vehicles on the earth, the space is not enough. For the development of space exploration, the change of transportation is indispensable. For example, the high utilization rate of energy, the recycling rate can be regenerated, and the breakthrough of transportation vehicles such as the various spacecraft of the interstellar film, with advanced artificial intelligence. Space the extroversion, the vacuum in the middle of the area is a must to customer service, to take what kind of key technology, is through the improvement of technological devices to adapt or human renovation to adapt, this need to scientists' ideas and technology; Earth is suitable for human survival, so all kinds of planet carrier can also serve as living in the air, human can break through the harsh environment to adapt to survive, or planet of growing biological renovation, this area is also very important.
In short, human development is rapid, and I am full of hope and curiosity about the development of spaceflight
