Careers in Aerospace    

    Aerospace engineering and technology is probably the most specialized and diversified field there is.  For instance, Teflon and freeze-dried foods are some of the products that have been in several of  the aerospace projects.  The aerospace professionals who apply their knowledge to build better aircraft, send spacecraft to Mars, or who design a satellite to predict the weather, may be the same ones who also study how the wind will affect a new building in a large urban area, design an energy conserving skyscraper, or do research for an artificial heart.

    During the past few decades, the aerospace industry and its supporting sciences and technologies have expanded beyond the Earth's thin atmosphere to embrace manned and unmanned travel through space and the moon.  Plans for space colonization are well underway; and you could be a major factor in such development.  The innovations in  earthbound vehicles such as high performance automobiles (even advanced flying automobile, hydrofoil ships, deep-diving vessels for oceanographic research and exploration, and high speed rail-type systems) heavily rely upon technology development for the aerospace industry.

    As you can see, the future or aerospace is as exciting and challenging.  It will continue to offer rewarding careers with opportunities for advancement and original contributions to engineering and science.