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.

Suggested Readings

 * Astronautics
 * Spacecraft design

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...
 * March 2007 NASA seeks research proposals.
 * March 2007 Private company to launch rocket.