Physics+Careers

=Aerospace Engineer- Michael Saucedo=

What is this career about?
Aerospace engineers deal with aircraft that can fly in and out of Earth's atmosphere. They can do various things with this such as actually constructing the aircrafts, planning them out, responding to customer technical problems with practical solutions, and writing reports based on experiments or other findings.

What education is needed?
You can generally start working with a Bachelor's degree in engineering, however in order to become fully licensed, you need a minimum of four years experience as an engineer, a degree from an accredited school, and you have to be able to pass a state exam.

Why would this be a good career?
With our rapidly advancing world, people are becoming more and more curious about space. Using spacecraft built by aerospace engineers, we will be able to observe what happens in the farthest corners of the galaxy. We may even use the craft built by these engineers to one day move people to new planets.

What else should we know about this career?
This career is responsible for a very large portion of what we know about the universe outside of our own planet. Without spacecraft, we would only be able to observe the cosmos from our relatively tiny telescopes down here on earth. Without spacecraft made by aerospace engineers, we would not have made it to the moon, there would be no rovers on Mars, and the Hubble Telescope would just be some mystical fairy tale.