aerospace engineer

[glowpwer flyer]

Hey people i was thinking being a aerospace engineer, living around Boynton beach, west palm and those place in south east florida anyone like give me more info on aerospace engineer like salary cap and stuff and i really want to learn more bout airplane!


Kevin

[Ollie]

Kevin,

How old are you? The reason I ask is that it is never to soon to start preparing yourself for a future career that you are really interested in. How you should be preparing yourself now depends on your age. For some inspirational reading about famous aerospace engineers see:
http://www.avialantic.com/mhp/rutan.html
http://www.getcited.org/pub/102637481
If your local library doesn't have them they can probably get them on loan from another library for you.

As for salary, good aerospace engineers make a very nice living. However, if money is very, very important to you a career in business or finance might provide you with stronger motivation. See:
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos028.htm

To be succesful in aerospace engineering you need a very strong background in mathematics and the physical sciences. If these subjects do not appeal to you or you do not do very well in them, aerospace engineering will be an up hill battle all the way.

So, Kevin, tell us more about yourself.

[natoquick]

I have to say that I'm currently studying mechanical engineering, with an emphasis on aerospace (the school I'm at doesn't offer any sort of aerospace engineering). If I didn't enjoy physics or math, there is no way I would enjoy studying engineering. It is a lot of work. I just started the semester, and I'm wondering how I'm going to do everything I want or need to. Engineering requires a lot of dedication and hard work, but is extremely enjoyable.

[nuevo]

To enjoy a career in engineering, you should have a love for problem solving. The job may appear very detail oriented and meticulous to non-engineers. :D

[glowpwer flyer]

I am 14 yr old starting to get into this hobby to learn areospace engineer i am really wanting to learn how to do this stuff, and thing i been studying few stuff on airplane and next yr in high school i be doin some law of phsice stuff ( i cant even spell :-(
so i need to know lot of stuff bout engineer i am planing to go universy of alabama school of engineer i can get there cheaper cuz my mawmaw and lot my family live in the tuscaloosa alabama and i was born there but move to TN. so i go there for areospace engineer school and learn i look at the areospace engineer at UA it got great programs and lot of math and stuff. give me more info guys.

kevin

[glowpwer flyer]

Money i just want the money cause my dream so far is to be areospace engineer living on a beach i want money to live on a beach or right by it or so like condo on beach and stuff and math i am trying to improve my math grade (hehe) but still i am trying to i have not took the science class the phsical science yet! but it should be intersting i look for them book at my libary and report back to you thank!

Kevin

[glowpwer flyer]

http://www.modelaircraft.org/templates/ama/deptman.asp?sid=3B96C22E1E984A138FC2D4587EC19B2C&deptid=5BCB78B5700A4E9D9737E7861D00D9AE&deptname=Books+%26+Videos


I am goin to buy some of them books

Kevin

[Sparky Paul]

Money is NOT what you get as an engineer.
Unless you own the company.
And, brush up on your English.

[raptor22]

Yeah, but an engineering background is excellent to pair w/ a business masters.

If you want to be an engineer remember two things:

The stuff in those books often does not apply to larger reynolds numbers (big, fast planes that caryy people).

When they tell you in physics that airplanes fly because the air flowing over the top of the wing travels farther, and therefore goes faster in orrder to lower pressure don't beleive them. I can elaborate if you'd like.

--Alex

[Ollie]

Kevin,

A desire to make money is the worst reason to want to be an aerospace engineer.

It seems to me that you are about four years of schooling behind in your english, math and science studies. To have a chance of succeeding in college as an engineering student, you will have to do eight years of study work in the next four years of high school. Even if you work as hard as you can at your studies for the next four years you still may not be able to compete with the other engineering students in college.

As soon as you get to high school you should have a serious talk with the school guidance councelor about the practicallity of achieving your goals.

[rcjetpilot]

Ollie, you are a kind man:) Glad your here.

Bob

[fixwingagain]

Originally posted by glowpwer flyer
Hey people i was thinking being a aerospace engineer, living around Boynton beach, west palm and those place in south east florida anyone like give me more info on aerospace engineer like salary cap and stuff and i really want to learn more bout airplane!


Kevin

Follow your dreams and dont worry about the money.

[nuevo]

Well said, fixwingagain. And I *am* an engineer. I had no idea what paid what when I chose this occupation. I once chose a job that paid many 1000's less per year than a competing offer just because I liked the work better. I did not regret that choice.

If you do what you love, you will say to yourself at the end of every day, "wow, 5 o'clock already. How'd that happen.". If you do it for the money, you will hate every minute of college, and every day for the next 40 years.

[Ollie]

Kevin,
There are lots of good thoughts by the people posting to this thread. Here is another one.

People usually enjoy doing what they are good at and dislike doing what they are not good at. If you can become the best student in your math class, you will probably come to like math. The same thing goes for Science. If you can be the best student in your science class you will enjoy science. Unless you can make these things happen, you will hate studying engineering and you won't do well at it. To be a good student in any subject, you must first have language skills. Start today and read everything you can put your hands on. You have to work hard at it by looking up every word that you don't understand in the dictionary. This will be slow and difficult at first. As your reading ability improves, so will your spelling and writing ability. When your language skills improve, so will your enjoyment of your other studies. You don't have to wait for high school to get started. Begin now and work hard at it. You will soon find out how far lots of hard work will carry you. If you can improve your reading, spelling and writing skills a lot between now and high school it will open many career possibilities to you that otherwise will be out of your reach.

[fixwingagain]

There is something else.

Experiment experiment experiment.

This does not have to cost money. For example find a card board box build some card board wings for the box and drag it down the side walk on your bicycle. See what kind of air time u can get with different wings. Try different lengths and shapes.

However don't make a parachute out of sheets ride down a hill and toss the chute out. Don't ask how I know this :o

Just be safe.

Make everything fun and I really do mean it when I say follow your dreams.

[raptor22]

Originally posted by fixwingagain
There is something else.

Experiment experiment experiment.

This does not have to cost money. For example find a card board box build some card board wings for the box and drag it down the side walk on your bicycle. See what kind of air time u can get with different wings. Try different lengths and shapes.

However don't make a parachute out of sheets ride down a hill and toss the chute out. Don't ask how I know this :o

Just be safe.

Make everything fun and I really do mean it when I say follow your dreams.

Amen to that!

I did tyhe 'chute thing; in ram air form. Made it out of a tarp, rode down a steep hill against the wing, and released it. It actually pulled me into the air and I glid awhile. Pretty cool. Didn't even get hurt.

--Alex

[glowpwer flyer]

I dont have a bike no more haha, but i guess i just need more time to learn. expesially in english haha. but math class i am like 5 best student and science i am like 6th best in my class not very smart boy but i learn more in history i just made a 105 in history on my report card i dont know what to do now i really want areospace engineer!

Kevin

[glowpwer flyer]

I dont have a bike no more haha, but i guess i just need more time to learn. expesially in english haha. but math class i am like 5 best student and science i am like 6th best in my class not very smart boy but i learn more in history i just made a 105 in history on my report card i dont know what to do now i really want areospace engineer!

Kevin

[Ollie]

The thing to do now is to work as hard as you can to be much better in english and first in your class in math and science.

[AndyKunz]

Don't worry about the money too much. Do what you enjoy, like fixwingagain said. And stay away from credit cards and girls.

Andy

[glowpwer flyer]

Originally posted by AndyKunz
Don't worry about the money too much. Do what you enjoy, like fixwingagain said. And stay away from credit cards and girls.

Andy

I need girls :D haha i have a girlfriend so lol but amen to credit card haha! :D

Kevin

[AndyKunz]

You need a girl like a hole in the head.

Andy

[fixwingagain]

Originally posted by AndyKunz
You need a girl like a hole in the head.

Andy

:D

...and u wont have money or time for your hobby:)

[glowpwer flyer]

eh yeah true yall. Haha me and my dad went to fly my plane today and my dad like the hobby now he want a plane haha.

Kevin

[arx_n_sparx]

*sigh*

I remember being 14 and confused. Now I'm 43 and confused............

Brad

[Highflight]

Kevin,
There is another notion that I think you should think about as you dive head first into life, and that is the serendipitous nature of life.
Of all my friends in high school (from the 60's), absolutely NONE of them (including me) are doing today what we wanted to do or thought we would be doing way back then.

My little morsel of advice is to, yes, apply yourself and follow your dream. But it's also important to keep an open mind, educate yourself in areas perhaps not directly connected to your chosen path, and always know that opportunities come when and where you least expect them.

What all this means is that while you are pursuing your chosen career, don't do that to the exclusion of other interests.

Lastly, READ profusely! It doesn't matter what; anything and everything. Just read, because expanding your mind through reading is what will best prepare you for whatever comes later on, and people WILL judge you by your use of vocabulary. It's amazing how much more serious people will take you if your intelligence and breadth of knowledge comes through when you communicate with others.
A good vocabulary and a serious handle on the use of language will someday come in handy when you run out of ideas and can no longer dazzle people with your brilliance, and have to resort to baffling them with your bull****
Trust me on that :D :D

Obiwan K.

PS. If you came across any words in this post of which you do not know the meaning, that's OK.
If you have NOT looked up those words in a dictionary in order to build your word vocabulary, then that's the first habit you need to get into. ANYTIME you come across a word or idea you don't understand, LOOK IT UP!

[Ollie]

Highflight,
You have given Kevin the best advoce so far, IMO.

[glowpwer flyer]

Yep.

Kevin

[vintage1]

Well, when I was 20 my ambition was to live long enough to find out why....

and another ambition was to have enough money, to continue to pursue what interested me without having to work...

...now at 53, I have pretty much achieved it. However in my exrtemely unconventional life I have worked extremely hard, never had enough time or money for a family, been a slave to my gonads :-) and had some curious and interesting times along the way.

It has been remarked, that you can have any one thing you want.

I used to say that life 20-30 was waiting for my dreams to come tryue.

30-40 was waiting for just ONE dreamn to come true

40-50 has ben say9ng 'sod the dreams, lets just make the best of what I HAVE in terms of experience and skills'.

Now, at 53, I simply don't give a damn. As long as you have health, friends, and food, and intellectual stimulation you are way ahead of the bunch.

You have tioo aim at something or yiou won;t ever move on. 99.99% of people end up somewhere lese. Its cool :-)

[Sparky Paul]

I've been lucky, becoming an aviation nut at 2, and still an aviation nut at 65. Worked only in aerospace, doing dull and boring, frightening and exhilirating stuff.
And worked with many "cross-disciplined" types that began their careers doing something totally different, then went to aerospace.. and some then went elsewhere.
Ya never ever know what's coming down the road tomorrow.

[arx_n_sparx]

Vintage says it best. His use of the english language may suck, but I've visited other posts he's made, and frankly, this dude scares me with just how smart he is.

Read lots. Read TONS! I suggest National Geographic and Scientific American. Read what's happening outside of your country! (America does a very poor job of reporting on the rest of the world IMO, but that may just be a local bias). Just READ!

Turn OFF your TV set! If you go to the trouble of reading the book before you see a movie, I can almost guarantee that you will be disappointed. The mind is a much more fertile place than anything a Hollywood producer can fill. (I watch Junkyard Wars on TLC, and the Toronto Maple Leaf games, but not much else). Excersize your mind! I do the New York Times sunday crossword puzzle (not well, but I TRY!). ALWAYS try something that WILL make you stretch your mind.

ALWAYS ask questions! this will tick (language edited by moderator) off a number of people that consider themselves "superior" to you, but the people who will answer those questions are worth a whole lot more than those who are "superior". I've found engineers that actually answer questions to be in the minority in my field, just because they assume that an electrician is a "wannabe" engineer. I could show most of them high school marks better than most....... I find that the best engineers are the guys that will actually take the time to explain things to you, as long as you aren't belligerant(sp?).

As all of the guys say, take life as it comes. If you tried a poll on who makes actual money in this hobby, you MIGHT find one or two. This is a hobby, not an enterprise to make your fortune.

Just relax, and try to enjoy your life as it comes.

Brad

[glowpwer flyer]

eh i read my tv i have my tv on close caption and i read it :D


Kevin

[Highflight]

Originally posted by glowpwer flyer
eh i read my tv i have my tv on close caption and i read it :D


Kevin

Hmmm... well I guess we'll always have a need for Refuse Engineers :(

Highflight

[raptor22]

Originally posted by glowpwer flyer
eh i read my tv i have my tv on close caption and i read it :D


Kevin

That is good for speed, but does nothing for comprehension and true skill. Read alot of science, join in scientific discussions, and (you'll hate this part) hang out with the geeks that you are always yelling not to use such big words.

--Alex

[glowpwer flyer]

eh, engineer a choice because i cant join army ranger. due to hearing impair :( i just wish for army. now engineer since hearing wont let me in the ranger.

Kevin