aerospace engineering

American  

noun

1. the branch of engineering that deals with the design, development, testing, and production of aircraft and related systems aeronautical engineering and of spacecraft, missiles, rocket-propulsion systems, and other equipment operating beyond the earth's atmosphere astronautical engineering.

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Other Word Forms

• aerospace engineer noun

Example Sentences

By running Xanadu’s quantum programming software, PennyLane, on AMD’s high-performance computing infrastructure, researchers improved the performance of a core algorithm called the quantum singular value transformation, which has applications in aerospace engineering.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

“You’re not going to find anybody who’s going to be able to answer that question with any precision,” said John Crassidis, an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Buffalo.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026

“Advances in aerospace engineering, materials science, and noise reduction,” the order said, “now make supersonic flight not just possible, but safe, sustainable, and commercially viable.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

"This basic shape is, by itself, bistable," says Jie Yin, corresponding author of a paper on the work and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University.

From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2025

Jack Brouwer, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Irvine who is not involved with the project, said it could serve as proof-of-concept for the rest of the region and country.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025