aerospace engineering

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.

Other Word Forms

• aerospace engineer noun

Example Sentences

“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.”

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"The mass flow rates from Enceladus are between 20 to 40 percent lower than what you find in the scientific literature," said Arnaud Mahieux, a senior researcher at the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy and an affiliate of the UT Austin Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics.

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"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.

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“There’s room for two powers under schemes of coordination, but there’s not room in an uncoordinated environment. There can easily be a competition for resources,” said Thomas González Roberts, an assistant professor of international affairs and aerospace engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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McArthur also built and piloted a human-powered submarine as an undergraduate at UCLA, where she majored in aerospace engineering.

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