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

"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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She hopes to study aerospace engineering and computing science at university.

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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.

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