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

Derived Forms

• aerospace engineer
  noun

Example Sentences

“No country may ever compete on price with China’s vertically integrated solar firms,” says Michael Davidson, associate professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering at University of California San Diego.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

This type of propulsion is well known in aerospace engineering, where hydrogen peroxide is used as a fuel to launch spacecraft, but it had not previously been identified in a biological system.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

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

About a third of Karman’s 23-person team came from SpaceX or Rocket Lab, and they co-opted technologies from aerospace engineering and electric vehicles to design the mechanics for the high-speed motors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 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