1. By: Esmeralda K. and Lian A.

2.  Aerospace engineers design, develop, and test aircraft, missiles, and space vehicles and oversee their production. They often specialize in one kind of vehicle, such as passenger planes, helicopters, or rockets.  Most of the aerospace engineers work in the aircraft industry.  The aircraft industry works with engines, communication systems and electronics.

3.  Maintain records of performance reports for future use.  They write technical reports and other documents for the use of the engineering staff, management, and customers.  Plan and coordinate activities concerned with investigation and resolving costumers reports  Analyze project and engineering data to determine predictability, cost, and production time of aerospace.

4.  Mathematics  Science  Training of aerodynamics  Navigation  Physics  Environment  Creativity  Inventiveness  Organizational

5.  To become an aerospace engineer you need to go college.  Some colleges offer a specific aerospace degree, while others have only a basic aerospace degree available.  Several of the fields of science that you will need to be familiar with are: Physics, chemistry, computer science, materials science.  You also need to be good at math.

6.  The median amount made per year is $70,400—this total amount is averaged from a beginning aerospace engineer to an experienced professional.  Aerospace engineer is ranked 32 for the top 50 paying jobs in America, and the average engineered makes $60,000 to $80,000, so an aerospace engineer is in the higher end of the middle.  The approximate maximum salary is around $150,000.

7.  WordNet from Princeton University defines aerospace engineer as: an engineer of aircraft or space vehicles.  Encyclopedia Britannica says that an aerospace engineer is: the field of engineering concerned with the design, development, construction, testing, and operation of vehicles operating in the Earth’s atmosphere or in outer space.

8.  Aerospace engineers are expected to have a 10% growth in the next year.  There are currently about 90,000 aerospace engineers and numbers have steadily been increasing  Based from the information above, in 2010-2011 there will be approximately 9,000 more engineers, resulting in a total of 99,000 aerospace engineers

9.  This career does not appeal to me because I am not interested in what lies beyond the sky and off this Earth. Also, I do not enjoy fixing things, and a lot of an aerospace engineer’s job trial and error—meaning that they spend a lot of time testing things, and altering them to work better.  This career does appeal to me because I think it would be cool to go out in space and explore.