I’m often posed with the question, “If you want to study engineering then why do you want it to be Aerospace? Why not Mechanical or Electrical Engineering,” when expanding on my plans for college to family and friends who inquire about the subject. “Mechanical Engineering will open up the door to more job opportunities once you graduate. The field is much larger,” is also a comment that I frequently receive. Having been given many chances to reflect on this, my answer has become as efficient as I could possibly make it; Aerospace Engineering is what I have wanted to do since I knew what ‘Engineering’ was and that has not changed.
I can trace back my interest for the subject to a very specific time in my life. I was about seven years old, and my family lived in the small town of Marble Falls, Texas. My Father worked from home as a Mechanical Engineer, and my mother taught 10th and 12th grade math.
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I abruptly spoke, half to my father who’s back was turned, and half to myself, “I want to design my own airplane.” My father turned and responded supportingly, “Well then you need to become an Aerospace Engineer. Here I’ll help you get started.” He turned back to his desk and retrieved an old dusty book that more resembled a cinder block with the title “Intro to Engineering”. Eager to get to work, I happily received the gift and began studying its
1. The complicated task of piloting an aircraft can be broken into two broad categories. The first is keeping the aircraft flying. The second is arriving at a given destination. The second is always being effected by the first. Unlike a car, small deviation in course can over great distances cause the aircraft to arrive hundreds of miles from the target destination. To successfully accomplish the task, safe arrival, the larger tasks can be sub-divided into three categories. The first is the Procedural Tasks. These are the maintenance task that must be accomplished every time in a certain way at a certain time, i.e. take off and landing checklists. The next is Decision and Judgement Tasks. Problem solving is another way to look at it. The crew will react based on past experience to a given situation. The last is Communications and Resource Management. This is how the crew communicates with each other while problem solving, either poorly or well.
Pilots are able to get in various size aircrafts, this is depending on the level of the pilot and what they are approved to fly. As you gradually increase in rankings in aviation, you will be able to fly bigger and more powerful aircrafts, they are also able to carry more weight whilst flying. Pilots will have a destination they need to travel to and their goal is to get to that destination. Pilots fly for various reasons, a lot of the time it is for people who are travelling to a different country/state, other times it can be for the transportation of mail or even freight
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Ever since I was a young kid I have always been interested with aircraft. I was so curious of how airplane's fly. I remember taking my toys apart to see how it works. As a kid I wanted to go to the airport to watch the airplanes land and fly and pondered how this happens. Other kids wanted to go to the amusement places. As I grew older I became more and more interested in aircraft and the technology behind it. I always involved myself with aviation early on. I read books and magazines on aviation, took museum tours, built model airplanes. When I was younger my father would take me to aircraft repair facilities where I would watch in great fascination. In my teens, went up to the military bases and befriended many soldiers involved with aircraft and asked them numerous questions. I got to meet many aeronautics engineers and borrowed their old textbooks and read them till the wee hours of the morning. As technology improved with information superhighway, I logged on the web. Stayed up for hours and hours searching through web pages and web pages of information about aircraft and technology.
I am Sgt. Shyam Panchal of the 810 Grant McConachie RCACS, and this is my fourth year as a participant of the Air Cadet program. It has been my childhood interest to become an aeronautical engineer. Whenever I looked up to see an airplane soaring through the sky, I questioned myself: how is it that this phenomenon of lift happens in such a massive aircraft? I kept questioning myself and I kept learning more about the vast array of physical spectacles that made lift of an airplane possible. At the age of twelve, when I came across the Air Cadet program, I just knew that this would be a fundamental step to a success in my ambition. Furthermore, I came to know that Air Cadets offers a summer scholarship course for learning how to fly a glider.
"Aerospace Engineers." Career Zone Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Department of Education, N.D., Web. 18 Mar. 2014. .
Some colleges offer a degree in aerospace engineering; others offer a more generalized engineering degree with some coursework in aerospace engineering. These courses might include aerospace guidance systems, extreme-altitude material science, and the physics of high-altitude radiation. Internships, summer jobs, and any experience in the field are helpful, as entry into this industry is highly competitive. Many aspirants may need to relocate to California, Washington State, or Texas, where the majority of defense industry aerospace work is done, to work for companies such as NASA, Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Two years into their job an aerospace engineer can be planning on being Junior members of research staff are swamped with work, both in the lab and in offices, crunching data and organizing research.
When I look at how mankind has evolved over years, it amazes me. My career goal is to become a mechanical engineer. I aspire to become skilled enough to create mechanics, which will improve people’s lives. I come from a very hardworking family. As the first son,a lot is expected from me to set good examples for my younger brothers.
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* Engineers must be able to work as part of a team. The ability to
The knowledge acquired in schools and colleges, I believe is not an education, but the means to it. It is this belief that made me a student to the end of my days, the obvious direction being curiosity to wards exploration.
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