If you have ever thought about becoming an aerospace engineer, then this article is for you. Many of your possible questions will be answered, like where these engineers work, how much they get paid, what specific training the need, how can you become one and what are some dangers involved in this job.
Aerospace engineers are generally either specialists in an aerospace specific topic like turbofan design or rocket engines or orbital mechanics, or are good generalists, focused on system design.
Aerospace engineers examine, analyze, design, produce, and occasionally install components that make up aircraft, spacecraft, high-altitude vehicles, and high-altitude delivery systems.
First, they arrive at their office check their e-mails, they often have morning meetings to put everyone on the same page. The big part of their job (70%) is in a lab, at a computer, or assembling reports. They often leave the office to go in the field, sometimes to inspect their products, supervise the construction of an aircraft for example.
They work in an office, in a lab or in the factory. They can work for private high technology companies, for the government, or in the army.
There are many paths, for becoming an aerospace engineer. The most evident one is by studying aerospace engineering at university, but it can also be mechanical, electrical, computer or physics engineering. The minimum is a bachelor's degree, but they can continue in a master or even in a PhD.
A person working as an Aerospace Engineer in Canada typically earns around 154,000 CAD per year. Salaries range from 73,900 CAD (lowest) to 242,000 CAD (highest). This is the average yearly salary including housing, transport, and other benefits. Aerospace Engineer salaries vary drastically based on experience, skills, gender, or location.
It is extremely wide, it varies depending on where you work, and you want to specialize in. In many cases, it is to learn a 3D modeling software. Many jobs will either provide or send you to training, or give you the time to learn how to use it on the job.
The dangers are mostly linked with the manner many company works, sometimes you can be removed from a project and thrown at the midst of another. Generally, it is the organization that makes these engineers stop.
There are no chance for engineers to be replaced by robots because they are the ones who create the robots. Many things in this job just can't be done by a robot. Also, this type of job is not repetitive, so it is impossible for the actual robot to do it.
Mostly, engineers retire in the early sixties, but some can continue for a long time after that.
I am currently at Cegep and I will start university next year, where I'd want to do at least a master. The ultimate goal must be to work for the prestigious NASA.
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