Aerospace Engineering Jobs

If you're looking for a high-tech, high-paying job, you may want to check out aerospace engineering jobs.

Aerospace engineers are primarily responsible for creating high-tech machine. These can include things such as airplanes, which weigh more than half a million pounds, to spacecrafts, which travel at a speed of more than 17,000 miles per hour. They are in charge of: designing, developing and testing aircraft, spacecraft and missile systems and supervising the manufacturing process of these products.

According to an article by the United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, aerospace engineers may specialize in: structural designing; guiding; navigating and controlling; instrumentation and communication or production methodology.

They also may specialize in: commercial transport; military fighter planes; helicopters; spacecraft; missile or rockets within the aerospace product; aerodynamics; thermodynamics; celestial mechanic systems; propulsion systems; acoustics or guidance and control systems.

Most aerospace engineers must know how to use computer-aided design software, robotics, laser and advanced electronic optics. Most find jobs in the aerospace product and parts industry, as well as a few other various industries, including the automobile industry.

During 2002, aerospace engineers earned a median salary of $72,750 per year. The middle 50 percent earned between $59,520 and $88,310; the lowest 10 percent earned $49,640 or less and the highest 10 percent earned $105,060 or more.