WHAT IS AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING?

During childhood everyone would have ran out of your house to glance up the sky to see an airplane or helicopter as soon as you hear its sound. You must have thought how this thing is flying as a bird or who made this thing. You might have thought of making an airplane and might have made with a paper. You might have bought a flying plane that is operated by a remote controller. You would have opened the toy just to know how it works. Well, If you still desire to make an airplane and If you wish to open a real airplane to know its mechanism aeronautical engineering is the right course for you.

Aeronautical engineering is the study of how plane (all kinds) fly within the earths atmosphere and to apply all that knowledge to design, build parts and to assemble them into aircrafts and also missiles. Mainly aeronautical engineering teaches about aerodynamics (effect of air on solid bodies), avionics (design of aircrafts), propulsion (force required for flying a body), material science (selecting light material that can withstand large amount of force), structural analysis (for stability) and manufacturing (techniques).

Development and manufacturing of a modern or a new flight is a too complex and expensive process. For that you should have knowledge in this field, must be skillful, creative and should know about latest flight technologies. Main areas of focus are testing, maintenance of aircrafts and missiles, fuel and system analysis, dangers of aircrafts, its effect on environment etc. You should be good in maths and you have to study electronics, software design, risk analysis etc.

I will mention the subjects  (not all) that you have to study during the course- Material Science and Engineering, Thermodynamics, Manufacturing Processes, Advanced engineering mathematics, Instrumentation and Control Engineering. Fluid Mechanics, Theory of Machines, Aircraft Materials, Machine Design, Vibration Engineering, Heat Transfer, Aircraft System, Aircraft Structure, Propulsion, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Fatigue and Fracture, Total Quality Management, Aerodynamics, Aircraft Design, Maintenance of Power Plant System, Helicopter Theory, Aircraft Communication and Navigation, Civil Aviation and Regulation, etc. I have written previously on scope of aeronautical engineering.

SCOPE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

A few people have a misconception about aeronautical engineering. "Will i be able to fly an airplane one day?" will be the first thing a student who is planning to join a UG course thinks. He/she will ask someone about the doubt and the person explains that there are not many opportunities because there are many pilots these days. Well the truth is that you become an aeronautical engineer after the course and not a pilot. Well to be a pilot you should join a flying/aviation center and get a flying license (can do after school).

A lot of companies hire aeronautical engineers to do the following work

• For the construction of aircrafts
• For the testing purposes such as efficiency testing, flight testing etc
• For the design purposes such as airframe design, engine design etc
• For the maintenance of aircrafts
• For the functioning of aircrafts
• For the manufacturing of aircrafts
• For investigation purposes such as airplane crashes, impact on environment etc
• As flight controllers or air traffic controllers.

The companies that hire aeronautical engineers are commercial aviation companies, space research agencies, civil aviation, research centers (industrial, government and academic). Many jobs are available in United States of America, Europe, Gulf etc. The job of an aeronautical engineer is prestigious and the pay is too good. I am sure that it is the dream of every engineers to get into NASA. Well this course is one of the pathways to NASA. Try to join the top colleges if possible. Its best to join colleges that also gives training in flying a n airplane. You can also go for higher studies to get more knowledge and to increase your pay and chances of getting into top companies of the world. You can also do post graduation cheaply but with more value.


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HOW TO E MAIL A PROFESSOR FOR AN INTERNSHIP ABROAD?

The most important thing is you should be very careful while writing the mail and the words should come from your heart. Send mails to selected professors instead of sending a lot of mails to all professors names that comes in Google. Sending mails to selected professors increases the probability of getting a response from them.

1) You should start applying from September because later all the good colleges get filled with interns and the deadline for scholarships is near the end of November.

2) Create cover letter and resume by yourself and ask for opinions from seniors and professors of your college.
a. Your cover letter must be brief(10-15 lines)
b. Mention your field of interest. You can also mention about your project and industrial visits. You can also mention the subjects that u have learnt which is related to your field of interest.
c. Write briefly that internship is part of your curriculum. Mention the allotted period of time for internship. And specify that it should be done under their guidance.
d. The resume should be of 2 pages. Your CGPA must be highlighted. You can also mention your project and seminar topics.
e. Try to connect your area of interest with the professors work in the mail.
f. If u have liked any of his recent papers u can mention that too.

3) Get a list of top 200 universities from the internet.

4) Choose a country.I would recommend Germany because it has a lot of scholarships and tuition fee is free in many colleges. Next i would recommend France.

5) After choosing colleges check their international ranks and decide.

6) For each college find their website and find the faculty of your area of interest. Try to understand the professor by reading his papers and books.

7) You can apply to 2 professors of the same department. Send the mail to the 2nd professor just after a couple of days from your 1st.

8) Its best to mail them late night so that your mail will be their first mail in inbox when they log-in.

9) Its best to send just 1 mail to one professor. Don't mention any names in Cc or Bcc.
a. Change your area of interest according to the professors.
b. Don't mention anything about funding or money in the first mail. Its better to mention later after there is a response.

10) Now repeat these steps for your preferred colleges in decided countries.


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