What is Aerospace Engineering and Unmanned Systems?

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING is the combination of aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Aeronautical Engineering deals with the whole field of analysis, design, manufacturing, maintenance, testing, and use of an aircraft. It involves the knowledge of aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, flight mechanics, avionics, and other related areas. Astronautics Engineering is closely associated to aeronautics, but is concerned with the flight of vehicles in space, beyond the earth’s atmosphere, and includes the study and development of rocket engines, artificial satellites, and spacecraft for the exploration of outer space.  As there is a certain degree of technology overlap between the two fields, the term Aerospace is often used to describe them both. Aerospace Engineering involved the analysis, design, manufacturing, and use of aircraft and/or spacecraft, and it is a very diverse field with a multitude of commercial, industrial and government applications.

UNMANNED SYSTEMS are composed of the vehicle (air, space, ground or water), communications, data links, and control stations. The design of these systems is multidisciplinary and uses a systems engineering approach. The fields of interest are vehicle design (from concepts to material selection to structural and aerodynamic analysis to prototype building), sensor development, vehicle communications and data links, sense and avoid systems, human machine interfaces, autonomous control, vehicle navigation, alternative power, and operations. These unmanned air, ground or sea systems include architecture, development, modeling & simulation, analysis, integration, test and management of complex systems and processes.