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[Pipcard]

I might want to focus on the aerodynamics. Or maybe the engines.

And maybe work with computer models and simulations.

What about those people at mission control, who deal with launch operations? How did they become that?

 

[Quick_Nick]

And maybe work with computer models and simulations.

What about those people at mission control, who deal with launch operations? How did they become that?

They have individual jobs. So probably various specific things like electrical engineering, computer science, aerospace engineering, medical training, etc. And of course a number of them, at least a number of CAPCOMs, are former astronauts.
The members of mission control each have their own responsibilities that they manage, and communicate the overall status of their "system" (or anything requested of them) to others.

 

[Urwumpe]

No Probe worship day? You gotta go.

We already have Probe Day.... will be soon. (And I will have a day off then :lol: )

 

[Quick_Nick]

I don't really get any specialization until at least my third year of aerospace engineering, and probably not even then.
Though I'm in an "aero with some space" school.
Other schools have other programs: All aviation, all space, or space with some aero.

 

[goaowonk]

I did choose Aerospace Sciences & Technology as specialization in mi third year, as usual with Bolognia Treaty (I miss old organization soooo much, Bolognia Treaty is s*** here).

How are careers planned outside EU? I never understood that.


Offtopic: yesterday O-F went down while I was here, and that's my reaction:

Oh, it's down for some maintenance stuff. Ok, I'll study for a while meanwhile.

5 min after:

OMG IS IT STILL DOWN I NEED IT IT MAKES ME HAPPY I'M NOT ADDITCED COME ON COME ON I WANT YOU NOW GOGOGOGO

:rofl:

 

[Urwumpe]

I miss old organization soooo much, Bolognia Treaty is s*** here

I don't know where in Europe this damn treaty brought any improvements. Same here in Germany.

 

[MattBaker]

Thanks to GPS's link in the Music thread and Fallout: New Vegas music (yes, I constantly have Mojave Music Radio activated while playing, problem?) I got addicted to jazz music, a music even my parents view as 'too old'.
Reasons why 1933-1945 was no good period of german history: They disliked Jazz.

 

[Athena]

I just snapped today and just hit the "Most Hated Bully in School" which also strained my wrist, with a steel chair to the gut.

Weird thing is, the teachers didn't even care about it. :blink:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

We already have Probe Day.... will be soon. (And I will have a day off then :lol: )

I have the day after off by request. Going to the local airshow with the gf. Snowbirds are the headliners this year.

 

[goaowonk]

I don't know where in Europe this damn treaty brought any improvements. Same here in Germany.

Dunno who the Probe approves it...

What about the other side of the Atlantic? How do you get, let's say, to Aerospace Industry?

Sent from my Deltaglider using Potatolk.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

We've got a few 'for-profit' schools that specialize in aeronautic/aerospace technologies (Embry-Riddle is one of the biggest names). I'd worked at getting my A&P certifications while I was still in the NAVY, but they decided that avionics techs COULD NOT be flight engineers, so I backed off of the classes and got married instead.

RIght about the time I got hired at TVA I'd also talked to Boeing (they've got a HUGE facility in Decatur Alabama). But what they really wanted wasn't a technician, but more of an assembly line "trained monkey".

It irks me a bit to think what might-have-been if my skill set were slightly different. But then, where I am now is about as secure (and recession-resistant) as it gets.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

I don't really get any specialization until at least my third year of aerospace engineering, and probably not even then.
Though I'm in an "aero with some space" school.
Other schools have other programs: All aviation, all space, or space with some aero.

AFAIK, Aerospace engineering is mechanical engineering, just with the added component of aerodynamic design & modelling (lift, drag, airflow...) which would be quite applicable. Aerospace would also need to focus more in fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and similar things, but otherwise its fairly similar to regular mechanical engineering.

Oh, and Materials science would be big too

I have the day after off by request. Going to the local airshow with the gf. Snowbirds are the headliners this year.

Cool! They were at the local airport's airshow this year, only a few km from our house. I couldnt get there for work that day, so I got to stay home & see the demonstrations right out of our backyard.

 

[Urwumpe]

AFAIK, Aerospace engineering is mechanical engineering, just with the added component of aerodynamic design & modelling (lift, drag, airflow...) which would be quite applicable. Aerospace would also need to focus more in fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and similar things, but otherwise its fairly similar to regular mechanical engineering.

Yes - the usual career here: Studied aerospace engineering, working for the automobile industry. :lol:

 

[Athena]

Yes - the usual career here: Studied aerospace engineering, working for the automobile industry. :lol:

How'd that happen? :blink:

 

[Fabri91]

I'm currently finishing my third year of aerospace engineering at the Politechnic University of Milan, which means: time to choose specialization!
(One exam left, which means that even if I take it successfully on the 27th of this month, I'll technically graduate in February, but since classes are open, I'll be able to follow those of the specialization I choose).

There are a number of choices available regarding aeronautical engineering (structural, aerodynamics, propulsion...) and space engineering (this one isn't divided in branches), which is what I'm going to do the next two years.

Interestingly enough, all classes of space engineering are held in english.

 

[Urwumpe]

How'd that happen? :blink:

Well, aerospace engineers know about aerodynamics much more than the usual mechanical engineer. And cars are really alot about aerodynamics today, there are only very few places, where you don't simulate air flows.

And where you don't simulate airflows, the work and the used tools is still very similar to aerospace engineering.

Don't mistake it, aircraft are sure more glorious - but the R&D behind a car family is not smaller than the R&D for an aircraft. And as automotive engineer, you can drive the car that you have designed yourself. What is more fun than flying as passenger in an aircraft that you have designed.

And then, you also have problems to solve, that aircraft engineers never get. Like testing if a car could also be build by using parts of a local supplier instead of the supplier for your home market.

 

[MattBaker]

Interestingly enough, all classes of space engineering are held in english.

Considering Italian space engineering is done in cooperation with French, Germans, Spain etc. that sounds reasonable.

 

[Urwumpe]

Considering Italian space engineering is done in cooperation with French, Germans, Spain etc. that sounds reasonable.

One day, I will make an Orbiter add-on, that has everything labelled with proper German terms (And old German abbreviation rules) instead of the preferred English terms...


...just to make a few people say "Thank god, we have won the war." :lol:

Alone "Überschallverbrennungsstaustrahltriebwerk(ÜSchaVerbrStStrTw)" would make a few people cry in pain. :lol:

 

[Quick_Nick]

AFAIK, Aerospace engineering is mechanical engineering, just with the added component of aerodynamic design & modelling (lift, drag, airflow...) which would be quite applicable. Aerospace would also need to focus more in fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and similar things, but otherwise its fairly similar to regular mechanical engineering.

Yes, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering are a single school in my university. Just a different focus of a similar thing. I would like to think we're more multidisciplinary than the mechanical engineers though.

 

[Artlav]

A question to German people here:
Let's say you want to make a campfire/bonfire on your back yard (i.e. to make kebab or sing camping songs during a friendly reunion).
Do you need to get a permit to do this?

Specifically, at a single residence house (smaller than a townhouse, but bigger than a shack, with one family in it, with a bit of private land around - no idea what is the english word for дача/dacha) approximately in suburbs of Berlin.

Someone i talked to think one have to get a permit even to light a fire over there, therefore the said reunion would be doomed before it even got planned.