Aerospace engineering: worth it, or not? good colleges?

karthikkito
Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:10:28 +0000

To add to that, a great deal of aerospace engineers are right around retirement age right now, after coming on board during the 60’s (placing those 20 year old grads right around 55-65, or 59-74 when the current freshmen graduate). .: not only is demand increasing, but even if it was constant, the available pool is decreasing.

Also, due in part to congressional mandates, there’s a huge push towards the development of AAV’s, not just unmanned dones (AAV’s being fully autonmous, from wheels up to wheels down). As you may expect, developing huge numbers of these for a variety of tasks requires the work of many talented engineers, thereby increasing the demand for engineers.

:)