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Becoming an Aeronautical Engineer
Name: jasonn j pellegrini
Status: N/A
Age: N/A
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: Around 1993
Question:
I am a senior in high school, and I am interested in becoming a aeronautical
engineer. I was wonder if you could give me some information on it.
Replies:
I am a junior aerospace engineering student at Virginia Tech right now. I
will give you a little background on aerospace engineering in case that is
it. Most colleges will require you to take a core curriculum of classes consist-
ing of humanities, social sciences, chemistry/biology, and basic engineering
fundamentals. After completing this, for the most part, you take courses
that pertain to aerospace engineering more directly. In second year, I took
aircraft performance, which goes over the basic concepts of endurance,
range, rate of climb/decent, etc. The more mathematically intensive courses
do not begin (here at least) until your spring semester in the second year.
You will have to take much of math, so I hope you can manage to hack your
way though it. I have one more required math course, and it will be my
eighth. Do not get discouraged by all of this. If you can work hard, you
can make it. The whole idea is not to fall behind. Just do the homework
assigned, as this is where most of your learning will be done. Some of the
courses are not fun, but must be done. I have learned to develop a sort of
humor toward the classes, so that I do not get too drawn out from all the
work.
wildman jackson
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