What is Aerospace Engineering?

AEROSPACE engineering is the branch of engineering behind the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft. Aerospace engineering has broken into 2 major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. The former deals with craft that stay within Earth’s atmosphere, and the latter deals with craft that operates outside of Earth’s atmosphere.

While ‘Aeronautical’ was the original term, the broader aerospace has superseded it in usage, as flight technology advanced to include craft operating in outer space.

Aerospace engineering is often informally called ROCKET SCIENCE.

Modern flight vehicles undergo severe conditions such as differences in atmospheric pressure and temperature or heavy structural load applied upon vehicle components. Consequently, they are usually the products of various technologies including aerodynamics, avionics, materials science and propulsion.

These technologies are collectively known as aerospace engineering. Because of the complexity of the field, aerospace engineering is conducted by a team of engineers, each specializing in their own branches of science. The development and manufacturing of a flight vehicle demands careful balance and compromise between abilities, design, available technology and costs.

Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU), founded in 1830 is a leading University as a Centre of Higher Education & Research Engineering. Professor N.E. Zhukovsky, the "Father of Russian Aviation" is the founder of BMSTU School of Engineering Mechanics & Aerodynamics. At present there are over a 100 scientific schools in BMSTU not to forget, that 9 BMSTU graduates are became COSMONAUTS. That basically reflect the status enjoyed by BMSTU graduates.