Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering UCLA

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<p>Hi there, Not to get too much ahead of myself, but i'm still a junior in high school, and i've been really pumped up about the college i'm planning to attend.</p>

<p>As of now, i'm really fixated on Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering as a major, and my school i want to attend is University of California, Los Angeles. As a california resident, i've been doing research on possible schools that i may be attending ( due to my location ) </p>

<p>My List Is:</p>

<ol>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo</li>
<li>UC Davis</li>
<li>UC Irvine</li>
<li>San Jose State University</li>
</ol>

<p>Again my major i'm really glued onto is aeronautical/aerospace engineering, to be more specific i'm into the aeronautical engineering portion alot more than the aerospace, because i've always wanted to design commerical aircraft and i'm not so interested in spacecraft or helicopters for the matter.</p>

<h1>I've even bought my UCLA sweater online and everything ^-^. But as i was re-searching through the UCLA website today, and i went on the aerospace section, it stated this.</h1>

<p>Aerospace Engineering B.S. at UCLA</p>

<h1>The ABET-accredited aerospace engineering program is concerned with the design and construction of various types of fixed-wing and rotary-wing (helicopters) aircraft used for air transportation and national defense. It is also concerned with the design and construction of spacecraft, the exploration and utilization of space, and related technological fields.</h1>

<p>As i stated earlier, i'm really into Aeronautical engineering, not aerospace.</p>

<p>Does this basically mean that if i attend UCLA there will be no aeronautical portion, or they won't focus on building commercial aircraft, and they will only focus on helicopters and spacecraft as specified above?</p>

<p>Because i really want to design/build commercial planes, and not so much spacecraft or helicopters.</p>

<p>Thanks again. all help appreciated, btw my first post on this website!</p>

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<p>It’s a good idea not to pigeon-hole yourself into one respective branch within Aerospace at such a young age, especially with our current administration. Aerospace undergrad programs in general seem to be pretty broad and don’t specialize in one particular application over the other. At the school I’m attending for Aerospace, you take electives in your upper-level courses that can tailor your degree plan to aeronautical or astronautical (and you’re not limited to choosing one path or the other). In general, I believe this to be a good approach as the aerospace engineering field itself is pretty small, relatively speaking. Wait until your through with most of your undergrad before you situate yourself to something like only commercial.</p>

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<p>tysm, are you actually taking aerospace engineering? I know it’s not the best at this age, but it’s something that i really want to do.</p>

<p>But as for the UCLA thing, their website states that they focus on “rotary winged aircraft and spacecraft” And they don’t mention anything about commercial airliners or flightcraft other then those.</p>

<p>Does that mean that if i do get into UCLA, which i very much hope to do in the future. That me being an aeronautical engineer is limited, because they only mentioned astronautical and fixed winged aircraft, that they may not offer that?</p>

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<p>Reread that statement.</p>

<p>“…concerned with the design and construction of various types of fixed-wing and rotary-wing (helicopters) aircraft used for air transportation and national defense.”</p>

<p>It specifically says fixed wing aircraft for transportation. That would be commercial airliners. Any undergraduate program in aero will have both aeronautical and astronautical portions and will cover planes and helicopters.</p>

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<p>Fixed-wing = airplanes/spaceships
Rotary-wing = helicopters</p>

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<p>Ohh, i didn’t know fixed wing meant airplanes aswell, i thought it only referred to helicopters. :)</p>

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<p>make sure you apply to something outside the college of engineering for your alternative major. aero (and the entire college of engineering) is like the most competitive major to get into, especially at the UC’s and SLO. not to mention UCLA is hard enuff to get into in general.</p>

<p>and fyi, they have changed the program now to be aeroSPACE (at most of the UC’s i believe), not aeronautical, and this program is not yet accredited but it will be very soon. and it’s funny bc the program has not changed just the name lol. you might look into double majoring in mech/aero to broaden job opps. it is only ONE EXTRA CLASS at ucd to double :)</p>

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<p>Fixed wing aircraft is helicopter? Do helicopters have static wings??</p>

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<p>Fixed wing = planes
rotary wing = helicopters
spacecraft = spacecraft</p>

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<p>Cal Poly Rank No.1 in the nation in Aerospace Engineering</p>

<p><a href=“http://ceng.calpoly.edu/news/cal-poly-first-nation-recruitment-aerospace-and-de/[/url]”>http://ceng.calpoly.edu/news/cal-poly-first-nation-recruitment-aerospace-and-de/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^ What does that have to do with this thread?</p>

<p>Nothing? Oh, that’s what I thought.</p>