<p>I've heard aerospace/aeronautical engineering is to specific--is there away to study this as a smaller branch of mechanical engineering or anything?</p>
<p>JHU has a concentration inside MechE where your technical and engineering electives are all aerospace related. You get a mechanical engineering degree with an aerospace concentration.</p>
<p>It kinda depends what you want to work on in aviation. Aerospace engineers (i think) work on the body design on things and what not to achieve the best aerodynamics possible, etc. Mechanical engineers would work on the core of any aircraft, electrical engieers would work on how to wire it all up and systems engineers would make everything work together</p>
<p>"Aerospace engineers (i think) work on the body design on things and what not to achieve the best aerodynamics possible, etc."</p>
<p>It is more so ... Aerospace Engineers work on anything that leaves the ground.</p>
<p>Airplanes (aeronautics cross-over, UAV's)
High performance aircraft (SCRAM, RAM, rocket, PPT, etc)
Rockets & Missiles (engines, aerodynamics, systems, etc)
Spacecraft (dynamics, design, integration, etc)
Experimental flyers (ornithopters, micro-vehicles)</p>
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<p>As well as fine tuning designs for things that stay on the ground, notably, automobiles; commercial cars, aerodynamics for the various F1 teams, etc. Some work in bridge aerodynamics/aeroelasticity/flutter as well (see Tacoma Narrows for an example of aerodynamically induced negative damping).</p>
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<p>So one person's told me about JHU . . . </p>
<p>Do you all think that it would be too narrow to major in aerospace engineering? Or do a lot of other schools also have concentrations within mechanical engineering?</p>
<p>Advice/opinions?</p>
<p>You can find a good amount of schools with Aerospace concentrations within their MechE programs. If you feel AeroE is to narrow do MechE. I personally am going into AeroE because I feel that it is something I would enjoy above all other engineering disciplines. Its all about what you really want to do.</p>
<p>things that fly are fun!</p>
<p>Yes, quite a few schools have an aerospace concentration; if they don't explicitly have one, you can take classes that for all intents and purposes are equivalent. It obviously won't be exactly like an AE degree...but it will be pretty close.</p>
<p>rocketDA - is your location Earth in the hopes that it might change soon? ;)</p>