<p>I have to write a paper involving a career in a science field that I find interesting. I have always loved airplanes and spaceships but I really have no knowledge of any of the more technical sides of the field. Can anyone tell me things that an aerospace engineer would do/build? What kinds of scientific principles would they use on a daily basis? Any good or bad things about the job? Any and all help would be absolutely wonderful, thanks!</p>
<p>What class and what grade level are you writing this paper for? It makes a difference on what amount and depth of a reply you would want.</p>
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What do you love about them? What makes you think you might want to be an ‘aerospace engineer’.</p>
<p>My husband is an aerospace engineer at a relatively small company, and he works at the “idea factory” office, where he and his co-workers imagine and design airplanes (unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs), write proposals to the government to fund them, and build (usually small-scale) prototypes. They aren’t involved in the manufacturing end of the process once their ideas get funding – they’re the research and design guys.</p>
<p>So on a daily basis, he is building prototypes in the lab, writing proposals, presenting his work to his colleagues, and testing prototypes at the flying field. (That last option is where he is this morning. :)) His job requires a decent amount of math and computer-aided design on an average day.</p>
<p>He really enjoys his job, and wouldn’t want to do anything different. The downside is that, like virtually all other science and engineering jobs, it requires putting in significantly more than 40 hours a week.</p>
<p>Thanks molliebatmit!</p>