A Career in Aero Engineering
In the recent years, India has demonstrated to the world its potential to be the technological hub for aerospace engineering in Asia. Chandrayan’s success in exploring the moon by ISRO, a big headway in medium range transport aircraft design by National Aeronautics Limited, the achievement of Agni & Prithvi missile systems by DRDO and the success of indigenous Light Combat Aircraft design by Aeronautical Development Agency are a few examples worth a mention. Manufacture of combat aircrafts under license agreement and indigenous helicopters by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd give a big boost to Aeronautics and Aerospace in India.
In this background, aeronautical engineering has become the most sought after branch of study by engineering students today. In line with this trend, VTU started a four years bachelor course in aero engineering in 2006. VTU’s curriculum is a combination of core mechanical engineering subjects and advanced subjects like, Finite Element Analysis, Numerical Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Control Engineering, Avionics, and Flight Testing etc apart from core subjects like Aerodynamics, Propulsion and Aircraft Structures.
The India’s aerospace industry needs the very best professionals, and there are opportunities are abundant in this industry at many levels.
This is true that aeronautical engineering graduates are in great demand. With the boom in air aviation, the demand for well skilled engineering professionals far outnumbers supply. It can easy to predict that this boom will continue far into the coming years.
Career opportunities can be found with:
- Many Top notch aerospace employers (Jet Airways, Kingfisher, Air India etc.)
- Indian Armed Forces
- Government departments such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), Ministry of Defense (MoD) and the Ministry for Environment.
- Airline operators
- Air Cargo
- Ministry of Civil Aviation etc.
Today, Bangalore is said to be the aero-capital of India, because many of the R&D facilities (ADA, ADE, ISRO, GTRE etc) and manufacturing installations (HAL factories) of the country are located here. Due to this Aeronautical engineering has now become the one of the most sought branch for young engineers. In near future India will require trained Scientists / Engineers for rapidly growing Aerospace Industry. Engineering College in Bangalore could produce professionals to meet this demand and supply gap. Thus for students sound academic inputs are necessary but with that they should also have to have real life exposure and training like attending Aero India Show, visiting flying clubs, participating in technical conferences to make themselves abreast with latest trends in the field of Aeronautics. The rapid growth in the aviation industry is an indicator of the career potential of aeronautical engineering.
About the Author;
The Article has been written by Prof V K Goyal. Who is a faculty at SCT Institute of Technology, College is co-located among several DRDO laboratories and PSUs such as HAL & BEML in Bangalore. SCT Institute of Technology one of the best Aeronautical engineering colleges in Bangalore started BE level degree course for this branch in 2007. The college has a modern industry standard Wind Tunnel to carry out aerodynamic studies and a single engine Cessna trainer aircraft for live demonstration. SCT Institute of Technology is leading Engineering College in Bangalore.
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