What skills are required to work in the aerospace industry?
Aerospace Engineering requires an ability to work across a broad range of disciplines. To work in the aerospace industry you need to have highly developed mathematical and analytical skills, an excellent grasp of physics, the ability to work in teams, and excellent communication skills. The aerospace sector has been a technology leader for many decades now. The scientific principles underlying flight are some of the most complex you can ever come across, and the ability to grasp these and apply the tools to be able to perform an analysis required to develop a useful technology demand great competence in mathematics, physics, and allied disciplines. Very often mathematical models are used to provide data to assist in the design process. These are mathematical representations of the physical system under consideration (for example the aircraft structure, the aircraft aerodynamics), and very often considerable computing power is used to help provide solutions to the models. It is a skill
