Why Aerospace Engineering?
My route to aerospace engineering is not your typical “I knew from the beginning” journey. I really became an aerospace engineer by accident, but it is something I would not trade for any other field. When I was in high school one of our assignments as a junior was to decide what we wanted to do, where we wanted to go to college, and thus what would be our major. Being more interested in basketball, I had not really thought about a college major until this assignment. So I sat back and thought about what I liked, which was playing basketball, mathematics, science, and building model airplanes, cars, and boats. I was always told “math people” were typically engineers, so I decided I would be an engineer. What kind? I thought the models I liked to build the most were model airplanes. Thus came about the decision to be an aerospace engineer, not really knowing what this meant or what was involved except is involved designing airplanes. This exercise pushed me to pursue higher level math a
