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6 unusual facts about Aerospace Engineering


Astro Pops

Astro Pops were first made in 1963 after two rocket scientists working on the space program in El Segundo, CA decided to quit their jobs and create the Astro Pop, modeling the pop after a three-stage rocket.

Brennschluss

In the 1950s, former German rocket engineer Willy Ley, who had emigrated before the Anschluss and hence never worked on the V-2 rocket, tried to get this term used by the English-speaking aerospace industry.

Lancaster JetHawks

The team is named for the city's association with the aerospace industry and plays its home games at The Hangar.

Maher Zain

He completed his schooling there, gaining a Bachelors degree in Aeronautical Engineering.

Marian-Jean Marinescu

Born in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Marinescu graduated from the Bucharest Politehnica Institute's Faculty of Aerospace engineering in 1976, and subsequently worked as an engineer for Avioane SA and Aviation Institute branch in Craiova.

Rocket science

Aerospace engineering, a colloquial term for a primary branch of engineering


American National Exhibition

This is evident in Vice President Richard Nixon’s speech on the opening night of the Exhibition on July 24, 1959 as he congratulated USSR’s Premier Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviets on their advances in astronomy and rocket science, but quickly returned to focus on the United States' strong points, especially the concept of freedom.

BonNova

The BonNova rocket team for the Lunar Lander Challenge was led by their chief engineer, Allen Newcomb, a rocket engineer with a career background of combined experience in avionics and design for extreme environments that can expose equipment to extreme heat such as oil wells, and race cars with brutal vibrations and extreme EMI

Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

The Prescott, Arizona, United States campus offers 13 bachelor's in Aeronautical Science (professional pilot), Aeronautics, Applied Meteorology, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Studies, Aviation Business Administration, Aviation Environmental Science, Global Security and Intelligence Studies, Air Traffic Management, and Space Physics.

ENSAE ParisTech

Note that the abbreviation ENSAE also refers to SUPAERO, a grande école for aerospace engineering in Toulouse, France.

FFA Diamant

The FFA Diamant (English: Diamond) is a family of Swiss high-wing, T-tailed, single-seat, FAI Standard Class and Open class gliders that was designed by engineering students under supervision of Professor Rauscher at the ETH Zurich and manufactured by Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein AG (FFA) of Altenrhein, Switzerland.

Jurgis Kairys

Jurgis Kairys (born May 6, 1952 in Krasnojarsk, Siberia in Lithuanian family deported after Soviet occupation) is a Lithuanian aerobatic pilot and aeronautical engineer.

Roger Naslain

Professor Naslain and his colleagues designed and experimentally validated the Chemical Vapor Infiltration (CVI) process, one of the very few techniques used in the world to manufacture large parts from C/SiC and SiC/SiC composites for aerospace applications.

Russell Merle Genet

Between 1964 and 1968 he worked as a rocket scientist for Space and Missile Systems, San Bernardino, California.

The Rocket Post

The arrival of German rocket scientist Gerhard Zucker is not initially welcomed by the inhabitants of the island.

William F. Readdy

He graduated from McLean High School, McLean, Virginia, in 1970 and received a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering (with honors) from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1974.


see also

Anne McClain

She is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (BS Mechanical Engineering); the University of Bath (MS Aerospace Engineering) and the University of Bristol (MS International Security), both in the United Kingdom.

ANUSAT

The Anna University Satellite, or ANUSAT was an Indian student research microsatellite designed, developed & integrated at Aerospace Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology (MIT), Chromepet, Anna University.

Glowworm swarm optimization

The GSO algorithm was developed and introduced by K.N. Krishnanand and D. Ghose in 2005 at the Guidance, Control, and Decision Systems Laboratory in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison or IBM, is an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario and an adjunct Associate Professor at both Dalhousie University and the University of Victoria.

Ian Morrison

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering

Janusz Żurakowski

On 23 July 1999, CFB Cold Lake (Alberta) Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment named its new facility, the "Żurakowski Building", and in September 2000, he became an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test pilots, joining the ranks of Charles Lindbergh, Neil Armstrong, and Igor Sikorsky, among numerous other luminaries.

John Lumley

John L. Lumley, Professor Emeritus, Graduate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering

Joseph K. Spiers

He received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University (where he was initiated into Phi Kappa Tau fraternity) and a master of science degree in aerospace engineering through the Air Force Institute of Technology program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1967.

K. R. Sreenivasan

Born in 1947, he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore University and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where he was awarded a doctorate in aerospace engineering in 1975 working with Prof. Roddam Narasimha.

Konrad Dannenberg

Dannenberg retired from the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1973 and became an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) in Tullahoma, Tennessee.

Loyola School, Jamshedpur

Rajit Gadh, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

Nick Tredennick

In parallel to his professional career, Tredennick served as a pilot with the U.S. Air Force (active, reserve, and National Guard) from 1970–1984, attaining the rank of Major, as Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1986-2000 at the rank of Captain, and on the Army Science Board from 1994–2001 and 2006 to present.

Philip Roe

Philip L. Roe, British professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan

Reiner Lemoine

During his studies of aerospace engineering he co-founded Wuseltronik, a socialistic collective for engineering based in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

SpaceWorks Enterprises

SEI was founded in 2000 by Dr. John R. Olds, then a tenured professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Steve Isakowitz

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Isakowitz graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in aerospace engineering.