Will “Aerospace Engineer” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔

1.7% Chance of Automation

“Aerospace Engineer” will not be replaced by robots.

This job is ranked #79 out of #702. A higher ranking (i.e., a lower number) means the job is less likely to be replaced.

Care to share? Click for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or XING. 👍

Job Description

Perform engineering duties in designing, constructing, and testing aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft. May conduct basic and applied research to evaluate adaptability of materials and equipment to aircraft design and manufacture. May recommend improvements in testing equipment and techniques.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-2011.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 112,010.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 53.00
Currently, there are 68,510 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Aerospace Engineers”.

Also Known As…

Tasks for “Aerospace Engineer”

Research new materials to determine quality or conformance to environmental standards.
Evaluate product data or design from inspections or reports for conformance to engineering principles, customer requirements, environmental regulations, or quality standards.
Plan or coordinate activities concerned with investigating and resolving customers' reports of technical problems with aircraft or aerospace vehicles.
Develop design criteria for aeronautical or aerospace products or systems, including testing methods, production costs, quality standards, environmental standards, or completion dates.
Evaluate and approve selection of vendors by studying past performance or new advertisements.
Evaluate biofuel performance specifications to determine feasibility for aerospace applications.
Analyze project requests, proposals, or engineering data to determine feasibility, productibility, cost, or production time of aerospace or aeronautical products.
Formulate conceptual design of aeronautical or aerospace products or systems to meet customer requirements or conform to environmental regulations.
Design or engineer filtration systems that reduce harmful emissions.
Diagnose performance problems by reviewing performance reports or documentation from customers or field engineers or inspecting malfunctioning or damaged products.
Direct or coordinate activities of engineering or technical personnel involved in designing, fabricating, modifying, or testing of aircraft or aerospace products.
Formulate mathematical models or other methods of computer analysis to develop, evaluate, or modify design, according to customer engineering requirements.
Plan or conduct experimental, environmental, operational, or stress tests on models or prototypes of aircraft or aerospace systems or equipment.
Direct aerospace research and development programs.
Review aerospace engineering designs to determine how to reduce negative environmental impacts.
Write technical reports or other documentation, such as handbooks or bulletins, for use by engineering staff, management, or customers.
Maintain records of performance reports for future reference.
Design new or modify existing aerospace systems to reduce polluting emissions, such as nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, or smoke emissions.

Related Technology & Tools

Push/pull dynamometers
Laboratory centrifugal pumps
Personal computers
Load frames
Acoustic emissions systems
Digital pressure gauges
Anechoic chambers
Vacuum facilities
Plotters
Impinging jet apparatus
Laser Doppler velocimeters LDV
Viscometers
Strain gauge balances
Electronic pressure scanners
Surface grinding machines
Argon-ion lasers
Reflection polariscopes
Mainframe computers
Vibration isolation tables
Lasers
Cluster computers
Flow meters
Axial flow research fans
Axial flow turbines
Impact guns
Spectrometers
Propellant combustion chambers
Atomic force microscopes
Axial flow compressor facilities
Digital oscilloscopes
Welders
Parallel computers
Flight management systems FMS
Force transducers
Lathes
Fatigue testing machines
Multi-axis mills
Centerless grinders
Signal generators
Flight simulators
Digital voltmeters DVM
Profilometers
Fiber optic interferometers
Electronic flight instrument systems EFIS
Laser velocimeters
Terminal computers
Ultrasonic inspection equipment
Power microwave generators
Computer numerical controlled CNC milling machines
Wave analyzers
UNIX work stations

Thermal Radiation Analysis System TRASYS
Digital Equipment Corporation DIGITAL Fortran 90
Verilog
Alstom ESARAD
Altera Quartus II
Stress analysis software
UGS Solid Edge
TEAM Engineering FEMAP
Thermal Synthesizer System TSS
Microsoft Excel
IBM Rational DOORS
Fatigue analysis software
Microsoft Word
Computational fluid dynamics CFD software
IBM Rational ClearCase
MSC Software Patran
ESI Group AutoSEA2
IBM Rational ClearQuest
The MathWorks MATLAB
Collier Research HyperSizer
Analytical Graphics STK Expert Edition
Linux
Computer-aided engineering CAE software
MSC Software Fatigue
Alstom ESATAN
National Instruments LabVIEW
Ada
Tecplot Focus
ANSYS
Mathsoft Mathcad
Phoenix Integration ModelCenter
Microsoft PowerPoint
Harvard Thermal TAS
K&K Associates Thermal Analysis Kit TAK
Hewlett-Packard HP OpenVMS
Microsoft Visual Basic
Cullimore & Ring Technologies Thermal Desktop
Maplesoft Maple
Sun Microsystems Java
Thermal analysis software
Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
The MathWorks Simulink
Thermal design software
MSC Software Nastran
Dassault Systemes CATIA
Image processing systems
IBM Rational Requisite Pro
PTC Pro/INTRALINK
Flexible dynamics modeling software
Data acquisition systems
Microsoft Visual C++
Xilinx TMRTool
Network Analysis SINDA-G
Cullimore & Ring Technologies SINDA/FLUINT
Microsoft Office
Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
PTC Creo Parametric
Autodesk AutoCAD
UNIX
Extensible markup language XML
Grid generation software
Finite element method FEM software
Wolfram Research Mathematica
Microsoft Access
Python
Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
C
Southwest Research Institute NASGRO
Universal Technical Systems TK Solver
Microsoft Project