aerospace engineering

American  

noun

1. the branch of engineering that deals with the design, development, testing, and production of aircraft and related systems aeronautical engineering and of spacecraft, missiles, rocket-propulsion systems, and other equipment operating beyond the earth's atmosphere astronautical engineering.

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Other Word Forms

• aerospace engineer noun

Example Sentences

This type of propulsion is well known in aerospace engineering, where hydrogen peroxide is used as a fuel to launch spacecraft, but it had not previously been identified in a biological system.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

By running Xanadu’s quantum programming software, PennyLane, on AMD’s high-performance computing infrastructure, researchers improved the performance of a core algorithm called the quantum singular value transformation, which has applications in aerospace engineering.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

The trick is getting those algorithms to work on actual drones in realistic battlefield scenarios, according to Justin Bradley, an expert in aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University who specializes in autonomous systems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

“You’re not going to find anybody who’s going to be able to answer that question with any precision,” said John Crassidis, an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Buffalo.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026

Jack Brouwer, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Irvine who is not involved with the project, said it could serve as proof-of-concept for the rest of the region and country.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025