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Registration and licensing for an
aerospace engineer include; degree from an engineering program accredited by (ABET), four
years of consistent work experience, and passing grade on two national examination.
National Department of Defense and NASA require their engineers to have security clearance
before they start their jobs (American College 2). Job Outlook and other possibilities: The job outlook for this career appears to be down from the year 1989-1995, because 500,000 jobs were lost and more are expected to be gone in the future. This maybe the result of the collapse of USSR, shrinking defense and space program budgets, recession of early 1990’s, and the wave of cooperate downsizing. However, growing Asian economy, development of new space technologies and the increase of commercial use of technology will help get more jobs back (Hopke 50). The federal government agencies primarily the Department of Defense and NASA provide more than one out of seven aerospace jobs. The rest are found in business services, engineering and architectural services, research and testing services, and electrical and electronic firms ("Aerospace Engineer" 79). A recent research done by the Bureau of Labor shows that the size of the category of aerospace careers falls in the middle on a scale of small to large. Which is approximately 55,953 workers and they are expected to grow by six percent throughout the year 2005 (American College 3). Candidates who keep up with the broad development in their field will get the job more likely than people who know only a narrow area of their field of study will. A beneficial comment by a good aerospace engineer was, even though careers in aerospace are decent, the top jobs for the future will always be in chemical, environment, and computer engineering (Sayani). Salaries and Benefits: The Economic Research Institute reports that the starting salary for an engineer with a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering is $36,000 a year, this was taken in 1997. The average salary now is $39,000 to $56,000 a year. Engineers with experience over a period of five years can earn $70,000 a year while people with ten years of experience can receive $90,000 a year (Princeton 3-4). Engineers with both master’s and doctorate’s degrees, supervisors, and managerial personnel with their strenuous responsibility earn up to $70,000 to $102,000 a year, surprisingly people who work in federal governments earn less than the ones who work in private industries (Hopke 50-51). One very informational point to keep in mind is that these earnings mainly vary depending on the education, experience and the location of the job. One also has to remember that the pay is diversified over the type of job one has under the broad category of the aerospace engineering field. Some of the worth while benefits an engineer in this career can count on acquiring are life and medical insurance, retirement programs, paid vacation and sick days, and also paid holidays ("Job requiring training" 50-51). Mr. Sayani receives most of the benefits listed above, plus either free flying or ten percent off on certain airline careers on account of his job status. Personal Qualities: "Some very beneficial and helpful qualities one should possess to enter into an aerospace career are; curiosity and creativity, plus above average ability in mathematics and physical sciences. Also the ability to express oneself clearly in speech and writing, and working well with others as a team, analytical mind and capacity for check-over detail, ability of close and far vision, and coupled with physical demand of reaching, handling, lifting, talking and fingering" (American College 5). [Career Report 1 2 3 4 | Outline | Interview | Narrative | Bibliography ]
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