Aerospace Engineering at UTIAS

(A Co-op placement thingy)

THE FIELD :

As an Aerospace Engineer, you get to pick one of many exciting fields to get into. These include anything from robotics to fluid dynamics. And yes, even nuclear engineering. The work of an Aerospace engineer is particularly demanding due to the emphasis on cutting edge technology and research. Aerospace engineers usually do research on areas that push the boundaries of science and technology. They work on such projects as the Canada arm, the Tokamak Fusion reactor, satellite guidance algorithms, and other interesting things. They also work on things that have no real use or relevance in this world, such as the "Mr. Bill" flapping plane and government defense projects.
UTIAS :

UTIAS is a place where such research can be done, where post graduate students can toil and labour under the "supervision" of professors at very low income levels (peanuts in most cases). Therefore, the average income that students get at UTIAS usually range from 15-20 thousand a year, plus room and consumables.
FUTURE :

The future outlook in this field has always been grim and hopeful at the same time. Humanity will always need engineers that have broad bases to do universal work at the very edge of technology. Space exploration, if humanity decides that it is important again, will always need Aerospace engineers to develop new and unusual ways to manipulate materials into thing that look neat and have some sort of secondary practical purpose (coincidentally). There are more and more uses for Aerospace engineers in the field of space as we learn more about the world we live on and the worlds out there to be discovered. But, space is not even one fourth of the type of field that Aerospace engineers can go into. There is also plane and rocket design, neural nets, robotics, fusion, complex control systems, computational mechanics, materials, fibre-optics, computers, computers, computers!, lasers, the wonderful world of sub and hypersonics, again plane design, and WEAPONS of mass destruction (etc, etc). With the broad education that Aerospace engineers posseses, a plane can actually be designed totally by Aerospace engineers, from the aerodynamics, to the engine, to the electronics, to the control systems.. EVERYTHING.
EDUCATION :

Obviously, to become an Aerospace Engineer it takes a lot of dedication and skill (luck) as well as a solid education. You not only have to be among the best in high school, you also have to be better than any other engineering student in university to get into the course. Few are admitted, and even fewer survive, losing only their sanity.

So, here are the courses you need in high school : Physics, Algebra & Geometry, Calculus, Chemistry, and English (yes, unfortunately, you have to be able to communicate with the outside world for some reason.)
MORE INFO :

For more information on Aerospace Engineering, or the EngSci program call UTIAS or the University of Toronto at the following coordinates :

University of Toronto
Institute for Aerospace Studies
4925 Dufferin Street
North York (not New York you bozos), Ontario, Canada
M3H 5T6
Tel: (416) 667-7700
Fax: (416) 667-7799
or on the internet :

http://www.utias.utoronto.ca

And I'm sure you can get your own information from UofT ;)
I could have put pictures of the institute here.. but ahh.. what can you do?

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