The sky's the limit! For those who enjoy putting things in motion, aerospace engineering strikes a chord. Be it a satellite observing the Martian atmosphere, a turbine engine of a commercial airliner, a fixture for testing performance of a defensive missile, or an active ballast for reducing sway in an ocean liner, aerospace engineers are on the job.
Aerospace engineers study parts of other engineering disciplines in order to create larger systems. Combining aspects of mechanical, electrical, software, and chemical engineering with math and physics, aerospace engineers design ways of fitting multiple parts of a project together. They focus on things like optimizing performance and characterizing new technologies. Aerospace engineers are exposed to lots of useful tools, like mechanical CAD, circuit analysis software, computation programs, and data acquisition tools.