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Engineering : Fields Of Engineering Essay

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Joshua Dickey
Professor Fowler
Intro to Engineering Practices
22 September 2016
Fields of Engineering
Engineering has been around for millenniums. The term engineering has been around since 1325. Since then, engineering has expanded from working on engines for the military to designing and working on just about everything today. (Wikipedia p. 1) Out of all of the different divisions of engineering there are three that specifically interest me. These divisions are aerospace, electrical, and mechanical.
“Aerospace engineering, also called aeronautical engineering, field of engineering concerned with the design, development, construction, testing, and operation of vehicles in the Earth’s atmosphere in outer space.” (Stanzlone p. 1) Early drawings of flight vehicles go all the way back to Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci proposed a device that used flapping wings like a bird and an aerial screw, which was an early version of the helicopter. As time went on more and more people got interested in the development of flight. This led to the first manned flight in 1783, which was in a hot air balloon developed by Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier. The British in 1920 led the charge for civil flight with a twelve passenger airplane. In 1958 the Boeing 707 began nonstop transatlantic flights.
An aerospace engineer has number of jobs to do. As well as designing the aircraft and spacecraft and testing the function, one would also design and test satellites and missiles.

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