Aerospace Engineers
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Sound measuring apparatus or decibel meter (Acoustic emissions systems)
- Anechoic chambers
- Lasers (Argon-ion lasers)
- Scanning probe microscopes (Atomic force microscopes)
- Aircraft engine compressors (Axial flow compressor facilities)
- Vibration testers (Axial flow research fans)
- Turbine engines (Axial flow turbines)
- Power grinders (Centerless grinders)
- High end computer servers (Cluster computers)
- Milling cutters (Computer numerical controlled CNC milling machines)
- Oscilloscopes (Digital oscilloscopes)
- Pressure indicators (Digital pressure gauges)
- Voltage or current meters (Digital voltmeters DVM)
- Aerospace cockpit display panels (Electronic flight instrument systems EFIS)
- Pressure sensors (Electronic pressure scanners)
- Fatigue testers (Fatigue testing machines)
- Interferometers (Fiber optic interferometers)
- Aircraft flight simulators or trainers (Flight simulators)
- Flowmeters (Flow meters)
- Force or torque sensors (Force transducers)
- Compressed air gun (Impact guns)
- Flow injection analysis equipment (Impinging jet apparatus)
- Laboratory centrifugal pumps
- Flowmeters (Laser Doppler velocimeters LDV)
- Flowmeters (Laser velocimeters)
- Lasers
- Lathes
- Load frame (Load frames)
- Mainframe computers
- Milling cutters (Multi-axis mills)
- High end computer servers (Parallel computers)
- Personal computers
- Plotter printers (Plotters)
- Signal generators (Power microwave generators)
- Surface testers (Profilometers)
- High vacuum combustion apparatus (Propellant combustion chambers)
- Dynamometers (Push/pull dynamometers)
- Polariscopes (Reflection polariscopes)
- Signal generators
- Spectrometers
- Strain gauges (Strain gauge balances)
- Power grinders (Surface grinders)
- Mainframe console or dumb terminals (Terminal computers)
- Ultrasonic examination equipment (Ultrasonic inspection equipment)
- Desktop computers (UNIX work stations)
- High vacuum equipment (Vacuum facilities)
- Vibration testers (Vibration isolation tables)
- Viscosimeters (Viscometers)
- Frequency analyzers (Wave analyzers)
- Welders
Technologies Include:
- Analytical or scientific software
- Alstom ESARAD
- Alstom ESATAN
- Altera Quartus II
- Analytical Graphics STK Expert Edition
- ANSYS software
- Collier Research HyperSizer
- Computational fluid dynamics CFD software
- Computer-aided engineering CAE software
- Cullimore & Ring Technologies SINDA/FLUINT
- Cullimore & Ring Technologies Thermal Desktop
- Data acquisition systems
- ESI Group AutoSEA2
- Fatigue analysis software
- Finite element method FEM software
- Flexible dynamics modeling software
- Grid generation software
- Harvard Thermal TAS
- K&K Associates Thermal Analysis Kit TAK
- Maplesoft Maple
- MSC Software Fatigue
- MSC Software Nastran
- MSC Software Patran
- Network Analysis SINDA-G
- Phoenix Integration ModelCenter
- Southwest Research Institute NASGRO
- Stress analysis software
- TEAM Engineering FEMAP
- Tecplot Focus
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- The MathWorks Simulink
- Thermal analysis software
- Thermal Radiation Analysis System TRASYS
- Thermal Synthesizer System TSS
- Universal Technical Systems TK Solver
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD software
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Dassault Systemes SolidWorks software
- Mathsoft Mathcad
- Thermal design software
- UGS Solid Edge
- Xilinx TMRTool
- Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
- Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
- Dassault Systemes CATIA software
- PTC Pro/ENGINEER software
- Configuration management software
- IBM Rational ClearCase
- Data base user interface and query software
- Microsoft Access
- Oracle software
- Development environment software
- Ada
- C
- Digital Equipment Corporation DIGITAL Fortran 90
- IBM Rational ClearQuest
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Verilog
- Flight control software
- Flight management systems FMS
- Graphics or photo imaging software
- Image processing systems
- Object or component oriented development software
- Microsoft Visual C++
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
- Sun Microsystems Java
- Office suite software
- Microsoft Office software
- Operating system software
- Hewlett-Packard HP OpenVMS
- Project management software
- PTC Pro/INTRALINK
- Requirements analysis and system architecture software
- IBM Rational DOORS
- IBM Rational Requisite Pro
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
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