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

• Collier Research HyperSizer
• Alstom ESARAD
• Alstom ESATAN
• Altera Quartus II
• Analytical Graphics STK Expert Edition
• ANSYS software
• MSC Software Fatigue
• The MathWorks Simulink
• Maplesoft Maple
• Computational fluid dynamics CFD software
• K&K Associates Thermal Analysis Kit TAK
• The MathWorks MATLAB
• Computer-aided engineering CAE software
• Cullimore & Ring Technologies SINDA/FLUINT
• Cullimore & Ring Technologies Thermal Desktop
• Tecplot Focus
• TEAM Engineering FEMAP
• Data acquisition systems
• Stress analysis software
• ESI Group AutoSEA2
• Fatigue analysis software
• Finite element method FEM software
• Flexible dynamics modeling software
• Southwest Research Institute NASGRO
• Grid generation software
• Harvard Thermal TAS
• Thermal analysis software
• Phoenix Integration ModelCenter
• Network Analysis SINDA-G
• MSC Software Patran
• MSC Software Nastran
• Thermal Radiation Analysis System TRASYS
• Thermal Synthesizer System TSS
• Universal Technical Systems TK Solver
• Wolfram Research Mathematica

• Computer aided design CAD software

• Xilinx TMRTool
• Thermal design software
• Autodesk AutoCAD software
• Computer aided design CAD software
• UGS Solid Edge
• Dassault Systemes SolidWorks software
• Mathsoft Mathcad

• Computer aided manufacturing CAM software

• PTC Pro/ENGINEER software
• Dassault Systemes CATIA software
• Computer aided manufacturing CAM software

• Configuration management software

• IBM Rational ClearCase

• Data base user interface and query software

• Oracle software
• Microsoft Access

• Development environment software

• National Instruments LabVIEW
• IBM Rational ClearQuest
• Digital Equipment Corporation DIGITAL Fortran 90
• Ada
• C
• Microsoft Visual Basic
• Verilog

• Flight control software

• Flight management systems FMS

• Graphics or photo imaging software

• Image processing systems

• Object or component oriented development software

• Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
• Sun Microsystems Java
• Microsoft Visual C++

• 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 Requisite Pro
• IBM Rational DOORS

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

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