WordNet
n. the branch of engineering science concerned with the design and construction of aircraft
the activity of designing and constructing aircraft
Usage examples of "aeronautical engineering".
He had received (cum laude) a Bach- M elor of Science, Aeronautical Engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1938.
Academic standards were high, and studies covered mechanical, electrical, electronic, thermodynamic, structural, and aeronautical engineering, along with supporting mathematics, physics, and chemistry.
He spent four years at Oklahoma State, majoring in aeronautical engineering, and he graduated in June 1983.
His aeronautical engineering background and expertise in computers, systems design, and advanced systems design, along with his years as a B-52 bomber navigator-bombardier, had made him one of the most sought-after aviation project leaders in the world.
In fact, Rotor's very ignorance of aeronautical engineering helped in one respect.
Commissioned in 1929, he served through World War II with distinction, taught aeronautical engineering for a few years, then became a partner in a modestly successful electronics firm.
My engineering tutor had just told me at the Caius College garden party that the faculty had awarded me first class honours in my aeronautical engineering final exams.
He was now twenty-nine, two years younger than myself, and a professor of aeronautical engineering at the Tsiolkovsky Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
He'll want to, all right, but anyone who was ever even exposed to a course in aeronautical engineering will sit this war out.
He was grateful his own doctorate was in aeronautical engineering, a trade where people could actually get their hands dirty.
In theory, my major's aeronautical engineering, but I'm not supposed to talk about what I'm really working on.