aircraft maintenance engineering

anvesh111

i am doing aircraft maintenance engineering, after completing it can i go to the m.s aerospace engineering for my further studies...... please reply

jason.bourne

unfortunately nope.

you need to have degree in aerospace/aeronautical engineering.

Brian_C

You don't necessarily need an engineering degree, but you will need a four-year Bachelor's degree, preferably with a strong math/physics background.

mugaliens

Fortunately, yep - Brian C is correct.

FredGarvin

If you don't have an engineering degree and you get accepted, you will have a lot of ground to make up. I can tell you from experience you do not want to walk into a graduate level class with no undergraduate experience.

mugaliens

He's not walking into a graduate level class with "no undergraduate experience." He's getting a 4-year degree in "aircraft maintenance engineering."

Whatever that is, no graduate school in the US would accept him if it werent' a four-year degree. I suspect it entails more hands-on shop and ME work, possibly IEOR work, but regardless, it'll give him some background.

The rest is up to the GRE's, and his graduate school course advisors, who will require him to take whatever pre-req's are required to bring him up to speed before he's allowed to wade in more substantial stuff.

jason.bourne

anvesh your name sounds like indian.

so if your query is related to post graduation studies in india,

then no buddy, in india you need to have mechanical/aeronautical/aerospace/chemical/electronics/electrical engineering degree depending on the specialization of your masters.

like if you want aerodynamics as your specialization then you should have a mech/aeronautcis/aerospace degree.

if you want propulsion as your specialization then you need to have mech/aero/chemical engineering degree.

structures - then degree in mech/civil/aero.


in india, with AME degree you cant do masters in aerospace/aeronautics.

abroad ---> like they have mentioned above. it depends.

i hope you got my point.


good luck

FredGarvin

No. By background, I mean an engineering background. He is thinking of walking into a very intensive engineering program with, most likely, very lacking engineering technical skills. For example, if he has never taken a real, engineering fluids class as an undergrad, you do not want to try to learn fluids in a graduate level class. His experience in "aircraft maintenance" has, most likely, zero exposure to a real engineering fluids class or compressible flow, or aerodynamics, or thermo...

anvesh111

thanx .....actually i'm doing my aircraft.m. engineering in perth college in u.k ,scotland,and i'm going to complete honors in aircraft engineering also,...yes i'm from india....i like to do m.s aerospace engineering...please let me know or give any suggestion

anvesh111

thanx .....actually i'm doing my aircraft.m. engineering in perth college in u.k ,scotland,and i'm going to complete honors in aircraft engineering also,...yes i'm from india....i like to do m.s aerospace engineering...please let me know or give any suggestion

FredGarvin

Out of curiosity, can you post a link to your curriculum? I'd be interested to see what classes make up the degree program.

mugaliens

I understand your point, Fred. I suppose we'd need to know more of what "aircraft maintenance engineering" entails. That's best left up to the admissions, who will require a copy of his school's catalog and his transcripts.

On the face of it, it sounds a little weak, but I don't want to throw cold water on someone's dream when I don't know what the "engineering" part of his AM degree entails. I certainly will not assume it's meaninless as an engineering background, because it might very well have checked the right boxes.

Without further information about the "engineering aspect," guessing, assuming, and telling him "it's not good enough" is premature.

Brian_C

That's definitely true. I had to take undergrad classes in aerodynamics, flight dynamics, and structural statics before attempting any graduate classes in AE. The learning curve was very steep.

nucleus

An Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (AME) is a person licenced to ensure that aircraft are airworthy in accordance with local and international aviation standards.It is an ICAO licience, somewhat smilar to the A&P (AMT), although the latter is not an ICAO licience. Many countries use AME’s in different forms.
It is not an engineering degree, but he would know something about airplanes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraf...nance_Engineer
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/ELGDBook_07_WebVersion.pdf