Shifting from aircraft maintenance to designing, is it possible?

[euler0]

is it possible to progress from being aircraft maintenace engineer or technician to become a designer like thermodynamicist, propulsion, aerodynamicist, systems engineer ...etc? i mean is there such a further study courses that will upgrade the maintenance engineer/technician to a professional engineer or they are two separate paths?

 

[oraclelive]

Sure u can. Although no two courses or profession are the same.however, since you are trained technician, you can step up a become a pro-aerodynamics engineer.I must warn,if you maths phobia,its time you get used to it cause there will lots & lots of advance calculations with high degree of precision required.

 

[TMFKAN64]

I would shy away from the word "upgrade"... design work would probably require a straight mechanical and aerospace engineering degree rather than anything that could be considered an extension of maintenance engineer/technician training.

That said, I see no reason why you couldn't be very successful in switching paths. I would think that having hands-on experience would be a definite plus in all respects.

 

[euler0]

Sure u can. Although no two courses or profession are the same.however, since you are trained technician, you can step up a become a pro-aerodynamics engineer.I must warn,if you maths phobia,its time you get used to it cause there will lots & lots of advance calculations with high degree of precision required.

thanks

 

[euler0]

I would shy away from the word "upgrade"... design work would probably require a straight mechanical and aerospace engineering degree rather than anything that could be considered an extension of maintenance engineer/technician training.

That said, I see no reason why you couldn't be very successful in switching paths. I would think that having hands-on experience would be a definite plus in all respects.

thanks for the reply, that's exactly what i was trying to express by saying "upgrade", is there a choice for an "extension" study based on your maintenace certificate that will enable you to get into designing?but it seems to be two separate ways and you have to start from the beining of an aerospace batchelor degree.

 

[Angry Citizen]

The two fields are pretty disparate. Your current knowledge will be useful, especially if you have to interface with people who actually build your designs (which you almost certainly will); however, don't expect it to be very useful in your engineering courses, except for familiarity with certain aircraft terms.

That said, go for it. It's never too late. Just be aware that as an aerospace engineer you will have to be comfortable with partial differential equations, linear algebra, and other advanced mathematics. You'll learn this as part of the degree, but you should at least have a familiarity with basic calculus when you enter the degree program, otherwise you will be held back by prerequisites regarding math.

 

[euler0]

The two fields are pretty disparate. Your current knowledge will be useful, especially if you have to interface with people who actually build your designs (which you almost certainly will); however, don't expect it to be very useful in your engineering courses, except for familiarity with certain aircraft terms.

That said, go for it. It's never too late. Just be aware that as an aerospace engineer you will have to be comfortable with partial differential equations, linear algebra, and other advanced mathematics. You'll learn this as part of the degree, but you should at least have a familiarity with basic calculus when you enter the degree program, otherwise you will be held back by prerequisites regarding math.

thanks