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| I_AM_LEGEND08 |
 Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject: Aerospace |
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| I got accepted to UT Austin and I will start attending UT in the Fall of 2008. I am majoring in Aerospace Engineering and I was wondering if anyone could help me get ahead start on studying this field. Any suggestions as web sites, books, or just a bit of your knowledge would be beneficial towards me thank you. |
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| leohopkins |
| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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yeah - wind makes the planes go up.
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| 425 Chaotic Requisition |
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| leohopkins wrote: |
| yeah - wind makes the planes go up. |
Only if there's more under them than over them  .
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| 425 Chaotic Requisition |
| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:50 am Post subject: Re: Aerospace |
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| I_AM_LEGEND08 wrote: |
| I got accepted to UT Austin and I will start attending UT in the Fall of 2008. I am majoring in Aerospace Engineering and I was wondering if anyone could help me get ahead start on studying this field. Any suggestions as web sites, books, or just a bit of your knowledge would be beneficial towards me thank you. |
Can't really help you sorry, if you want to get ahead just go to the library or go on Google. Wikipedia.org the biggest online encyclopedia is a good  , (well sometimes) reference for all kinds of information, including aerospace. There may be a portal on there somewhere containing all sorts of links.
Hope this helps in someway:
http://www.mymajors.com/majors/AERO_major.html
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| M |
| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:43 am Post subject: |
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| No need to 'get ahead' or get all anxious, it's an easy major. Go hang out with your friends and enjoy life until school starts. I am serious. |
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| Ophiolite |
| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:50 am Post subject: Re: Aerospace |
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| I_AM_LEGEND08 wrote: |
| I got accepted to UT Austin and I will start attending UT in the Fall of 2008. I am majoring in Aerospace Engineering and I was wondering if anyone could help me get ahead start on studying this field. Any suggestions as web sites, books, or just a bit of your knowledge would be beneficial towards me thank you. |
Ask the department for the first year reading list and make a start on it.
P.S. Good luck.
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| Guest |
| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:39 am Post subject: |
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| Grab all the maths practice you can and make sure your calculus is in good shape. The maths you will use is the same for all engineering fields and is to my mind the most important, the rest is mainly knowing where to obtain data (such as material properties), I'll second what Ophiolite said. |
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| viciousoul |
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah Hopefully I am going to do Aerospace Engineering in 2008 as well. But I have quite lots of exams head of me first  |
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| JimboWizbo |
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I agree, get good at maths, algebra, calculus, ect. Your course should cover the maths needed but it's good to have it under your belt from the start.
Also buy some ring binders, highlighters, plastic wallets, anything to help you keep the onslaught of notes and handouts in order  |
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| OldSage |
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Take flying lessons, and obtain your Pilots License.
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| bit4bit |
| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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Calculus (inc. multivariable), differential equations, statistics, dimensional analysis, will all be useful for aerodynamics, so I'd suggest getting some basic books on them and start reading them through. You could also read up on bernoulli's equation and the navier-stokes equations. (I haven't done a course in it myself, but I'm very interested in it, and these are the main areas of math that will be needed).
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| Elen |
| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| Hope you like Math and Physics, if you excel there then you have nothing to worry about just relax, oh yeah and when you do get your degree and you start designing aircraft PLEASE keep in mind that the components on the aircraft have to maintained and therefore should be accessible in some way |
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| whansen02 |
| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:43 am Post subject: Re: Aerospace |
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| I_AM_LEGEND08 wrote: |
| I got accepted to UT Austin and I will start attending UT in the Fall of 2008. I am majoring in Aerospace Engineering and I was wondering if anyone could help me get ahead start on studying this field. Any suggestions as web sites, books, or just a bit of your knowledge would be beneficial towards me thank you. |
Do you already know what area you want to specialize in? If not, I'd get in touch with people who are currently working in your field of interest. Also, potential employers to see what they have to say. Will.
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