Aerospace & Defense Engineering Training
There are few occupations more important to the security of the United States than an aerospace defense engineer.
An aerospace defense engineer develops and tests various prototypes for the U.S. military, such as defense systems, missiles or aircraft.
In other words, the job of an aerospace defense engineer involves protecting the United States.
Beyond that, the aerospace and defense industries are often at the forefront of innovation. For example, getting reliable and up-to-date information on the battlefield is crucial, and being able to monitor a soldier’s condition can prevent avoidable injuries.
Due to systems engineering and advancements in Internet of Things (IoT) massive connectivity, wearables can satisfy both needs. Wearables are electronic technology or devices incorporated into items that can be comfortably worn on a body. These wearable devices are used for tracking information on real time basis. They have motion sensors that take the snapshot of your day to day activity and sync them with mobile devices or laptop computers.
Wearable soldier gear such as heads-up-displays (HUDS) along with smart tattoos can monitor vital signs. In a factory environment, HUDs and smart glasses can be used in maintenance and assembly applications.
Other innovations that have come from aerospace and defense engineers include:
- Specialized terahertz (THz) imaging — An imagining modality that allows screeners to detect knives, guns and other devices that a person could be hiding while advancing through a checkpoint.
- Cool burning flames research — By deliberately setting fires on the International Space Station, aerospace researchers hope to develop more efficient car engines that pollute less.
- Mind-controlled aircraft — This sounds “out there,” but there is basis to this idea because of a new algorithm that can convert brain waves into flight commands.
At a product level, things that are being focused on include electrical aircraft, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicles, supersonic aircraft, distributed propulsion, and higher bypass ratio engine products such as geared fans and open rotor technology.
At the end of 2018, demand for commercial aerospace and defense finished strong. Both the commercial and defense sectors witnessed robust growth — a rare market situation as these markets have historically and empirically known to be counter-cyclical.
Aerospace & Defense Engineering Courses by Tonex
- Link 16 Advanced Training/Network Enabled Weapons Bootcamp (4 days)
- Link 16 and MIDS Training Bootcamp (5 days)
- Link 16 Cybersecurity Crash Course (4 days)
- Link 16 Systems Engineering Training Course (3 days)
- Link 16 Training for Managers (2 days)
- Link 16 Training Courses/Tactical Data Link Training (3 days)
- Link 22 Training (2 days)
- Advanced Link 16 Training (3 days)
Another course, popular for its cutting-edge information is Aviation Cybersecurity Training Bootcamp.
This very important 4-day course provides security oriented aviation training regarding civilian and military aircraft including airworthiness security DO-326A/ED 202A, information, mission, networks, technology, embedded avionics systems and the whole system security engineering problem.
Our Aerospace & Defense Engineering courses are approached from a systems engineer perspective. More than two elements that have an interaction with each other can be called a system. Therefore, aerospace and defense engineering can perfectly be placed under systems engineering.
Systems engineering is a systematic method for the design, understanding, technical management, functions, and retirement of a system. A system is constructed or collected of various components that can generate the results that are not achievable by each of the elements individually.
Generalized Components:
- Environment
- Sub-systems with associated functions or processes
- Inputs and outputs
Essence of Systems Engineering
- The customer does not realize the problem, and should not
- The “Metric” notion is very complicated
- Effective approaches are goal-oriented, not a technology-oriented or chronological
- Bystanders should be considered
- There is often confusion among the decision making roles
Systems Life Cycle
- Concept development
- Preliminary design completion
- Final design and construction
- System assembly
- Integration and test
- Launch
- Operations
- Closeout
Defense Engineering
- Air domain
- Ground attack
- Tactical bomber
- Naval patrol
- Battleground surveillance
- Airborne early warning
- Electronic combat
- Photographic inspection
- Troop/materiel transport
- Unmanned air vehicles
Aerospace & Defense Areas
Some of the main areas related to aerospace and defense include:
- Airframe/platform
- Weapons systems
- Defense electronics
- Military communication systems
- Simulation and training
- Military assessment
- Avionics system
- Operations assessment
- Project engineering
- Systems engineering
- Model-based systems engineering
- Military and avionic standards and guidelines
Why Choose Tonex?
For nearly 30 years our world class instructors have been teaching aerospace and defense system courses to individuals, agencies, organizations and companies.
Our huge selection of aerospace and defense engineering courses are comprehensive and hands-on with workshops, labs and practical exercises. Our instructors are not only experts in their fields, but they also have real world experience, which they fold into examples and projects.
Additionally, Tonex will tailor courses to meet the needs of your organization, company or agency.
Just ask us about it.
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Aerospace & Defense Engineering Training