Tag: aerospace
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What Degree Should You Get for Controls Engineering?
If you Google or ChatGPT this question, you will most likely get an answer along the lines of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Mechatronics as the most common backgrounds for controls engineers. And while that’s not wrong, in my experience it doesn’t paint the full picture of how things actually work in the aerospace industry,…
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GNC Projects Every Engineering Student Should Try
GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control) is a niche field of engineering. Not many students know about it… or are even exposed to it. In my humble opinion, it’s where the cool kids work. So what is GNC? If you look it up, you’ll find that each subteam focuses on a different aspect of the mission.…
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Career Pyramids
and the rising need for generalists What Is a Career Pyramid? A career pyramid is like a career ladder, except it is wide. Instead of only moving up, you can move up or across. Moving up the pyramid signifies depth in a specific field—say, power electronics—while moving across signifies breadth, such as hardware product development,…
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How to get started with MATLAB & Simulink
Just like with any programming language, the best way to learn it is to suffer through it and work on as many projects as you can. Debug, debug until you become comfortable enough to say, “ah yeah, I know what this is,” or “I know where to look for this.” I never liked coding. I…
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