Science and Technology for the Cultural Heritage
Science and Technology for the Cultural Heritage
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Aerospace Engineering has accelerated the way we travel by developing different types of vehicles such as airplanes, helicopters, or robotized aircraft and air traffic management. It also deals with the development of rockets and satellites, and contributes to the improvement of forms of communication. The role of an aerospace engineer involves planning and designing air and space vehicles, as well as developing all related support and control systems.
The professional activity of aerospace engineers has been evolving according to the progress of technology, taking
into account the constant social and economical changes:
• it requires a global view of engineering problems taking into account the multidisciplinary nature of the
technologies involved in an aerospace vehicle;
• it contains technological aspects of great complexity that require higher levels of training and greater
interdisciplinarity;
• it is governed by economic, social, ethical and environmental constraints in a globalized world;
• it increasingly uses English language.
The competences that are intended to be developed in the master in aerospace engineering at IST represent the meeting point of a very diverse set of areas of knowledge.
Aerospace engineers must be able to communicate their conclusions and the reasoning behind them, either to
experts or to non-specialists, clearly and unambiguously.
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