Aerospace Information

The
Chennai-based CADD Centre, Asia’s largest network of CAD training
institutes, is launching two new Master Diploma programmes exclusively
for Automotive Design and Aerospace Design Industry. The programmes
would provide comprehensive training to students pursuing degree and
diploma engineering programmes, and working professionals on the current
product lifecycle management concepts and tools relevant to the booming
Indian automotive and aerospace industry. The courses are offered at
most its branches across the network.
With a total duration of over
450 hours, the Master Diploma in Automotive Design introduces automotive
design, production concepts, and training on Computer aided design
tools such as Pro/Engineer, CATIA, ANSYS, NX CAD, NX CAM, and NX
NASTRAN. Course fee is Rs.79900 plus taxes including study materials.

The
Master Diploma in Aerospace Design is a 464-hour programme that trains
students on Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA, ANSYS, NX CAD, NX CAM, NX NASTRAN,
besides providing a comprehensive overview of the aerospace design
processes. Course fee is Rs. 79900 plus taxes including study materials.

Students
pursuing both these programmes would get to learn Geometric
Dimensioning and Tolerancing, a language used to precisely communicate
mechanical engineering drawings. CADD Centre would provide authorized
courseware for all software tools, and exclusive workbooks on automotive
design, and aerospace design.

Commenting about the programmes,
Mr S Karaiadiselvan, Managing Director, CADD Centre, said that there are
huge job opportunities for engineers in automotive and aerospace
industry in India. The size of India’s automotive industry is estimated
at US$ 72 billion. It employs around 15 million people. The automobile
industry is expected to invest over $17 billion in the next 5 years.
According to an industry report, India’s aerospace & defense
industry would be close to $45 billion by 2015.

However, the
growing skill gap, and lack of employable engineers might affect the
growth of the automotive and aerospace industry. Though the country has a
pool of qualified engineering, science and computer graduates, they
have to be introduced to, and trained in the latest design, and
production concepts and CAD tools.

Mr
Selvan added that CADD Centre’s Master Diploma courses in automotive
and aerospace design are created with inputs from the industry. The
curriculum for the software tools are authorized by the concerned
software developers, and the faculty are regularly trained in current
industry practices.

The Master Diploma in Automotive Design
imparts technical skills to automotive professionals engaged in
developing, manufacturing and testing vehicles and their systems. The
students would be provided with an exclusive practice workbook which
contains an overview and exercises of various components specific to
automotive domain to strengthen the understanding of students on the
fundamental aspects on automotive engineering. Similarly, the Master
Diploma in Aerospace Design enhances the students design and analysis
skills that go into the making of airplanes, aircraft and spacecrafts.
The course also provides an overview of various components specific to
aerospace.

Upon completion of the Master Diploma, students can
become design, analysis engineers in the domains of automotive and
aerospace industries and the institute’s placement cell will help the
students in fetching jobs after successful completion of the programmes.

The global aerospace industry is showing an upward trend with the
civil aviation segment becoming the major contributor. This has been
substantiated by the research report “Aerospace Industry Forecast to
2013” which considers the global aerospace industry as a potential
market. This comes as no surprise because the aerospace industry showed
impressive growth even during tough economic conditions. The increased
travel in emerging market economies and considerable increase in
military budget were the factors that helped the aerospace industry to
survive the economic recession.

The global aerospace industry is worth over $100
billion USD, but for many aerospace majors this do not translate into
high operating margins due to the high levels of competition for segment
leadership. Hence, many aerospace engineering companies are
increasingly considering engineering services off shoring as the perfect
solution for increasing their operating margins.

The presence of
end-to-end aerospace engineering solutions providers who combine
aerospace engineering services with manufacturing have made things more
than easy for the companies. To be precise, they provide

The current business scenario is very demanding with a continuous
demand from the market forces to reduce the product price. And aerospace
engineering has undergone significant developments over the past few
years. It has successfully overcome obstacles and is now achieving new
heights of success with every passing day. With the tremendous growth in
the aviation industry, there are considerable matters in the aerospace
engineering businesses that have to be addressed. This includes the
incorporation of flexible processes that can deliver pioneering and high
quality solutions to meet the global demands.

Aerospace engineering projects that use value
engineering in the early development or conceptual stages are generally
more successful due to common understanding of the objectives,
deliverables, and requirements. When major design and development
resources are not committed and the manner in which the basic function
of the project is to perform is not established, alternative ways may be
identified and considered. Value Engineering is almost unlimited in its
ability to identify areas of potential savings when applied with
flexibility and creativity.

An important aspect of value
engineering lies in its ability to respond with timeliness, flexibility,
and creativity. It can be used for new or existing programs, all phases
of a project, and for organizational processes. Value Engineering can
also be used to improve quality, achieve lower costs, assure compliance,
improve efficiency, build teamwork and reduce risks. Over time many
companies have realized that there is greater value in helping them
maintain and upgrade their cost structures with the right manufacturing
services. By choosing the best industrial engineering services a company
can gain significantly from their methodical approach, management of
resources economical costs, and enhancement of profitability that
ultimately increases the business value of your organization.

A
high level of security is maintained with stringent policies and
continuous monitoring for effective detection of threats and remediation
solutions. Aerospace manufacturing engineering also requires accuracy
based development processes to ensure quality products with faster
delivery rates. Those who are able to manage a strong and reliable
balance between demand and supply have the strength to lead comfortably
despite all odds. Enhanced generation of revenues while meeting the
exacting industry standards is a commendable feat. To accomplish their
goals these businesses require focused and smart processes and people.
Those who are able to manage a strong and reliable balance between
demand and supply have the strength to lead comfortably despite all
odds.

To ensure a reliable and efficient product, automotive and aerospace
manufacturing machineries for the industries and other industrial
products need a lot of accuracy in the planning, conceptualization,
designing, testing and execution phase. There is very much at risk for
the manufacturers if the methods are flawed or severely deficient in
quality and expertise. As the use of mediocre quality materials and
incomplete processes can produce devastating results. These manufactured
components have to be tested several times under rigorous conditions
before they reach the market.

The increase in the aviation industry is posing some
significant issues to the aerospace engineering businesses for
incorporating adaptable processes that can convey inventive and high
quality solutions to meet the global demands. Outsourced engineering
services, therefore help the aerospace engineering businesses with
design and development, engineering analysis, manufacturing engineering,
embedded systems development, technical publications and offer the most
empowering tools and end-to-end aerospace engineering solutions. The
engineering process is an intricate area and it includes extremely
competent and adept experts to accomplish these critical tasks.

As
outsourced engineering services are expensive, one of the main reasons
that led to the increase in engineering services outsourcing is the
objective to bring down product development costs. In addition, the
possibilities of minimizing the labor charges singularly by shifting
services offshore are deemed to be largely significant. To ensure that
the processes deliver optimum results on time the business requires
highly advanced tools. With efficient outsourcing services, enterprises
can enjoy easy accessibility to overseas markets. They also have
high-tech services along with exceptional technological processes and
SEZ infrastructure that executes environmentally friendly processes.

It
is said that the dollar value of outsourced engineering services
globally, via captive engineering hubs, conventional outsourcing
alliances or joint ventures with enterprises of local prominence, will
keep on growing in future. With certified inspection centers along with
quality checking instruments, reputed service providers ensure regulated
processes for the disposal of equipment. They have a highly
sophisticated and well developed aerospace product and parts
manufacturing and efficient capabilities for conducting engineering
tests with favorable outcome.

With efficient engineering
outsourced services, enterprises can experience services that are of
global standards. Look for a service provider who can offer Global
Product Development framework. By adopting best practices for
optimization of processes with their technical expertise and extensive
experience, enjoy better, faster and more value-optimized solutions for
significant reduction in product development costs.

The field also complements other studies like rocket sciences. The
branch of theoretical physics creates various models and seeks to
establish paths that are covered by spatial bodies. The topics studied
thereby include cosmic rays, general relativity and physical cosmology.
Several concepts like Big Bang, Lambda-CDM model, cosmic inflation and
dark energy are some of the hypotheses to be proved.

Prior to the 6th century, astronomy and physics were linked and became
empirical and mathematical instead of philosophical. The concept of
modern aerospace evolved after George Cayley proposed a flying body with
a fixed wing and tails that would be vertical and horizontal. In 1981,
space shuttle Columbia began as the first manned mission. Astrophysics
involves the trajectory, path of rockets and the characteristics of the
fuel used for a rocket engine.

Telescopes and detectors on
satellites explore new wavelength ranges, while new automated means to
infer results based on data, for the comparative study of e.g. millions
of galaxies.

Cold War and other rivalries based on political
rivalry on the earth’s surface have been accompanied by advanced
research in aerospace. As part of NASA’s Constellation Program, the Crew
Exploration Vehicle (or CEV) was the first unit to send explorers to
moon, who would later head to Mars.

Astronomy is mostly based on
observation rather than experimentation. Since the observation time is
much smaller than the typical time scale for the evolution of
astronomical objects, we see just a snapshot of the universe.
Nevertheless it is possible to reconstruct, e.g., the evolution of stars
by studying large samples. On the extragalactic scales, we can use that
looking far away means implies studying the history of the current
speed of light, while on the cosmological scale we can use relics formed
soon after the Big Bang as testimonies for the state of the early
universe.

Computational astrophysics is used to solve mathematical problems
related to the discipline using advanced computing techniques.
Computational methods are required to calculate the propagation of light
through the outer layers of a star, cross section of photons and
studies that are relevant to the astrophysics discipline; and the ionic
balances in the outer space. The construction of such stellar atmosphere
models share many challenges with radiation transfer problems in other
systems such as planets, accretion disks, and the interstellar medium.

Astrophysics research involves the studies of the celestial object put
into motion. Monte Carlo algorithms are also used for numerical analysis
for complex mathematical calculations underlying the fields that
involve trajectories of massive objects that are either out into the
earth’s orbit or the outer space.

OMICS journal of aerospace
studies provides the latest insights into the advanced research in the
respective and complementary fields. The manuscripts submitted by
various authors are published under Open Access Policy and follow the
Commons Creative Attributes license. The regulation permits readers to
access, retrieve and distribute the content of the journal of
astrophysics with proper citation of the authors.