B.Tech Aeronautical Engineering - Course Overview

About B.Tech Aeronautical Engineering

Aeronautical engineering is a field of Aerospace Engineering. Some of the institutes also offer this course as a specialisation of aerospace engineering at postgraduate level. This field of engineering comprises the study of designing and building aircraft such as airplanes and helicopters.

The curriculum of B.Tech in Aeronautical Engineering covers various fields such as planning, designing, structures, aerodynamics, impetus, streamlined features and frameworks of aircrafts. The four-year programme is a combination of applied physics and engineering.

B.Tech Aeronautical Engineering Syllabus

First Year:

Professional Communication	Environmental Studies	Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Mathematics – 1	Engineering Physics – 1	Engineering Mathematics – 2
Engineering Chemistry	Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering	Technical Communication
Fundamentals of Electronics Engineering	Engineering Drawing	Fundamentals of Computer

 

Second Year:

Humanities	Engineering Physics – 2	Materials for Aviation and Space
Calculus of Variations & Numerical Methods	Amrita Values Program – 2	Aerodynamics – 1
Introduction to Thermodynamics	Compressible Fluid Flow	Transforms & Partial Differential Equations
Mechanics of Materials	Mechanics of Fluids	Aerospace Structures – 1

 

Third Year:

Introduction to Control Theory	Finite Element Methods for Aerospace	Avionics
Flight Mechanics	Aerodynamics – 2	Science Elective
Electives	Environmental Studies	Aerospace Propulsion
Aerospace Structures – 2

 

Fourth Year:

Computational Fluid Dynamics for Aerospace	Aerospace Structures – 3	Flight Dynamics & Control
Major Project	Aerodynamics Design

Popular Specializations of B.Tech Aeronautical Engineering

• Biochemical
• Textile Engineering
• Ceramic Engineering
• Instrumentation and Control Engineering
• Mechatronics
• Telecommunication
• Automobile Engineering
• Production Engineering
• Mining Engineering
• Genetic Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Aeronautical Engineering
• Aerospace Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Marine Engineering
• Food Processing technology
• Software Engineering
• Merchant Navy
• Merchant Navy
• Merchant Navy
• Petroleum Engineering
• Metallurgical Engineering
• Metallurgical Engineering

Career Options and Job Prospects

Although there are a lot of opportunities for Aeronautical engineering graduates, the opportunities in the core profile are better outside India. However, there are a few government organisations that offer high paying jobs in this field. Following are some of the organisations that offer jobs in this field:

• Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA)
• National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL)
• Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE)
• India Space Research Organization (ISRO)
• Civil Aviation Department
• India Space Research
• Samtel Avionics

Since there are better space centres outside India, the scope of this field is much better once you have pursued Masters from universities abroad. An aeronautical engineer can expect a salary between Rs. 6 to 11 lakh, depending on the college of graduation. An aeronautical earns up to $ 107,700 per year in US.