Aerospace Engineering

As an aerospace engineer, it is utmost crucial to decide your interest whether you would be interested in aeronautical engineering or astronautical engineering. Both the branches have excellent job opportunities. Job opportunities for these engineers are available in Airlines, Air Force, Corporate Research Companies, Defence Ministry, Helicopter Companies, Aviation Companies, NASA and many others. Increasing popularity of air travel and space exploration require expertise to design and maintain improvements. Looking at heightening growth rate, the demand for smart and create aerospace engineers is only going to increase in the near future. Some of the top recruiters in this space are Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Defense Research and Development Laboratories (DRDO), Indian Space Research organisation (ISRO), Civil Aviation Department, Air India, India Space Research organisation (ISRO) and others.

Hi Priyank,UPES is offering two aerospace branches -
B.Tech. Aerospace Engineering
Aerospace Engineering with specialization in Avionics. The Avionics deals with the mechanical and the latter deals with the electronics (avionics) of the aircraft/spacecraft, etc. In specialization in avionics - programme combines concepts and techniques in aeronautics, electronics and instrumentation. And HITS is offering B.Tech. Aerospace Engineering. Talking about placements in UPES the average package from UPES in the domain is around INR 4.5 LPA, the highest package offered is around INR 15 LPA. Companies like Rolls Royce, Mahindra aerospace visited campus. The overall placement is around 80% of the batch, for research purpose, the UPES provides a good platform as compare to HITS. Talking about HITS placements, the students are placed in single digit the core company visits less. So, if you are really interested in aerospace then you should go for UPES. Good luck.