>>12994460Traditional routes in electrical and aerospace engineering are by far the most secure way to work on things in aerospace, but I know some CS majors who broke into it. Your major tickets is are the facts that
1) software is needed to hold feedback and information systems on aircraft together.
2) NASA has been pushing machine earning techniques used in various parts of software and automation.
3) Rigorous flight testing, verification, etc., ground control, etc. are obviously important. Then there’s the huge amount of software for logging data and keeping information abound online (online here means with a constant data stream and limited time and space resources, related to real time systems but not exactly)
4) flight, landing, guidance, navigation, control, etc. protocol are mission critical software and obvious places where CS (specifically the part known as real time systems) is really important. However, don’t expect to touch these until you have more than a decent amount of experience.
These are the parts of aerospace you can break into with more difficulty, but that nobody would ever bat an eye at if you wanted to make your career.
If you want to help design the aircraft, work on the avionics, etc., t’ll take a longer career shift and lots of learning through osmosis. It might even take an entire masters, which hopefully you can get funded. But if you inject yourself into the industry with your given experience, there’s no reason why you can’t make the career shift. It takes time, but remember that they’re literally training you, and remember the aerospace work is very interdisciplinary.
