Aerospace Engineering

I need a simple short power point presentation on what Aerospace Engineering is. About 2 to 3 min of speaking time.

Answering basic questions like:

What is it?

• What is aerospace engineering What are the two main branches: aircraft (aeronautics) vs spacecraft (astronautics)?
• Maybe a little history on how it got started.

What do they do?

• What are the 3 core tasks aerospace engineers do (design / analysis / testing)?
• What kinds of things do they design or improve (aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, missiles)?

Jobs & growth

• About how many aerospace engineering jobs exist in the U.S.?
• Is the field growing, and whats the projected growth rate + typical yearly openings?

Pay (start top)

• Whats the median pay?
• What do the low end vs top end earn (rough range)?

What it takes (education/skills)

• What education is typically required?
• Whats one real world requirement that sometimes comes up (example: security clearance for defense work)?