Hello Sudha,

This field is pretty new and under-developed as of now in India, primarily because of the huge investments it requires. The prominent government players as rightly pointed out by Sanket, are ISRO, HAL, few DRDO labs like GTRE, ADA, DRDL and NAL. A few private companies like Tata, L & T, Mahindra, Taneja too have aerospace divisions, which basically cater to either the Indian government companies that I had mentioned above, or do consultancy activities for foreign aerospace companies. Aerospace engineering is a wide area, and we should not think that being an aerospace engineer means working in the field of aerodynamics or flight dynamics only. The subdivisions of an aerospace engineering curriculum usually consist of courses on propulsion, structures, robotics, navigation, control & guidance, manufacturing, spaceflight, aerodynamics, advanced fluid dynamics, material sciences, and flight mechanics. There are a lot of companies like Godrej & Boyce aerospace, L & T, Merlin Hawk Aerospace, etc. who work in one of these areas (for eg. Godrej manufactures the liquid engines for ISRO, L & T makes the interstage structures for PSLV, Computational Research Labs are into the flow and thermal simulations for big foreign MNCs like Boeing and Lockheed). Hence the scope of our work increases by manifolds if we are flexible to work in any one of the areas of aerospace engineering. Foreign MNCs like Airbus, Cassidian, GE and Boeing have R & D labs in Bangalore, employing more than 5000 people with expertise generally in the areas of CFD, FEM, solid modeling. If we see the manufacturing side, there are so many components in an aircraft or rocket that no engineer can know about all these subcomponents in his lifetime. And numerous industries work for delivering these parts because not all have the money to set up an aircraft manufacturing plant in India (only government does presently, and Mahindra have invested after their takeover of an Australian company).

Salaries are high, if you are skilled and willing to shift your location to the southern parts of India, where the aerospace industry is mainly situated. Due to the heavy risks involved, emphasis on quality and complex technicalities, to grow in this field requires a minimum of 10-15 years of experience. The challenges in this field are many and more are going to come in the future with the government funding increasing in recent time. The future of aerospace engineering in India is going to be bright

Your chances of growing more and developing a lot of knowledge in this field will require you to get a degree at least from top IITs and NITs where you can get more exposure as compared to other colleges.

For any other queries, comment below. Have a great day!!

Hi

For Aerospace engineering  the scope is beyond imagination both in India and abroad .Aerospace engineering is a broad branch from science dealing with many aspects like technical division, aircraft body design, engine design, safety measure design and many more. As a aeronautical or a aerospace engineer you need to get specialised in one path. For example students who study aerospace engineering usually get specialised from their elective course like technical aspects, engine design or air craft body design. Therefore according to ones specialisation one will also get the job. For example, if you specialise in engine design you will get jobs in General electric (GE), Rolls Royce etc and if you specialise in air craft body design then you will get jobs in Boeing, Air bus company etc. Similarly if you choose to work only at technical division the companies that build the aircraft itself like the Boeing and Air bus will employ you. In India these companies also have their technical plants and therefore people with technical skills are in great demand. Apart from this you can also look for jobs in airport ground level. A flight technician at airport ground level will know to handle the technical difficulties like the pressure or connectivity problems with the flight. You will be present at the airport and will be in charge of conducting inspection on every flight you are assigned to and if it has any technical difficulties you will attempt to solve it. Therefore the job opportunities for aerospace engineering in India are enormous and fast growing.

All the best!