Welcome to the 62EX AFSC discussion blog. The purpose of this blog is to foster discussion between future AF officers interested in this career feild and current officers in 62EX. The views expressed in this blog are solely the opinions of the individual authors and not of the USAF nor the DoD. There are six different kinds of Developmental Engineers (Aero, Astro, EE, Mech Eng, Project, and Computer Systems), this blog has officers representing each of those with posts pertinent to each.
Most of the engineering jobs are pretty interchangeable. You might be a mech engineer at one job, aero at another, astro at another. Many times you will also act as a program manager (engineers can take PM roles, but PMs cannot take full-fledged engineering jobs).
As a project engineer, the idea is that you act more as an overseer of the engineers doing the work, rather than doing design or analysis yourself (but this is not always the case).
I would agree completely. My BS is in Mech, yet I spent my 1st four years working radar performance and GPS guidance neither of which I learnen at USAFA. To the AF you are an Engineer typically not a specific type of Engineer so you may fill many different roles/specialities.
being a project engineer can be very rewarding as it gives you ownership of something. You will have to balance cost, schedule, and performance in order to ensure the program is successful. It can have short term and long term goals which can be rewarding but hard to visualize some times.
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Most of the engineering jobs are pretty interchangeable. You might be a mech engineer at one job, aero at another, astro at another. Many times you will also act as a program manager (engineers can take PM roles, but PMs cannot take full-fledged engineering jobs).
As a project engineer, the idea is that you act more as an overseer of the engineers doing the work, rather than doing design or analysis yourself (but this is not always the case).
I would agree completely. My BS is in Mech, yet I spent my 1st four years working radar performance and GPS guidance neither of which I learnen at USAFA. To the AF you are an Engineer typically not a specific type of Engineer so you may fill many different roles/specialities.
being a project engineer can be very rewarding as it gives you ownership of something. You will have to balance cost, schedule, and performance in order to ensure the program is successful. It can have short term and long term goals which can be rewarding but hard to visualize some times.
I would agree that jobs are pretty interchangeable. I was a CE major at USAFA and have been doing Space Operations and Acquisitions ever since.
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