automotive engineertoaerospace engineer
A automotive engineer already meets 68% of what the aerospace engineer role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.
This move: 36.8 of 100 · moderate
1 Share of the aerospace engineer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the automotive engineer profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 32 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A aerospace engineer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a automotive engineer background worth leading with.
- already held synthetic natural environment natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- already held apply advanced manufacturing management skills
- already held manage product testing management skills
- already held guidance, navigation and control engineering, manufacturing and construction
- already held build a product's physical model handling and moving
- already held defense system services
All 32 carried skills, including the 13 the aerospace engineer role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 15 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held aerospace engineering required
- required, not held aircraft mechanics required
- required, not held safety engineering required
- optional, not held unmanned air systems optional
- optional, not held aerodynamics optional
- optional, not held fluid mechanics optional
- optional, not held material mechanics optional
- optional, not held state estimation optional
- required, not held ensure aircraft compliance with regulation required
- required, not held troubleshoot required
- required, not held computer simulation required
- optional, not held oversee assembly operations optional
- optional, not held plan test flights optional
2 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a aerospace engineer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 ensure aircraft compliance with regulation skill · sector specific
- 02 aerospace engineering knowledge · cross sector
- 03 aircraft mechanics knowledge · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 32 skills that carry over
- already held adjust engineering designs skill
- already held approve engineering design skill
- already held assess financial viability skill
- already held engineering principles knowledge
- already held engineering processes knowledge
- already held execute feasibility study skill
- already held industrial engineering knowledge
- already held manufacturing processes knowledge
- already held perform scientific research skill
- already held production processes knowledge
- already held quality standards knowledge
- already held technical drawings knowledge
- already held use technical drawing software skill
- already held CAE software knowledge
- already held analyse production processes for improvement skill
- already held apply advanced manufacturing skill
- already held build a product's physical model skill
- already held conduct performance tests skill
- already held control production skill
- already held create a product's virtual model skill
- already held defense system knowledge
- already held design principles knowledge
- already held design prototypes skill
- already held develop test procedures skill
- already held draft design specifications skill
- already held guidance, navigation and control knowledge
- already held manage product testing skill
- already held mechanical engineering knowledge
- already held record test data skill
- already held synthetic natural environment knowledge
- already held use CAD software skill
- already held use CAM software skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
- optional, not held mathematical modelling optional
- optional, not held stealth technology optional
9 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held plan test flights optional
- optional, not held stealth technology optional
- optional, not held unmanned air systems optional
- optional, not held aerodynamics optional
- optional, not held fluid mechanics optional
- optional, not held material mechanics optional
- optional, not held mathematical modelling optional
- optional, not held oversee assembly operations optional
- optional, not held state estimation optional
23 held skills the aerospace engineer role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role European vehicle type-approval legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role advanced driver assistant systems knowledge
- not needed by the target role anticipate change in car technology skill
- not needed by the target role apply reverse engineering skill
- not needed by the target role automotive engineering skill
- not needed by the target role compare alternative vehicles skill
- not needed by the target role design electromechanical systems skill
- not needed by the target role disassemble equipment skill
- not needed by the target role electrical testing methods knowledge
- not needed by the target role electromechanics knowledge
- not needed by the target role electronics knowledge
- not needed by the target role green automotive technologies knowledge
- not needed by the target role hybrid vehicle architecture knowledge
- not needed by the target role information structure knowledge
- not needed by the target role mechanics of motor vehicles knowledge
- not needed by the target role model based system engineering knowledge
- not needed by the target role perform market research skill
- not needed by the target role precision mechanics knowledge
- not needed by the target role prepare production prototypes skill
- not needed by the target role reverse engineering knowledge
- not needed by the target role use automotive diagnostic equipment skill
- not needed by the target role vehicle type-approval knowledge
- not needed by the target role vehicle-to-everything technologies knowledge
11 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held aerospace engineering required
- required, not held aircraft mechanics required
- required, not held computer simulation required
- required, not held safety engineering required
- optional, not held stealth technology optional
- optional, not held unmanned air systems optional
- optional, not held aerodynamics optional
- optional, not held fluid mechanics optional
- optional, not held material mechanics optional
- optional, not held mathematical modelling optional
- optional, not held state estimation optional
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.