What is the difference between AME, aeronautical engineering and aerospace engineering?

Aerospace engineering is concerned with designing and building aircraft and spacecraft. Aerospace engineering can be divided into two specializations: Aeronautical engineers handle design, manufacturing and maintenance of aircraft, helicopters & UAV etc and astronautically engineers, who design spacecraft, rockets, satellites, and others. Aeronautical engineering was the original term for the field. Both Aerospace Engineering and Aeronautical Engineers are niche branch of engineering with lot of similarities in syllabus with almost 90% overlap. Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (AME) courses are designed to train and sill students in Mechanical Stream and Avionics stream of engineering professionals for Aviation Industry. The aircraft engineers mainly deal with the construction, repair, and maintenance of the aircraft. AME graduates with DGCA license are employed by Government and Private airlines, corporate, Public/ Private Aviation organization. At a high level, Aeronautical / Aerospace engineers deal with designing new aircraft and its systems, whereas Aircraft Maintenance Engineers deals with the repair of these aircraft.

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