>You can't be a civil, mechanical, aerospace, marine, chemical, etc. engineer through software.. Civil is the oddball in that list, because of PE certification

>You can't be a civil, mechanical, aerospace, marine, chemical, etc. engineer through software.. Civil is the oddball in that list, because of PE certification, but the rest you absolutely can. Having a Masters in Aerospace Engineering and having switched to software later, 95% of the work that I did over the 10 years in aerospace involved software packages. 60% of it was matlab, either data processing or analysis, and 30% of it was CAD, which is essentially programming. Knowing what I know now, if I wanted to get into Aerospace through software, I would work on open source projects for autopilot or some aerospace analysis software, teach myself CAD, and with that portfolio I would absolutely get hired entry level into the companies I worked at, and would learn all the same stuff I learned while working, and the total level of effort to do this would be less than going to a 4 year college. And the only cost would be a decent laptop that can run CAD software.