Glossary
Aerospace Engineering Technician Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential aerospace engineering technician terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key aerospace engineering technician vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in aerospace engineering technician training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Accelerometer
- Measures acceleration.
- Anomaly
- Unexpected result.
- Calibration
- Accuracy check.
- Clean room
- Controlled environment.
- DAQ
- Data acquisition.
- FOD
- Foreign object debris.
- Harness
- Wire bundle.
- Instrumentation
- Sensors and wiring.
- Strain gauge
- Measures strain.
- Test cell
- Engine test room.
- Test procedure
- Step-by-step test.
- Thermal vacuum
- Space environment test.
- Thermocouple
- Measures temperature.
- Vibration test
- Shake testing.
- Witness
- Observer of tests.
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