Is working with jet engines cool & interesting?

Question: Is working with jet engines cool & interesting?

Asked by mchidley to Katy on 15 Mar 2010 in Categories: Benefits.
- Katy Milne answered on 15 Mar 2010:
  
  Yes. There are lots of objectives when you design an engine.
  
  1. You want it to be fuel efficient so that it does not cost too much and does not cause too many emissions.
  2. It has to create lots of thrust or power to get the aeroplane into the sky.
  3. It can’t break. Aerospace is a ‘right-first-time’ industry. That means that we have to design and maintain the engines so well that they will not fail while they are running. If they break the consequences would be bad.
  
  The multiple objectives mean that we investigate lots of really cutting edge technology: new materials, new ways of making and joining things and new ways of inspecting things. That makes the job really interesting.
  
  Some examples of the technology that has been researched by the aerospace industry are:
  Composite materials, which combine two types of material (like carbon fibre and plastics) to get the best properties of both.
  http://www.compositesworld.com/articles/resin-transfer-molding-and-preforms-for-jet-engine-stators
  
  Inertia or friction welding where two pieces of metal are rubbed together really fast to join them.

Question: Is working with jet engines cool & interesting?