Since ancient times people have been evolving from generations to generations and could be called success of human race. Success could be described in different ways. By being able to achieve goals, when a person gets to the highest level of their career and being able to make a different in life. Summing up, success is when a person who gets to the next level of their life. Dean Chai [01.18.12 http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/people/DChai.html] associate branch head state: “Success is when a person lives a happy and self-fulfilled life. As Buddhist teaching says, in order to reach eternal happiness you have to rid yourself of attachments to objects. The moment you detach, you attain happiness and thereby success. It is important to seek success in things that you try to do yourself rather than constantly hoping for something great to somehow just happen. The key is self motivation”. Aeronautical engineering are aerospace engineers that are responsible for any development in aircrafts. It could be civil and military aircraft and weapon system. This essay by will describing through “motivation” and “methodology” how success is achieved in aerospace engineering and will consider which factor is more important.

Vroom and Deci (1970) argue that there are two aspects to work motivation; the first refers to the ability or skill of the individual to perform the job and the second refers to his motivation to use this ability or skill in the actual performance of the job. A person could be having skill to perform the job but not motivated enough to do best. There are two people with equal ability to perform the job. One is motivated. Other is none. Result is the motivated person will surpass the unmotivated person in performance and outcome. In this particular field motivation is absolute. Considerable number of engineering student dropping off because of lack of motivation and perseverance because of this there are significant opportunities in this field. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the US government agency that is huge compact for the engineering world. In every NASA mission motivation is their priority. Without it there is no Success.

“I suppose there are as many different methods to achieve success as there are ways to succeed.”[Steve Mormando: http://www.museumofamericanfencing.com/site/index.php/fencing-history/wise-words/140-methodology-of-success-by-steve-mormando]. Methodology is another factor could promote to success. The way of thinking and being creative are important body parts in methodology. Nowadays students have the all the knowledge and information but no method to use that knowledge to do something in other word lack of being creative. Engineering means invent or create something, make impossible to possible. To be one, brain must need to work fully. That is why student study. Without education no brains, without brains no engineers. In every year NASA use significant number of method to improve their status. That is the reason for their success in every project.

The purpose of this essay was how is success achieved in a particular filed and which factor (is it motivation or is it methodology) is more important. In engineering methodology is as important as Motivation. These two key factors need to be together to be complete as one. When someone pursuing a career there are large number of obstacles in front of their path and must overcome before you succeed. Methodology is worth investing time and effort in but before try to overcome motivation, the biggest hurdle. This is not only for engineering but in other field too. Motivation is more important than methodology. That is the truth.