Homepage > Students > Engineering Resources >Mechanical Engineering Companies

Mechanical Engineering Companies

Aerospace & Defense

BAE Systems

Warwick House
PO Box 87
Farnborough Aerospace Center
Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 6YU
United Kingdom

Phone:  44-125-237-3232
Fax:  44-125-238-3000
Website:  www.baesystems.com
Ticker Symbol:  BTASY

Key Facts

• The world’s fourth-largest aerospace company.
• Manufactures the Harrier, Hawk, and Tornado fighter planes.
• BAE North America employs 22,000 people and specializes in defense electronics systems, information technology systems, and related services.

Boeing Company

100 N. Riverside Plaza
Chicago, IL 60606

Phone:  312-544-2000
Fax:  312-544-2082
Website:  www.boeing.com
Ticker Symbol:  BA

Key Facts

• Largest commercial jet aircraft maker and aerospace firm in the world.
• The Boeing 737 is the bestselling jet in history.
• Maker of the first round of rockets used in the Apollo space program.
• Main contractor for the International Space Station Program.

DaimlerChrysler AG

DaimlerChrysler Corporation
Auburn Hills, MI 48326-2766

Phone:  248-576-5741
Fax:  248-576-4742
Website:  www.daimlerchrysler.com
Ticker Symbol:  DCX

Key Facts

• Daimler-Benz AG and Chrysler Corporation have a combined history of more than 200 years of manufacturing experience.
• Global brands include Maybach, Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, smart, Freightliner, Sterling, Western Star, and Setra.

GE Aircraft Engines

1 Neumann Wy.,Mail Drop J-4
Cincinnati, OH 45215-1988

Phone:  513-243-2000
Fax:  513-786-1568
Website:  www.geae.net
Ticker Symbol:  GE

Key Facts

• Built first high-bypass turbofan engine.
• World’s largest producer of commercial and military plane engines.
• GE Aircraft Engines sales account for 10 percent of all GE sales.

General Dynamics Corporation

3190 Fairview Park Dr.
Falls Church, VA 22042-4523

Phone:  703-876-3000
Fax:  703-876-3125
Website:  www.generaldynamics.com
Ticker Symbol:  GD

Key Facts

• The designer of the world's first nuclear submarine.
• Has leading market share in the shipbuilding and marine systems, land and amphibious combat systems, and business aviation markets.

Goodrich Corporation

3 Coliseum Centre
2550 W. Tyvola Road
Charlotte, NC 28217

Phone:  704-423-7000
Fax:  704-423-7100
Website:  www.goodrich.com
Ticker Symbol:  GR

Key Facts

• Leading developer of fully integrated systems and subsystems for Boeing, Airbus, and other airframe makers.
• The company’s aftermarket sales, primarily to the airline industry, represent approximately 25 percent of total aerospace sales.
• With the acquisition of Raytheon's Optical Systems business in December of 2000, the company significantly expanded its space systems business.

Honeywell

101 Columbia Rd.
Morristown, NJ 07962

Phone:  973-455-2000
Fax:  937-455-4807
Website:  www.honeywell.com
Ticker Symbol:  HON

Key Facts

• Honeywell technology has been present in the flight systems of every manned U.S. space flight and in all commercial airliners flying today.
• Ranked 71 in the 2001 Fortune 500.

Lockheed Martin Corporation

6801 Rockledge Dr.
Bethesda, MD 20817-1877

Phone:  301-897-6000
Fax:  301-897-6704
Website:  www.lockheedmartin.com
Ticker Symbol:  LMT

Key Facts

• The U.S. government buys more than 80 percent of the company's services and products.
• Number-one services provider for the Department of Energy.
• In 2001, Lockheed Martin beat out former industry leader Boeing to win the $200 billion Joint Strike Fighter contract, the largest ever.

Moog Inc.

300 Jamison Rd.
East Aurora, NY 14052

Phone:  716-652-2000
Fax:  716-687-4457
Website:  www.moog.com
Ticker Symbol:  MOG

Key Facts

• Customers include NASA, the U.S. Navy, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing.
• Makes flight controls for military aircraft including the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft, the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, and the F-15 Eagle.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

300 E St. SW
Washington, DC 20546-0001

Phone:  202-358-0000
Fax:  202-358-3251
Website:  www.nasa.gov
Ticker Symbol:  Not available

Key Facts

• NASA’s Apollo program was rivaled only by the building of the Panama Canal as the largest nonmilitary technological endeavor ever undertaken by the United States. The Manhattan Project is the only comparable project in a wartime setting.
• With setbacks like the disappearance of the Mars Observer, NASA has made “doing it better, faster, cheaper” a priority.
• The first cooperative mission with the Soviet Union was the Apollo-Soyuz test in 1975. More recently, Russia and the U.S. have worked together on the space station Mir.

Northrop Grumman Corporation

1840 Century Park East
Los Angeles, CA 90067

Phone:  310-553-6262
Fax:  310-553-2076
Website:  www.northgrum.com
Ticker Symbol:  NOC

Key Facts

• Developed Joint Stars, an advanced targeting and battle management system that was implemented in the Persian Gulf War and NATO peacekeeping operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• Produces the E-2C Hawkeye, an aircraft carrier airplane used for surveillance.
• Ranks as the number-one shipbuilder globally and the second-largest U.S. defense contractor.

Raytheon

141 Spring St.
Lexington, MA 02421

Phone:  781-862-6600
Fax:  781-860-2172
Website:  www.raytheon.com
Ticker Symbol:  RTNB

Key Facts

• Customers in more than 80 countries worldwide.
• Raytheon is the "incumbent contractor" for installation and training of certain Navy radar systems. The Navy recently renewed this contractual relationship to the tune of $112.6 million.

Textron

40 Westminster St.
Providence, RI 02903-2596

Phone:  401-421-2800
Fax:  401-421-2878
Website:  www.textron.com
Ticker Symbol:  TXT

Key Facts

• Ranks 164th among the Fortune 500.
• Cessna's Citation X is the fastest business jet in the world.
• E-Z-GO golf cart seats four golfers and a caddie.

United Technologies Corporation

United Technologies Building
Hartford, CT 06106

Phone:  860-728-7000
Fax:  860-728-7979
Website:  www.utc.com
Ticker Symbol:  UTX

Key Facts

• Minority MBA magazine selected United Technologies as one of the ten best employers in the United States.
• United Technologies' Employee Scholar Program allows all employees to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at the company's expense—and graduates in this program earn UTC stock grants, to boot.
• Fortune rated UTC as the most admired aerospace company.
• UTC is a 24-year sponsor of the Special Olympics, and through its Otis subsidiary, it supports the Special Olympics in more than 30 countries.