Average Starting Salaries. According to salary surveys conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), mechanical engineering graduates with a master's degree earned an average starting salary of $66,158 in 2009 and $69,954 in 2010. This average starting salary rose to $74,300 in 2011.
A plane like a Boeing 747 uses approximately 1 gallon of fuel (about 4 liters) every second. Over the course of a 10-hour flight, it might burn 36,000 gallons (150,000 liters). According to Boeing's Web site, the 747 burns approximately 5 gallons of fuel per mile (12 liters per kilometer). This sounds like a tremendously poor miles-per-gallon rating! But consider that a 747 can carry as many as 568 people.
Assuming an average fuel burn rate of 450 gal/hr (based on a 70-seat Canadair CRJ-700), a smaller âregional transportâ could consume about 1.4 million gal of jet fuel per year. At $3.44/gal (the price reported by the U.S. Energy Information Admin. in May 2008), this equates to about $4.9 million (USD) per year.f the price of crude oil reaches $200 per barrel, the dollar savings will nearly double. Over a typical commercial transportâs 20- to 30-year service life, fuel burn reductions (at todayâs prices) accrued from composites-related weight reduction could offset 15 to 20 percent of the MRJâs purchase price.