In your first year, you’ll learn the fundamental skills and knowledge required by a modern engineer, including principles of flight and aircraft operations. You’ll be introduced to computer packages commonly used in the aerospace industry.
In your second year, the first-year core themes are developed for use in aerospace engineering. You’ll learn about the design process through group design and detail design work and expand your knowledge of aerodynamics, with wind tunnel experiments. If you want to take to the sky, you can fly at a local flying school.
In your final year, you’ll work on two projects:
•The Aerospace Design group project - is where you’ll showcase your engineering skills. You will be allocated to a team to design an aircraft and test fly it using our flight simulator. Every year the design task is different – in previous years, our students designed wide body commercial airliners, heavy cargo aircraft, fire-fighting aircraft, and even strategic bombers.
•The Individual Major Project - is where you’ll immerse yourself in an area of aerospace engineering, you’re passionate about, using either the University or industrial facilities. This is a rewarding part of your degree that can lead to future employment.