Learn to design helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, and their avionic systems on our specialist integrated MEng Aeronautics and Astronautics / Airvehicle Systems Design course. You’ll study many advanced engineering, including the design and manufacture of fast-moving aircraft and spacecraft, before specialising on their systems, performance and optimisation requirements. This course is ideal for a career in air vehicle design. Aeronautics and astronautics looks at the science, engineering and manufacture of aircraft and spacecraft, and how they operate within our atmosphere and in space. You’ll study the general principles of aerospace engineering, then take more advanced modules specialising in advanced air vehicle systems and avionics systems design. In Year 3 of this airvehicle systems design degree, you’ll complete an individual research project and in Year 4 you’ll participate in a group design project. You’ll get hands-on experience in our extensive facilities, which include: dedicated student design studios and workshops the largest wind tunnel in any UK university jet laboratory with supersonic ramjet, turbojet and rocket engine Boeing flight simulator state-of-the-art space propulsion facilities professional manufacturing centre As part of this course you can: showcase your work in our annual Engineering Design Show attend site visits to experience engineering in practice apply your engineering knowledge to solve a real-world problem You can take this course with an additional year-long, paid placement. Apply with UCAS code H41H for the Industrial Placement Year option.
