Aerospace Engineering MEng

You learn through:

• lectures and seminars
• tutorials
• laboratory sessions
• problem-based and practical activity-based learning- group and individual project work
• field trips
• guest lectures
• extra-curriculum activities
• acting as student mentors

Applied learning

Work placements

You can undertake an industrial training placement which is typically 48 weeks long, after the second or third year of study. You are able to apply the knowledge gained on the course to commercial engineering practice, gain new skills and learn how industry works.Previous students have worked in a variety of technical roles for companies including Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Lockheed Martin, Meggitt Aircraft Breaking Systems, Jaguar Land Rover and many others.

Networking opportunities

You have opportunities throughout your course to gain extra-curricular experience on a variety of projects within the aerospace community, for example, by joining our student UAV society or rocket team, or by becoming a student ambassador or a student peer.Each year a few students attend the annual national conference of the Association of Aerospace Universities, showcasing their final year project work on a national level and networking with aerospace professionals from around the UK.We have a mentoring scheme where you are paired with students from the second, third and fourth year, helping you settle in and form friendship groups that last throughout your course and beyond.

Competitions

You can also take part in national and international engineering competitions, includingthe Heavy Lift Challenge or UAS Competition, which involves designing and building a remote-controlled UAV model and testing it in a competitionFormula Student, where you design and build a race car and race it at Silverstone, home of the British Grand PrixEngineering Without Borders, a competition to find an engineering solution to a problem in the developing world