Aerospace - MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate

Postgraduate

In Bristol

£ 12,500 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Bristol

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This is part of a set of study options within the postgraduate Engineering Career and Capability Development Framework (ECCDF). The concept behind the Framework is to offer you flexibility in the modules you study, and the opportunity to move freely between award routes based on your career goals.
Flexible, industry-focused and professionally accredited
The MSc Aerospace is accredited by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). It's aimed at Engineers looking to increase their professional skills and capabilities in the industry through a strategic understanding of major technical, business and environmental factors. It's designed to help develop and broaden technical and business skills in the industry. It is also aimed at enhancing the industry's competitiveness and creating, developing and implementing flexible and innovative research and development opportunities.
Students on the course come are either full time students completing the award in one year, or industrially based students that from a wide range of different companies within the sector, including primes and throughout the supply chain. This mix of people from different backgrounds, companies and with different roles adds a unique perspective of peer learning, as you network and learn from each other.
However you approach the course, we're here to help support your long-term career professional development, including helping you develop a 'portfolio of evidence' to support your application to become a Chartered Engineer.
Peer learning and support
Many of the modules bring together students from a range of Master's engineering and management courses. This provides a strong learning experience, mixing technical and business skills with management capabilities.
Watch: The learning and teaching experience

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Location

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Bristol (Avon)
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Coldharbour Lane, BS16 1QY

Start date

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About this course

Professional accreditation
This course is affiliated to, and accredited by, the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), and has been developed further in conjunction with other awards in the ECCDF. This allows you to mix with students across other engineering disciplines, specifically business-related, and benefit from peer learning. RAeS accreditation means it's possible to develop a portfolio of evidence towards Chartered Engineer registration, if required.
This course is also accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
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Subjects

  • Industry
  • Engineering
  • Full Time
  • Teaching
  • Project
  • Learning Teaching
  • Credit
  • Design
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Course programme

Content

The full Master's course comprises 180 credits divided into three 60 credits stages: Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, and Masters. Students work incrementally through the three stages and must pass all modules at each stage in order to progress to the next.

Full-time students will study the following modules:

  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Airworthiness
  • Aerospace Design Process
  • Aerospace Business Context and Environment
  • Lean Engineering
  • Professional Development Appraisal and Review
  • Aircraft Structural Design and Stress Analysis
  • Foundations of Systems Engineering
  • Dissertation

For students studying on a flexible basis, whilst there is flexibility to your studies, the course has four core modules:

  • Professional Development Appraisal and Continuous Review
  • Advanced Manufacture
  • Aerospace Design Process
  • Airworthiness

You then choose an optional module after discussions with your Programme Leader, and according to your qualification route. If you're planning to take the MSc study programme to provide the academic part of your portfolio of evidence for Chartered Engineer (CEng) registration, check with the relevant professional institution that your module meets their requirements.

To achieve the MSc you'll require eight 15-credit modules from the list of Professional and Short Courses, including the core modules, and the 60-credit dissertation module.

The course is endorsed by the Royal Aeronautical Society and full time students will have preselected their modules to ensure they gain the appropriate knowledge for these bodies.

Dissertation

This will be a significant industry-focused piece of work that integrates your learning from the taught material and develops your abilities for in-depth study of a substantial technical or management problem within an engineering sector.

You will have academic and usually industrial sponsors for this, to help you scope out the project in the required context.

This project activity is attractive to employers, as it provides an opportunity to deal with a real issue in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Often, your project will have a significant effect on the business sponsoring it.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we will inform you.

Learning and Teaching

The course's learning methods and structure mean you receive an integrated view of an engineering enterprise by placing technology in strategic, financial, human and operational contexts. We encourage you to read about the subjects independently, so you can consolidate your knowledge and understanding and broaden your outlook and understanding of the key concepts.

We usually hold taught modules over three to five consecutive days. In some cases we use other teaching methods, including distance and work-based learning. You'll organise your work-based learning with your module leader, this ensures it's tailored to your needs and the learning outcomes are achievable.

For more details, see our full glossary of learning and teaching terms.

Study time

Each 15-credit module is expected to take around 150 hours to complete. The overall course can be completed as full-time in one year, but is more normally studied part-time, taking between two and five years, as students are normally also in full employment.

Assessment

Assessment is normally by assignment. At this level, we do not need to test your understanding, but rather your ability to implement your newfound skills and knowledge. Assignments will normally be about a real industrial case study, or a live project in your workplace.

For more details, see our full glossary of assessment terms.

Aerospace - MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate

£ 12,500 + VAT