Aerospace Engineering MSc

at Coventry University

Why you should study this course
 

• Accredited1 by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), the world's only professional body dedicated to the entire aerospace community. 
   
• On and off-site access to commercial engineering software such as 3D CAD, Finite Element Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics, as well as training in industry standard Abacus, SolidWorks, STAR-CCM+, SIMPACK, and Granta Edupack software. Matlab/Simulink software is also available for advanced engineering simulation.
   
• Overall course satisfaction was 100% at the last Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) for 2020-2021.
   
• A flight test experience activity has been organised by the university and has contributed to student satisfaction (subject to availability). 
   
• Our £50m Engineering and Computing building provides you with access to facilities including wind tunnels, a composites lab, a metrology lab, a flow measurement lab, an automotive workshop and automotive engine test cell facilities, a model making shop with laser, foam cutting and wood working facilities that can be available for individual aerospace projects, fatigue and tensile testing (Instron) equipment, a full size Harrier Jet, full scale flight simulators with multiple flight data channels, a range of CNC machinery and a laser workshop (all subject to availability).

Modules
 

• Computational Fluid Dynamics – 15 credits
  
  This module is designed to extend your existing knowledge on the field of Fluid Mechanics through the analysis of practical and industrially relevant flow configurations, utilising the finite volume approach used in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). 
   

• Autonomous Aerospace Vehicle Systems – 15 credits
  
  This module has been designed to expose you to the future aerospace concept of autonomous aerospace vehicles, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems and spacecraft systems. You will learn about autonomous aerospace vehicles with an emphasis on UAVs and the necessary associated systems and equipment, including their guidance, navigation and control systems, databuses, communication systems and engine selection and optimisation. 
   

• Mathematical Modelling in Aerospace Engineering – 15 credits
  
  The aim of this module is to introduce you to the fundamental principles of mathematical modelling, to either capture the key physical mechanisms that dominate engineering applications, or extract the underlying pattern of behaviour from available, collected or generated data. 
   

• Aerospace Structures Design and Analysis – 15 credits
  
  The aim of this module is to develop a broad understanding of modern approaches for design and analysis of aerospace structures. This is achieved through a deeper understanding of the design challenges in materials, structures, manufacturing, and durability. 
   

• Flight Dynamics and Simulation – 15 credits
  
  This module is designed to extend your previously acquired knowledge of flight dynamics, supplemented by current research. You should develop your knowledge and understanding of advanced flight mechanics, flight test techniques, modelling and flight simulation. 
   

• Experimental Methods and Techniques – 15 credits
  
  This module aims to review several advanced experimental methods and techniques in aerospace engineering components, and associated systems for design purposes and performance testing. 
   

• Advanced Engineering Materials and Manufacturing – 15 credits
  
  The module is specifically designed to provide analytical material selection methodologies together with the material science that underpins the relationship between microstructure, processing and material properties for metallic, ceramic, polymeric and composite materials. 
   

• Project Management – 15 credits
  
  This module aims to prepare you for managing organisational change through projects. It focuses on projects involving major changes, including projects related to new products, new plant and equipment and new operating systems, which will affect the lives of people both within and outside the organisation. 
   

• Individual project – 60 credits
  
  The Individual Project provides an opportunity for you to apply theories and techniques from your taught modules. It may focus on one particular area of study or involve a combination of subjects. You will also develop a personal development portfolio during the course and submit this together with the project.

How you'll learn

• Personal tutorials
   
• Group teaching in tutorial sessions
   
• Labs and workshop activities
   
• Group teaching in lectures
   

This course can be studied on a full-time or part-time basis. Whilst we would like to give you all the information about our part-time offering here, it is tailored for each course each year depending on the number of part-time applicants. Therefore, the part-time teaching arrangements vary

UK
 

The normal entry route to the course will be through a minimum 2:2 honour's degree in aerospace/aeronautical engineering or a related subject area. Applicants offering equivalent professional qualifications and experience will be considered on merit.

Students who do not fit with the above entry requirements are invited to apply and their degrees and experience will be assessed for appropriate content by the course director.

English language requirements

IELTS: 6.0 overall, with no component lower than 5.5.

International Tuition Fees:

£18600 per year

Upon successful completion, you will be able to:
 

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: advanced principles of flight dynamics, structures, aerodynamics, materials, advanced engineering modelling techniques and aerospace-related systems (and their future applications); advanced analysis and design tools and processes; the implementation and critical evaluation of design solutions through simulation and practical applications; the planning, execution and critical evaluation of projects in the field of aerospace-related systems at a professional level.
   
• Conceptualise complex technical aspects of future aerospace systems.
   
• Conduct detailed and systematic technical analyses of aspects of current/future aerospace systems.
   
• Devise technical solutions to problems in the design and implementation of current/future aerospace systems.
   
• Critically evaluate solutions devised to problems arising in the design and implementation of aspects of future aerospace systems.
   
• Select, apply and critically appraise tools and techniques of advanced analysis and design.
   
• Implement appropriate software and hardware solutions and simulations and critically evaluate the outcomes.
   
• Plan, perform, critically evaluate and present the results of an independent project in chosen specialist subject area.
   

The specialist topics studied on the programme are designed to prepare you for work in companies involved with aeronautical engineering, but there are also many roles in related industries that rely on the same technology, such as the automotive industry. Possible destinations could include the fields of design, development, operations and management, as well as projects, systems, structural and avionics engineers.

You will have developed a wide range of transferrable professional and technical skills including the ability to produce technical, written reports and deliver oral presentations, engage in self-directed study, operate as part of a team, demonstrate a critical awareness of professional, legal, social and ethical issues. 

Where our graduates work
 

Previous graduates have obtained jobs as aerospace systems analysts, senior manufacturing engineer and systems engineers at companies including Meggit, Rolls-Royce, BAE, SEMP Ltd, as well as in the automotive industry with Jaguar Land Rover and more internationally at Singapure Aerospace Manufacturing (SAM) for example.