Aerospace Engineering MSc
Coventry, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Our Aerospace Engineering MSc is designed to expand your knowledge and expertise in aerospace and aeronautical engineering.
Course overview
This course covers subjects such as advanced computer-aided engineering for aerodynamics and structures simulation, experimental methods to analyse structures and materials, and emerging aircraft technologies like unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones.
- The aviation and aerospace industry are committed to a sustainable future and our course covers the appropriate techniques, methods and subjects within this ever-changing industrial environment in more detail.
- With an emphasis on applied technical work, particular prominence is given to the developments in aircraft autonomy, the design and analysis of aircraft structures, computational fluid dynamics, advanced materials and processes, flight simulation and experimental methods.
- You will have the option to apply for a ‘work placement’ opportunity, designed to further develop your skills and knowledge with the aim of maximising your employability prospects. See modules for more information.
Why you should study this course
- Accredited 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.
- A flight test experience activity has previously been organised by the university and has contributed to student satisfaction (subject to availability).
- Our campus buildings provide 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 woodworking 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).
Admissions
Curriculum
Modules
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Autonomous Aerospace Vehicle Systems
- Mathematical Modelling in Aerospace Engineering
- Aerospace Structures Design and Analysis
- Flight Dynamics and Simulation
- Experimental Methods and Techniques
- Advanced Engineering Materials and Manufacturing
- Project Management
- Individual project
With work placement pathway
The ‘With work placement’ opportunity2 enables you to apply in semester 1 for an optional work placement of up to 12 months, extending the duration of your master’s to 24 months. The placement provides an opportunity for you to develop expertise and experience in your chosen field with the aim of enhancing your employability upon graduation. The work placement would take place in semesters 3, 4 and 5.
Please note that the optional placement modules will incur an additional tuition fee of £4,000. Placement opportunities may also be subject to additional costs, visa requirements being met, subject to availability and/or competitive application. Work placements are not guaranteed but you will benefit from the support of our Talent Team in trying to find and secure an opportunity. Find out more about the work placement option.
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
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.
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 Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing (SAM) for example.