Welcome to your Aeronautical Engineering course

Teaching will be through a mixture of workshops, lectures, tutorials, labs and seminars. Most modules have four hours of contact a week and class sizes will be bigger in lectures and smaller in workshops, tutorials and labs. Most classes are face to face on campus, and we use a range of assessments including technical reports, lab reports, group assignments and online and traditional exams.

Welcome Week is your first opportunity to meet your fellow students and the staff you’ll be working with, in one place. We’ll be getting involved in activities and making sure you know more about how the University works and how the next few weeks and months are going to look. We’re hoping that you’ll get to know us and your course mates and be ready to start with the next stage of your journey.

In Welcome Week, you’ll be introduced to the IMechE and IET professional bodies who accredit the course so you can learn more about becoming a member and the benefits linking in to a local and global network of professional engineers can bring to your future career.

This is an award for the graduate engineer who wishes to enhance their knowledge of flight engineering whether it be for fixed/rotary wing or subsonic/supersonic. The course covers a broad range of areas related to Aeronautical Engineering with modules in CAD, Reverse Engineering, Materials, FEA of mechanical systems, Aerodynamics, flight principles and power systems for aircraft.

Before you start, these are some fantastic websites to get you thinking and developing yourself for the course;

https://www.instructables.com/

https://www.thingiverse.com/

https://hackaday.io/discover

https://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/materials-library

https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/

https://www.imeche.org/Home

Ceramic Knowledge Centre: Contains information about the history of ceramics, manufacturing processes, and their impact on modern society

MatWeb: Online Materials Information Resource including physical , mechanical and chemical properties

How products are made: Explains and details the manufacturing processes used to make a wide variety of products. The list of biographies of a range of inventors is also included.

https://www.aerosociety.com/ (check out their webinars and online presentations)

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/aerospace/ - The Engineer is a great place to keep up with news in the Aerospace and Aviation industries

During your time as a postgraduate student, the following texts will prove useful:

Aircraft Flight R. H. Barnard & D. R. Philpott

Mechanics of Flight R. H. Barnard & D. R. Philpott

Prior to your arrival we’d like you to complete a little activity – there’ll even be a little prize for the best entry! We’d like you to produce a page or two that presents the most important future looking idea in Aeronautical Engineering you think will make the biggest impact in the next 20 years. You’ll need to explain WHY you have chosen it and explain why you think it will make such an impact. Maybe you think Electric or Solar flight are going to become the mainstay or maybe you’re really looking forward to autonomous passenger transport – we want to know how you think these ideas are going to impact our future!

For the first sessions in Welcome Week – it would be useful to bring a notepad and pen – while we’ll make sure you have access to any information you need – you might want to note a few things down. As you start your lectures and teaching then you’ll want to make sure you always bring a few things to your sessions. Pens and a notebook are a must, while you’ll find that always carrying a scientific calculator will mean that you’re always prepared.

Once enrolled, you will be able to download a range of software free of charge from the University.

Software link

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