Learn to design future aircraft, race cars, rockets and satellites, and launch into an exciting engineering career. Our advanced courses cover advanced aerospace engineering including the design and manufacture of fast-moving aircraft and spacecraft.

This MEng degree looks at the science, engineering and manufacture of aircraft and spacecraft. You'll learn how they operate within our atmosphere and in space, as well as the economic, legal and environmental issues associated with them. Your degree will be aligned to the UK Space Agency Civil Space Strategy.

You’ll study the principles of aeronautical and astronautical engineering, then take more advanced modules. In your second year you can choose if you want to specialise your degree. In year 3 you will complete an individual research project. In year 4 you’ll take part in a group design project.

You’ll get hands-on experience in our extensive facilities, which include:

• dedicated student design studios and workshops
• the largest wind tunnel in any UK university
• state-of-the-art space propulsion facilities
• jet laboratory with supersonic ramjet, turbojet and rocket engine
• Boeing flight simulator
• professional manufacturing centre

As part of this astronautics and aeronautics integrated master's degree you can:

• take part in practical design modules in every year of your degree
• design, build and test aircraft, spacecraft and their wider components
• take part in a flight-testing course, on board a flying laboratory aircraft
• showcase your work in our annual Engineering Design Show
• attend site visits to experience engineering in practice

This degree will open the door to jobs for aerospace engineers and many other exciting career opportunities in the space industry, engineering and beyond, including:

• Aerospace engineer
• Pilot
• CFD simulation engineer
• Engineering consultant
• Performance and simulation engineer
• Propellor design engineer
• Spacecraft Propulsion Engineer
• UAV designer
• Race car designer
• Software and systems engineer

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

This course is accredited by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) as meeting the academic requirement, in part, for Chartered Engineer registration.