MSc Aerospace Engineering

Year 1

(Award available for year: Master of Science)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme students should:
- have a clear understanding of the core aerospace engineering subjects (aerodynamics, structures, flight mechanics) and to demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of concepts, information and techniques at the forefront of the discipline;
- demonstrate a more in depth understanding in a number of specialised areas relevant to aerospace engineering.
- have an awareness of the industrial landscape of the aerospace industry.
- have a specialised expertise relevant to the aerospace industry (and typically based on the Individual Project)
- to take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others;
- proactively to formulate ideas and hypotheses and to develop, implement and execute plans by which to evaluate these;
- critically and creatively to evaluate current issues, research and advanced scholarship in the discipline.

Transferable (key) skills

Masters (Taught), Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in industry (with the focus on engineering) or area of professional practice;
- evaluating their own achievement;
- self direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
- independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
- critically to engage in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.

Assessment

Achievement for the degree of Master (taught programme) will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:
- evidencing an ability to conduct independent in-depth enquiry within a range of Aerospace Engineering disciplines;
- demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area (as assessed in the Professional Project);
- evaluating and criticising received opinion;
- make reasoned judgements and engineering approximations whilst understanding the limitations on theory and analysis in the absence of complete data.