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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 6,675 - ≈ € 17,950 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Cranfield / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Modern aircraft are a complex combination of aerodynamic performance, lightweight structures and systems engineering. Many technical challenges need to be balanced for an aircraft to economically achieve its Design Specification.
The MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design course prepares engineers to meet these challenges, and prepares them for careers in civil aviation, military aviation or academia.
You may choose one of the three options available. These are:
* Aircraft Design
* Avionic Systems Design
* Structural Design.
Excellent career prospects
This course prepares graduates for careers as project design engineers, systems design, structural design or avionic engineers in aerospace or related industries, with the aim of progressing to technical management/chief engineer. Typical student destinations include BAE Systems, Airbus, Dassault, Rolls-Royce.
Unique Group Design Project
A unique feature of this course is the extensive group design project. The aircraft conceptual design is performed by staff prior to the start of the course, when each student is given responsibility for the detail design of a significant part of the aircraft, for example, forward fuselage, or fuel system.
Learn from our experience
This course is founded upon the knowledge and experience gained by the Department of Aerospace Engineering, through its strong industrial links. Knowledge gained from our extensive research and consultancy activity is constantly fed back into the masters programme to ensure that you achieve a qualification that is valued by employers.
Study in an aerospace environment
This course is taught within an aerospace environment. Cranfield operates a commercial airport and the course includes flying experience with our bulldog aircraft, large aircraft flight simulator and Jetstream Flying Laboratory in which onboard monitors give students first-hand experience of the theory
Benefit from our reputation
Cranfield University has been at the forefront of postgraduate education in aerospace since 1946. We have a global reputation for our advanced postgraduate education, extensive research and applied continuing professional development. With 95% of Cranfield graduates securing relevant employment within six months of graduation, you can be sure that your qualification will be valued and respected by employers around the world.
Contents
The General Design course consists of three elements
* Around 240 hours of lectures selected from a wide range of topics to provide the particular experience required by the student.
* Participation with some 20-25 other students in the design of an aerospace project. Each student being responsible for a specific part of the design of an aerospace vehicle reflecting current interest and practice in industry.
* An individual piece of research. This may be theoretical and/or experimental and drawn from a range of topics related to the course and suggested by the staff, sponsor or students themselves. Members of staff are appointed as research supervisors for each student within a few days of the start of the academic year. There is a close relationship between student and supervisor, reflected by the average student/staff ratio of 8:1.
The major elements of the assessment are provided through submission of thesis on the Group Design Project and individual research work. This is supplemented by examination/assessment of other topics covered in the lecture material. A course option in Structural Design also exists.
This differs from the General Design option in that students follow lectures and perform research most relevant to that subject. Rather than participating in the Group Design Project a more extensive individual research topic is performed and examinations are taken on the lecture material.
Group Design ProjectWithin the Aerospace Vehicle Design course we have long taken the view that the knowledge, understanding and skills necessary for the practice of aircraft design are best acquired through interdisciplinary teaching and demanding application, rather than through a disjointed series of individually assessed modules. We have, as a consequence, offered for many years a course in which there has been full integration of engineering technology and aircraft design practice. Integrated teaching is, of course, more difficult to organise, and needs to be kept under constant review, but the students who have completed the course have achieved high levels of attainment which leads us to believe that the effort is worthwhile. As part of the continuous review process student opinion is an important element and great care is taken to ensure that the teaching given is appropriate to students needs.
The unique feature of the course is the extensive Group Design Project. The aircraft conceptual design is performed by staff prior to the start of the course, when each student is given responsibility for the detail design of a significant part of the aircraft, for example, forward fuselage, or fuel system. The knowledge gained from the lecture courses and visits are directly applied in the project, the theses of which comprise their assessment.
The group project lasts from October until the following May. The figure shows how the Group Design Project is operated to provide a Virtual Industrial Environment into which the students are immersed. Individual student progress is monitored through weekly group project meetings which are minuted. Any problems that are identified are raised at a weekly staff meeting and appropriate action taken.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
1st or 2nd class UK honours degree (or equivalent) in an engineering discipline. There is a limited opportunity for candidates with other qualifications to enter the course via a Preliminary Year, which provides the necessary level of knowledge of engineering principles applicable to aerospace design.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
Accreditation
The MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design has been accredited by the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Institute of Mechanical Engineers as contributing towards the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer.
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