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Aircraft Design (Option of Aerospace Vehicle Design) – (M.Sc.)
Cranfield University
School of Engineering
| Location: | Cranfield / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | March, October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Cranfield University
Course overview
A successful aircraft design project requires engineers to have both technical and team working skills. The Aircraft Design option will develop your abilities in these areas through our extensive group design project. The aim of the group design project is to provide students with a virtual industrial environment through which the knowledge and skills acquired from the taught course can be applied to a real aircraft design project. Each student is given the responsibility for the design of a significant part of the aircraft. Students work together and carry out individual tasks which the whole team is dependent on.
We will train you in the use of industry standard software such as CATIA and NASTRAN. Our rapid prototyping machine manufactures wind tunnel models from CATIA.
Contents
Structure
The Aircraft Design option has three components – taught modules, group design project and individual research project. Students benefit from a wide range of assessment methods including examinations, assignments, written thesis, peer review and presentations.
Taught modules
The taught modules cover many aspects of aircraft design, including structures, systems, aerodynamics, certification, reliability, manufacture and operations. Students take modules in:
· Computer Aided Design
· Stress Analysis, Composite Structures, Fracture Mechanics and Damage Tolerance, Sustaining Design (Structural Durability)
· Finite Element Analysis, Structural Dynamics, Aeroelasticity, Structural Stability
· Airframe Systems, Systems Development, Reliability, Safety Assessment and Certification
· Loading Actions, Aircraft Performance, Stability and Control
· Aircraft Conceptual Design
· Design for Manufacture, Operation and Maintainability
· Accident Investigation and Crashworthiness Power Plant Integration.
Individual Research Project
This provides students with the opportunity to study a problem related to aircraft design in more detail and add knowledge to the subject. Topics consist of conceptual design studies, and theoretical or experimental research into structures or systems disciplines. Some topics involve design and manufacture of sub-scale flying demonstrator aircraft. Other topics offer opportunities for collaboration with industry.
Assessment
Examinations, assignments, group project thesis and individual research project thesis.
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Requirements
Entry requirements
1st or 2nd class UK Honours degree or equivalent in an engineering discipline. Applicants who do not fulfil the standard entry requirements can apply for the Pre-Master's Course in Engineering, successful completion of which will qualify them for entry to this course for a second year of study.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 92 |
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