Aircraft Design option - MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design

To design modern efficient aircraft requires a complex combination of aerodynamic performance, lightweight durable structures and advanced systems engineering. This specialist MSc Aerospace Vehicle Design option explores how different structural and systems elements can be designed and integrated using up-to-date methods and techniques. This option is suitable for those students wishing to gain an overview of the whole aircraft design process as well as the design of aircraft structures and systems. This Aircraft Design option aims to provide a comprehensive overview of whole aircraft configuration design as well as structures and systems. A holistic teaching approach is taken to explore how the individual elements of an aircraft can be designed and integrated using up-to-date methods and techniques. You will learn to understand how to select and integrate specific systems such as fuel systems, and their effect on the aircraft as a whole.

A UK first or upper second class undergraduate degree with honours, as a minimum, or equivalent international qualification. Ideally applicants will have studied in an engineering discipline.