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Old 9th Dec 2004, 15:57
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Genghis the Engineer
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Please trust me on this - you will not on an Engineering degree course find yourself complaining about not enough maths, it is the language in which Engineering is done and although the flavour will be different, you'll do at-least as much as you would on a maths degree.

On the other hand I can also guarantee that you will struggle on any engineering degree course - it's part of the territory and just something to be worked through.

As to a typical course content, the following is gratuitously copied from the online syllabus of one of the better universities offering aerospace Engineering.

Year 1 (all core units)
Aircraft Operations; Computing and Modelling; Design; Electrical Systems; Fluid Mechanics; Properties of Materials; Mathematics for Engineering Sciences; Mechanics; Mechanics of Solids; Mechanics of Flight;Thermodynamics; Aerospace Studies.

Year 2 (all core units)
Aerodynamics; Aerothermodynamics; Aircraft Structures; Aircraft Systems Design; Astronautics; Computing; Dynamics and Control; Materials; Mathematics for Engineering; Mechanics of Flight; Propulsion.

Year 3 (typical core units)
Aerospace Design; Structural Design; Applied Aerodynamics; Management; Individual Project;
Plus 8 units selected from Options List as below.

Year 4 (typical core units)
Group Design project; Plus 8 units selected from Options List below.

Options available:
Listing is for guidance only.
Most subjects count as 2 units, some choices are governed by a specialist theme.
Applied Aerodynamics; Astronautics, Aircraft Propulsion; Aircraft Structures, Aircraft Dynamics; Advanced Materials, Aerospace CFD; Avionics; Automobile Engineering; Biological Flows; Complex Variables; Compressible Flow; Electro-Mechanics Power Systems; Finite Element Analysis; Flow Control; French; German; Hypersonics & High Temperature Gas Dynamics; Human Factors in Engineering; Law for Engineers; Materials in Design Manufacture and Service; Numerical Methods; Operational Research; Optimisation; Partial Differential Equations; Powered Lift; Spacecraft Structural Design; Turbulence Physics and Experiment; Turbulence Simulation and Modelling.


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