G-BPEC
I am in my final year of Aero-eng at GLA uni. The reason I embarked upon the course was because I believed that I would be able to design and build an a/c from scratch using all the modern technology and if anything went wrong during a flight I would be able to solve it.
NO CHANCE!!
It provides you with the ability to be trained when you go into the aviation (engineering)industry. I learned far more about a/c when I did my PPL and far more about airlines and a/c engineering during my placement at BA than in my 4 years of aero-eng!!
looking back however, there is NO other course i would rather do. To hopefully have a BENG HONS in aero-eng behind me soon will be somthing i can keep all my life and there are some things in the course that are interesting. As long as you can handle the maths and physics of it you wont have a problem. It is a course that cannot be taken lightly - if you are wanting more than a degree out of uni then choose something else - but it certianly has gotten my foot in the door of the aviation Industry as i could use it as proof that i am serious about aviation.
hope that gives you some more insight - it is a valued degree and very much worth it in the end
