Hello!!!
I am in my first year of Aeromechanical Systems Engineering at Cranfield University. There isn't as much 'plane-talk' as most of use would like (well infact, we haven't even seen anything as such-just a few planes in the hangers, and a few helicopters landing on the field). We have been assured that aviation will form some of this degree though!
The first year runs a par with the mechanical engineering degrees and parts of the electrical engineering degrees. Suppose we have to start with the basics though.
At this place, they really like design; -although it is only one module, one particular lecturer gives us obseen amounts of work to be done using AutoCAD - pretty much the evil of all evil-you can spend 6 hours on his work and you'll still only get 3/10 !!!
As others have said, there is a lot to do on these Aero. degrees (they are all the same with just different names really) and we certainly don't get as much free time as anyone else.
If you intend doing any engineering degree, make sure your Maths is up to scratch-there is a lot of it.
Best of luck
Jason
