Aeronautical Engineering course
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Besides getting up to speed with the core mathematics, a good revision of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics is essential as Genghis the Engineer has touched on! This is the basis for aerodynamics low and high speed and for propulsions as well. The basics I presume would be covered under a foundation year.
Education is very much delivered now through 'Problem Based Learning'. Much now is applying equations and theorems to solve a particular problem, rather than testing your knowledge on the actual Theory! However, this does vary between courses and universities.
Education is very much delivered now through 'Problem Based Learning'. Much now is applying equations and theorems to solve a particular problem, rather than testing your knowledge on the actual Theory! However, this does vary between courses and universities.
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i heard a few of you guys goin to Salford this september, good the hear that, im also goin to study at salford for aircraft engineering with pilot studies, sgbengineer which course are you on? Futureng your from cyprus?dont you need to go to the welcome week or fresher's week to get familiar with the uni?
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Enjoy Aero Eng element anyway, I graduated in 2003 as a mature student with previous CPL / IR and have been involved with Humanitarian Aid programmes in Central America then Africa ever since. MOST rewarding, not rich but almost certainly happy (and definitely suntanned) having chosen & sticking to the distribution of aid and medicine-supplies for a living.
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yes I have to go for welcome week. I will be there on 13th of September.So I will participate 14th's program. I still have problem on accommodation. roman757nose how is Salford's Education in these courses? aLso how is environment and what type of things you most dislike?
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Hi Futureng, BEST OF LUCK at Salford University.
From Day One you will meet some experts in their fields, but some Task Masters too even though at the end of the course you will be thanking all of them. Dr Y Noguchi may have retired now but if he hasn't (I graduated in 2003) I have never met a more conscientious Year Tutor; however in the modules he teaches / taught you are made to work hard for this gentleman who is / was the principal Royal Aeronautical Society contact and who could advise you from the cost of a Boeing 747-400ERF ($183m) to the purpose behind serrated-circular as opposed to standard-circular turbofan exhaust-outlets and the purposes served by both. Moving to Dr T Rahulan, an expert in all fields be prepared to work very hard to impress, however it is worth it in the end. Whatever you want to know about anything on the Boeing 747-400ERF aircraft as opposed to the standard B747-400 is known by Dr Rahulan; I thought extremely highly of him and still do so I hope you get to meet him. (N.B. Ask him about the "N.E. Rowe Awards" if you would like to take part in an interesting Year One challenge.) Dr A H Jones (who I asked you to say Hi to) wouldn't know a Boeing 747-400ERF from a B747-400 if either was to fly suspiciously low over Newton Building (at Salford Uni) but is both a brilliant Physicist and Mathematician rolled into one - you will find him very useful & he was Head of Department when I graduated.
GREATS : Ex-RAF Jet Provost aircraft airframe + powerplant in Newton Building which you will work with during laboratory exercises plus a full wind-tunnel testing facility.
NOT SO GREATS
: Advice to you is STICK to Pure Aero Engineering - in fact set yourself this goal on Day One: "Complete the course, using all available resources which you feel you need to with which to achieve this single aim." Do not become inclined towards any of the "Business Systems" BSc courses at Salford as I had friends on Aerospace Business Systems who had an appalling experience studying on that course!! Lecturers who knew nothing about aircraft let alone a Boeing 747-400ERF / B747-400 & how much either costs, plus no employment prospects in the Aerospace Industry upon graduation - one person did but three years later he is training to be a teacher having lost his sales-environment job. Another friend is a Museum Curator - says it all really. Appalling course taught by otherwise redundant teaching staff.
Stick to Pure Aero and set your goal; REMAIN DETERMINED from Day One. It will be worth it and if you need any advice then feel free to give me a shout 
. BEST OF LUCK!! 
GREATS
: Ex-RAF Jet Provost aircraft airframe + powerplant in Newton Building which you will work with during laboratory exercises plus a full wind-tunnel testing facility.NOT SO GREATS
: Advice to you is STICK to Pure Aero Engineering - in fact set yourself this goal on Day One: "Complete the course, using all available resources which you feel you need to with which to achieve this single aim." Do not become inclined towards any of the "Business Systems" BSc courses at Salford as I had friends on Aerospace Business Systems who had an appalling experience studying on that course!! Lecturers who knew nothing about aircraft let alone a Boeing 747-400ERF / B747-400 & how much either costs, plus no employment prospects in the Aerospace Industry upon graduation - one person did but three years later he is training to be a teacher having lost his sales-environment job. Another friend is a Museum Curator - says it all really. Appalling course taught by otherwise redundant teaching staff. Stick to Pure Aero and set your goal; REMAIN DETERMINED from Day One. It will be worth it
and if you need any advice then feel free to give me a shout . BEST OF LUCK!!
