MEng/BEng Aerospace Materials – UCAS Codes: H403/H401
Innovation within the aerospace industry is becoming increasingly dependent on the use of new materials. The ever greater demands placed upon materials and the use of novel materials in progressively more aggressive environments means that there is a need for graduate engineers who are specifically trained for employment within the aerospace sector, and who are conversant in the latest materials and processing technologies. In addition to specialised materials knowledge, the aerospace industry needs graduates with a strong background in aerostructural engineering, design and environmental science, who can appreciate and respond to the demands that will increasingly be placed upon the sector in coming years.
Our four-year MEng and three-year BEng Aerospace Materials degree programmes are specifically aimed at producing engineers who can fulfil all these criteria. Uniquely, our programmes give you the opportunity to study specifically aerospace materials-focused modules from the start of Year 1.
A key feature of the MEng programme is the five-month industrial placement in the aerospace engineering sector at Level 3. This will reinforce the subjects you are taught while developing the key transferable skills that employers want.
Both the MEng and BEng programmes are intended to provide you with an effective route into a management role in industry or research. These are new courses (offered for the first time from September 2007), but we anticipate that our graduates will go on to successful careers throughout the UK and the international community in aerospace-related industries, as well as in academia or research institutes. They will typically work at the interface between pure science and engineering. They will be involved in the development of new materials, or new technologies for making or enhancing the properties of existing materials.
These courses are part of a portfolio of Aerospace Engineering degrees offered by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sheffield. You can find out more about the other programmes in this portfolio below.