Civil Aviation and Aeronautics

The University of Southampton is one of the world’s leading entrepreneurial universities, with an impressive track record as a partner to business and the public sector, and as a source of invention and innovation. Find out how your business can benefit from our expertise in aerospace.

Our key focus areas include:

• Aerodynamics and flight mechanics
• Aerospace structural materials
• Astronautics
• Business processes
• Noise and vibration
• Tribology and friction, lubrication and wear
• Unmanned aerial aircraft and vehicle systems

Project partners

We have worked on projects with a wide range of organisations, including:

• Airbus
• BAE Systems
• Boeing
• Bombardier
• British Airways
• dstl
• Formula 1 racing teams
• Microsoft
• QinetiQ
• Rolls-Royce
• ThalesAlenia Space
• and many more