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SESA2028 2027-28
Aerospace Materials & Structures
This second year module continues to develop the links between structures and materials, building on the fundamentals established in the first year course on mechanics, structures and materials. The relationship between composition, microstructure and properties of materials is linked to a deeper understanding of their structural performance. This assessment of structural performance is also developed through more advanced stress and deflection analyses for more complex engineering components and systems. This combination of approaches will strengthen the students’ understanding of the interplay between materials engineering and structural design. This module also develops the foundations for more advanced third year and fourth year modules in materials and solid mechanics. -
SESA2028 2026-27
Aerospace Materials & Structures
This second year module continues to develop the links between structures and materials, building on the fundamentals established in the first year course on mechanics, structures and materials. The relationship between composition, microstructure and properties of materials is linked to a deeper understanding of their structural performance. This assessment of structural performance is also developed through more advanced stress and deflection analyses for more complex engineering components and systems. This combination of approaches will strengthen the students’ understanding of the interplay between materials engineering and structural design. This module also develops the foundations for more advanced third year and fourth year modules in materials and solid mechanics. -
SESA2027 2027-28
Aerospace Mechanics & Control
This module introduces the fundamental concepts of aerospace mechanics and control including modelling, motion analysis, stability, characteristic motion response as well as design of control systems for aerospace vehicles.
The main focus is on the three main components of a closed-loop control system:
- dynamic systems, presenting their definition, as well as tools to analyse their response and stability characteristics;
- control systems, formally introducing them and concentrating on their design as well as how they can be used to modify the stability characteristics of a dynamic system;
- and sensing systems, overviewing their different types and working principles, basic design/selection criteria and their impact on the stability characteristics of a dynamic system.
Throughout the module control design strategies to deal with uncertainty in both the dynamic and the sensing system are covered. -
SESA2027 2026-27
Aerospace Mechanics & Control
This module introduces the fundamental concepts of aerospace mechanics and control including modelling, motion analysis, stability, characteristic motion response as well as design of control systems for aerospace vehicles.
The main focus is on the three main components of a closed-loop control system:
- dynamic systems, presenting their definition, as well as tools to analyse their response and stability characteristics;
- control systems, formally introducing them and concentrating on their design as well as how they can be used to modify the stability characteristics of a dynamic system;
- and sensing systems, overviewing their different types and working principles, basic design/selection criteria and their impact on the stability characteristics of a dynamic system.
Throughout the module control design strategies to deal with uncertainty in both the dynamic and the sensing system are covered. -
ELEC2304 2026-27
Aerospace Simulation and Modelling
This module introduces some advanced programming, simulation and design modelling frameworks and tools. Teaching activities are a combination of taught sessions, expanded self-study supported by the Professional Skills Hub and practical hands-on sessions in computer laboratories. The tools and techniques studied in this module are also used in the companion design module in practical hands-on applications.
For Aerospace Electronics students, the analogue relationship between aerospace and electronic systems are explored, enabling electronic circuit problems, aerospace and mechanical systems to be treated in the same framework. Efficient approaches to represent, simulate and analyse dynamics systems are developed and applied. Modelling, analysis and programming techniques are also introduced to understand, simulate and visualise such dynamic systems. -
ELEC2304 2027-28
Aerospace Simulation and Modelling
This module introduces some advanced programming, simulation and design modelling frameworks and tools. Teaching activities are a combination of taught sessions, expanded self-study supported by the Professional Skills Hub and practical hands-on sessions in computer laboratories. The tools and techniques studied in this module are also used in the companion design module in practical hands-on applications.
For Aerospace Electronics students, the analogue relationship between aerospace and electronic systems are explored, enabling electronic circuit problems, aerospace and mechanical systems to be treated in the same framework. Efficient approaches to represent, simulate and analyse dynamics systems are developed and applied. Modelling, analysis and programming techniques are also introduced to understand, simulate and visualise such dynamic systems. -
SESA2031 2027-28
Aerospace Structures
This second-year module continues to develop the essential concepts of aerospace structures and their mechanical behaviour, building on the fundamentals established in the first-year courses on Aerospace materials and Statics & dynamics. This module deals with the structural performance for complex, yet practically-relevant aerospace engineering components and systems under bending, torsion, shear and buckling effects. Structural elements will be considered beyond one-dimensional beam-like elements, such as mechanics of plates and laminated composite structures. Failure and fatigue analyses will be covered for structures made of brittle and ductile aerospace structural components. The students will further be introduced to the emerging concepts of structural health monitoring and non-destructive testing and evaluation. The topics covered in this module will strengthen the students’ understanding of the interplay among mechanics, materials and structures for aircraft and spacecraft structural designs, which are offered as third year modules. -
SESA3029 2025-26
Aerothermodynamics
Aerothemodynamics is essential to the design of high speed flight vehicles (in this context high speed refers to anything above about Mach 0.3). The subject integrates thermodynamics and fluid mechanics concepts to cover the fundamentals of compressible flow, along with applications to external and internal aerodynamics. -
SESA3029 2026-27
Aerothermodynamics
Aerothemodynamics is essential to the design of high speed flight vehicles (in this context high speed refers to anything above about Mach 0.3). The subject integrates thermodynamics and fluid mechanics concepts to cover the fundamentals of compressible flow, along with applications to external and internal aerodynamics. -
SESA3029 2027-28
Aerothermodynamics
Aerothemodynamics is essential to the design of high speed flight vehicles (in this context high speed refers to anything above about Mach 0.3). The subject integrates thermodynamics and fluid mechanics concepts to cover the fundamentals of compressible flow, along with applications to external and internal aerodynamics.