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MSc

Aviation Engineering and Management

Prepare yourself for a career in the aerospace industry. Gain relevant expertise and get hands-on with state-of-the-art facilities at USW.

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Key Course Details

  • Start Date

    February

  • Location

    Pontypridd

  • Campus Code

    A

Fees

  • Start Date

    September

  • Location

    Pontypridd

  • Campus Code

    A

Fees

  • International students

    £16,900*

  • Start Date

    September

  • Location

    Pontypridd

  • Campus Code

    A

Fees

In this course, you'll hone problem-solving skills for the aviation sector, understanding industry challenges through diverse modules. Learn tools and research methods to address real-world aviation issues. With commercial aircraft numbers expected to double in 20 years, our MSc Aviation Engineering and Management equips you for industry success.

DESIGNED FOR

Design to build on students' existing academic and professional expertise. Aimed at people aspiring to lead areas in aviation. The course will prepare students for the next stage in their careers, whether that is further study at doctoral level, or improving their career prospects at senior technical and management level.

Career Paths

  • Aircraft maintenance planner
  • Aircraft quality engineer
  • Operations manage
  • Maintenance manager
  • Project Manager

Skills taught

  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Analytical skills

Course Highlights

Professionally Recognised

Collaborative Learning

Students are encouraged to actively collaborate to learn and solve engineering problems using knowledge and expertise that may be interdisciplinary.

Graduate Diversity

The course aims at producing graduates well suited to a wider array of opportunities in areas of aviation beyond aircraft maintenance.

Research Opportunities

The course enables students to learn how to conduct research using appropriate research methods. Most of the course is composed of structured learning activities.

Module Overview

The MSc Aviation Engineering and Management course has eight modules emphasising ethical decision-making and interpersonal relations. Enhancing personal and professional growth, it makes students more employable. The course equips students with transferable skills and expertise for leadership in technical and managerial roles, addressing complex engineering challenges creatively.

Aircraft Management and Operations
This module will help you develop a critical awareness of the aircraft life cycle and the associated legislation that ensures that new designs achieve high levels of reliability and inherent sustainability. 

Human Engineering
You will be encouraged to critically analyse and evaluate safety management systems, organisation safety and human performance in the aviation industry.

Lean Maintenance Operations and Certification
Learners will develop and understand concepts in Six Sigma, lean maintenance, operational research, reliability centred maintenance and maintenance planning. You will evaluate and critically analyse processes within highly regulated industries.

Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering Management
Learners will develop the ability to critically analyse the Principles and Implementation of the Safety, Health and Environmental Management within the workplace. Also understand the role of stakeholder involvement in sustainable development.

Professional Engineering Management
Learners will develop the skills to critically analyse leadership and management theories and how these shape the effectiveness of an organisation.

Research Methods for Engineers
Support students to determine the most appropriate methods to collect, analyse and interpret information relevant to an area of engineering research.

Condition Monitoring Techniques
You will evaluate the use of condition monitoring and non-destructive testing tools in different situations within industry and make recommendations on necessary adjustments.

Individual Project
You will undertake a substantial piece of investigative research work on an appropriate engineering topic and further develop your skills in research, critical analysis and development of solutions using appropriate techniques.

Lean Maintenance Operations and Certification
Learners will develop and understand concepts in Six Sigma, lean maintenance, operational research, reliability centred maintenance and maintenance planning. You will evaluate and critically analyse processes within highly regulated industries.

Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering Management
Learners will develop the ability to critically analyse the Principles and Implementation of the Safety, Health and Environmental Management within the workplace. Also understand the role of stakeholder involvement in sustainable development

Professional Engineering Management
Learners will develop the skills to critically analyse leadership and management theories and how these shape the effectiveness of an organisation.

Aircraft Management and Operations
This module will help you develop a critical awareness of the aircraft life cycle and the associated legislation that ensures that new designs achieve high levels of reliability and inherent sustainability.

Human Engineering
You will be encouraged to critically analyse and evaluate safety management systems, organisation safety and human performance in the aviation industry.

Research Methods for Engineers
Support students to determine the most appropriate methods to collect, analyse and interpret information relevant to an area of engineering research.

Condition Monitoring Techniques
You will evaluate the use of condition monitoring and non-destructive testing tools in different situations within industry and make recommendations on necessary adjustments.

Individual Project
You will undertake a substantial piece of investigative research work on an appropriate engineering topic and further develop your skills in research, critical analysis and development of solutions using appropriate techniques.

Course Highlights

How you'll learn

Teaching
You will be taught through a variety of lectures, tutorials and practical laboratory work. On average you can expect to be in classroom-based activities for around 12 hours per week, you will also need to devote around 30 hours per week to self-study.


Assessment
You will be assessed through a range of methods, these include examinations, coursework such as individual written reports or group work. You can also expect to be assessed by completing a group or individual presentation. The dissertation allows you to research a specific aviation engineering topic, to illustrate your critical awareness and problem-solving skills.

Teaching staff

The staff that deliver the modules have a breadth of expertise in their subject areas.

Some have developed this expertise through high quality research. The research areas are international in their scope whilst also having a relevance locally, often working with
international companies that operate locally.

Others have developed their expertise through successful careers in industry and are now using that knowledge to teach and prepare the students for their own careers.
This blend of backgrounds represented in the academic staff give a breadth to the student experience and develops them technically and professionally.

Facilities

The University has invested £3.3m in its aerospace facilities, including a two-storey
Aerospace Centre extension, offering engineering students 1,000m2 of workshop and lab space, two aircraft hangars, and a MP521 flight simulator.
The Centre houses a Jetstream 31 aircraft, gas turbine maintenance, riveting, hand tool, and welding workshops. Additionally, it features clean and dirty composite workshops, labs for electronic tasks, avionics, hydraulics, and pneumatics. Sub-sonic wind tunnels facilitate aerodynamic instruction.
The Merlin MP521 simulator, programmable for any aircraft type, is pivotal in design testing and flight test preparation.

Careers and Employability

Graduate careers

Aerospace engineering is an area where demand exceeds supply. As a highly skilled
professional in aircraft maintenance engineering, you will be well placed to gain
employment in this challenging industry. The aircraft industry is truly international,
so there is demand not only in the UK, but throughout the world.
Careers available after graduation include aircraft maintenance planning, engineering, materials, quality assurance or compliance, technical services, logistics, NDT, process technical engineering, aircraft or engine leasing, aircraft fleet management, aviation safety, reliability and maintainability, operations and planning, airworthiness, technical support, aircraft surveying, lean maintenance, certification, production planning and control.

Possible career paths

You may have a clear career path that you are aiming for, and we can help you get there. On the other hand, you may still be unsure about the direction you wish to take and that’s why our lecturers, industrial contacts and careers services will want to talk to about these opportunities.
It’s an exciting time to be an Aviation Engineer – the world is facing some major challenges and we are at the forefront of developing solutions to many of these.

Careers support

Our careers service offers a range of advice and guidance to students. We can link you up with industry, we can help you with interview skills and CVs and help you to focus on your own direction of travel.

Innovation Hub at USW

A student observes a robot arm with a claw on the end on a desk while sat at a computer at the Innovation Hub in an engineering workshop at the Treforest campus

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Typical qualification requirements:

A minimum 2:2 Honours degree in a related engineering discipline e.g.  Aircraft Maintenance Engineering, Aircraft Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering with relevant Aircraft experience,  Electrical & Electronic Engineering with relevant Aircraft experience

or if you are an EASA licensed engineer with five years relevant industrial experience and relevant academic qualification.

International applications welcomed:

We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence please view our dedicated country pages.

English language requirements

International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.

Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.

If you have previously studied through the medium of English IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.

If you do not meet the English entry criteria please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.

Contextual offers

We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.

USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.

 

We're here to help

Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch and we'd to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.

 

Fees and Funding

International Full-time Fee

£16,900

per year*
International Full-time Fee

£16,900

per year*

Further Information

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.  We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

 

Fees and Funding Scholarships and Busaries Alumni Discount

Additional Costs

As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.

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University Quality Assurance

At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.

If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.

How to apply

There is an online application process for this course. Please choose the application form for your preferred start date and mode of study (i.e. full-time or part-time).

International admissions

Please see our international admissions advice for further information about how to apply as a prospective international student.

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