Aerospace Engineering MSc: Facilities

There is a wide range of facilities for practical work at our Roehampton Vale campus, where this course is based. You will have access to a modern environment with the latest technology, including:

• a Learjet 25, providing a real-world environment for gaining practical engineering skills;
• the Merlin flight simulator – you can programme a mathematical model of your design into the simulator and then monitor the results;
• large-scale wind tunnels that enable testing in winds of up to 90 miles per hour; and
• industry-standard test and experimental equipment for metrology, robotics, rapid prototyping, fatigue and quality control.

We also have a dedicated postgraduate workroom with high spec PCs and a range of software. Computer-aided design facilities include:

• a range of CAD/CAM packages, such as Ideas, SolidWorks and AutoCad;
• finite element analysis
• computational fluid dynamics; and
• virtual instrumentation.

The recently enlarged library at Roehampton Vale provides collections of specialist engineering books and journals. The Graduate Centre, exclusively for postgraduate students, provides space for private study, meetings and socialising.

The £4 million Hawker Wing, which opened in December 2007, provides three floors of extra space for students and staff at Roehampton Vale, including improved learning and teaching facilities.