Aircraft Engineering introductory year, foundation degree FdEng and top-up year BSc(Hons): Facilities

As none of these courses are delivered entirely at Kingston, you benefit from the facilities both here at the University and those at our partner institutions.

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;
• industry-standard test and experimental equipment for metrology, robotics, rapid prototyping, fatigue and quality control; and
• state-of-the-art computing facilities

The recently enlarged library at Roehampton Vale provides collections of specialist engineering books and journals.

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.