Course summary

A placement year will contextualise your academic studies, allowing you to experience first-hand the culture in industry, as well as making contacts and honing your professional skills. It will give you a distinct advantage in the job market upon graduation. With an integrated masters, launch your career with this five-year masters degree in aerospace engineering – gaining an advanced understanding of essential theories, and hands-on practice building and flying aircraft. Working with our leading academics, you’ll learn about propulsion, instrumentation, the computation and design of aerodynamics and aircraft control. By choosing to take an MEng, you’ll be taking a longer period of study with an integrated masters. We’ll teach you how to manage a project from start to finish, and how to communicate with people from a wide range of engineering disciplines. And of course you will gain the hand-on experience of flying and building aircraft. By taking an industrial placement year, you'll spend a year working in a placement, in which you earn a salary and have reduced fees. While placements are not guaranteed and are your responsibility to source, you’ll receive plenty of advice and support from our dedicated Industrial Placement Year team. Links with companies such as Rolls-Royce, Boeing and BAE make Sheffield the right choice if you want to do a placement year – and mean we have world-famous companies joining us on campus for employability fairs and networking sessions. Towards the end of your degree, you’ll decide whether to focus on avionic systems or aeromechanics, and complete an investigative project of your choice. This sets you up for a fourth year exploring your chosen path in greater detail. From space systems and space weather, to materials and manufacturing, Sheffield’s Aerospace Engineering MEng gives you the advanced skills and knowledge vital to a successful career. Why study this course?

• Top 5 for aeronautical and manufacturing engineering - as rated by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024. We're also the top Russell Group university in the National Student Survey (NSS) 2023.

• Learn to fly - gain flying experience either through our private pilot instruction courses or through our links with the Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron.

• State-of-the-art facility - access a high quality laboratory education in a unique and state-of-the-art facility, including the opportunity to operate and examine jet engine technologies.

• Real industry experience - we’ll help you find opportunities to study abroad, get industry experience and take part in a full portfolio of activities in air and space systems. Extra curricular activities also include entering national and international competitions.

• Global Engineering Challenge - join teams of students to solve engineering problems in developing countries – pushing you to develop you as a professional engineer and enhancing your career prospects.