What is Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering?
Aeronautical Engineering is a specialized engineering stream that deals with the designing, manufacturing, testing and maintenance of aircraft in commercial aviation and defense sectors. Unlike Aerospace Engineering, it concentrates on the flying vehicles functioning within the earth’s atmosphere and not in space. These flying vehicles include jet airplanes, military aircraft and helicopters.
Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering is one of the most challenging and demanding of engineering disciplines. It is the study of the mathematics, physics, computer science, materials science and design philosophy that goes into the analysis, design, manufacture and operation of aircraft and aerospace vehicles. Graduates from this programme can apply their skills in a number of areas including: research, airline management and operations, satellite operations and aerospace design, and manufacturing in general, civil and military environments. The global aerospace industry drives many future developments in science and technology. Why Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering at Leeds? When you come to Leeds you will be part of an Engineering school with a 5* research rating. This means you will benefit from the knowledge gained by our teaching staff who are at the forefront of research in engineering technology. These areas include: • aircraft structural analysis (making certain that eve
