Aims to develop students’ understanding and engagement with leadership, performance and purpose within an industrial context, building a crucial foundation upon with to build their future career as senior engineers and decision makers.

Aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary for proposing and undertaking a research project. The module will develop competencies required to research and critically review the literature within the academic environment, provide students with the skills and tools to present themselves and their work in a professional setting, and enable critical reflection of their performance within the principles of academic integrity.

Against the background of international commitments on atmospheric emissions, diminishing fossil fuel resources, renewable energy systems deployment and the liberalisation of energy markets, this module examines sustainable options for energy production, supply and consumption. The aim is to give students an understanding of current trends in the energy market, and to enable a critical evaluation of emerging ideas, technologies and policies especially in relation to new and renewable energy supply systems.

This module aims to cover a range of advanced materials manufacturing techniques that are either widely used or emerging in industry. Techniques include Additive Layer Manufacturing, Electron Beam Welding, Superplastic Forming and advanced machining approaches. In addition, non-destructive evaluation techniques to ensure high levels of manufacturing integrity will be described. Sustainability, energy use and economic aspects will be explored through Life Cycle Analysis methodologies.

Complex fluid flow and heat transfer problems are central to many advanced fluid engineering systems often at the cutting-edge of modern engineering. These include human biological flows, multiphase flows, micro- and nano- scale flows. In all of these our physical understanding is limited, which limits our engineering design ability. This class gives students the opportunity to identify and explore a number of advanced topics in heat transfer and fluid flow.

Aims to advance students’ understanding of solid mechanics and dynamics, enabling them to apply complex theoretical principles, analytical techniques, and simulation tools to tackle challenging engineering problems. Students will enhance their skills in modelling and analysing materials under a range of loading conditions, while emphasising responsible and sustainable engineering practices. The capability to model complex dynamic systems, ensuring structural integrity, safety, and compliance with professional standards will be developed.

This module provides students with an understanding of the operation of modern electrical power systems featuring renewable and low carbon generation, along with the techniques to undertake a basic technical analysis of key electrical devices and systems.

This module provides an understanding of the theoretical and operational principles underlying simulation modelling of energy supply and demand systems and their environmental impact. The emphasis is on practical computer lab-based modelling exercises. It covers detailed energy system simulation, supply-demand matching, energy management and monitoring.

This module aims to impart an understanding of the underpinning theoretical principles and practical calculation methods for analysis of energy systems and an appreciation of how these systems are integrated in practical applications. Emphasis is on heat transfer and thermodynamic cycles. The underlying principles and analysis methods are appropriate for both renewable and non-renewable energy systems.

This module aims to develop an understanding of the degradation processes that are responsible for eventual inservice destruction of metals and alloys. The module will focus on the fundamental mechanisms and prevention strategies related to corrosion, erosion and corrosive wear.

This module aims to develop and build upon a fundamental knowledge of materials science that underpins the design of engineering systems. The microscopic and atomic structure of different classes of materials are studied in relation to their macroscopic behaviour and material properties. This class will review these relationships and impart the learner with an appreciation of how these structures determine a material’s applications and the design of manufacturing processes.

The promise claimed for new materials in engineering is most likely to be realised through the use of composites and ceramics. This class aims to give a basic understanding of modern composite materials and an appreciation of predictive modelling and design implications when composites are applied to engineering structures. The main composite manufacturing processes will be outlined.

This module aims to provide an overview of spaceflight systems. An overview of the complete spacecraft lifecycle from objectives, through launch and operations is covered, along with the function and purpose of the spacecraft subsystem level components. In addition to the technical detail of spaceflight systems, the importance of ancillary skill sets is introduced such as project management.

Students will develop an understanding of applied industrial metallurgy. Topics include material selection, properties of metals and alloys, characterisation methods, welding engineering, heat treatment and degradation processes.

This class is designed to provide students with an understanding of available satellite datasets, their characteristics, processing and visualisation methods and tools, descriptive analytics methods. The class is designed to provide theoretical foundations as well as hands-on exercises.

This module introduces physical concepts and mathematical models of compressible aerodynamics in the supersonic regime. These principles are then applied to explain the characteristics and performance of canonical shapes of supersonic air-vehicles.

Aims to provide an advanced understanding of aircraft dynamics and control system design. The module introduces state-space methods for aircraft modelling and analysis, followed by modern control theory principles and their application to flight control systems.

Aims to develop the students' ability to apply analytical techniques to the solution of engineering problems where both the structural integrity and weight considerations are critical. This includes the use of lightweight materials and the effective geometric arrangement of that material. 

Aims to provide students with the knowledge and design skills required for the establishment and control of habitable artificial environments in buildings, air and spacecraft. This will include learning about requirements for life support, the human thermoregulatory system and thermal comfort, control of contaminants and biohazards such as Legionella and Covid-19, psychometry and environmental control systems – heating, cooling and air conditioning.

This module aims to provide core knowledge of nuclear power plant engineering and to develop a critical awareness of the nuclear basics, reactor basics, reactor operation and design, waste disposal, and key issues relating to health and safety.

In this part of the course, students undertake supervised, individual project work, with the award of MSc being made on the basis of an acceptable thesis submission.