Aerospace Engineering with an Industrial Placement Year

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 hands-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.

This course is accredited by the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Why study this course?

Project-based learning: Our system of project-based learning integrates engineering science with practical projects. Throughout the programme you will design, build and fly complex air systems such as drones, rockets and quad planes. These realistic, open-ended problems will make you a better engineer and prepare you for industry.

Personalised, tailored education: As a large faculty with many academics, we offer a diverse selection of specialist and advanced optional modules, covering the world-leading research we do. You’ll also undertake an individual project giving you the freedom to explore possible solutions to real engineering problems, empowering you to shape your degree by selecting subjects aligned with your interests.

State-of-the-art facilities: 'Learning by doing' is the reason The Diamond was built. Dedicated to engineering, with a focus on developing practical engineering skills, this is where you’ll apply the theory you learn in lectures – consolidating your understanding alongside students from other disciplines, and beyond the bounds of the curriculum. There’s also the opportunity to operate and examine jet engine technologies.

Personal tutorials: From day one, your personal tutor will be your regular point of contact for both pastoral and academic support throughout your studies. The small group academic tutorial system strengthens the student-tutor bond and helps you to develop as an independent learner.

Vibrant student and staff community: Our excellent ‘student voice’ is consistently recognised and rated highly in the National Student Survey (NSS). Students are encouraged to be involved and have a say in their own education and to work together with staff to improve their aerospace engineering programmes.