Aviation Engineering with Professional Placement

About this course This is an ideal degree for anyone considering an engineering career in aviation. It will prepare you to work in aircraft maintenance, airworthiness, aviation management, logistics, systems integration, design, support, manufacturing, and air transport economics.

Studies include aerodynamics, propulsion, structures and materials, analysis of structures using FEA & CAD, science and the performance of aircraft. Through practical work in laboratories and workshops, you will apply the engineering principles you learn.

This degree will also develop career skills such as effective communication, presenting, team-working, planning and project management.

Future Skills Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.

As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.

At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.

Career opportunities These include maintenance and licensed aircraft engineering, certification, quality assurance, logistics, planning, design, technical services, production and control engineering. Employers are often the military, civil aviation and aerospace companies.