Advances in Spacecraft Engineering are creating the opportunity for us to explore further than ever before. Our Space Engineering Masters course provides the skills and knowledge you need to significantly enhance your career prospects in this growing sector, by developing your abilities in spacecraft engineering.

This new programme provides a postgraduate qualification in spacecraft engineering, covering the full life cycle of space missions. Through the use of lectures, practical laboratories, group activities and individual projects students will develop a broad range of skills and knowledge to support industrial, defense, and scientific applications within this growing sector.

The programme aims

To equip you with advanced scientific knowledge, concepts and skills necessary for a research or technology development career in spacecraft engineering, with particular focus on the space environment and its hazards and mitigation, and materials and manufacturing for space applications.

To provide you with the opportunity to carry out individual research project work in spacecraft technology and engineering, to acquire the generic research skills necessary to engage in future research or study and to enable you to report research outcomes to an audience.

To produce graduates with broad knowledge and research skills of spacecraft technology and engineering, hence prepare students for further academic study and/or industrial employment.

Employability:

This course meets the industrial demand for the training and education of both existing and future engineers in the advanced concepts of Spacecraft engineering.

It aims to produce graduates of the highest calibre who will be much in demand due to their skills, knowledge and ability to lead in teams involved designing, manufacturing, deploying and controlling equipment in space.

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