Course code: 3275 + Course abbreviation: BAeroEng + Total credit points required: 192 + 4 years full-time, 8 years part-time
On-campus (Clayton)
This
course will focus on aerodynamics, aerospace materials, aerospace structures,
propulsion and aerospace instrumentation and control. This will be complemented
by a major emphasis on design, which will be taught with a project-based
focus.
Students will acquire knowledge in the core disciplines underpinning aerospace
engineering and incorporate this into the design of systems and components for
the aerospace industry. They will be able to formulate problems, propose
innovative solutions, analyse the technical and other aspects of these and make
decisions about the preferred option. This will necessarily involve working in
multidisciplinary teams learning through guided practice, how to handle such
situations. Current industry practice and guidance on professional issues such
as ethics, legal, environmental and safety issues will also be covered along
with an understanding of the role of the aerospace industry in a wider, global
context. They will develop a range of management skills, including project
management and will gain a perspective on the rapid change of the industry,
which will illustrate the need to engage in lifelong learning.
Level
1 of this new program will be offered from 2005 onwards. Level 2 of the program
will be offered from 2006, level 3 from 2007 and level 4 from 2008.
Level 1 includes the basic sciences such as mathematics, physics and chemistry,
combined with one introductory aerospace engineering unit.
The core discipline areas of aerospace engineering include: aerodynamics,
propulsion, materials, structures, avionics/control, design and
dynamics/mechanics. In each of these areas, the course has a unit that lays the
foundations of the discipline at level 2, followed by an advanced unit that
provides a significant engineering practice component at level 3. For the most
part, the second unit at level 3 is a terminal unit in the discipline but there
are integrative units in level 4 that further build on or complement these
terminal discipline units.
At level 4 the orientation is towards professional and project-based units.
There is also an inter-faculty elective and two electives drawn from across the
faculty.
Students should refer to 'Course map 11 - Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering' at the back of this section for an outline of the course requirements for this program.
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