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Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering

Course code: 3275 + Course abbreviation: BAeroEng + Total credit points required: 192 + 4 years full-time, 8 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

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.

Course structure

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.

Course requirements

Level 2 of the program will be offered from 2006, level 3 from 2007 and level 4 of from 2008.

First year
Foundation units

Students who have not completed VCE units 3 and 4 of Chemistry or Physics and/or Specialist Mathematics should select one or two appropriate foundation units(s) from:

Electives

Select none, one or two units from:

Total: 48 points

Second year
  • ENG2091 Advanced engineering mathematics A
  • ENG2092 Advanced engineering mathematics B
  • MAE2400 Engineering materials (to be selected by students who have not completed ENG1050 at level 1) or MTE3541 Durability of materials (to be selected by students who have completed ENG1050)
  • MAE2401 Aircraft structures 1
  • MAE2402 Thermodynamics and heat transfer
  • MEC2401 Dynamics I
  • MEC2402 Engineering design I
  • MEC2404 Fluid mechanics I

Total: 48 points

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