Aviation Engineering (with Foundation Year)

Reasons to choose Kingston

• This course aligns with the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK- SPEC) and meets the academic requirements for Incorporated Engineering (IEng) Membership of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS).

• You’ll be able to enhance your learning through an industrial placement with an approved employer.

• We have a successful history of providing graduates to the aviation industry, especially around Heathrow and Gatwick airports.

• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

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.

Example modules:
– Operations Research and Aviation Safety
– Aircraft Systems
– Aerospace Technology

To view the full list of modules, please visit the University course webpage.

Many instructional lectures have been replaced by active learning activities such as collaborative, problem-solving or enquiry-based learning workshops and tutorials. The assessment strategy has been designed to help students to learn and prepare them for employment, rather than just a tool to measure their learning. The assessment methods include exams, coursework and practical/laboratory works.