MSc(Eng) Aerospace Materials

Comments about MSc(Eng) Aerospace Materials - At the institution - Sheffield - South Yorkshire

• Objectives
  -In-depth technical knowledge and advanced expertise in your chosen materials field -Excellent analytical and research skills -Enhanced project planning and management capabilities and experience.
• Entry requirements
  Entry requirements Honours degree or equivalent in materials, metallurgy, chemistry or a related engineering or science subject from an approved institution. Applicants whose first language is not English are required to take a suitable test, e.g. IELTS minimum score 6.5 (with a minimum of 6 in each component); TOEFL, minimum score 575, plus a score of 4.5 in the Test of Written English, or minimum of 232 in the computer-based TOEFL.
• Academic title
  MSc(Eng) Aerospace Materials
• Course description
  Course content
  
  Modules common to all courses:
  
  -Advanced laboratory techniques
  -X-ray diffraction techniques
  -Electron optics
  -Thermal methods
  -Transferable, computing and library skills
  -Individual research project.
  
  Additional course-specific modules
  
  -Advanced Materials and Manufacturing for Aerospace
  -Degradation and Protection for Aerospace
  -Composites in Service
  -Aerospace Structural Metallic Materials
  -High Temperature Materials for Aerospace
  -Composites Manufacturing
  -Structural Integrity for Engineering Materials.
  
  Teaching
  Lectures, laboratory practicals, problems classes, individual research project.
  
  Assessment
  Most modules are assessed by written examination but there is some continuous assessment associated with specific modules. This may include essays on specialised topics or problems exercises. All students produce a 15,000-word dissertation based on their individual research project, which may be experimentally, theoretically or industrially based.
  
  Industrially-based research topics are normally suggested by an industrial organisation, and may involve close co-operation with that organisation

Other programs related to engineering and material sciences