Studying What universities for studying Aerospace Engineering in UK?

[user079622]

I find that Oxford and Cambrige dont have aerospace engineering, only mechanical engineering/pathway aerospace.
What do you think about that or is better to study "pure" aerospace?

What university do you suggest?
Also I checked that subjects are very different at each university.. I checked Southamptone, Bristol, Imperial

 

[berkeman]

What specialties are you interested in so far in Aerospace Engineering? What magazines/journals in that field do you read regularly?

More importantly, have you done the Google search yet?

 

[user079622]

@berkeman

Yes I do google search, I find Oxford and Cambrige dont have aerospace eng. they have mechanical eng./pathway aerospace. I think this is not ok...
I find Bristol, Southampton, Imperial...now I am checking their subjects..

I have interest in aerodynamics of wind turbine, race car and production cars , sailing AC cup, felxibile aerodynamics, wind tunnels etc I am not interested in aviation.

 

[berkeman]

I have interest in aerodynamics of wind turbine, race car and production cars , sailing AC cup, felxibile aerodynamics, wind tunnels etc I am not interested in aviation.

Thank you, that is good to know. It would seem that with the specialties you listed, finding a university with access to good wind tunnels would be a good thing. Pardon me for posting another Google search (you may have done it already), but it seems helpful:

I'll also page @boneh3ad even though I don't think he's in the UK. I believe he has lots of experience with this kind of research and work.

 

[boneh3ad]

Thank you, that is good to know. It would seem that with the specialties you listed, finding a university with access to good wind tunnels would be a good thing. Pardon me for posting another Google search (you may have done it already), but it seems helpful:

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I'll also page @boneh3ad even though I don't think he's in the UK. I believe he has lots of experience with this kind of research and work.

I'm not in the UK and I'm primarily a high-speed aerodynamics person. So, while I have a fair bit of familiarity with wind tunnels in Europe, it's mostly the high speed variety that are exclusively aviation.

When I think of schools in the UK that do good fluid dynamics/aerodynamics work, the ones that come to mind off the top of my head are Imperial College, Cambridge, Oxford, Southampton, and Cranfield. That list is by no means exhaustive, I'm sure, and I can't vouch for how much they dabble in the specific topics of interest to @user079622.

 

[CrysPhys]

@berkeman

Yes I do google search, I find Oxford and Cambrige dont have aerospace eng. they have mechanical eng./pathway aerospace. I think this is not ok...
I find Bristol, Southampton, Imperial...now I am checking their subjects..

I have interest in aerodynamics of wind turbine, race car and production cars , sailing AC cup, felxibile aerodynamics, wind tunnels etc I am not interested in aviation.

I'm puzzled. If you're not interested in aviation, why are you so keen on specifically pursuing an aerospace engineering degree?

 

[boneh3ad]

I'm puzzled. If you're not interested in aviation, why are you so keen on specifically pursuing an aerospace engineering degree?

All of the topics he mentioned are commonly found in jobs held by aerospace engineers since they all involve external aerodynamics. Doing mechanical engineering with an aerodynamics course as an elective would seemingly be just as good in this case, though.

 

[CrysPhys]

All of the topics he mentioned are commonly found in jobs held by aerospace engineers since they all involve external aerodynamics. Doing mechanical engineering with an aerodynamics course as an elective would seemingly be just as good in this case, though.

Precisely. But in an aerospace engineering curriculum, those topics would be focused on applications in the aviation field, correct? Whereas, the OP states that, although he is specifically not interested in applications in the aviation field, he is insistent on an aerospace engineering curriculum:

Yes I do google search, I find Oxford and Cambrige dont have aerospace eng. they have mechanical eng./pathway aerospace. I think this is not ok...

That's what has me puzzled.

 

[boneh3ad]

Precisely. But in an aerospace engineering curriculum, those topics would be focused on applications in the aviation field, correct? Whereas, the OP states that, although he is specifically not interested in applications in the aviation field, he is insistent on an aerospace engineering curriculum:
That's what has me puzzled.

And that's fair, but most mechanical curricula don't cover much external flow unless a student takes an aero elective. Which is fine but not obvious to a lot of students.

 

[user079622]

I'm puzzled. If you're not interested in aviation, why are you so keen on specifically pursuing an aerospace engineering degree?

Because I am not interested at electrics, electronics, machines, engineering laws etc that you have on mech. engineering, indeed this study have very little subjects about aerodynamics..

Here you can compare subjects , at the bottom in pdf
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/aeronautics-astronautics-degree-meng

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/mechanical-engineering-aerospace-engineering-degree-meng