Master's Degree in SPACE and AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
Start date, language and duration
- Start date: September
- Duration: One academic year (9 months)
- Credits: 60 ECTS
- Language of instruction: English
Timetable and delivery
- Full time
- Mornings (Core modules)
- Afternoons (elective modules)
- Delivery: Face to face
Fees and funding
- Master's fee: 3.147 € (4.720 € UE non-residents).
- More information about tuition fees and payment.
- More information about scholarships and grants.
Official Degree
- Quality certification in progress.
Why this Master's?
The development of faster and more efficient aircrafts and spacecrafts, the optimization of the air transport and airports management for adapting to the rapid growth of the sector, or the innovation in the materials or the propulsive systems are just a few of the possibilities which an Aerospace Engineer could have a career in.
The Aerospace Industry evolves significantly day by day and this growth requires vast teams of engineers with a huge creative capacity, working hard to find optimal solutions to great challenges. Most of our Master's students find a job even before finishing their studies.
The Master's Degree in Space and Aeronautical Engineering aims to fulfill part of this demand, forming competent young professionals prepared to start a successful career in different fields of Aerospace. The University offers seminars, workshops, visits and individual and group research projECTS to reinforce the theoretical learning.
- CFD Seminars
- Visits to IBERIA Hangar
- Aerospace Laboratories
- Flight simulator course (among others)
Programme
Course Structure
The course is divided into two semesters (Sept. to January, and Feb. to June), organized as follows:
| 5 ECTS | 25 ECTS | |
| 1st Period | 205001 Computational Engineering | Elective Courses |
| 10 ECTS | 6 ECTS | 14 ECTS | |
| 2nd Period | Research and Aerospace Project Management | Elective Courses* | Master's Thesis |
*This is the recommended structure for elective courses. However, the student can decide to change the distribution of this elective courses along the academic year as long as the total amount of credits is equal to 31 ECTS or higher.
Core Courses (compulsory)
1st Period – Computational Engineering
Practical advanced, experimental and computational Aerodynamics. Advanced Fluid Mechanics, focusing on computational Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence. Application of Aeroelasticity and Aircraft Structural Dynamics.
2nd Period – Research and Aerospace Project Management
This course has a common Group of Research Seminar (2.5 ECTS).
Besides, the students can develop either an Individual Research Project (7.5 ECTS) that will be linked to their Master's Thesis OR a Group Research Project (7.5 ECTS), aimed at developing a real European Union Horizon 2020 Project in the Space Sector.
*Elective Courses
Depending on the chosen elective courses, the student can follow one of the four following tracks:
- (-) Neutral subjects
1st Period (September to January)
*Elective Courses
| COURSE | ECTS | |
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Airport Operations | 5 ECTS |
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Business Management Airport | 5 ECTS |
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Airport Building Systems | 5 ECTS |
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Airport Infrastructure Management | 5 ECTS |
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Air Transport | 5 ECTS |
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Space Propulsion | 5 ECTS |
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Hypersonic Aerodynamics | 5 ECTS |
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Composite Materials | 5 ECTS |
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Astrodynamics | 5 ECTS |
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Spacecraft Design | 5 ECTS |
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Turbulence: Phenomenology, Simulation, Aerodynamics | 5 ECTS |
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Extension of Rocket Engines | 5 ECTS |
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Internal Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity of Turbomachines | 5 ECTS |
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Extension of Jet Engines | 5 ECTS |
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Advanced Propulsion | 5 ECTS |
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Composite Materials | 5 ECTS |
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Advanced Course Heat and Mass Transfer | 5 ECTS |
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Numerical Methods in Heat and Mass Transfer | 5 ECTS |
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Aerospace Laboratories | 5 ECTS |
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Advanced Aeroelasticity | 5 ECTS |
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Advanced Aerodynamics | 5 ECTS |
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Architecture and Aircraft Systems | 5 ECTS |
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Composite Materials | 5 ECTS |
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Space Structures Design and Behavior | 3 ECTS |
| - | Project Management Key Agreements and Deals | 3 ECTS |
2nd Period (February to June)
*Elective Courses
| COURSE | ECTS | |
| - | Acoustics | 3 ECTS |
| - | Game Theory | 3 ECTS |
| - | Structures of New Generation Materials | 3 ECTS |
| - | Science and Technology Communication through Media | 3 ECTS |
| - | Infrared Termography for building diagnostics | 3 ECTS |
| - | Aplication of GIS systems to built environment | 3 ECTS |
| - | Introduction to metaheuristics for optimization problems | 3 ECTS |
| - | Implementation and testing of metaheuristics for optimization problems | 3 ECTS |
| - | Project Management Key Agreements and Deals | 3 ECTS |
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Extension of Space Propulsions | 3 ECTS |
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Thermal Turbomachine and Combustion | 3 ECTS |
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Geotechnical Engineering | 3 ECTS |
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Advanced Design of the Movement Area | 3 ECTS |
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Management and Operation of Terminal Buildings | 3 ECTS |
The student can choose any other combination of elective courses (as long as the total amount of credits is equal or higher than 31 ECTS) and they will equally be able to obtain the Master's certification.
Research
Individual Research
The Individual Research is meant for the students who prefer to develop a larger Master's Thesis (21.5 ECTS). During the Individual Research, they will be able to start to engage in the subject, allowing them to set an important basis before starting their Master's Thesis and hence giving them the chance to develop more complex ideas or adapt better to external companies internship demands.
Group Research
The Group Research aims to envolve the student into a participative environment that every engineer will have to be familiarized with in the workplace. Under the supervision of a National Contact Point, the students will work together in order to develop a Project Management Plan and a Horizon H2020 proposal in the field of Aerospace.
Master's Thesis
The Master's Thesis can be developed in the University research groups:
- CIEFMA Centre d'Integritat Estructural i Fiabilitat dels Materials (Center of Structural Integrity and Material Fiability)
- CTTC Centre de Transferència de la Calor (Heat Tranfer Center)
- LAIRE Laboratori Aeronàutic i Industrial de Recerca i Estudis (Aeronautic and Industrial Research and Studies Laboratory)
- LEAM Laboratori d'Enginyeria Acústica i Mecànica (Acustic and Mechanical Engineering Laboratory)
- LITEM Laboratori per a la Innovació Tecnològica d'Estructures i Materials (Laboratory for the Technological Innovation of Structures and Materials)
- MCIA Grup d'Accionaments Electrònics i Aplicacions Industrials (Electronic Actuators and Industrial Applications Group)
- POLYCOM Tecnologia de Polímers i Compostos (Polymers and Composites Technology)
- SAC Sistemes Avançats de Control (Advanced Control Systems)
- TERFIQ (ermodinàmica i Fisicoquímica (Thermodynamics and Phisical Chemistry)
- TIEG Terrassa Industrial Electronics Group
Future Career
The Aerospace Engineers of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia – BarcelonaTECH are extremely well considered by employers. The University holds Forums for establishing strong bonds between students and companies, which usually lead to internships and posterior careers. Often, the Master's students manage to combine their studies with internship agreements supervised by the University. Some examples of destinations of our graduates are
- Airbus
- GMV
- ALG
- Hemav
- CATUAV
Jorge Llop
Ex-student from ESEIAAT now works at NASA in exoplanet research
