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Bachelor of Engineering Honours

Aeronautical Engineering with Space stream

Aerospace Systems specialisation

Aerospace Systems specialisation

Students in the Aeronautical or Aeronautical with Space stream must complete 18 credit points to achieve this specialisation.

Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition
Students must complete a minimum of 12 credit points and a maximum of 18 credit points from the following:
AERO5200
Advanced Aerodynamics
6 A BE in the area of Aerospace Engineering or related Engineering field. AERO3260 or AERO8260 or AERO9260 or equivalent study at another institution
P AERO3260 or AERO8260 or AERO9260 or equivalent study at another institution
AERO5206
Rotary Wing Aircraft
6 A Prior Learning: concepts from 3000 level Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics will be applied to Rotary Wing Vehicles in this unit
P (AERO3260 or AERO8260 or AERO9260) and (AERO3560 or AERO8560 or AERO9560)
AERO5400
Advanced Aircraft Design Analysis
6 A Undergraduate level 1, 2 and 3 or Foundation Masters units in Aerospace Design are expected to have been completed before undertaking this unit
P (AERO3260 or AERO8260 or AERO9260) and (AERO2460 or AERO3460 or AERO8460 or AERO9460) and (AERO3560 or AERO8560 or AERO9560)
AERO5500
Flight Test and Evaluation
6 A BE in area of Aerospace Engineering or related Engineering Field
P AERO3560 or AERO8560 or AERO9560
AERO5750
Unmanned Air Vehicle Systems
6 A AERO1560, AERO1400, (AMME1705 or AMME2700), (AERO2460 or AERO3460), AERO3560, AERO3260, AERO3261 and AERO4460
P (AERO3260 or AERO8260 or AERO9260) and (AERO3360 or AERO8360 or AERO9360) and (AERO2460 or AERO3460 or AERO8460 or AERO9460) and (AERO3560 or AERO8560 or AERO9560)
AMME5060
Advanced Computational Engineering
6 A Linear algebra, calculus and partial differential equations, Taylor series, the finite difference and finite element methods, numerical stability, accuracy, direct and iterative linear solvers and be able to write Matlab Scripts to solve problems using these methods
N AMME4060
AMME5520
Advanced Control and Optimisation
6 A Strong understanding of feedback control systems, specifically in the area of system modelling and control design in the frequency domain;
P AMME3500 or AMME9501 or AMME8501
N AMME8520
AMME5710
Computer Vision and Image Processing
6 A The unit assumes that students have strong skills in either MATLAB or Python
N AMME4710
AMME5902
Computer Aided Manufacturing
6 A (MECH2400 or MECH9400) and (MECH3660 or MECH8660 or MECH9660)
P (MECH2400 or MECH9400) and (MECH2460 or MECH3660 or MECH8660 or MECH9660)
N AMME6902
MECH5461
Design for Advanced Manufacturing
6 A Background knowledge of mechanical design, manufacturing, and engineering materials
Students may complete a maximum of 6 credit points from the following:
AERO4260
Aerodynamics 2
6 P AMME2200 or AMME2261
N AERO5260
AERO4360
Aerospace Structures 2
6 A AERO3465
N AERO5360
P AERO3360
AERO4560
Flight Mechanics 2
6 A AMME2500 develops the basic principles of engineering mechanics and system dynamics that underpin this course. AERO3560 Flight Mechanics 1 develops the specifics of aircraft flight dynamics and stability. AMME3500 Systems control covers basic system theory and control system synthesis techniques
P AERO3560 and AMME3500
N AERO5560
AERO4260, AERO4360 or AERO4560 may be taken within the specialisation in addition to the units taken as Core Extension. They may not count toward both requirements.