Aerospace Engineering

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The Master in Aerospace Engineering is a unique Master in the French Speaking Community of Belgium. Since aeronautics and space are, in essence, fields where high performance is a must, the University of Liège wants to train engineers who master advanced techniques, allowing them to design high-tech products. The programme emphasises particularly mechanical aspects of aerospace components and systems, numerical modelling and virtual prototyping.

Master with Research Focus

The graduate in Research Focus has a solid grounding allowing him to integrate a research & development or education of 3rd cycle (PhD/Doctorate). He gained the highest level of technical skills through advanced course selection pointed in various fields, such as aerospace structures, aerodynamics, turbomachinery, astrodynamics, space experiments, numerical modelling and optimization.

Master with a Professional Focus in Management

The graduate with a Professional Focus in Management has acquired, in addition to his technical background and methodology, a solid grounding in finance, strategy, marketing, human resource management, organisation, leadership, production management and supply chain. He knows the company world and is able to analyze thoroughly its internal organisation, to make a diagnosis and establish a full business plan.

The Professional Focus in Management can be followed during the last year of Engineering studies. The programme is unique in the French Speaking Community of Belgium and organised in partnership with the HEC-ULg management school. The training is based on a participatory pedagogy including extended stays in business.

Key Learning Outcomes
At the end of his studies, the Aerospace Engineer has acquired the following skills:

* He has a solid technical background in aeronautics and/or space thanks to the lectures received in the areas of propulsion and turbomachinery, aerodynamics, theoretical and experimental flight mechanics, aerospace structures under extreme loading, space instrumentation, astrodynamics and launchers ;
* He masters computer-aided design tools and has an extensive knowledge of various aspects of modelling and simulation of aerospace components (i.e., solids, fluids and materials) ;
* He understands that the design of an aircraft, a turbomachine and a satellite inherently relies on many engineering disciplines. Thanks to the realization of an integrated project involving various courses of the first Master, he is able to find an appropriate compromise between design constraints from different disciplines, which may be conflicting ;
* He is familiar with real engineering projects since he can choose to perform a long term industrial training and he can get involved in practical design projects of a drone or of a nanosatellite ;
* He has a large abstraction capacity which allows him to solve new problems in an independent and autonomous way. His training and his master thesis have also introduced him to a number of research-oriented problems ;
* He is initiated to teamwork thanks to the completion of group assignments that come along with many courses of the Master. He is also able to communicate effectively and concisely the results of his work.

The requirements to access to the master programmes are regulated by articles 51 to 53 of the decree of 31 March 2004 defining higher education, promoting its integration into the European Higher Education Area, and refinancing universities.The master programmes are open to students who hold one of the following: * a bachelor in the same curriculum; * the same master with a different focus; * a university degree, subject to the academic authorities' decision and to additional requirements defined by them; * a long course academic degree granting access to the master, subject to a decision by the government and to additional requirements defined by it; * an academic degree similar to those mentioned above, delivered under the same conditions by the Flemish Community, the German-speaking Community or the Royal Military Academy; * a foreign academic degree recognised as equivalent to those mentioned above in application of the aforementioned decree, of a European directive or of an international convention, under the same conditions.The additional requirements are designed to ensure students have sufficient knowledge of the subjects required for the intended studies.When these additional requirements consist in one or several additional courses, they cannot add more than 15 credits in total to the student's course load, considering all other credits counting towards their admission.These courses are included into the curriculum of their master programme.Master programmes are also open to students who, in order to earn the bachelor in the same curriculum, must still pass no more than 12 credits and are registered for those courses.Master programmes, possibly subject to additional courses worth no more than 60 credits (when this added course load is over 15 credits, it must be taken as a preparatory year), are open to students who hold one of the following: * another bachelor-level degree delivered by the French Community (professional bachelor or transition bachelor from a non-university institute of higher education), granting access to the master following a decision by the government and subject to the additional requirements defined by it; * a similar academic degree, delivered by the Flemish Community, the German-speaking Community or at the Royal Military Academy, or a foreign academic degree recognised as equivalent; * a bachelor-level degree delivered by a Belgian university or a foreign institute of higher education can the admissions jury can value at 180 credits or more.knowledge and skills, acquired through personal or professional experience, that can be recognised by the admissions jury. This relevant experience must be equivalent to at least five years of professional activity, not taking into account failed years of higher education. At the conclusion of an evaluation process organised by the academic authorities, the admissions jury judges whether the student's skills and knowledge allow them to successfully pursue the programme.