FdEng in Aircraft Engineering

Why choose this course?

This course is a progression programme and is specifically designed to help meet the growing need for skilled aircraft maintenance engineers. As part of the programme, you will gain the knowledge requirements for the EASA Part 66 B1.1 licence. You will also receive practical hand skills training in the purpose-built basic workshop facilities.

This course is designed to produce licensed aircraft maintenance engineers with the capacity to progress onto the BEng (Hons) top-up course, obtain an honours degree and become aircraft maintenance managers of the future.

The course introduces students to aircraft engineering hand and maintenance skills and provides them with opportunities to put the skills into practice. It also introduces the study skills necessary for successful completion of the course in the first year and develops and expands these skills in the second year to prepare the students for progression to the top-up.

This course is taught at Exeter College and awarded by Kingston University.

Reasons to choose Kingston University

• This course provides students with the professional knowledge and skills that will enable them to manage their own and encourage them to be proactive in their personal and professional development.
• The course introduces students to aircraft engineering hand and maintenance skills and provides them with opportunities to put the skills into practice.
• The course gives you the skills and knowledge to progress onto the Aircraft Engineering Top-up course.

Accreditation

The programme is accredited by the Royal Aeronautical Society as partially satisfying the educational requirements for registration as an Incorporated Engineer.

What you will study

The course is operated in accordance with the KU Undergraduate Regulations and modules are compulsory; there are no optional modules available. To be awarded a FdEng Aircraft Engineering, students must pass all 240 credits. A student is eligible for the award of a Certificate of Higher Education (CertHE) provided they successfully complete at least 120 credits of the programme at level 4 or above.

Year 1

Core modules

• Mathematics and Physics for Practitioner Engineers
• Electrical Engineering Fundamentals
• Aerodynamics and Aircraft Electronic and Digital Systems
• Aircraft Practical and HE Study Skills

Year 2

Core modules

• Aircraft Material, Hardware and Maintenance
• Aircraft and their Systems
• Aircraft Maintenance & Professional Practice
• Aircraft Propulsion Systems

Please note

Optional modules only run if there is enough demand. If we have an insufficient number of students interested in an optional module, that module will not be offered for this course.

Students who successfully complete the FdEng can progress onto the Aircraft Engineering BEng (Hons) and top-up their award to an honours degree with a further one year of full-time or two years of part-time study.