Careers and your future in Aerospace Engineering

Aerospace Engineering at Brunel is about helping you become a highly qualified aerospace engineer, ready for a career in one of the most exciting and fast-moving industries in the world today.

Our teaching staff are also researchers, collaborating outside the university with commercial organisations including aircraft manufacturers, and feeding their cutting edge findings back into the course. You’ll be challenged by real-world engineering issues facing the modern aerospace industry – finding solutions will help you develop into a capable and confident engineer, ready for a high-flying career.

We are known for developing high-calibre graduates. When you leave us, you will have developed transferable skills relevant to demanding careers in the aerospace, aeronautical and related industries.

Our students often have job offers before they graduate. They take up employment in fields such as aircraft and components design and manufacture, maintenance and testing, flight simulation, aviation, avionics and patent engineering.

We have graduates working for Rolls-Royce, Airbus, British Airways, BAE Systems, GE Aviation, Thales, Bombardier, Lockheed Martin, the Royal Air Force and the Ministry of Defence.