Flying Classroom/Laboratory

The Aerospace curriculum doesn’t stop at theory. Particularly because the study is focused on aircraft and spacecraft, the training program provides plenty of opportunity to get to grips with practical exercises. 
 
From the first year on, you’ll regularly have whole mornings or afternoons of practical work and exercises, varying from test flights to materials processing. During these exercises, students all have their own assignments to do and intensive co-operation is required. This is how a future engineer like you prepares him’ or herself for teamwork in the future!

Unique in the world, the Faculty has its own jet aeroplane to be used for practical work. This jet, a Cessna Citation, is used as a flying classroom. In your second and third years of the BSc programme, you’ll be given exercises that enable you to compare theory with the real thing. Once you’re back on terra firma, you’ll be using the results for performance calculations. A perfect combination of theory and real-life experience!