入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求： 1st or 2nd class UK Honours degree or equivalent in an engineering discipline.
英语要求：IELTS 7.0
学费 Tuition Fee： 2011/2012 £16,000
课程特征 Course Features：
Suitable for students who are enthusiastic about developing specialist skills and understanding of structural behaviour and failure, together with an awareness of impact and crash protection issues and phenomena. This course is particularly suitable if you have a good basic qualification in any engineering discipline, mathematics, or physics.
Takes you on to a career in the aerospace, automotive, mechanical or defence sectors, as well as consultancy and research and development organisations.
You will be taught by and supervised by academic staff from the School of Engineering, who have experience with industry and have written many technical papers and lectured worldwide. This is supplemented by invited contributions from industry and other leading institutions, reinforcing the applied nature of this course.
课程内容 Course Content ：
Compulsory modules include:
•Structural Mechanics
•Composite Structures
•Finite Element Method
•Crashworthiness (automotive or aerospace)
•Simulation for Impact and Crashworthiness
•Introduction to Continuum Mechanics
•Material Characterisation
•Thin-walled Structures.
Option in Automotive Structures:
•Automotive Structures Fundamentals
•Structural Integrity
•Structural Stability/Dynamics.
Option in Aerospace Structures 1:
•Structural Stability
•Structural Integrity and Testing
•Structural Dynamics.
Option in Aerospace Structures 2:
•Fluid Mechanics and Loading
•Shockwaves and Explosives
•Impact Dynamics
•Structural Integrity.