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About
The multidisciplinary department has made a major impact on engineering systems on land, sea, in the air and in outer space; from nano-scale medical implants to large-scale aerospace stations.
Mechanical Engineering was one of the first departments established at City's forerunner, the Northampton Institute, in 1894; and, in 1909, City was the first institution in the UK to introduce Aeronautical Engineering courses.
Today, right in the heart of London, the department is renowned for its cutting-edge facilities, including newly upgraded wind tunnels, flight deck and motion simulators, advanced test-bed specialised in optical diagnostics for mapping internal combustion engines and high-speed turbomachinery, alternative fuels, heat exchangers and high-performance computing for numerical simulation and validation of engineering solutions.
The department has strong links with industry (local, national and global), maintaining partnerships through research projects and student placements.
Study
The department offers a range of courses at undergraduate, postgraduate taught and research degree level. We also support a foundation degree course.
Undergraduate
All our undergraduate courses are available as four-year integrated Masters degrees or three-year Bachelors degrees.
- MEng (Hons) Aeronautical Engineering
- BEng (Hons) Aeronautical Engineering
- MEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering
- BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering
Postgraduate
- MSc Advanced Mechanical Engineering
- MSc Air Safety Management
- MSc Air Transport Management
- MSc Aircraft Maintenance Management
- MSc Airport Management
- MSc Energy and Environmental Technology and Economics
- MSc Maritime Operations and Management
Research degrees
Foundation degrees and programmes
Short Courses
- Computational Fluid Dynamics in Turbomachinery
Research
Research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics incorporates three expert centres that maintain strong links with industry and actively build our international reputation.
The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) showed a significant improvement in our research standing, with 79% of our staff rated 4* (world-leading) and 3* (internationally excellent), with research income of around £2-3m annually.
Aeronautics and Aerospace Research Centre (A²RC)
The Aeronautics and Aerospace Research Centre undertakes activities in the traditional areas of aeronautics and flow control as well as emerging disciplines such as bio-fluid mechanics, energy harvesting, renewable energy, micro-fluidics and, bio-mimetics.
Thermo-Fluids Research Centre
The Thermo-Fluids Research Centre undertakes research in traditional and new emerging fields in the area of thermo-fluid engineering sciences and their applications.
Staff
Academic staff
- Dr Jafar Al-Zaili, Lecturer in Power and Propulsion
- Dr Sathiskumar Anusuya Ponnusami, Lecturer in Structural Mechanics (Aeronautics)
- Professor Ranjan Banerjee, Emeritus Professor of Structural Dynamics
- Dr Samuel Brooks, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Self-Engineer
- Professor Christoph Bruecker, Sir Richard Olver BAE Systems Chair in Aeronautical Engineering
- Dr Karthik Budidha, Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Professor John Carlton, Professor of Marine Engineering
- Dr Chak Cheung, Visiting Lecturer
- Emre Eroktem, Senior Lecturer
- Professor Michael Gaster, Professor of Aerodynamics
- Professor Manolis Gavaises, Director, International Institute for Cavitation Research and Thermo-Fluids Research Centre
- Professor Kenneth Grattan OBE FREng, Royal Academy of Engineering - George Daniels Professor of Scientific Instrumentation
- Dr Ioannis Karathanasis, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Mahmoud Khader, Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Professor Ahmed Kovacevic, Howden/RAEng Chair in Compressor Technology & Associate Dean, Corporate Partnerships
- Dr Marinos Manolesos, Reader in Aerospace Engineering
- Dr Sumsun Naher, Senior Lecturer
- Professor Jamshid M Nouri, Professor of Experimental Fluid Mechanics
- Professor Alfredo Pinelli, Professor of Fluid Simulation
- Professor Keith Robert Pullen, Honorary Professor
- Abdullah Qaban, Visiting Lecturer
- Dr Matthew Read, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
- Professor Abdulnaser Sayma, Professor of Energy Engineering, Director of the Thermo-Fluid Research Centre
- Professor Ian Smith, Professor Emeritus
- Professor Nikola Stosic, Professor
- Dr Zhengzhong Sun, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Maria Tomas-Rodriguez, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Martin White, Lecturer in Thermal Power
- Dr Youyou Yan, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Hamed Yazdani Nezhad, Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Structures
- Mohammad Omidyeganeh, Lecturer in Fluid Simulation
- Dr Qiang Zhang, Reader
Facilities
Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics courses benefit from recently redeveloped facilities with modern teaching lecture theatres equipped with the latest interactive AV systems and modern IT laboratories which are updated annually.
A dynamic virtual learning environment (Moodle) provides students with access to online course materials, resources, interactive activities, assessment and communication tools. Specialist facilities include:
- Flight deck
- Motion simulators
- Wind tunnels
- Optical IC Engines
- Optical compressors
- Optical fuel injection systems
- Flywheel
- Formula car simulator
- Micro Turbine
- Cavitating flows
- High performance computing
- Flight test course.
News
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Global commercial aviation: The first casualty in political conflict
Linus Bauer, senior aviation industry consultant and Visiting Lecturer on City’s Air Transport Management MSc programme, says global aviation can play a role in ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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Omicron: Back to square one for aviation
City’s Visiting Lecturer in Air Transport Management says the lack of multilateral coordination and harmonization in responding to new Covid-19 strains continues to harm commercial aviation.
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City aviation expert says IATA travel pass could boost Summer travel
Visiting Lecturer and aviation industry expert, Linus Bauer, believes that the introduction of an International Air Transport Association (IATA) travel pass will restore confidence to travellers.
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City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom