Sorry for the offtopic, but I figured theres a lot of australians on these boards and you might be able to help me out with my question.
I’m currently finishing my aerospace engineering undergrad degree in Delft, The Netherlands…
I don’t want to stay here to do my masters (postgrad) though. I’d love to go to australia for a longer period of time, since I’ve heard it’s a great place to be. So I figured why not go study there?
Now after searching on the internet I couldn’t find much information about aerospace degrees in Autralia. I visited RMIT’s (Melbourne) and USyd’s (Sydney) websites, but they’re very confusing…
Since surfing is somewhat related to aerospace engineering I figured there might be some people here that know which are the good places to go to do a postgraduate degree in that field.
aerospace engineering is such a specialized degree, you might want to look into studying mechanical engineering, or materials engineering or something else that is still very intertwined into aero eng, and surfing for that matter. This will open up a lot more options for you, and you will still be learning things that are very relevant to your field. Sorry I dont have any suggestions as to where to go though…
Well, TUDelft has a pretty good aerospace degree, and there’s no entry requirements (at least for dutch high school students that took maths and physics at school). The way it works here is they just make it superhard, and a lot of people drop out in the first year… Something like 30-40%…
I want to get out of the country though since I went to high school here and now I’ve been studying in Delft for 3 years. I’m kinda done with Holland and wanna see more of the world if you know what i mean… I’m also looking at schools in the US but if I can find a good place in Australia I’d rather go there…
So, maybe there’s some people here on swaylocks that went to uni in Australia?
I did my degree at Wollongong Uni and it was excellent for surf between lectures. the campus is a couple of minutes drive to the nearest beach. I dont think they do aeorspace engineering tho.
I’m looking to do a postgrad by coursework (we would call it ‘masters’)…
I can’t find any aerospace degree on the UNSW website…
I’m looking at the USyd website too and they seem to have good programs. How ‘hard’ is it usually to get into degrees like that in Australia? especially for international students?
I have a cousin that did something similar, Not 100% sure what it was, bus she now works for some kind of nasa project in australia, she lives in the sydnay area, wollonggong I think, but I’m not 100% sure that she did her schooling there.
I dont speak to her but once a year.
She was Mega smart, to get into that field, Sorry but I have no way of contacting her… I will search myspace and facebook for ya, If I find her she will have all the answers to your questions.
keep lookin, Oz is a great place to live, If your a forigner you will be accepted in most places, Oz is pretty cool about these things.
Sydney University would be a good place to try - I know they have a good engineering department and after a quick search found they do aero mechanics as well - looks like they offer post grad/masters.
I’m a teacher and ex university lecturer. I now live on the far north coast of NSW near Ballina / Byron. Heaps of Uni’s to choose from, but for what you want, try Sydney, University of Newcastle (that’s where I went, and eventually taught at - great waves too!), or even Southern Cross Uni in Lismore (near Byron/Lennox/Ballina & a short drive to the Goldy).
I did a study abroad program at Newcastle - I really fell in love with Australia.
I was looking at maybe trying to do some grad work to get myself back over there - I dont think they have any aerospace but they do have mechanical graduate degrees - wind energy and advanced materials, among others.
For aeronautics in the US - FIT in central Florida and also in Florida EmbryRiddle.
thanks for all the replies guys! So far, USyd seems the only one to offer a proper aerospace degree…
I’ll have to start looking into it more seriously, send out some emails to the uni’s etc…
How do the Australian universities compare to other universities around the world usually? (academically) For people that have studied in Australia and somewhere else on the globe, what would be the biggest differences?
