1st year of TFMASA master program

Semester 1 (University of Bordeaux – France) - 30 ECTS credits

Materials Sciences, Solid Mechanics in Aerospace Applications

• Start: beginning of September
• End: mid-December
• Exams: December - January

All courses are compulsory

• Simulation and design of structures - 6 ECTS
• Continuum mechanics and Finite Element method applied to Solid Mechanics - 6 ECTS
• Fatigue and Fracture - 3 ECTS
• Mechanics of composite materials and structures for aerospace applications - 6 ECTS
• Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) - 3 ECTS
• System Engineering based on Renewable Energy and Structures - 6 ECTS

Semester 2 (Catholic University of Louvain – Belgium) - 30 ECTS credits

Aeronautical Engineering

• Start: end of January
• End: beginning of June
• Exams: June

6 of the 8 courses are compulsory

• Internal combustion engines - 5 ECTS
• Aerodynamics of external flows - 5 ECTS
• Introduction to turbomachinery - 5 ECTS
• Advanced numerical methods - 5 ECTS
• Energy and systems lab. - 5 ECTS
• Gas dynamics and reacting flows - 5 ECTS
• Thermodynamics of irreversible phenomena - 5 ECTS
• Spacecraft and mission design - 5 ECTS

2nd year of TFMASA master program

Semester 3 (Brandenburg University of Technology – Germany) - 30 ECTS credits

Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Thermal Sciences & Thermodynamics

• Start: end of September
• End: beginning of February
• Exams: mid-February

3 of the 5 courses are compulsory

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for Engineers - 6 ECTS
• Engineering Acoustics – Sound Fields - 6 ECTS
• Turbulence Modelling - 6 ECTS
• Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfers - 6 ECTS
• Flow Measurements - 6 ECTS

2 of the 9 additional courses are compulsory

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) 1 - 6 ECTS
• CFD Project - 6 ECTS
• Decarbonisation of Industrial Processes - 6 ECTS
• Dimensional Analysis and Experimentation - 6 ECTS
• Electrified Aero Engines - 6 ECTS
• Experiments in Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics - 6 ECTS
• Image Based Measurement Techniques for Aerodynamics - 6 ECTS
• Stochastic Methods for Flow Simulations - 6 ECTS
• Waves and Instabilities in Fluids - 6 ECTS

Semester 4 – 30 ECTS credits

Master’s thesis in companies or research laboratories

• Defense: end of September