Aerospace Engineering Personal Statement help

Microsoft flight simulator is on sale on steam at the moment. You will probably use a flight simulator for something in your aero degree and it also looks good if you're going to do pilot studies.

Hi, I have been looking at examples of some of the aerospace statements on here and I just marveled at how much xp these students have and it makes my first draft look kind of lame. I want to demonstrate how interested I am in taking pilot studies alongside the course but I am not sure how to say it when I haven't been part of the air cadets or anything similar. It's pretty depressing, I don't have much to spice up my statement Does anyone have any tips?

Hi there! I was writing my personal statement for aero engineering just this time last year, and I'm now going to study aero engineering at Imperial College London so I must have done something right Now I was one of those annoying cadet people with flying experience to write about but here's some other stuff I mentioned...

Extra reading - there's a pretty good list here: http://www3.eng.cam.ac.uk/admissions/information/reading.html. I particularly recommend Holger Babinky's "How Do Wings Work?", it's really quick to read as it's just a paper and very enlightening!

Academic interest in maths and physics - I mentioned doing some problems on this website: http://nrich.maths.org/6466, maybe talk about a problem you've looked at that you found interesting? This website is also useful: http://i-want-to-study-engineering.org/

Relevant work experience and courses - if you haven't done any by now it may be a bit late but you can also mention things you have applied to do in the future, so if you're desperate have a look around now. If you have done any engineering courses such as Smallpiece courses or Headstart courses, or if you've had any kind of relevant work experience, milk it for all it's worth!

Also, if you want some flying experience, you can apply for this! http://www.fleetairarmoa.org/faaoa-gliding-aviation-scholarships I just finished the course a couple of weeks ago and it was amazing. There are loads of amazing flying scholarships you can look at here too: http://www.flyer.co.uk/scholarships/

In reality, while it's impressive to already have some flying experience, most people applying won't have flown in anything more than an airliner. Being able to fly is only kinda useful for an aero engineering degree; universities will be more interested in your academic ability, your ability to think logically, and your overall interest and enthusiasm for aero engineering itself. I hope this is helpful and if I can offer any more advice just let me know

Don't worry if you haven't read any books or done all these fancy flight stuff. When I wrote my personal statement, I hadn't really read any books per say thats because I mainly used pdf's online or youtube videos. One thing universities love is you proving to them you have the ability to hack all the content you will be learning in uni. This includes the ability to hack the maths, the hands on stuff like electronics, and computing side like programming. You can download the trial version of autocad or any other CAD software and learn the basics, which you can then talk about it in your personal statement. You can also begin learning a programming language like python, again this is a useful thing to do as in uni you will be programming as part of the course. Since you like flying but haven't really got the experience. I would suggest reading about flight mechanics in general (you dont have to buy an entire book, a quick youtube video will do ) then pick a particular maths topic involved and read about it. For example there's euler angles which is used in flight dynamics. Euler angles is hard in terms of mathematics but just writing on your personal statement that you read about how euler angles is used to describe the rotation of objects like planes shows the admisson person you've done quite a lot of research in the course. If euler angles is hard to get your head around, laplace transform is also another fairly easy-ish topic to learn, Khan Academy has good videos on those. You can use Laplace transform to solve differential equations for a start. But its used a lot in engineering for a lot of things but for your level knowing what it is, and how its used to solve differential equations is good enough. So in short, learn basics of CAD or the basics of any programming language ( I suggest python) Choose a maths topic which is not thought in Alevel but thought in Uni (I suggest Laplace Transform), learn that and I can tell you how to write about it in your ps. Most people will be talking about planes etc but you will be able to show the admission officer that not only do you have an interest in places, but you actually know the stuff that goes into it. You can pm me if you want more help on any of the things I mentioned. IF you're wondering I'll be starting Aero&Astro with spacecraft engineering at Southampton. I got offers from Bristol, Bath and Manchester too.

Hi there! I was writing my personal statement for aero engineering just this time last year, and I'm now going to study aero engineering at Imperial College London so I must have done something right Now I was one of those annoying cadet people with flying experience to write about but here's some other stuff I mentioned...

Extra reading - there's a pretty good list here: http://www3.eng.cam.ac.uk/admissions/information/reading.html. I particularly recommend Holger Babinky's "How Do Wings Work?", it's really quick to read as it's just a paper and very enlightening!

Academic interest in maths and physics - I mentioned doing some problems on this website: http://nrich.maths.org/6466, maybe talk about a problem you've looked at that you found interesting? This website is also useful: http://i-want-to-study-engineering.org/

Relevant work experience and courses - if you haven't done any by now it may be a bit late but you can also mention things you have applied to do in the future, so if you're desperate have a look around now. If you have done any engineering courses such as Smallpiece courses or Headstart courses, or if you've had any kind of relevant work experience, milk it for all it's worth!

Also, if you want some flying experience, you can apply for this! http://www.fleetairarmoa.org/faaoa-gliding-aviation-scholarships I just finished the course a couple of weeks ago and it was amazing. There are loads of amazing flying scholarships you can look at here too: http://www.flyer.co.uk/scholarships/

In reality, while it's impressive to already have some flying experience, most people applying won't have flown in anything more than an airliner. Being able to fly is only kinda useful for an aero engineering degree; universities will be more interested in your academic ability, your ability to think logically, and your overall interest and enthusiasm for aero engineering itself. I hope this is helpful and if I can offer any more advice just let me know

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