Aircraft Design and Engineering, which takes the design and engineering application of civil aircraft as the main development direction and fills the blank of aviation major in SouthWest Jiaotong university, was approved in 2016. In 2017, the Department of Aircraft Design and Engineering was established in the School of Mechanics and Engineering. Currently, the department has 23 faculty members engaged in aerospace teaching and research, including 8 professors and 15 associate professors and lecturers.

The Department of Aircraft Design and Engineering is mainly responsible for the basic courses for undergraduate, master and doctoral students in theoretical mechanics, vibration mechanics, fluid mechanics and other 24 majors in aerospace, civil engineering, materials, electrical engineering and mechanics, as well as the teaching of professional basic courses and professional construction.

For students graduated from the major of Aircraft Design and Engineering, they can choose whether to pursue a higher degree or find a job. Professional central enterprises are distributed widely, with ten in Beijing, eight in Xi’an, six in Shanghai, six in Shenzhen, seven in Chengdu, three in Hangzhou, two in Nanjing and Hefei, respectively. Up to now, most graduates succeeded in finding jobs in airline companies, aircraft manufacturing companies, satellite launch center, institute of space technology, software design companies, colleges and so on.

Objectives

The major cultivates compound and innovative high-quality talents with the comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetics and labor, and they should have a solid foundation of mathematics, mechanics and aircraft design, pneumatic design, structure and strength analysis, experimental technology and other professional knowledge, master basic theory knowledge of key system design and application of aircrafts, have basic abilities to engage in scientific research and engineering design of aircrafts, not only can continue their education in researches of aircraft design and engineering, but also can match the demand of related fields.

The graduates should master the basics of mathematics and mechanics, and master the basic theory and knowledge of aircraft design; Understand the theoretical frontier, application prospect and development trend of aircraft design; Master the analytical and experimental methods of aircraft design; Be familiar with relevant specifications and design manuals of aircraft design; Master English language, be able to read professional English materials, have certain listening and speaking ability and cross-cultural communication and cooperation ability.

Major subjects and major courses

Major subjects：Aerospace science and technology.

Major courses：Optimization theory, Aircraft overall design and system engineering, Aircraft Structure design, Aircraft structural reliability analysis, Aircraft system simulation technology, Aircraft aerodynamic optimization design, Aircraft attitude dynamics and control, Pneumatic elastic mechanics, Computational fluid mechanics, Experimental aerodynamics, Flight control and simulation, etc.