Preparation materials

Starting your MSc is exciting, but can also be challenging if you don't know what to expect. This is especially true for international students. Therefore on this page we would like to give you some information about what to expect, what will be expected of you, how to prepare and where to find information.

1) Choose between Aerodynamics and Wind Energy!

You need to choose between the Profile Aerodynamics and Profile Wind Energy already at the start of Q1! The reason is that already in Q1 the Profile courses between Aerodynamics and Wind Energy differ:

3) Prepare

The MSc program can be tough especially if you need to catch up with some of the expected prior knowledge and/or skills at the start of the first Quarter. In order to give you the possibility to check your prior knowledge and skills, we have identified the most important reading and training material that you can review, test yourself and if required study and practice.

Basic mathematics:
[1] James Stewart, "Calculus: Early Transcendentals", 8th ed., Cengage Learning (2016), Metric Version, ISBN 978-1-305-27237-8. (Calculus)

[2] David C. Lay, “Linear Algebra and its Applications”, Global Edition, 5/E, ISBN-13: 9781784499303. (Linear Algebra)

[3] W.E. Boyce, R.C.DiPrima, “Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems”, Wiley, New York. (Differential equations)

In particular when you do not have an Aerospace Engineering Bachelor degree, please review the books of John D. Anderson to be informed on nomenclature / theory of flight and aerodynamics:

Aircraft performance / notations:
[4] John D. Anderson, “Introduction to Flight”, 6th edition or later, (Chapters 5,6,7: conventions, airfoils/wings, airplane performance, stability & control) 

Aerodynamic theory:
[5] John D. Anderson jr., Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, McGraw-Hill, Chapters 1-10.

Basic programming skills:
[6] Matlab
An Introduction to Programming and Numerical Methods in MATLAB, S.R. Otto and J.P. Denier

• front-matter: preface, content
• CH1: Simple Calculations with MATLAB
• CH2: Writing Scripts and Functions
• CH3: Loops and Conditional Statements
• back-matter
• Main differences between a script and function file
• Mathlab assignments

[7] Python, codecademy - learn Python
[8] Python, introduction to computer science and programming in Python