Automotive Engineering; Automotive Engineering (Commercial Vehicle Technology); and Automotive Engineering (Motorcycle Technology) PgDip/MSc

Facilities

Here is the range of facilities available to you as a student at Kingston that will help you during your course.


There is a wide range of facilities for practical work at our Roehampton Vale campus, where this course is based. You will have access to a modern environment with the latest technology, including:

  • a range of vehicles, such as a Lotus Exige, Renault Megane, Triumph Daytona and Striker kit car;
  • a chassis dynamometer and engine-testing facilities, plus several display engines, such as a V6 Ford Cosworth and a 3-cylinder orbital direct injection engine;
  • two large-scale wind tunnels; and
  • industry-standard test and experimental equipment for metrology, robotics, rapid prototyping, fatigue and quality control.

 

Take a look at the Automotive Workshop at Roehampton Vale campus with a 360 degree tour below

 

We also have a dedicated postgraduate workroom with high spec PCs and a range of software. Computer-aided design facilities include:

  • a range of CAD/CAM packages, such as Ideas, SolidWorks, Flow Works, Cosmos and Edge Cam;
  • finite element analysis
  • computational fluid dynamics;
  • virtual instrumentation; and
  • Adams Kinematics, LabView, Matlab, Simulink and LS Dyna software

 

The recently enlarged library at Roehampton Vale provides a collection of British Standards on CD-ROM as well as specialist engineering materials. The Graduate Centre, exclusively for postgraduate students, provides space for private study, meetings and socialising.

 

A major new building programme has just been completed and other improvements are ongoing. The £4 million Hawker Wing, which opened in December 2007, provides three floors of extra space for students and staff at Roehampton Vale, including improved learning and teaching facilities.