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

Who teaches this course?

Find out more here about the Faculty or School where you will be taught and about some of the key teaching staff for this course.


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The Faculty of Engineering teaches this course. The Faculty offers a full suite of postgraduate courses across aerospace, automotive, civil and mechanical engineering, plus construction law/management.

You can be sure the courses will keep you up to date with the latest industry developments, thanks to:

  • our industrial advisory panel – which helps design and review the courses to ensure that they are relevant to today’s world
  • accreditation by professional institutions for many of our courses – including the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
  • committed and enthusiastic staff – many of whom are actively engaged in research, sharing their expert knowledge through teaching
  • partnerships with industry – enabling us to invite industry experts to the University to help with project work and teaching

Where is the Faculty based? Most of the Faculty is based at the Roehampton Vale campus, with civil engineering and construction students at Penrhyn Road. Extensive redevelopment of both campuses is creating new and extended buildings to house up-to-the-minute technology and modern learning facilities. Cutting-edge facilities for engineering students include:

  • a Learjet 25 plane and flight simulator
  • a Lotus Exige, Triumph Daytona and Honda quad bike
  • our state-of-the-art laboratories

Staff profiles

 

Name: Denis Marchant

Title: Principal lecturer

Teaching fields: Automotive technology and engineering design

Research fields:

  • Green engineering as applied to the automotive industry
  • Vehicle disposal and recycling
  • Advanced diesel technology

Recent publications

  • 'Energy absorption of thin-walled corrugated crash box in axial crushing', H Ghasemnejad, H Hadavinia, D Marchant and A Aboutorabi. SDHM, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp.29-45, 2008.

Membership of professional bodies:

  • FIMI Fellow of the Institute of the Motor Industry
  • FIET Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
  • MIVehE Member of the Institute of Vehicle Engineers
  • IEng Incorporated Engineer

Email: d.marchant@kingston.ac.uk

 

 

Name: Dr Yawei Wang

Title: Senior lecturer

Teaching fields: Automotive technology and vehicle design

Research fields:

  • Computer-aided simulation for vehicle dynamics
  • Mathematical modelling for simulating the combustion and emission process of ic engines
  • Combustion systems and combustion process for ic engines
  • Instrumentation techniques for monitoring and controlling thermo-dynamic parameters
  • The application of renewable fuels in ic engines
  • The application of optic technique (laser and high speed camera) in engineering research

Membership of professional bodies:

  • Institute of the Motor Industry
  • Institution of Incorporated Engineers
  • Institute of Vehicle Engineers
  • Society of Automotive Engineers

Publications:

  • “An Investigation of Droplet Size and Distribution in Direct Injection Diesel Sprays Using Doppler Anemometer Measurement” in Transaction of the Institute of Marine Engineers, V112 Part 3-4, November 2000 (with PL Zhouand and T Riskily)
  •  “A Mathematical Modelling for Combustion Process in a Supercharged Diesel Engine” in Transaction of CSICE, Vol. 4, 1995

Email: y.wang@kingston.ac.uk