Automotive Engineering; Automotive Engineering (Commercial Vehicle Technology); and Automotive Engineering (Motorcycle Technology) MSc: Facilities

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.

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 collections of specialist engineering books and journals. 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.