Automotive Engineering BSc(Hons)

Why choose this course?

Automotive engineers design, test and develop vehicles and/or components from concept through to production, and are involved in improving the vehicle in response to customer feedback. This degree is ideal if you aim to pursue a career within the automotive industry and would like to develop a comprehensive range of related academic and vocational skills.

The course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and satisfies the academic requirements for Incorporated Engineer (IEng) status.

What will you study?

Subjects such as maths, engineering science and structural mechanics will provide you with a theoretical background, while engineering design modules teach complementary skills. Specialist automotive modules cover different engine and transmission types, braking, steering and chassis systems. Project modules will enable you to study a particular area in greater depth.

This degree has been accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) under licence from the UK regulator, the Engineering Council. Accreditation is a mark of assurance that the degree meets the standards set by the Engineering Council in the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC). An accredited degree will provide you with some or all of the underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills for eventual registration as an Incorporated (IEng) or Chartered Engineer (CEng). Some employers recruit preferentially from accredited degrees, and an accredited degree is likely to be recognised by other countries that are signatories to international accords. 

Please check the Engineering Council course search for more information.

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

• Technology Mathematics 1
• Structural Mechanics and Dynamics 1
• Engineering Science
• Engineering Computing
• Materials Engineering 1
• Professional Practice
• Engineering Design
• Engineering Applications
• Language option

Year 2

• Automotive Systems Engineering 1 and 2
• Engineering Design
• Materials Engineering 2 and Processes
• Mechanical Science
• Project Engineering
• Technology Mathematics 2
• Investigatory Study and Dissertation (Automotive)
• Language option

Year 3

• Individual Project (Automotive)
• Vehicle Design
• Vehicle Technology
• Industrial Group Design project (Automotive)
• Quality

• Quality

  This module introduces you to 'quality' in manufacturing industry. You will explore:

  • the historical development of 'quality' since the birth of the industrial age;
  • product liability and product liability prevention programmes;
  • quality management and quality management systems, and their implementation in manufacturing industry;
  • quality tools and techniques, and their implementation in manufacturing industry; and
  • co-ordinate measuring machines and the measurement of physical parameters.
  
   
• Business Applications in Engineering

• Business Applications in Engineering

  This module develops the management and business competencies that you will need as a professional engineer. It aims to stimulate your interest in the business world and broaden you knowledge of how individual companies and other organisations work. You cover:

  • the business environment and the driving forces that affect the growth of businesses;
  • how businesses compete successfully, and how success is measured and performance compared;
  • profit and loss calculations, cash flows and balance sheets;
  • the need for and use of budgets;
  • the choices available in the pursuit or growth and success;
  • the concept of strategic marketing; and
  • how international trade works and the factors to be considered in 'going international'.
  
   
• Language option