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Focus Course - Automotive Engineering
This Focus course on Automotive Engineering at the University of Huddersfield is designed to allow students to gain experience in the programming and operation of state of the art automotive test facilities and to consider the responsibility of the automotive industry and its impact on society and the environment.
You will evaluate bio-fuels and their effect on engine performance, exhaust emissions and issues that address the growing international concerns of global warming.
During the week you will work with control equipment with a value of over a million pounds: this equipment includes a robotically-controlled 2-wheel transmission dynamometer, 4-post ride simulator, a steady state engine test rig, a transient rig and a wind tunnel testing a model that you will create using rapid prototyping technology.
You will learn to appreciate the task of a professional automotive engineer in providing safe control of the family car – more than a tonne of metal moving at 150kph when only 4 tyres are gripping the road, each with a road contact area the size of your hand. A task completed so successfully that the driver does not give failure a second thought.
The course features lectures and seminars and thought provoking discussion on the future of the automotive industry and its responsibility to society.
In addition to the practical sessions described above, visits are arranged to a major automotive manufacturing company and a principal component supplier. |
