What is Automotive Engineering?
It is a type of vehicle engineering under which students utilise different aspects of mechanical, electronic, software and safety and electrical engineering to create new car designs. The designing, manufacturing, and operation of various vehicles such as trucks, buses, automobiles, and motorcycles come under this field.
They closely work on the following phases:
- Designing: Creating new designs or improving the ones already created
- Research and Development: Identifying solutions to problems of engineering
- Production: Strategising and drafting new processes for the production
Why choose automotive engineering as a career?
There is an overall increase in the number of vehicles in the world. This is why more and more engineers are required. Several manufacturing industries having job opportunities with a fairly good pay scale offer avenues for such engineers.
Not just that, you have the chance to design your own car in a way that you like. You can also test drive several cars at work (something that excites a lot of the youngsters). The options for a rising career in this field are more in foriegn countries than India.
What do automotive engineers do?
Apart from designing the model of a vehicle, what is automotive engineering all about? We’re here to tell you that!
It involves the development of new procedures for testing, launching new products in the market, transforming technical data, and analysing it in the form of reports. It also includes managing all details related to the project, monitoring most engineering subsystems, supervising technical staff involved in the manufacturing, presenting the design and answering any queries related to it.
Engineers also inspect vehicle performance in different situations with the help of computer programs.
What do you need to be an automotive engineer?
Engineers in this industry need science subjects as a prerequisite. If you ever get bored of what you are doing and wish to change your line, engineering and science-related fields are your back up option.
There are some skills and traits essential for a student before they decide to excel in this field:
- A strong liking for motor vehicles
- Sharp mathematical skills and technical knowledge
- An innovative approach for problem-solving
- Outstanding communication and presentation qualities
- Exceptional organisational skills and the spirit to work in a team
It is clearly understood that engineers of this fieldwork on automotives. Then what do mechanical engineers do?
Automotive and mechanical engineering are two separate types of engineering courses. Automotive engineers take care of the overall development and designing of vehicles whereas mechanical engineers take care of a particular aspect of the car such as motor, brakes, combustion, etc.
Monika Bakshi
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Monika Bakshihttps://www.univariety.com/blog/author/univariety/
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Monika Bakshihttps://www.univariety.com/blog/author/univariety/
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Monika Bakshihttps://www.univariety.com/blog/author/univariety/
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Monika Bakshihttps://www.univariety.com/blog/author/univariety/
