School of
Mechanical Engineering
The University of Leeds
M.Sc. (Eng.) Automotive Engineering
Aims of the M.Sc. programme
The Automotive Engineering programme of study
was introduced to cater for industry's demand for highly skilled graduates
in advanced areas of analysis, design and manufacture in the automotive
industry. Although this industry has been traditionally associated
with high volume vehicle manufacturers, the nature of the industry has
changed over the last decade with the national turnover now dominated by
the automotive component manufacturers together with specialist design
and consultancy houses. The programme is specifically focused on
providing engineers with skills required by all of these organisations.
It aims to cover a wide range of advanced subjects across automotive
engineering and to develop student skills in engineering design, analysis
and manufacture with emphasis placed on the application of computer methods
and packages to achieve this. The programme is designed to be individually
tailored by the student to suit their particular interests, with the aid
of the program tutor. On completion of the programme a graduate should
be able to,
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Demonstrate an advanced level of knowledge and understanding in the compulsory
subject area combined with an equivalent appreciation of some specialised
areas.
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Integrate and apply their skills to the solution of a real engineering
problem involving some combination of computational, experimental and theoretical
techniques in a selected area of automotive engineering.
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Approach professional problems and challenged with initiative, responsiveness,
decisiveness and confidence.
 
Structure
The M.Sc. is a twelve month modular programme which gives students the
chance to select taught modules from a range of Automotive Engineering
options. Modules are offered in this and related areas in which the school
has a proven international record of excellence at the highest level, these
include, Vehicle Dynamics, Tribology, Combustion, Computational Fluid Dynamics,
Computer Aided Engineering and Manufacture. The course is split into three
equal semesters. In the first two semesters, students study a total of
80 credits of taught modules. During this time students also undertake
preparatory work for their chosen professional project. The majority of
the project work, worth a further 40 credits, is conducted in the summer
semester, after completion of the taught modules.
It is also possible to study for a Postgraduate Diploma, which requires
a total of 60 credits of taught material along with a 20 credit project
conducted mainly in the summer semester. Candidates initially registered
for the Postgraduate Diploma may transfer to the Masters programme providing
their semester one performance is satisfactory.
Both the M.Sc. and the Postgraduate Diploma can be taken part time
over a period of 2 years, with taught modules and the project chosen to
suit the students working pattern.
Syllabus
Semesters 1 and 2
During semester 1 and 2, M.Sc. students select 80 credits from the following
list while PG diploma students select 60. Candidates are advised to select
an equal number of credits from semester 1 and 2 (PG diploma students must
select 40 from semester 1 if they wish to be considered for transfer to
the M.Sc. program at the end of Semester 1) |
