Automotive Engineering (Honours) Sheffield Hallam University

Overview

This Automotive Engineering (Honours) degree offered by Sheffield Hallam University  prepares you for a range of roles in the automotive industry, providing you with the right environment, facilities, skills and training to be successful in the industry. You’ll explore various aspects of automotive design, development, testing, manufacturing, electronics and performance analysis – emerging as a highly skilled graduate ready to solve current and future problems in the industry.

Key facts

• Understand key technologies such as electric and autonomous vehicles.

• Explore the economic, environmental and social implications of automotive production. 

• Engage in professional and sustainable practices right from the beginning.

• Experience live projects, simulations, aerodynamics and diverse disciplines.

You learn through: 

• Diverse lectures emphasising peer collaboration.

• Tutorials to practise and apply your knowledge ahead of assessments.

• Hands-on lab experience including computational modelling and simulation.

• Q&A and discussions for self-assessment and understanding.

• Support sessions for receiving feedback and preparing for assessments.

• Teamwork activities for collaboration in an innovative environment.

• Multidisciplinary project-based learning to apply knowledge, creativity, design, critical analysis and professional skills to real-world projects.

Careers and opportunities

This course prepares you for a career in: 

• Manufacturing 

• Design research and development 

• Production 

• Automotive transport 

• Building services 

• Medical engineering 

• Sport equipment design 

• Power generation 

• Alternative energy 

• Automation and robotics 

• Product testing 

• Project management 

• Aerospace 

Accreditation

• This course is accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) for the purposes of meeting, in part, the exemplifying academic benchmark requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer. 

• Students will need to complete an approved format of further learning pursuant to the requirements of UK-SPEC.