Motorsport Engineering with foundation year

The foundation year of this Coventry University degree will be delivered from our CU Coventry campus. Course delivery from year 1 of the degree course onwards will be from our Coventry University campus.

This course aims to provide you with a solid grounding for a career in the automotive engineering sector.

The foundation year seeks to provide opportunities to develop fundamental knowledge and skills in a range of mathematical and business principles, as well as the theories and concepts of electrical and mechanical engineering. Students who successfully complete their foundation year will then progress onto the Automotive Engineering BEng (Hons) degree within Coventry University’s School of Future Transport Engineering.

The degree offers you the chance to specialise in performance engineering, covering design for performance, construction and operation of competition vehicles, alongside core mechanical engineering topics. It also aims to provide you with a sound understanding of the professional context of motorsport engineering.

Key benefits of the degree

• Opportunities to work with staff on real-world problems from industry, commerce and research groups, as you would in professional practice

• Access to extensive cutting-edge facilities in our High Performance Engineering Centre, which houses a 20% scale model wind tunnel (designed and built by the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 team), composites lab, metrology lab, flow lab, AVL engine test cell, automotive workshop, fatigue and tensile testing (Instron), a full size Harrier Jet, three further simulators, civil engineering specialist testing equipment, a range of CNC machinery and a laser workshop

• Opportunities to participate in field trips which have previously included observing crash tests at the GM Milford site and a visit to the Professional Motorsport World Expo in Cologne, Germany

• On and off-site access to commercial engineering software, such as 3D CAD, Finite Element Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Multibody Systems for design and simulation, as well as training in industry standard Catia, HyperWorks, STAR-CCM+, and SIMPACK software

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Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

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