The overall aim of this course is to ensure graduates have a comprehensive engineering education combined with specialist knowledge of automotive systems recognised in the professional engineering community by an accredited degree. This ensures that graduates are equipped with the appropriate knowledge and enterprising spirit to practise professionally and ethically. Thus, the course will: · address industry’s demand for graduates who can apply the principles of automotive systems engineering to the analysis and synthesis of products and systems across the engineering sector · enable you to pursue professional careers in automotive systems at a level which requires the exercise of sound judgement, and initiative, and the ability to make informed decisions in complex and unpredictable circumstances that reflect a responsible, ethical, and socially aware outlook · furnish you with a detailed understanding of the principles of automotive systems engineering, combined with and an understanding of electrical engineering and electronics, enabling the rational selection of the most appropriate technology mix to solve engineering problems · engender a top-down, systems approach to the analysis, synthesis and realisation of engineering products and systems. · provide a broadly based education in automotive systems engineering, combined with an appreciation of electrical engineering, electronics, and design, thereby providing access to a wide range of career paths within the engineering field.

The combination of engineering skills, design capability, and management provides graduates of this course with a wide range of employment opportunities in technical environments across the world. Automotive Systems engineers may choose industrially based careers in research and development, test, systems, product development, performance and development engineering, automotive component, and design engineering. They go on to co-ordinate product, process and system design; and manage technical projects in a wide range of technical environments. Graduates may also study for a taught postgraduate degree, MSc, or a research degree, MPhil/PhD, within the Department. The transferable skills gained during the course, including: project management, group working, and analytical thinking, also enable a graduate to pursue careers in non-technical fields such as: law, accountancy, authoring, and computing.