Automotive Engineering (with an industrial placement year) MEng

• Electrical Circuits & Devices
• Engineering Maths 1A
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Programming for Engineers

• Electromechanics
• Engineering Maths 1B
• Engineering Mechanics
• Engineering Thermodynamics
• Global Design Challenge

You join all first-year students in the School of Engineering and Informatics in a team-based, week-long activity, the Global Design Challenge. Each team designs a solution to a problem faced by a community in the developing world. You develop transferable skills, benefiting both your studies and your future employability.

Year 2 at sussex

• Design for Manufacture
• Engineering Fluid Mechanics
• Engineering Mathematics 2
• Principles and Applications of Strength of Materials

• Computer Aided Design and Modelling
• Professional and Managerial Skills
• Systems Analysis and Control
• Thermal Power Cycles

An industrial placement gives you the chance to spend a year working with an organisation, in an area relevant to your course, while being paid. It’s a proven way to fast-track your career.

Recent students have gone on placements at:

• Ricardo
• Timberwolf
• Vauxhall Motors.

You develop your technical, team-working and transferable skills, and apply what you have learnt in your studies to a business environment.

Year 3 at sussex

• Business and Project Management
• Dynamics of Machines & Vehicles
• Engine Technology

• Individual Project

• Electrical Drive Systems
• Sensor Systems & Applications
• Vehicle Technology

• Automotive Systems
• Marketing Analysis and Financial Strategic Planning
• Testing & Modelling for Automotive Power Systems

• MEng Group Project

• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Finite Element Analysis
• Image Processing
• Strategic Management - Engineering module