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Automotive Engineering?

  • 09-11-2009 10:09PM
    #1
    rory16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 107 ✭✭


    How would one get into this line of work? What Universities offer this course? I'm doing my LC and am caught between mechanical, aeronautical,civil and automotive if its possible.


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  • #2
    Dankoozy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭Dankoozy


    i suppose you can apply for a job at one of the british car manufacturers. or go to germany and hang with the germans? sprechen sie deutch?


  • #3
    rory16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 107 ✭✭rory16


    Non, je parle francais. Looks like Peugot or Renault so......I live ion Clare and don't think an automotive engineering course is available in either UL or NUIG


  • #4
    pmg58
    Closed Accounts Posts: 471 ✭✭pmg58


    I haven't heard of any automotive engineering courses in Ireland, but I could be wrong. Surely mechanical engineering would be the best course to go for? Its done in nearly every University and IT in the country.


  • #5
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    Manufacturing engineering is the closest option imo.


  • #6
    Dankoozy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭Dankoozy


    pmg58 wrote: »
    I haven't heard of any automotive engineering courses in Ireland, but I could be wrong. Surely mechanical engineering would be the best course to go for? Its done in nearly every University and IT in the country.

    They have in cit

    I wonder what percentage of the lads doing it have a 'fart cannon' attached to their car


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  • #7
    timmywex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭timmywex


    Mech eng is the unbrella term for automotive afaik, then you specilise further off


  • #8
    Pure Cork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Pure Cork


    rory16 wrote: »
    How would one get into this line of work? What Universities offer this course? I'm doing my LC and am caught between mechanical, aeronautical,civil and automotive if its possible.
    Mech is probably the best option if you want to go to college in Ireland, I haven't heard of any automotive engineering courses in Ireland. As timmywex said, mech eng is the umbrella term. People with mech eng degrees work in aero, auto, mfg, biomed, etc. etc.. UCD Mech Eng are involved in Formula Student http://www.ucd.ie/mecheng/me_formula_student.html. If you are considering civil too, you might be interested in one of the colleges with a common first year and pick your discipline for second year?
    Dankoozy wrote: »
    They have in cit

    I wonder what percentage of the lads doing it have a 'fart cannon' attached to their car
    No, they don't. However, there is a lecturer in the Mech Eng department who is an expert in the area.


  • #9
    DanHendrix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭DanHendrix


    DIT offer good courses in enginnering. Check out their website.


  • #10
    Figerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭Figerty


    LIT and CIT as far as I know offer courses in Automobile Technology, but I don't know if these go to Level 8 honours degree, I know one guy who did this course and went to Wales to finish his degree out, which was essentially Mechanical Engineering with a Automotive bent on it.


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