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CAREER IN AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING
While walking on the streets, when you come across high-end luxurious cars like Ferrari, Porsche, Range Rover, Jaguar, Lamborghini, BMW, Audi, have you ever in the slightest of your imagination thought – who are the designers or the makers of these grandiose machines? Well, you can also be the designer or developer of these amazing machines. If you have love and passion for such machines, then a career in Automobile Engineering can be a possible choice for you.
What is Automobile Engineering?
Automobile Engineering is the sub branch of Mechanical Engineering, also known as automotive engineering or vehicle engineering. The automobile industry includes automobiles and auto components sectors. The Automobile engineering course caters to the creation and maintenance of automobiles, right from designing the vehicles to manufacturing components, assembling them, testing them for safety, repairing and maintaining. It also enables the engineers to explore new areas, create new avenues in the fields of R & D and develop their talent in new technologies.
How to pursue Automobile Engineering?
The students, who wish to pursue Automobile Engineering should have passed higher secondary board exam from a recognized board in India with Science- Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Biomedical with high percentage of marks..
Options and Opportunities
The demand for automobiles is increasing. In response to the emerging opportunity, availability of skilled manpower and growing technology, foreign automobile players are eyeing the Indian market for future growth. On the other hand, the Indian markets too are expanding their operations to meet the demand. Also, India is increasingly gaining recognition as good market for hybrid and electric vehicles. In this backdrop, the automobile industry in India is poised for a new era of growth. Automobile engineering encompasses creation and maintenance of automobiles, right from designing the vehicle to manufacturing components, assembling them, testing the vehicles for safety and even repairing and maintaining them.
The industry offers a variety of job roles for skilled professionals. The job roles can be basically categorised into design, development and manufacturing. Design engineers create the design or blueprint of the vehicle or an important component of the vehicle. Development engineers’ is based on blueprints. They run simulation tests, assess the strengths and weaknesses of model and create prototypes. Manufacturing engineers deal with actual production of automotive components and automobiles. As an academic option, automobile engineering is available at B. Tech and M. Tech levels.
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