Automotive & Transport Design

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BA AUTOMOTIVE & TRANSPORT DESIGN

Our Automotive & Transport Design courses will give you the opportunity to develop the technical and intellectual abilities and knowledge to undertake the design and development of new vehicles (cars and motorcycles, boats, trucks, public transport & transport systems.) based on a clear understanding of proportion, volume and surface design principles.

Industry engagement is crucial in our course which has been designed to facilitate the development of an automotive designer through the replication of a professional environment. During your second year for example, you could undertake a group live industry supported project with a major automotive manufacturer. This is a fantastic opportunity that will give you a chance to gain valuable experience and exposure. Guest lecturers and live tutorial sessions from Industry professionals, often former students, are another great way to gain knowledge and enhance your technical and intellectual abilities and your portfolio. Students have access to studio space and specialist workshops including dedicated clay and digital modelling studios, fibreglass layup spray facilities traditional hand tools, laser cutting, milling, turning, CNC machining & 3D printing (Ultimaker, Objet & Stratasys machines), digital scanning technologies (Artec, Roland) , Wacom Cintiq workstations and VR.

Our graduates find employment with some of the world’s leading automotive design studios and design consultancies such as: Jaguar Land Rover, McLaren Automotive, Icona Design, Rolls-Royce, Westfield, Pininfarina, Kiska, Saic, Futura Design, Nissan, Envisage, Gordon Murray Design, Aston Martin, Daimler Truck USA, Renault, & Lotus.

For a closer look at the great work from this course, see pages: 68, 126, 148 173