UK Automotive/ Motorsport Degree's Info

[Scannee]

Hi

I'm in my final year of a Beng Product design with Motorsport Strathclyde Uni degree and im looking ahead to further studying in October. My main choices are Oxford Brookes, Kingston or Hertfordshire for Motorsport engineering and Automotive with Motorsport respectively. I'm looking for any current students who would be willing to critique the courses and give me an indication of their satisfaction. Of course not everything is not all fun and involving and i certainly wouldn't recommend my degree to any student wanting to choose an engineering path in Motorsport but as i will be self funded and i don't want it to be an expensive two years for a similar level of education as i have. All feedback will be appreciated, please email if you do not wish to post publicly

Thank you for your help

Steve_canny@hotmail.com

[Scannee]

Hi

I'm in my final year of a Beng Product design with Motorsport Strathclyde Uni degree and im looking ahead to further studying in October. My main choices are Oxford Brookes, Kingston or Hertfordshire for Motorsport engineering and Automotive with Motorsport respectively. I'm looking for any current students who would be willing to critique the courses and give me an indication of their satisfaction. Of course not everything is not all fun and involving and i certainly wouldn't recommend my degree to any student wanting to choose an engineering path in Motorsport but as i will be self funded and i don't want it to be an expensive two years for a similar level of education as i have. All feedback will be appreciated, please email if you do not wish to post publicly

Thank you for your help

Steve_canny@hotmail.com

[JR @ CFS]

How long have you been involved with FS and to what level have you participated. What side of motorsport do you want to go into. Do you know what you want to specialise in. There are a lot of guys who get into F1 straight from FS and countless others in other forms of motorsport. Would be interesting if someone had a list of exactly where all FS and FSAE alumni are now. At Chalmers we are trying to track them all down and therefore have an Alumni section in there. One guy walked straight into a job at Spyker.

So, consider that option also.

[Scannee]

Hi
I met three Chalmers students at oxford in October at Optimum G, i apologise i can only remember peter. This is my 3rd year in formula student however the team has limited faculty support and funds to this year in particular we are focusing on reducing the cars weight and the driven mass. I have entered the team for Germany and the UK. I took on team leader role and my finally year dissertation is a class 3 entry for July. I have built and rally two cars in national championships and maintain them and run pi analysis on them to get a broad spread of experience and not purely formula style. My area of interest is rallying on loose so i would like to work on a WRC programme and have a few friends who have worked for M-sport, Prodrive and freelance on private WRC entries and enjoy the job and the traveling

[JR @ CFS]

Peter, Lasse and Malin. They thought the course was fantastic! Some people don't like doing it, but if I were you, I would try to use the contacts you have. Make sure you have a killer CV and covering letter and by the sounds of it you have enough experience that would jump off the page at a perspective employer. Always watch the jobs section in www.autosport.com, (http://www.autosport.com,) check out the websites of all the teams who run in the WRC and speak to you friends and get them to ask around (esp the HR dept) to see if there is any specific area which they are looking for people and tailor you CV/covering letter to suit. Bar that, contact the Universities and go along for an informal chat with course advisors and students or there may be open days coming up.

Remember, if you don't ask, you don't get!

[SR-Mike]

Steve,

Please accept my apologies if I've missed something but I'm fairly sure you're not the Strathclyde FS team captain as implied above. As a recent Strathclyde grad working for a famous British sportscar company i would highly recommend any Strathclyde engineering degree to students interested in going into any aspect of the automotive industry.

Regards,

Mike

University of Strathclyde Motorsport 01-06

[Scannee]

The strathclyde product design with motorsport degree at Bell College, as it is not run at Strathclyde. It appears the product design engineering degree sucess as not been recreated on the motorsport variant, i have a few friends who have progressed through strathclyde on pd and enjoyed it however the same cannot be said for this degree and the concesuss is across all three years

[adnash]

Hi Scnnee
We are entering 1st time in FS compitition for class 3. We are putting the business case together for class 3 but very confused what kind of business case Judges expecting from class 3. I read your response below and you have been in class 3 in past. I would to request you to advice us in business case and juges question regards business case.and if you have any supporting material you can pass to us for guide. Look forward to hear from you. Thanks in advanced

Regards

Adnash

e-mail:adn_ash@yahoo.co.uk

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Scannee:
Hi
I met three Chalmers students at oxford in October at Optimum G, i apologise i can only remember peter. This is my 3rd year in formula student however the team has limited faculty support and funds to this year in particular we are focusing on reducing the cars weight and the driven mass. I have entered the team for Germany and the UK. I took on team leader role and my finally year dissertation is a class 3 entry for July. I have built and rally two cars in national championships and maintain them and run pi analysis on them to get a broad spread of experience and not purely formula style. My area of interest is rallying on loose so i would like to work on a WRC programme and have a few friends who have worked for M-sport, Prodrive and freelance on private WRC entries and enjoy the job and the traveling </div></BLOCKQUOTE>