Designing it right

Chaitanya further informs that automotive engineering is best studied as a post-graduate course,as it helps the student get his basics in mechanical engineering in place. “By the university standards,we have a two-year full-time post-graduate course in automotive engineering. Students are taught automobile engine design,vehicle dynamics,automobile materials,safety and emission norms,and so on,over the two year period,” he says.

The course can either be studied as post-graduate diploma or directly after class XII. Although,if studied after engineering,it limits the scope for other engineers,as it is a core mechanical engineering related branch. Throwing more light on the course of transportation design,Umesh Tahsildar,executive director and CEO of DSK International School of Design,says,“Transportation Design mainly involves teaching students how to design vehicles that are used for transportation of people. It includes both the interior and exterior design for vehicles and unlike other design courses,is a more practical course.”

Offered under two versions,one a five-year course after class twelve and one,a three-year course after graduation,it also aims at teaching students the changing trends in the automotive design industry on par with international standards. “The students also have to compulsorily complete two internships in their last two years. Usually they intern with companies like BMW,Mercedes Benz,Volkswagen,Dell and so on. In fact,in their last semester,they have an internship titled,Pre-Job Employment Internship,wherein they mostly get absorbed into the industry directly,” he says.