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MEng

Motorsports Engineering

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

4 Years

Start

September 2023

UCAS Code

H334

Delivery

Campus Taught

Foundation entry

Get set for a thrilling career working on some of the most technically-advanced vehicles in the world, at the highest level in motorsports and engineering, with our MEng in Motorsports Engineering.

You’ll develop skills in design and development processes through a combination of year-long modules, masterclasses, and short courses; and build a race car.

Engineering science, including engineering analysis, mechanics, and fluid dynamics, underpin much of the design and manufacturing activities on the course.

Our MEng course extends the BEng course, deepening and embedding your investigative and design skills through additional group and individual projects.

This course is absolutely focused on delivering top flight racing and engineering professionals. Plus, you’ll benefit from our new £35 million Engineering Innovation Centre (EIC).

Why study with us

Engineering at the University is ranked in the UK's top 20 (Complete University Guide, 2020).
Through projects, you’ll gain real engineering experiences, and skills like presenting, time and project management.
95% of our students were satisfied with the learning resources available to them (National Student Survey, 2020).

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What you'll do

You’ll work on personal and team projects to understand the design-development-manufacture cycle and the strategies associated with developing vehicles and products.
You'll get to work in our dedicated workshop catering for Formula Student, Formula Ford race cars, eco-marathon cars, and a race car simulator.
You’ll travel to internationally renowned events, including Formula Student and the Shell Eco-Marathon, building up great contacts. People from industry, current and former students will also get to see your work when you present it at our Engineering Expo event.

Module overview

Course delivery

This course is taught face-to-face at one of our UK campuses.

100%Face-to-face

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

Study in our Engineering Innovation Centre (EIC)

During your studies with us you’ll benefit from our new £35 million EIC building which provides an integrated teaching space in state-of-the-art facilities.

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Accreditations

This MEng course is professionally accredited by the IMechE (which represents mechanical engineers and the engineering profession) as fulfilment of the educational requirements to become a Chartered Engineer.
This MEng course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers as meeting the academic requirement for membership and registration for Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council.

Future careers

There is huge demand for engineering graduates, and a MEng in Motorsports Engineering gives you lots of options. If you complete a placement you’ll be even more employable.

As well as going into motorsport, you could work in in aerospace, the automotive industry, the Ministry of Defence and in research development.

Graduates from this course are currently working at companies like Mercedes AMG Motorsport, Williams F1, Force India F1, Tom Tunstall Racing, M-Sport, Ginetta, and Century Motorsport.

If you’re looking beyond the motorsports industry, our graduates can be found at Jaguar Land Rover, Bentley Motors, Airbus, BAE Systems, Babcock, Tata Technologies, Helical Technologies, MI Technology, and United Utilities.

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Fees and funding

2022/23

Full-time£9250 per year

Sandwich year£1000 for the sandwich year

International

Full-time£14250 per year

2023/24

Full-time£9,250 per year

International

Full-time£14,900 per year

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of scholarships, bursaries and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

Select your country and see eligibility information and how to apply by selecting more info on the cards below.

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The first three years of your degree qualification will typically comprise 360 credits, and each 20 credit (a standard module) equates to 200 hours of study. This is made up of a mixture of lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical sessions and independent study, that latter is an important part of your degree.

The exact combination of study time will be detailed within your module descriptors, and will depend on your option choices.

This course gives you the design and manufacturing experience you need to progress to the highest levels in the motor sports and engineering industry.

The design and build of a Formula Student race car is a key part of the curriculum - you’ll work as part of a student-led group competing in an international competition at Silverstone, renowned as a testing ground for the next generation of world-class engineers.

You’ll be encouraged to join our Motorsports Club, where you will race Formula Ford race cars and work on an Eco-marathon car.

You’ll also be learning from staff who’ve had successful careers in motorsport, aerospace, automotive and rail industries.

Our MEng course deepens and embeds your investigative and design skills through additional group and individual projects.

This course offers an optional 48-week sandwich placement in industry, between your second and third year. If you’re interested, we’ll help you find and prepare for a placement. Placements are a great way to consolidate your first two years of learning, gain experience, and radically enhance your employability.

Assessments are by traditional examinations, formal reports, interviews, presentations and commentaries on portfolios. The racing, the motorsports club and our 'open door' policy makes the staff approachable for help in the assessment 'game'.

After completing three years of full-time study you’ll have the option to graduate with a BEng (Hons) degree (it will take four years to reach this stage if you choose to go on a 48-week industrial placement in-between Years 2 and 3). Or you can choose to undertake an additional year of advanced study and graduate with an MEng (Hons) degree instead (this normally takes four years to complete in all, or five years with an industrial placement).

Motorsport Club

Motorsport Club provides opportunities to participate in extra-curricular activities that will complement the learning you do as part of the course, and enables the development of additional skills and experience to enhance your employability. Initially the activities may be quite structured, such as the strip and build of a go-kart and the sessions relating to race car preparation and setting up the suspension geometry.

As your competence and confidence grows you may become a part of our successful Formula Ford team, helping to prepare and run the car at race events for our customer drivers. Typically this culminates in the Autumn with the Walter Heyes Trophy event at Silverstone, the world’s largest Formula Ford event. Or maybe you will support our Formula Student project and help prepare the vehicle for test events, or by getting involved in the build of the latest car.

We also have two racing simulators in the Motorsports Lab that you can use to put your knowledge of race car suspension set-up, and driving skills, to the test. These have data logging features to allow comparison of your driving to other students so you can analyse where and how improvements to lap times might be achieved.

Formula Student Vehicle Design Project

During the course you’ll develop and increasingly integrate the subject matter around the processes required for successful innovative and sensible technical design and manufacture.

In your final year this culminates in the Formula Student team project, a significant part of the course. The Formula Student competition is renowned as a testing ground for the next generation of world-class engineers, and you’ll design and manufacture, with other students, almost the entire car in-house.

In a recent example a carbon-fibre tub was developed using our CNC router, the engine was tuned on our engine dynamometers, the structural integrity of the sub-frame was assessed in our materials testing laboratory, and our waterjet cutter was working overtime to machine numerous components such as the rear wishbones.

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This course is based in the School of Engineering located in the Faculty of Science and Technology

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