What are the automobile majors?

After the intense college entrance examination and the carnival, many people have to worry about filling in their volunteers. What did they learn? What major should I study to find a good job?

In recent years, the automobile market in China has become the largest market in the world, and private cars have gradually become a necessity for most families, and the automobile service industry has become increasingly hot. Many children's shoes are interested in automobile specialty. So what do you study in automobile major? What are the specific majors?

What are the auto-related majors?

As one of the most complex and expensive personal consumer goods (airplanes, ships and trains are rarely privately owned), automobiles are comprehensive industrial products integrating many disciplines such as machinery, electronics, thermodynamics, materials science, ergonomics, control science and fluid mechanics.

Besides the common automobile engineering and vehicle engineering, the automobile specialty we are talking about also includes mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, thermal energy and power engineering, material science and engineering, man-machine engineering interaction, control and automation, electronic engineering and many other specialties. Because of the high complexity and integration of automobiles, it can be said that almost every engineering major can be linked to automobiles. In addition to these science and engineering majors, there are also automobile service engineering, transportation, marketing, advertising, consumer psychology, industrial design and other majors, and even many financial majors that can be related to automobiles.

Some friends have questions. Is the familiar 100-kilometer acceleration data, track lap time and brand a part of automobile specialty? I'm sorry to tell you that these contents are all part of automobile marketing or automobile culture. They are not a subject, or they are not the main content of a subject.

Automobile engineering specialty is essentially a science and engineering specialty under the category of mechanical engineering, and it is still relatively hard-core

Automotive engineering. What?

As mentioned above, as a branch of mechanical engineering, automobile engineering is a very huge and complex system, which needs advanced mathematics and various physics as the foundation. In addition to these, as far as professional courses are concerned, in many colleges and universities, students majoring in automobile engineering have a characteristic that the places where they attend classes are particularly scattered. For example, if I am a student majoring in automobile engineering, I may go to the School of Materials to study metal materials, to the School of Thermal Power to study engines, to the School of Mechanical Design, and to the School of Electronic Engineering to study automation. On the whole, the correlation between these courses is not strong, and the objectives are not concentrated, which is the characteristic of undergraduate education of automobile engineering specialty.

A friend asked, isn't there a special course in automobile engineering? Yes! If you want to know something about automotive engineering, Bian Xiao suggests you buy a book:

This book is a professional basic course for automobile engineering majors. There are few formulas in it, and more are introductory graphic structural words. If you are really interested in applying for the automobile major, you can buy a set online and see what is different from the automobile magazines you usually see.

Specific to each academic year, the major of automobile engineering mainly has such a curriculum arrangement: in the freshman stage, it is mainly general basic courses, such as advanced mathematics, linear algebra, college physics, mechanical drawing foundation, etc., and some schools will offer some professional basic courses, such as electrical engineering and electronics, theoretical mechanics, etc. Sophomore will be professional basic courses, such as mechanical design, mechanical principle, material mechanics, automation and control engineering, electronic engineering, thermodynamic engineering, mechanical engineering materials and so on. Most schools will offer specialized courses from the second semester of sophomore year to the last semester of senior year. These professional courses include automobile theory, automobile introduction, engine principle, automobile design, automobile powertrain, hydraulic transmission, vehicle networking, electric vehicle theory, and some large and small course designs will be attached.

But do you think you can design cars independently after learning these things? Not really! Undergraduate education is still based on basic professional education, and what you do in the future depends on what kind of work you choose to do.

As mentioned above, the major of automobile engineering is different from other science and engineering majors, and it is a "comprehensive" major, which requires students to have strong knowledge integration ability. When you really take over a project, you will find that it requires you to synthesize multidisciplinary knowledge and choose what you need from a vast number of professional categories to complete the task.

Of course, different schools have different courses. Here, let's first introduce the core and the most important course of automobile engineering. There will be differences in specific schools, and it is better to ask the school in person.