Goal:
To develop technical leaders in the automotive environment with dept in their own engineering disciplines, breadth across engineering disciplines, knowledge of basic management issues, and the ability to lead project teams.

Target:
Emphasizing automotive engineering practices, our program is flexible to accomodate the needs of both full-time and part-time students. Full-time students include relatively recent college graduates with the equivalent of two years of work experience in the automotive industry acquired through full-time employment, summer internships, and co-ops; industry and government employees on temporary leave of absence from work to enhance their skills; engineers from various disciplines seeking new careers in the automotive world; and international students seeking a specialization in the global automotive industry.

Part-time students include engineers from companies such as Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Chrysler Corp., Detroit Diesel Co., Mitsubishi, Nissan, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Format:
Students may take classes either on campus in Ann Arbor or through distance-learning formats. MEng class are presently televised to eight U-M sites worldwide, as well as to Ford and United Technologies. Chrysler, Bosch, and Nivstar are in the process of picking up our classes. Students can also transfer up to 15 credits from the U-M Dearborn campus, or 6 credits from any other university with a curriculum in automotive engineering and related fields.

Opportunities also exist for students to pursue a significant part of their curriculum and/or their capstone automotive project in universities affiliated with our program worldwide, such as the University of Aachen (Germany), Loughborough (United Kingdom), and the National University of Singapore.

A Closer Look:
Started in 1995, the degree program combines core and systems engineering classes, real-world application, business management, and human resource training. Because of the U-M's proximity to the heart of the automobile industry, our students can puruse their capstone automotive system engineering project while working onsite in automotive plants and design centers in the Detroit metropolitan area. Local engineers are regular speakers in classes and seminars. These experiences make coursework more meaningful and provide valuable networking opportunities for career development.

Scope:
"Today's top engineers must have command of their own engineering specialty, and be knowledgeable about a wide ranges of other engineering disciplines;" says Professor Dennis Assanis, program director. "They must also lead teams, think strategically, and manage finite human and financial resources while producing optimal outcomes.

"Our MEng AutoE degree will produce such leaders. Above all, our program is young, strong, and dynamic. Our students--already some of the best in their fields--receive close, personal attention. They get to know their faculty and have plenty of contact with other students and engineers."

For more information, please see:
http://ott-outreach.engin.umich.edu/automotive-engineering/auto.html.