Degrees
Bachelor's Degree in Automotive Engineering

Bachelor's Degree in Automotive Engineering

Knowledge

  • Describe the basic principles of mathematics, physics, chemistry, graphic expression, environmental engineering, and computer science.
  • Describe the principles of thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and materials science and technology in the field of engineering.
  • Define the organization and planning in the field of the company and other institutions and organizations.
  • Describe the basic principles of circuit theory, electrical machines, electronics, automation, and control methods in the field of engineering.
  • Recognize a business environment through the concept of enterprise, basic principles of business organization and management, industrial production systems, and the structure and functions of a design office.
  • Describe the principles of machines and mechanisms and strength of materials in the field of engineering.
  • Describe concepts or principles related to vehicle mechanics, electronics, and structure. 
  • Describe manufacturing processes, industrial processes, quality control and management systems. 

Skills

  • Effectively communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions, with the support of appropriate information and communication technologies, aimed at both specialized and non-specialized audiences.
  • Develop the necessary learning to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy. TA
  • Solve industrial engineering problems by interpreting relevant data, with critical reasoning, with initiative, decision-making and creativity, to provide innovative responses to the needs and demands of society.
  • Plan the work of an industrial engineering project making efficient use of resources and managing time, with a focus on results and continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate effectively in multidisciplinary teams, assuming different roles.
  • Use the basic principles of mathematics, physics, chemistry, graphic expression, environmental engineering, and computer science in solving engineering problems.
  • Develop a project in the field of automotive engineering that integrates the skills acquired in the degree and that concludes with the presentation and defence of the same before a specialised audience.
  • Develop the principles of elasticity, structural analysis, dynamics and vibrations.
  • Develop the basic principles of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, materials and machines and mechanisms.
  • Develop the principles of vehicle mechanics, including the vehicle's mechanical subsystems, machines, engines and aerodynamics, related to automotive engineering.
  • Apply the basic elements of business, legislation, regulation and standardisation in the professional field of their competence.

Competences

  • To act in the professional practice of the field of industrial engineering with ethical responsibility and with respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values, gender inequalities, social, economic and environmental impact.
  • Carry out projects, including drafting, signing and development, in the field of industrial engineering that have as their purpose, in accordance with the knowledge acquired, the construction, reform, repair, conservation, demolition, manufacture, installation, assembly or operation of: structures, mechanical equipment, energy installations, electrical and electronic installations, vehicles and their subsystems, industrial facilities and plants and manufacturing processes and automation, in accordance with the rules, legislation and regulations in force, as well as the organization, management and direction of these activities applying the principles and methods of quality.
  • Use vehicle structural design principles as well as knowledge of elasticity, dynamics, and vibrations to address and solve automotive engineering problems.
  • Proficiently apply the principles of electrical and electronic engineering, including vehicle electronics, electric motors and power electronics, as well as intelligent vehicle subsystems, in solving automotive engineering problems, following the standards of the automotive industry.
  • Proficiently apply the principles of vehicle mechanical engineering, including the vehicle's mechanical subsystems, machines and engines, as well as knowledge of aerodynamics, in solving automotive engineering problems, following the standards of the automotive industry.
  • Proficiently use advanced knowledge of technologies specific to the automotive engineering area in solving engineering problems, following the standards of the automotive industry.
  • Effectively select materials and manufacturing processes in the resolution of engineering problems, through the analysis and evaluation of the social and environmental impact of applicable technical solutions.
  • Integrate applied knowledge of thermal engineering and the fundamentals of fluid-mechanical systems and machines in projects in the field of mechanical engineering.