Bachelor Degree (Honours) in Engineering (Automotive Engineering)

RMIT University - City / Bundoora

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Overview

In this course you'll build on core studies in mechanical engineering, with a specialisation in automotive engineering. You will gain skills to develop economical and sustainable automotive designs and solve automotive engineering problems.

You’ll study vehicle power systems, sustainable vehicle design and automotive manufacturing and vehicle handling and control, vehicle aerodynamics, and vehicle noise and vibration.

The course incorporates complete car design and has a focus on new technologies that benefit society such as driverless cars, full-electric, hybrid power trains and fuel cells. It takes a global view and is increasingly environmental in outlook.

You'll gain hands-on experience through industry projects, work placements which can be undertaken internationally, and through student groups such as the RMIT Racing Teams.

Graduates from RMIT are working in F1 teams, Porsche, Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Audi, BMW, Daimler-Chrysler and Bosch.

Prerequisites

Year 12 prerequisites

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 30 in English (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL; Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in one of Maths: Mathematical Methods or Maths: Specialist Mathematics.

Non-Year 12 prerequisites

Demonstrated proficiency equivalent to stated Year 12 prerequisites.

Majors

Automotive Engineering, Engineering.

Potential Career Outcomes

The type of careers this qualification leads to may include automotive, building services, defence, energy supply, general engineering, government, petrochemical and transport.

ATAR & Selection Rank

The table below shows the ATAR and Selection Rank information for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in 2021.

ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds
ATAR
(excluding adjustment factors)
Selection Rank
(including adjustment factors)
Highest rank to receive an offer94.898.95
Median rank to receive an offer81.190.9
Lowest rank to receive an offer67.880.8

<5 - Less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made

Admission Criteria

Please refer to the RMIT University website for admission criteria information.

Course Seeker

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