Automotive Engineering Amrita University

Overview

India is ranked as one of the largest producers in the world with an average annual production of more than seventeen million vehicles.  Automotive industry contributes to the 7% of GDP as per the data. According to a report released recently by Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, our country is also one of the largest automotive markets. Automobile exports are growing annually with the support of the policies taken by the government to attract multinational companies to invest in India.

All these set a potential platform for automobile engineering market and jobs in this sector. With the government’s ‘The Automotive Mission Plan’ (AMP) II 2016-26, a plethora of job opportunities in this industry is expected. The sector currently needs educated professionals with innovative ideasin design and manufacturing of such advanced automobiles and machines.

Automobile Engineers are in demand not only in India, but also in foreign countries. Automobile Engineering has opened up great employment opportunities in private and multinational automobile companies, service stations, defence services as well as in entrepreneurship.

Highlights of the Specialisation

• Amrita Automotive Research and Technology Center (AARTC) established with industry support to provide state of art facilities for students to work on live projects.

• AARTC is the only University laboratory providing comprehensive facilities to the tune of 20 crores in the automotive domain in India.

• The Automotive Engineering program from Amrita University provides an opportunity for the students to pursue internships in automotive/allied companies and organizations such as Mercedes Benz, CVRDE, Volvo, NAL, JCI, BOSCH, Mahindra, Renault, Altair, Greaves-Cotton, Ashok Leyland etc. and European Universities under Indo-European initiative.

• Automotive Engineering students get an opportunity to work on collegiate design series programs which facilitate designing and prototyping of vehicles.