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MathWorks
Vehicle Design Webinar Series for Student Competitions: join for some live WebEx sessions from the team that brings you the MATLAB and Simulink Racing Lounge! These WebEx sessions will cover topics relevant to automotive student teams. In each session, we will start with the basics and then do a deep dive into relevant automotive reference examples. Register for your preferred sessions. (Please note that seats are limited and therefore registration is required.)
IPG Automotive
IPG Automotive offers full licenses of their leading CarMaker software and Formula CarMaker package for all Formula Student teams to carry out iterative virtual testing and participate in the Lap Time Simulation event. The package comes both fully-featured and optimised for the Formula Student competition with everything you need to get started, including:
- A pre-made ADS-DV vehicle model
- A standard Formula Student vehicle model
- All the Dynamic Events tracks, including Acceleration, Figure of Eight Skidpad, Sprint and Endurance Courses and more
- Full guidance for customising your models
- A technical forum supported by a global IPG Automotive team
And much more – register your team today!
Saietta Group
Applications are now open for a graduate engineer at Saietta Group: The graduate engineer will join the company’s graduate scheme and work towards professional accreditation under the guidance of a mentor. You will spend time within various parts of the business (e.g. motor build, design, test, R&D and sales, marketing and finance) to help you develop well-rounded technical and commercial experience.
The ideal candidate will be a recent graduate engineer with relevant experience of project work within projects including Formula Student, so all teams working on electric vehicles for the competition are strongly encouraged to apply.
Autodesk
Autodesk® Fusion 360® virtual workshop with plug and play curriculum
Autodesk Learning Partners are offering a fully funded virtual workshop that will bring you up to speed on Fusion 360 software — fast. It even comes with a free plug & play CAD/CAM curriculum: request your workshop here.
The Fusion 360 software, the curriculum, and the workshop are all provided by Autodesk at no cost to you. When you’ve finished your half-day workshop, you’ll have a dedicated partner to guide you and answer any questions that come up. We believe in investing in higher education, since we know that you’re the future of the industry.
*If you are a student and you want to learn more about Fusion 360 or use it in your student team, have your professor sign up for the workshop and attend it together.
GKN Automotive Innovation centre
As part of GKN Automotive's commitment to developing young engineering talent, they have two new opportunities for a System Architect and a Simulation Engineer, to be based out of the GKN Innovation Centre in Abingdon.
View the full job description for the Simulation Engineer position.
View the full job description for the System Architect position.
To apply for either position, please send your CV and personal statement to caroline.wood@gknautomotive.com.
Bentley Motors
Undergraduate placement roles are now live at www.bentleycareers.com. Bentley Motors will have a record trainee intake in 2022 for our Early Careers programmes – a total of 113 positions, of which 60 will be placement year students and 18 Graduate opportunities.
The range of roles is more diverse than ever, with vacancies in the Undergraduate placement year including Environmental Operations, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Digital & IT, Quality Engineering (Supplier, Field, Laboratory), and Aftersales Engineering as well as other business areas such as HR, Finance and Marketing.
Cranfield University
Come and talk with us to discover how studying a Cranfield MSc can help achieve your motorsport career goals and why we have the largest number of transport and automotive postgraduates of any UK university.
Cranfield students have access to our unique ‘at-scale’ facilities which motorsport and high-performance engineering companies utilise. These include the:
- Multi User Environment for Autonomous Vehicle Innovation (MUEAVI); our purpose-built test track for research into connected and autonomous vehicles
- Crash Impact Centre; one of just two FIA approved test centres in the world
- Cranfield Motorsport Simulation; at the forefront of race driving simulation
Plus many more: visit the Advanced Vehicle Engineering Centre at Cranfield University for details of all the cutting-edge Masters courses on offer for Formula Student competitors to join after graduating, including Advanced Motorsport Engineering and Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Engineering.