Automobile Engineer - How to become an Automobile Engineer

Automobile Engineer - Some time also called as Automotive Engineer- are the professionals who are specialized in designing vehicles, like cars, Jeeps, SUV’s trucks, to name a few. They assist in the design, development, improvement, and modification of a variety of operating systems. They are also concerned with the effective functioning of safety systems. Automotive engineers develop and organize testing procedures and analyze and interpret data. They also conduct research, create visual presentations.

Automobile engineer specialize in a specific area such as aerodynamics and thermodynamics. Some focus on creating design models and others concentrate on parts fabrication.

Ever growing automobile industry worldwide has increased the demand for  Automobile Engineer  in the recent couple of decades. .

Increased demand for not only passage vehicles but also heavy vehicle in both the developed and developing countries and increased research and development for fuel efficient vehicles and other types of  vehicular automation has contributed towards the growth of  Automobile Engineering as a main career option in the present day youth.

Budding candidates having a creative and analytical mind along with good command in subjects like physics, aerodynamics, thermodynamics and mathematics will probably find themselves well suited for Automobile engineering as a prospective and lucrative career in present day context.

To become an Automobile Engineer one should not only have high level of engineering knowledge but also possess extraordinary creative thinking along with supervisory and administrative skills.

Thus if you have discipline, patience, commitment to excel in the respective field and  are full of self-confidence to compete  in some of the highly participated competitive exams this is the field worth joining for you.

How to become an Automobile Engineer?

You can follow any of the two paths to be an Automobile Engineer

Automobile Engineer Eligibility

You can join Colleges offering Diploma in Automobile Engineering after 10^th and get a Diploma in Automobile Engineering

1. Educational Qualification

To be eligible for joining a Diploma in Automobile Engineering  course one should be 10^th Class pass or appeared.

Step 1

Interested candidate has to appear in an entrance test conducted by the Technical Education Boards of various State Governments and selected candidates are admitted in the Diploma collages according to the rank of the candidate in the entrance exam. Like in the State of Punjab in India Joint Entrance Test (JET) is taken to admit the students in its diploma engineering collages. 

This exam is generally held in the month of May-June and consists of Objective type questions on the subject of English, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Aptitude.

Step 2

After completing this three years of Diploma course one can either join some Automobile making Company as Junior Engineer or can compete to get admission in the second year of degree in engineering course which is provided by some of the regional engineering collages of the state. 

The second option is to join Automobile Engineering Colleges after 10+2 to get Bachelor in Automobile Engineering degree.

1. Educational Qualification.

To be eligible for joining a Bachelors in Automobile Engineer degree course one should be 10+2 Class pass or appeared  in Non-Medical stream with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics as main subjects with minimum of 60% marks in PCM for most of the prestigious collages. 

Step 1

Eligible candidates have to appear in the entrance tests conducted  by various State  Universities ( like PU, KU, Delhi University etc) of the  state, Central Govt Organizations like AIEEE and  independent institution (like IIT’s , BITS Pilani etc) present at various places in the India. Candidate get admission into these collages for four year degree Programme according to their merit in the examination taken and stream of their interest as selected by them.

Step 2

After successful completion degree course and completion of the required internship the candidate is ready to join Automobile Industry as an Automobile Engineer.

As another option one can opt of higher qualification as Master in Automobile Engineering (M.E Automobile Engineering) followed by Ph.D. in Automobile Engineering and can go for research work or for academics. It all depends upon once priorities in their life.

Automobile Engineer Job Description and Career Prospects

Job Description of Automobile Engineer includes working on a variety of motor vehicles such as cars, trucks, motorcycles, commercial vehicles, and recreational vehicles. They job include assisting in the design, development, improvement, and modification of a variety of operating systems.

Automobile Engineer is also concerned with the fuel efficiency and effective functioning of safety systems. For this they are responsible for developing  and organize testing procedures and analyzing  and interpreting  data. They also conduct research, create visual presentations, and use computer-aided design software. Most automotive engineers specialize in a specific area such as aerodynamics and thermodynamics. Some focus on creating design models and others concentrate on parts fabrication.

Automobile Engineer Salary

An Automobile Engineer can expect to get anywhere near Rs.40,000 to Rs.50,000 as starter with  big automobile industries  like TATA’s Motors, MUL to name a few. However Automobile Engineers with experience of 3 to 4 years working in Multinational compnies can expect to get an average annual salary between $50,000 and $60,000.

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