Your visit to Autosport International in January could lead to the start of your own career in motorsport, with some of the biggest companies and several leading universities presenting their courses and the achievements of current students at the show.
Autosport International has been supporting the engineering industry for over 25 years and features no less than 11 of the UK’s leading tertiary institutions renowned for their engineering courses.
Traditional universities such as Cranfield, Oxford Brookes, Bolton, Birmingham City and Derby will be joined by a new online course, offered by the National Motorsport Academy, which is seeing record numbers of students enrolling all the time.
The National Motorsport Academy offers the world’s first online only motorsport engineering degree course, and the first students started in November 2015. However, as the National Motorsport Academy doesn’t adhere to traditional semesters, students can enrol at any time. Since the courses went live, the Academy is enrolling between five and 10 students every week, with more than 70 currently signed up.
Visitors to the National Motorsport Academy’s stand, and all of the other universities’ stands, will be able to talk to a selection of academics teaching the courses, as well as students currently taking part.
Many of the universities will also have cars on show, with many displaying cars the students themselves have created. Oxford Brookes, Birmingham City University and the University of Derby are just some of those displaying the vehicles entered into the 2015 Formula Student competition.
The competition is organised by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), and challenges students to design, build and race a car in the space of a year. British universities faced competition from around the globe, with 135 teams taking part from places as far afield as Australia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Chris Aylett, the CEO of the Motorsport Industry Association, hailed the presence of the students and universities at Autosport International, saying: “The Motorsport Industry Association has, from its inception, supported the Careers in Motorsport section of this great show.”
“Over many years, this section has attracted the very best universities, colleges and educational organisations, which offer top class motorsport-relevant courses and qualifications that are of value when securing a career in the motorsport industry. No other country in the world has so many motorsport-based educational facilities, a fact which keeps the UK ahead of the global competition, and has consistently produced many of the leading engineers in the sport today.”
If you are interested in pursuing a career in engineering and motorsport, then makes sure to purchase your tickets for Autosport International at www.autosportinternational.com/trade where all the top academic institutions will be present under one roof.
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