Every day, freight trains, trucks, aeroplanes, and ships transport enormous quantities of raw material and manufactured goods around the world, while billions of people travel for work and leisure in the same manner.

This master's programme in Mobility engineering: Automotive engineering will prepare you to meet the ever-changing demands in the critical industries of aerospace engineering, automotive engineering, marine technology, and railway technology, with the option to specialise in one in particular.

Mobility engineering: Automotive engineering

Freight trains, trucks, cargo aircrafts and ships transport large quantities of raw material and manufactured goods around the world. Every day, billions of people commute by using trains, cars, aeroplanes and boats. This master's programme will prepare you to meet the ever-changing demands in the industry of aerospace engineering, automotive engineering, marine technology, and railway technology.

Goods and personal mobility play a significant role in the global economy as well as in our everyday life. Therefore, modern transportation needs to be safer, more efficient, and sustainable to ensure seamless mobility with minimal impact on the surrounding environment. This Mobility engineering master's programme will prepare you to develop sustainable, high-performance mobility solutions. You will be trained to understand features, design requirements and challenges of the present and future mobility solutions. You will also gain a holistic knowledge of mobility solutions and the ability to apply them for different transportation needs and environments.

Sustainable development is considered throughout the programme in all focus areas. In addition to the holistic knowledge, you will acquire in-depth knowledge in one of the profile areas: aerospace engineering, automotive engineering, marine technology, and railway technology. This in-depth knowledge will prepare you for working as a specialist within that field. Beyond the compulsory courses, which are common for all profiles there will be a project course for each profile.

Different subjects are discussed from a technical, societal, economical, human, and ethical perspective. The programme is based on lectures, assignments, simulations, experiments, study visits, and projects carried out as real case studies. The interconnection and collaboration with the transportation industry and transport administrations in the programme are significant and include guest lectures, study visits, laboratory exercises as well as tasks to our project courses. In the project courses, you will gain skills in project work, including communication, teamwork, and project management. The master thesis projects are often carried out in collaboration with the industry.

Topics covered:

The subjects of system engineering, propulsion systems, mechatronics in the field of mobility, technological aspects of connected fleets, structural engineering, product life management, and artificial intelligence are fundamental areas in the Mobility engineering programme.

The courses handle topics such as sustainable high-performance propulsion (including combustion, hybrid, and electric powertrains), vehicle automation, reliability analysis, load analysis and responses, passive and active safety to reduce and prevent injuries, vehicle engineering and aerodynamics, numerical methods, structural mechanics, structural and material deterioration, and designing and optimization of mechanical components.

Career outcomes:

The Mobility engineering programme at Chalmers will lead to professional roles within research and development, design and simulation of processes, systems, and parts of automotive, railway, aerospace and maritime vehicles or other mechanical systems. Both the holistic approach and the possibility for in depth studies provided in the program also offers a suitable background when aiming for a career/role within academic research, technical support, sales, manufacturing or management at different levels.

Graduates from the programme can be found at companies such as Volvo Group, Volvo Cars, SSPA, Trafikverket, GKN Aerospace, etc. There are also graduates that continue with PhD education within mobility, at Chalmers or other universities worldwide.