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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Your Guide to Motorsports Engineering

There are a lot of diverse paths for pursuing an education in motorsports that will ultimately guide you to a profession in racing: motorsports engineering is one of them. In fact, if you want to pursue the mechanical aspect of the sport, motorsports engineering is one of the top ways into a professional racing team.

A motorsports engineering program will intermix all of the instruction that an engineer would receive, from physics and mathematics to economics and business, with dedicated instruction and research that relates directly to the motorsports industry. This knowledge base can guide you to occupations other than auto racing, so there is no reason to worry that you'll be restricted to a single industry if you decide to pursue a racing engineering degree: with the intense highlighting of mechanical engineering, the automotive manufacturing and motorcycle technology industries are practical options, together with numerous additional non-automotive occupations.

In a motorsports engineering curriculum, you will receive education that completely associate with auto racing. For example: racecar design and development, race vehicle dynamics, vehicle aerodynamics, NASCAR engines, racecar simulation, tire mechanics, data acquisition and analysis, materials science, and many more.

Every student in a racing engineering training program will also be exposed to laboratory courses, which train students on designing an experiment, collecting data and evaluating it, and relating it to motorsports subject matters. The majority of curriculum's have a lecture series in which industry experts teach students practical and realistic knowledge.
And, most significantly, most programs require involvement in a school sponsored racing team, where students apply understanding and education directly to a real racecar.
Universities and colleges that provide motorsports engineering degrees include UNC Charlotte, Old Dominion University, and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

 By Kasey Johnson

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