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[HYR]

Help me!
I have done BE. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and want to pursue MS leading to Phd in universities which are doing reasearch work on materials related to formula one and are working cloosely with F1 teams. Plz plz plz plz plz plz help.

[Andy Donovan]

Ah, materials - a fine choice of degree! To my knowledge Sheffield doesn't do anything directly linked to motorsport teams, although of course that doesn't mean we don't do stuff that could be applied to motorsports.

I remember when I was doing the rounds for UCAS open days back in 2001 I met a guy at Manchester who'd worked with Williams, and had an FW19 nosecone in his office. I forget his name, but he was a composites guy in the materials science department.

I also tried searching for journal papers to get some ideas, but understandably they don't publish many. When they do the author is almost always listed as working for the team itself rather than a university.

My personal tendency would be to look more for a subject where the skills you learn could be easily transferred to motorsport rather than searching for a direct link, because I'm not sure you'll find one. The sort of projects that have the scope and length to require 3 years' work are going to be long-term R&D, which will probably be kept in-house if possible so it stays secret.

[schead]

Originally posted by HYR
Help me!
I have done BE. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and want to pursue MS leading to Phd in universities which are doing reasearch work on materials related to formula one and are working cloosely with F1 teams. Plz plz plz plz plz plz help.

The best place that I have seen that do MS courses in motorsports, which have links to pretty much every F1 team is Cranfield. Pat Symmonds is among the alumni.

http://www.motorspor...ac.uk/front.htm

[tidytracks]

Oxford Brookes is going all out on its motorsport degrees right now... they're even building a wind tunnel.

Link

Anywhere that does Formula Student could also be a good place to start your research into courses.

Good luck

[mmmcurry]

I know Leeds Uni has a proper VD section of Mech Eng and that a few of them have gone onto various F1 teams as well as other sections of motor sport.

Also when I was at Leeds (for a computers degree), they were a great bunch people down the pub (always essential), very much work hard, play hard. Not sure who's there anymore these days though.

Steve.

[femi]

why don't you have a word with your professor and if he doesn't have a direct answer will probably know where to direct you - but you've got to be very good though..

[HDonaldCapps]

I hope that you have a Plan B.....

If you are serious about the PhD, first get the PhD and only then begin to worry about the other (f1) stuff. Grad school for a doctorate is hard enough of a grind as it is without any other complications. It is great to have dreams, but reality is a different story. Get the knowledge and the expertise and then things will fall into place.

Also, contrary to popular belief here and elsewhere, formula one is scarcely on the leading edge of much of any technologies, simply the rather frivolous use of some of them.

[Andy Donovan]

Originally posted by mmmcurry
Also when I was at Leeds (for a computers degree), they were a great bunch people down the pub (always essential), very much work hard, play hard. Not sure who's there anymore these days though.

I've heard tell that the materials people in Leeds sometimes tend to be just 'play hard, play hard' and working takes a back seat, although of course that could be just Leeds/Sheffield rivalry talking.

While we're on the subject of PhDs and such, Piled Higher & Deeper is a comic strip about grad school life which is scarily accurate at times, as well as being quite funny in a geeky kinda way. Well worth a look.