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News Release from: Coventry University | Subject: Virtual Engineering
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 September 2006
A virtually futuristic engineering
course
Coventry University is offering a brand new degree course next year that will take students into the virtual world of engineering.
Coventry University is offering a brand new degree course next year that will take students into the virtual world of engineering Engineering companies around the world are striving to reduce research and development time so that products can be designed, verified, tested and brought to the market as quickly as possible
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 Sep 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Coventry University has recognised this need for speed and is introducing a new BEng Hons degree in Virtual Engineering for 2007.
Virtual engineering uses the latest technology to minimise the physical prototyping of the product and manufacturing process and makes maximum use of computer hardware and software.
The data used in the design processes is also now used in the analysis, factory layout, and marketing processes of an engineering business.
Andrew Bell, Senior Lecturer (Project Management) from the Faculty of Engineering and Computing said: "Historically computers were expensive technical islands improving individual engineering processes, but not making a fundamental shift in the way that engineering companies operated".
"The design data has not been extensively used in the downstream business processes".
"Virtual engineering is the 21st Century answer to this and Coventry University is at the forefront in recognising the need for a new approach in engineering courses".
"Working with virtual models means that computer aided design models can be sent to suppliers and customers worldwide for approval before being used to create tools, fixtures and even factory set-ups and lay-outs".
"Look at any brochure produced my major companies and you would be hard pressed to see the difference between a real model and a virtual model".
The course will take the student through the relevant design, business computing, manufacturing and management methods required by engineers and will give practical, hands-on experience in all the techniques needed to work within the industry.
Andrew Bell added: "This is a broad-based course, aiming to produce graduates capable of managing the integration of computers into engineering and other businesses".
"It also allows the student to specialise in a particular aspect of Virtual Engineering".
The virtual engineering course starts in September 2007 and is a 3-year full-time course or a 4 year sandwich course.
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