In a car manufacturing company, where does the automobile engineer stand in the scheme of things?
Generally, the automobile industry employs engineers from several disciplines like mechanical engineering, electrical/electronics engineering and automobile engineering. Engineers from specialised disciplines like mechanical and process automation, metallurgy, tool and die development also work in specific domains. All these engineers, after initial training, become part of the total development team that works on any new model. Being a part of the team for a new model/product refreshment development team, their suggestions are taken into consideration in different phases of development. What jobs can an engineer do in an automobile company? Engineers are involved not only in product design and engineering, but also in various other functions — be it production, project engineering, supply chain, quality assurance, product engineering (R&D), marketing and service functions. Talking specifically about engineers from an ‘automobile engineering’ background, there are not many institutes i
