5Apr
PostgraduateCourse summary
Choose your start date. You have six opportunities to join this course throughout the year. Course Overview: This course is for students and industry professionals who want to work as automotive or transport designers, or on exciting conceptual projects.
- Develop your industry-relevant practical 2D and 3D skills as well as research skills to prepare you for a future-focused career in automotive and transport design.
- Master the use of clay modelling to advance your understanding of vehicle form and proportions.
- By combining creativity and research on global trends, you'll address contemporary challenges in the field and produce innovative designs.
- Alongside technical and creative skills, the course emphasises portfolio development and innovative problem-solving to meet real-world industry demands.
- Coventry University offers you access to industry-informed briefs and opportunities to engage with leading professionals in the field.
- Collaborate through interdisciplinary teams and work through individual assignments that reflect real-world professional practices.
- Benefit from advanced clay modelling, CAD resources, and studio-based learning, combining hands-on techniques with a user-focused approach to design.
- The curriculum integrates research, design practice, and the art of storytelling, giving you the skills to communicate compelling design solutions.
- From sketching and CAD to live industry briefs, the course blends technical skills with teamwork, leadership, and a focus on innovation, preparing you for contemporary challenges in design.
Modules
Automotive and Transport Design: Imagination and Innovation – 30 credits Co-create - 30 credits Research and Ideas: Preparing for the Major Project - 30 credits Professional Practice and Innovation - 30 credits Major Project: Designing the Future - 60 credits For complete and up-to-date information, please view our website.
Entry requirements
An honours degree 2:2 or above (or international equivalent) in an automotive or transport design discipline, or demonstrable and considerable experience at an appropriate professional level. We recognise a breadth of qualifications; speak to one of our advisers today to find out how we can help you. Portfolio You will need to submit an automotive or transport-relevant portfolio. Your portfolio must demonstrate evidence of your creative problem-solving abilities related to automotive and transport design solutions. Your portfolio should showcase a range of your design skills, including confident, imaginative, and expressive freehand sketching and simple prototyping. You should demonstrate proficiency in developing transport and automotive surfaces and volumes from 2D to 3D through automotive clay modelling or appropriate analogue materials, and ideally, in CAD. Evidence of your capacity to solve problems, supported by your research processes, should be included. You should also showcase your design development processes. Please provide a brief explanation in English for each project. If you have a non-design background (for example, engineering), your portfolio or equivalent work will be considered on its individual merits.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
2025/26 fees TBC. Please see our website for latest information.
Provider information
Coventry University
Priory Street
Coventry
CV1 5FB