Why are there so few applicants for vehicle engineering?

The main reason is that the education of vehicle engineering specialty is backward, and vehicle engineering is mechanical two disciplines.

Therefore, the basic courses of vehicle engineering are mainly mechanical, with certain electronics and a small amount of computers (mainly single chip microcomputer). Specialized courses are mainly automobile structure, automobile theory, automobile design overview and automobile electronics. Elective courses include electric cars and smart cars, but their academic performance is generally not much.

It can be seen that vehicle engineering is mainly to cultivate machinery. On this basis, we have the knowledge of automobiles, and then we have a certain understanding of electric vehicles and smart cars.

But now the automobile industry needs professionals in smart cars and electric cars, and needs to have a good understanding of the battery, electric car structure, programming, computers and other related knowledge, while vehicle engineering only needs a preliminary understanding of smart cars and electric cars, with traditional machinery as the mainstay.

Therefore, the vehicle engineering major is not really bad, but the professional education is backward. Of course, now more and more schools are aware of this problem and begin to make changes, reducing traditional mechanical knowledge and increasing knowledge related to electronics, computers, programming, electric vehicles and intelligent networked vehicles.

Professional analysis

The research object of vehicle engineering specialty is all land mobile machinery such as automobiles, tractors, railway vehicles, military vehicles and other engineering vehicles. The main research content is the theory, design and manufacturing technology of these vehicles.

Including vehicle system analysis and modern design methods, vehicle vibration and noise analysis and control, vehicle testing technology and analysis, vehicle powertrain control and optimization, vehicle automatic transmission theory, vehicle fault diagnosis technology, vehicle safety evaluation and improvement, etc.

Since the development of vehicle engineering, many new processes and technologies, such as vehicle electronics technology, have been developed in combination with mechanical and electronic engineering, mechanical design and theory, computer, electronic technology, measurement technology and control technology, which is a technology for debugging and maintaining electrical appliances and circuits of motor vehicles.