Which College Major should I take if I want to specialize in alternative fuel vehicles?
Posted on October 6, 2008
Filed Under Alternative Fuel Vehicles
I am wondering what specific major I should pursue if I want to get involved in developing alternative fuel vehicles? I know it should be some kind of engineering, most likely biological, biochemical, or chemical. I am not totally sure and would really appreciate an answer so I can go ahead and start getting exactly what classes I will need.
Thanks
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mechanical or chemical, I would think. Probably both.
Chemistry! Biology is the study of life.
university of Akron has all type of polymer and chem classes…. maybe their website would help you….
Enviormental Science could be another possibility.
Law and Political Science.
This way, if you are elected to Public Office, you could legislate “technological improvements in a given time frame,” and then let someone else worry about it.
Congress tries to do this very thing today!!!
Mechanical engineering. Accept no substitutes. They’ll teach you mechanisms, statics and dynamics, heat transfer and thermodynamics (the most important part of any of this,) vibration analysis, properties of materials, tribology (friction and lubrication) and properties of fuels. Then you can take courses in electric circuits, basic chemical engineering, and more specialized stuff like combustion, fluid flow, and everything else you need to know to design a motor vehicle that actually works.
Chemist. here you will learn all the needed content in making an alternative fuel.
You don’t need to be a mechanical engineer because you can read those stuff through books and dissect your car for actual application.
good Luck!
Perhaps Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry
That depends on what kind of alternative fuel vehicles.
If you’re talking biofuels, biological or biochemical engineering would be good. If you’re talking electric vehicles, then mechanical and/or electrical engineering is the way to go.