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Originally Posted by knighty
I take particular exception to the comment at the end of your thread, as I dare say will other graduates from the university of hertfordshire.......let me make this clear to you........in the big wide world of engineering, of which I'm currently well engrossed, as I graduated in 1999 from UH........ if you have a degree from the University of Hertfordshire, this is considered to be one of the best.......they run a TOP formula student team......and have excellent links to the motorsport industry through their motorsports lecturer Geoff Peters, who is a race engine expert in the feild of touring cars and lemans ........did you know that Sergio Rinland is a regular guest lecturer on motorsport engineering?........who the hell is he I hear you say.......ex F1 design engineer for Minardi, Benetton and latterly chief engineer at Sauber about 4/5 years ago, when Nick Heidfeldt was putting the Sauber on the podium.........he would not lecture on a mickey mouse course.
if you enjoy playing with spanners and race cars........go the mechanic route......if you are a tecchy like me, and have a passion for understanding how things work, and refining them to the last few percent, then go for a degree........sounds like you should be a mechanic to me.
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I'm not saying it is a mickey mouse degree, just that I cannot risk taking one! Sorry to hit a nerve! I've already done a degree which didnt know whether it was an art course or a computer science course and skipped from one to the other without focusing enough so i didnt get what I wanted out of it . I dont want that again and I want a course that is well respected in the industry, and teaches the right skills and understanding to hit the ground running so to speak.
I am currently handy with the spanners but love to get stuck in to the details of how things work. I always ask why something works rather than just accepting it does
