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For students who are torn between studying at a university versus a college; a scholarship might just sway it for you.
The University of Bolton is proud to be home to the UK’s only National Centre for Motorsport Engineering (NCME) and with the support of ROKiT and Kingfisher, have secured funding to help two aspiring motorsport engineers undertake three year degree courses.
The STEM Scholarships fees will be waived for all three years of the degree course, and they will also cover the costs of student accommodation as well as a subsistence allowance for other expenses.
A particular aim of these scholarships is to support aspiring engineers from disadvantaged backgrounds with a view to addressing the current lack of diversity in the sector.
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Bob Fernley, former F1, Can-Am and Indy Car Team Owner/Principal has formed an alliance with Vijay Mallya, the owner of the Force India F1 team and Jonathan Kendrick, Co-founder of the ROKiT Group and keen sponsor of Formula One and other motor racing series have combined with the University to see two students through their three-year course at University of Bolton’s renowned National Centre for Motorsport Engineering (NCME).
The Northern Powerhouse STEM Scholarships will enable the students to enjoy a sponsored education at the University of Bolton’s NCME from September, 2021.
If you love motorsports and the cutting edge of automotive performance, then a degree in Motorsport and Automotive Performance Engineering is the perfect fit for you. Taking mechanical and automotive engineering disciplines to the limits of their specialism, you could find yourself working with an F1 team or innovating the next groundbreaking advance in component design.
As a student of motorsport and automotive performance engineering at the University of Bolton, you will be a part of the UK’s only National Centre for Motorsport Engineering (NCME). Your studies will take place in £13 million state-of-the-art specialist workshops and laboratories, built specifically for automotive performance engineering and motorsport technology.
If you love motorsports and the cutting edge of automotive performance, then a degree in Motorsport and Automotive Performance Engineering is the perfect fit for you. Taking mechanical and automotive engineering disciplines to the limits of their specialism, you could find yourself working with an F1 team or innovating the next groundbreaking advance in component design.
As a student of motorsport and automotive performance engineering at the University of Bolton, you will be a part of the UK’s only National Centre for Motorsport Engineering (NCME). Your studies will take place in £13 million state-of-the-art specialist workshops and laboratories, built specifically for automotive performance engineering and motorsport technology.
Automotive performance engineering takes the normal requirements of engineering to the next level. When winning a race can depend on the tiniest of marginal advantages, the optimal performance of every single moving part in the vehicle matters. We’re talking about precision to the degree of how temperatures make metals behave in spaces where micrometers are the difference between functionality and failure.
The competitive nature of the motorsport industry drives engineers to innovate and develop novel ideas that power progress in the automotive industry. The University of Bolton’s NCME gives you the theoretical, practical and hands-on knowledge and experience needed to overtake your competition in the field of motorsports engineering.
Automotive performance engineering takes the normal requirements of engineering to the next level. When winning a race can depend on the tiniest of marginal advantages, the optimal performance of every single moving part in the vehicle matters. We’re talking about precision to the degree of how temperatures make metals behave in spaces where micrometers are the difference between functionality and failure.
The competitive nature of the motorsport industry drives engineers to innovate and develop novel ideas that power progress in the automotive industry. The University of Bolton’s NCME gives you the theoretical, practical and hands-on knowledge and experience needed to overtake your competition in the field of motorsports engineering.
Fernley, Mallya and Kendrick have worked at the highest level in motor racing and are acutely aware of the lack of diversity and opportunities for disadvantaged youngsters in a sport famed for its costs and Lewis Hamilton, the seven-times Formula One world champion, has often spoken of his wish for more diversity at the top level in motorsport.
The Scholarship benefactors worry that the costs of attending university may deter even the brightest and most enthusiastic youngsters and have co-operated with the University of Bolton, which will waive fees for the two chosen students, to seek out the talent of tomorrow.
” We are extremely grateful to the benefactors and the University of Bolton, which has waived fees to make these scholarship degree courses possible. These scholarships will help us to achieve our aim of enabling students from disadvantaged backgrounds secure employment in the motorsport or related engineering industries. “
Mark Busfield, who pioneered the course in 2017 at the University of Bolton with a dedicated team of Industry and academic specialists, said: “We want to give a helping hand to young people who have the drive and enthusiasm for motorsport engineering to get the best education involving top experts from the industry.”
“We want to give hope to people that however difficult their circumstances they do have the opportunity to succeed in the field they are passionate about.”
Applicants will need to have achieved the required exam results, and is limited to full-time UK students only, who will be required to submit a personal statement of 500 words. A shortlist will be drawn up and applicants then interviewed to identify the two successful scholarship candidates.
To find out more about the Northern Powerhouse STEM Scholarships, please email studentfunding@bolton.ac.uk, using the reference ‘NPSTEM Scholarships’ in the email subject field.
Sources: University of Bolton, Hartree centre, RaceTechMag, The Race, Rokit
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