Vehicle Engineering
On the vehicle engineering course the faculty of mechanical engineering works closely with manufacturers of cars and commercial vehicles and numerous medium-sized suppliers. A further development of vehicle engineering is lightweight vehicle construction, which aims to make vehicles more environmentally friendly and economical. In 2001 BMW set up a chair and a laboratory at the Fachhochschule Landshut in which special materials and ways of body making are developed and tested. At the same time a lightweight construction cluster was founded as an interdisciplinary competence network for lightweight construction technology as part of the “Future Bavaria” high-tech offensive.
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