I want to work for an automobile company after completing a degree in mechanical engineering. What type of course should I do?
If you want to work in India, then you have work on some projects related to automobile sector. Attend some workshops and seminars on automobiles. You can also work with some SAE dept. in any reputed college. Working with SAE will give you a chance for the application of the theoretical knowledge which you had obtained during your degree. If you are interested in the design sector, then master your skills in AutoCAD, Catia, ProE, Ansys. You can also do your masters and apply for any automobile industry.You are very likely to be selected after your masters. If you want to go abroad , then apply for your masters in some reputed college with your GRE score.It is valid for 3 years. Germany is the best choice followed by US and Australia. All the best .
If a mechanical engineer is working as a service advisor in Hyundai workshop than is it good with respect to his career?
I tried for career advisor job after engineering in Toyota Service center in Vijayawada, and met HR and submitted my resume, she told me that she will contact with in 1 week.Suddenly I met one of my friend(young brother friend) at the showroom who completed Diploma. I asked him how’s your work and what type of jobs you take care?He replied that he is working as a Service advisor for past 2 years and his salry was 11k (in starting salary was 8k).He worked for upto 11.00 Pm for delivering Car to customer, he dont get any ot for that (within due date), If he dont deliver the car within due date then people will scold you in the garage itself (just like we scold telecom network customer support for adding unwanted VAS services), sometimes mechanic wont work of he is not available at the spot. (Actually it is not possible to stay all the time because he has to prepare required documents like bill, etc.,), it leads to low rating for your work as well as to service center (eventhough he worked all the time for customer, because they dont know how much work pressure you have and unavailability of mechanic members sometimes).He get some incentives.For eg: They have two types of engine oils, 1 is low cost and another one is high cost, if he convinced customer to pour higher value engine oil then he get incentive(commission).Apart from this we can learn alot with the automobile engineering and how to handle pressure, how to handle customers in different views and how things work and what are the costs of individual items, what are the latest technologies in the automobile field, how technology changing in automobile field, what are costs of different cars like on road price, ex showroom price etc.,If sale happened because of you then you could get incentive also.So, in my opinion it is just average job and having lot of pressure. But we learn many thing there.
If I've been a navy engineer for 6- 10 years, would it be possible to then get a job in a classic car, or race car, specialized garage?
Ask some classic car, or race car, specialised garages and find out. Most sensible folk can volunteer as a raceday marshall and while there may discover any vacancies etc. Some racetracks employ people for various jobs too. Many now post available jobs online.Any post offered will probably be based upon some sort of proof of experience / skill as is customary with most jobs.I suspect you have yet to become “a Navy engineer with (a somewhat arbitrary) 6–10 years experience”; there are many different roles in Naval engineering whether military or merchant and obviously some of them will be more suited than others for skilled work with classic / performance vehicles. Being familiar with a larger than average range of hand and machine tools and competent in a workshop environment are critical skills for this field and will be almost universal to any navy engineer role. CAD and CAM skills also now play a large part even during classic car restoration as among other things CNC machines can essentially re-fabricate obsolete parts from new (potentially better) materials.[pic from CNC Turning for the Automotive Industry: Parts Made By CNC]