Volvo

Volvo Car Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets Scandinavian luxury cars that understand people. Founded in 1927 we are a Swedish company at heart - with a second home market in China - but our eyes and ears are everywhere in the world. Understanding our customers globally is the foundation and starting point for everything we do. Working at Volvo Car Corporation offers an exciting and challenging job experience, with lots of room for innovative thinking, cross functional work and opportunities to grow. Volvo cars are sold in more than 100 countries around the world, and main production takes place in Sweden, Belgium and China.

VESC - Volvo Cars Engineering Student Concept

Volvo Cars' Research & Development department (R&D) transforms ideas into innovations in order to meet the high standards of creating the future Volvo Cars. We use the latest technologies and advanced methods to create customer vehicles that make people's lives less complicated and that bring connectivity to wanted level. At the same time we challenge ourselves to contribute to the progress of the society we live in. We develop cars that offer our customers an exciting driving experience with a luxurious feeling. All Designed Around You.

VESC aim to establish a good foundation for a long term relationship between Volvo Cars and students in various Master's Programmes. The concept will provide you as a student with a unique opportunity to experience and work in the very centre of the product development in the automotive industry.

Content:

• Summer job for 4-10 weeks throughout the summer period of 2012
• Thesis work during your Master's Programme

In order to be eligible as a participant in the VESC programme you need to be in your first year of a 2- year Master's Programme. In addition, you need to be fluent in English and/or Swedish.

The following units within R&D are participating in the VESC programme:

• Vehicle Engineering
• Body and Trim Engineering
• Electrical and Electronics Systems Engineering
• Active Safety and Chassis
• Powertrain Engineering•Strategy and Vehicle Concepts
• Electrical Propulsion Systems

We are looking for Master’s Students studying the following:

• Applied Mathematical Analyses
• Applied Mechanics
• Automotive Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry, within Polymer/Bonding
• Climate Systems
• Computational Systems Engineering
• Electrical and Electronics Systems Engineering
• Electric Power Engineering
• Engineering Physics
• Fluid Dynamics, Aerodynamics
• Intelligence systems
• Materials Chemistry
• Materials Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Polymer Science
• Product Development
• Product Ergonomics
• Sound & Vibration Program
• Structural Dynamics and Acoustics
• Sustainable Energy Systems
• Systems, Control and Mechatronics
• Vehicle Engineering