'automotive engineer' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as part of a sentence to describe someone's job or profession. For example: "My dad works as an automotive engineer for a local car company."
The New Yorker, January 19 , 1957P. 22 Talk story about Erik H. Delling, a well-known automotive engineer, who considers the internal-combustion engine "the most unsuitable type of prime mover," & advocates the return to steam engines.
By Philips Boutwell and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, January 19 , 1957P. 22 Talk story about Erik H. Delling, a well-known automotive engineer, who considers the internal-combustion engine "the most unsuitable type of prime mover," & advocates the return to steam engines.
Mr. Obama has said repeatedly that he is not an automotive engineer and has no desire to pick models, engines, factories or corporate governance structures.
Besides wasting fuel, idling engines emit some of the harshest pollution compared with engines at cruising speeds, said Jake Fisher, a senior automotive engineer with Consumer Reports magazine.
Current practice of engine tune-up relies on the experience of the automotive engineer.
He had become an automotive engineer.
He wanted to go back to school to be an automotive engineer, they said.
At M.I.T., Mr. Pininfarina was preaching to a choir of automotive engineers, engineering students and Ferraristas -- the marque's legion of obsessed owners and aficionados.
For example, automotive engineers use computer-aided engineering (CAE) software together with virtual reality systems to design and test new models as electronic prototypes for fuel efficiency, handling, and passenger protection before producing physical prototypes, and later they use CAE in the design and analysis of physical tests.
In this way, the performance curves of car and motorcycle engines can be graphed as torque versus r.p.m. and power (hp) versus engine speed in r.p.m. and automotive engineers can see where the optimum performance is from these graphs.
Self-driving cars don't just need automotive engineers, they need people who understand software, traffic engineering, the psychology of drivers and regulatory processes.
