These books are not another stack of theory. They are more than eighteen years spent inside real design offices and real factories, written down for you.
I am a mechanical engineer. For about ten years I worked in passenger cars, and for more than seven years in heavy vehicles, as a design engineer, a development engineer, and a supplier quality manager for Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, and Scania.
As a design engineer at Nissan and Mercedes-Benz, I designed the body-in-white parts you touch every day without thinking about them: hoods, fenders, doors, and roofs. That work ran from compact cars like the Nissan Kicks all the way to the latest Mercedes-Benz GLC. For Scania trucks I moved into interior plastics, both thermoset and thermoplastic, designing roof shells, side walls, and back panels.
Along the way I sat with more than a hundred tier one and tier two manufacturers and watched their lines run shift after shift: injection molding, blow molding, thermoforming, stamping, casting, forging, and deep drawing. I did this across Japan, India, Germany, Sweden, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Indonesia, inside plants like Renault-Nissan in Chennai, Mercedes-Benz in Pune and Sindelfingen, and Scania in Södertälje and Oskarshamn.
Here is what that means for you. Read the Body in White book and you will not only understand a car body, you will be able to design sheet metal components for any product and any company. Read the plastics book and you become a plastics engineer who can design polymer parts far beyond a car. If you are on the plastics side and want to move into body engineering, this set takes you there, and it works just as well the other way around. And when it is time to face a technical interview, the Design, FEA, and CFD books walk you through the questions you are most likely to be asked, from the basics right up to expert level.
The AI Interview Coach comes from the same place. In eighteen years I have sat on both sides of the interview table: the questions I asked candidates at Nissan, Mercedes-Benz and Scania, the questions my colleagues asked in their panels, and the questions more than 2,000 of my students faced in their own placements and interviews. Easily 20,000+ real interview questions have passed through my hands, and the sharpest 4,000 of them became the Q&A inside these books. The Coach is built on exactly that material. When it interviews you, it is not inventing questions from thin air; it is asking what the industry actually asks, the way we actually ask it.
If you are a final year mechanical or automobile engineer, an experienced hand aiming higher, or you are trying to break into the automotive world, this is the head start I wish someone had handed me on my first day. Open the first book, or sit for your first mock interview. Your career in the mechanical and automotive world starts here.
Subramanian J H
Mechanical Engineer · 18+ years in passenger cars and heavy vehicles · Nissan · Mercedes-Benz · Scania
