Michael Carter

Product Development Graduate, Aston Martin

Graduated in 2013

After coming to Birmingham City University through Clearing, Michael benefited from the expertise of our staff and the cutting-edge facilities at Millennium Point, as well as building his experience with a placement year at luxury carmaker Bentley. This helped him to secure another prestigious role on graduation, as Product Development Graduate at Aston Martin.

Having decided at college that he wanted to follow his passion for cars and motorcycles, he looked at the content of our Automotive Engineering degree and felt it would be interesting, relevant and challenging, as well as helping him to achieve his aim of building a career in the automotive industry.

For his placement, Michael worked at Bentley's Crewe headquarters as an Industrial Placement Trainee – Body Engineering. He was given the sole responsibility for the manual boot system of the next generation Continental GT Flying Spur, and was involved with a wide spectrum of activities. He undertook design of parts, developed them together as a system, tested this system and finally validated it. He was also encouraged to undertake various personal and professional development courses and activities, and support 'extra-curricular' work such as charity and school liaison work to further develop his skills.

Michael said: "I now hope to get involved with as many different aspects of the automotive business as possible through my graduate scheme and progress into a design engineering role with lots of responsibility on some of the world's finest sports cars. I hope to continue to develop here at Aston Martin, and contribute as much as possible to the many exciting future prospects for the company. From there, I hope the opportunity will arise to progress within the company and build a real base of technical expertise in my chosen field."