Education and research on automotive engineering at the Turin Institute of Technology

This paper refers to a previous report presented at th FISITA Congress in Dearborn (USA) dealing with Educational and Training on Automotive Engineering at the Turin Institute of Technology (Politecnico di Torino). This paper is more specifically intended as a description of the research work carried out by both students and young graduates during the concluding period of graduate and post-graduate studies, under their teacher’s guidance. Some examples of research programmes following the direct experience of the authors, including those starting from thesis or dissertations, which contribute success of the programmes themselves, are described. Among these the following are cited and briefly examined: Full scale automotive wind tunnel, Variable valve-timing system for s.i. engine, Indoor tire testing-facility and fallouts. Finally, the way different contributions which come from University, Industry and independent Research Centres should be managed and connected, is considered and discussed