A Student Team Based Teaching Approach: The Team S55 Experience

In this paper the experience of a group of young engineers and students in aerospace engineering at the Politecnico di Torino has been presented. It has been shown how they forming a working group for the reconstruction of a flying model of the S55 seaplane designed and produced in Italy, beginning in 1924. The TeamS55, founded at the end of 2016,currently consists of about a hundred people who are able to cover all the phases of the aerospace production flow, from the conceptual design to the ground and flying test activities. The TeamS55 can be considered as a replica of a current aerospace company where all the roles and functions are adequately represented.