Education And Training On Automotive Technologies in The Turin Technical University

The automotive technologies as education disciplines were introduced in the Turin Technical University in the far-off 1931-32 academic year, mainly for military purposes.

The evolution of education that has taken place so far is shown and put in connection with the development of both the industrial and scientific progress in the automotive techniques and the subsequent reforms of education programmes in the Faculty of Engineering of Italian Universities.

The role of cooperation mainly between University and Industry, is examined.

The present state of the programme of studies is also reported, together with the development trend.

The methods adopted in order to obtain a satisfactory profit of the students and to keep the teaching staff up-dated with the technical progress is finally reported upon and discussed.