Italdesign and Politecnico di Torino have launched a collaboration that will allow 30 students from the university to try their hand at a series of activities within the famous design house part of the Volkswagen group. Specifically, Italdesign will host the Squadra Corse Driverless Polito project, with which students will work on the design of self-driving vehicles that run in the Formula SAE series, a championship reserved precisely for the engineers of tomorrow. The new single-seater will be designed from scratch by a team that can count on the support of Italdesign, which will provide laboratories and company facilities and, above all, its know-how in engineering and technology. The project will be housed inside the company, in a dedicated area inaugurated by Italdesign CEO Antonio Casu together with Polytechnic Rector Guido Saracco.
“It is a very interesting opportunity for the students but also for us,” said Giorgio Pochettino, head of Design Project Management at Italdesign. “On the one hand, the undergraduates will immerse themselves within a reality such as Italdesign, a hub capable of connecting different sectors and skills and a place of ‘savoir-faire’. On the other, we will have the opportunity to approach talents who could one day be hired by Italdesign itself, a company driven by a continuous search for highly specialized figures”.
The project has precisely this ultimate goal: to connect students with the world of work. “Allowing them – as Rector Saracco explained – to finish their studies with concrete knowledge of an internationally renowned company. To take up the challenges of tomorrow not as ‘mere’ scientists with a solid theoretical base, but as engineers capable of adapting their work within concrete contexts”.
