Program & timetable

Topics

The School will tackle the four main knowledge pillars that will shape the automotive industry in the medium/long term.

Advances in industrial engineering

Cars, trucks and motorbikes have always been and will always be mechanical systems able to carry people and payloads around.

Keywords - design flows, innovative mechanics, energy management, electrical vehicles, materials, advanced manufacturing, powertrains, vehicle dynamics.

Advances in information engineering

Even if we do not know yet whether the vehicles of the future will sport combustion, electric or hybrid powertrains, we do know that they will be complex electronic systems offering the highest level of local and connected intelligence that a machine can feature.

Keywords - vehicular communications, cloud, IoT, 5G, autonomous vehicles, signal and data analysis, data fusion.

Ethical and legal issues

Vehicles will be complex systems, partly or completely autonomous, that will have to seamlessly integrate with the lives of human beings even more than what they do today. This will raise problems that we must be able, and ready, to face and solve.

Keywords - regulations, liability, ethics of autonomous vehicles.

Soft skills

Complex systems are built out of brilliant human brains that work together with a well-defined and stubbornly pursued goal. Creativity, intellectual resource management, teamworking are general concepts that will be increasingly important for people that want to contribute to the future of automotive.

Keywords - technology and business trend understanding, optimization, soft skills and project management, creativity nurturing.

Program

See the full 2023 program here.

School starts Monday, 15 November 2021, 3:15PM-4:00PM (welcome and organization). All hours in Rome (UTC+1) timezone. PDF version of the program avaliable here

Monday 15 Nov 2021

Monday 15 Nov 2021

Automotive basics – development process and intellectual property 4:00PM-5:45PM

Automotive basics – vehicle layout 5:45PM-7:30PM

Principles of vehicle dynamics 7:30PM-9:15PM

Tuesday, 16 Nov 2021

Topology optimization for advanced manufacturing 4:00PM-5:45PM

Fatigue behaviour of advanced manufactured parts 5:45PM-7:30PM

Introduction to advanced manufacturing 7:30PM-9:15PM

Wednesday, 17 Nov 2021

Advanced manufacturing technologies – I 4:00PM-5:45PM

Advanced manufacturing technologies – II 5:45PM-7:30PM

Advanced manufacturing technologies – III 7:30PM-9:15PM

Thursday, 18 Nov 2021

Energy Modeling, Simulation, Optimization and Control of Advanced Vehicles – I 4:00PM-5:45PM

Energy Modeling, Simulation, Optimization and Control of Advanced Vehicles – II 5:45PM-7:30PM

Chassis design: virtual delivery and type approval test 7:30PM-9:15PM

Friday, 19 Nov 2021

Energy storage and EV design 4:00PM-5:45PM

Introduction to powertrain modeling and control – I 5:45PM-7:30PM

Introduction to powertrain modeling and control – II 7:30PM-9:15PM

Monday 22 Nov 2021

Monday 22 Nov 2021

Low carbon vehicles in FoA 4:00PM-5:45PM

FoA and antennas 5:45PM-7:30PM

Optimization in the future of mobility 7:30PM-9:15PM

Tuesday, 23 Nov 2021

Intro to connected vehicles 4:00PM-5:45P

Cloud and slicing for automotive 5:45PM-7:30PM

5G for automotive 7:30PM-9:15PM

Wednesday, 24 Nov 2021

Short-range vehicular connectivity 4:00PM-5:45PM

Python for data management and ML in automotive – I 5:45PM-7:30PM

In vehicle connectivity 7:30PM-9:15PM

Thursday, 25 Nov 2021

Interaction engineering for automotive 4:00PM-5:45PM

Automotive and private law 5:45PM-7:30PM

Safety rules and liability rules between traditional cars and driverless cars 7:30PM-9:15PM

Friday, 26 Nov 2021

Satellite services for FoA 4:00PM-5:45PM

Optimization based Maneuvering and Coordination of Autonomous Vehicles 5:45PM-7:30PM

Pollution, vehicle emissions and unfair practices. Dieselgate 7:30PM-9:15PM

Monday 29 Nov 2021

Monday 29 Nov 2021

Automotive sensors 4:00PM-5:45PM

The Future of Mobility: technical, business, legal, consumer considerations 5:45PM-7:30PM

Mobility Trends in and from Silicon Valley – Waymo, Tesla, Uber and more 7:30PM-9:15PM

Tuesday, 30 Nov 2021

Decision making for safety-critical autonomous vehicles 4:00PM-5:45PM

Optimization of on-demand mobility 5:45PM-7:30PM

The new regulatory challenge for autonomous vehicles: focus on civil liability issues 7:30PM-9:15PM

Wednesday, 1 Dec 2021

The necessity of creativity 4:00PM-5:45PM

The science of creative thinking 5:45PM-7:30PM

Experimenting with the creative thinking process 7:30PM-9:15PM

Thursday, 2 Dec 2021

Ethical issues in autonomous vehicles 4:00PM-5:45PM

Liability in highly automated transport systems: a sociotechnical analysis 5:45PM-7:30PM

Legal clinic on the Tesla case 7:30PM-9:15PM

Friday, 3 Dec 2021

Soft skills and project management – I 4:00PM-5:45PM

Soft skills and project management – II 5:45PM-7:30PM

Python for data management and ML in automotive – II 7:30PM-9:15PM